Our Lady of Walsingham is celebrated as a Feast Day in the dioceses of England, on 24th September.  The Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham was established in 1061, according to the text of the Pynson Ballad, when devout noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches asked in prayer for inspiration so that she could carry out a special work in honour of Our Lady. The Pynson Ballad says that Our Lady appeared to Richeldis and showed her in spirit the House of the Annunciation where the Angel greeted Mary in Nazareth, and asked her to build a replica in Walsingham as a perpetual memorial of the Annunciation.

This Shrine, which was once the focus of Pilgrimage in a land called ‘Our Lady’s Dowry’, is now restored to the prominence it enjoyed for so long.

“As Sailors are guided by a star to the port, so Christians are guided to heaven by Mary” Saint Thomas Aquinas.

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