Three African friars are coming to the Catholic National Shrine and Basilica of Our Lady at Walsingham, where they will assist and serve the increasing numbers of pilgrimage coming to what was once one of Europe's most prominent pilgrimage sites.
The development was announced on 9 September and has been described as a “a significant moment in the life and history” of the Shrine. The move represents the first time that members of the religious order that formerly worshipped and served pilgrims at Walsingham have returned, on a permanent basis, since they were forcibly disbanded by Protestant authorities nearly five hundred years ago during the Reformation.
