medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
> Other than Rocamadour, which pilgrimage site would aristocratic women,
> barren or hoping for a son, visit in the 13th and 14th centuries?
What about Our Lady of Walsingham ?
IIRC in about 1520s (too late for you ? But the cult was well established
since Saxon time.) Henry VIII went as a pilgrim to Walsingham to pray that
Catherine of Aragon's coming child would be a boy. It was. Henry, in
grateful humility (Yes! - ) walked barefoot from the Slipper Chapel to the
replica of the Holy House of Nazareth to give thanks. A few days later the
baby boy died.
Come the Reformation and the despoiling of the monasteries, the Anglo-Saxon
statue of Our Lady of Walsingham was taken up to London, chopped up and
burnt at Smithfield - where the heretics were burnt. Henry it seems was
taking personal vengeance for his humiliation ....
BMC
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