UPDATE ON 'A MAY PILGRIMAGE TO MARY'

This follows our post HERE.

With apologises for the delay in posting the pilgrimage destinations for today and the rest of the month, as previously promised, we give below the list of Marian shrines until 31st May.  For your convenience we post again at the end the common pilgrim prayer for each day.

4 May : Our Lady of Westminster (at the North door of the Abbey and in its Pew Chapel, the ancient shrines, and in Westminster Cathedral.)
5 : Our Lady of Grace at the Pillar in S Paul's Cathedral. (in the old church!)
6 : Our Lady at the Oak in Islington.
7 : Our Lady of Willesden.
8 : Our Lady of Muswell.
9 : Our Lady of Oxford.
10 : Our Lady of Grace at Cambridge.
11 : Our Lady of Coventry.
12 : Our Lady of Grace of Ipswich.
13 : Our Lady of Thetford.
14 : Our Lady of Woolpit.
15 : Our Lady of Abingdon.
16 : Our Lady of Pity in the Galilee at Durham.
17 : Our Lady on the Bridge at Wakefield.
18 : Our Lady of the White Friars in Doncaster.
19 : Our Lady at the Pillar, St Edmundsbury.
20 : Our Lady of Evesham.
21 : Our Lady of the Four Candles at S Alban's.
22 : Our Lady of Pity in the Rock at Dover.
23 : Our Lady in the Park, near Liskeard in Cornwall.
24 : Our Lady in the Wood, near Epworth in Lincolnshire.
25 : Our Lady of Winchester.
26 : Our Lady of Windsor.
27 : Our Lady of Peace, at Winfarthing in Norfolk.
28 : Our Lady of Ardenburgh, in the Church of S Nicholas in Yarmouth.
29 : Our Lady at the Oak, in S Martin's, Norwich.
30 : Our Lady on the Red Mount, King's Lynn.
31 : Our Lady of Walsingham.

Two things jump out at one, firstly that, while all the shrines are destroyed, some of the locations still exist as places of worship in the hands of the Protestants. Others are restored as Catholic shrines, and may truly be visited.  This list is of course not exhaustive, dependent as it is upon the 31 days of the month, and as Fr Hunwicke has found out, people will readily suggest others. Those who wish to learn more, are directed to Pietatis Mariana Britannica by Edmund Waterton FSA, (a seminal work, originally published 1879, available in reprint, on Amazon and elsewhere) To this end, for provision of information or anecdote, we shall leave the comments open. Worthy of note too is the mediaeval fondness for Marian shrines on pillars, something the modern Englishman quite wrongly thinks of as southern European.

O most Blessed Virgin Mother of God, conceived without original sin, in mind and spirit I visit thy churches, altars, and shrines, venerated by our forefathers in this land once acknowledged as thy Dowry, but more especially today I wish to place myself before thy Shrine at ... ... ... , humbly seeking to be numbered amongst the pilgrims who have sought thee in this place and to receive through thy prayers those graces which have ever flowed from thy Sanctuaries. Through Christ Our Lord. Amen.

O Blessed Mother Mary, whose Dowry we inhabit, pray for us!
O Blessed Mother Mary, whose Dowry we inhabit, 
come and reign in our hearts!
O Blessed Mother Mary, this is thy Dowry,
come and reign in our land!