Our Lady of Walsingham is to be given a place in Westminster Cathedral.
In a ceremony on December 8, presided over by Bishop John Sherrington, a statue of Our Lady of Walsingham will be enthroned in the Chapel of St George and the English Martyrs.
Cardinal Bernard Griffin, the sixth Archbishop of Westminster, commissioned the Cathedral Statue of Our Lady of Walsingham in the Marian Year of 1954.
Described as "England’s Nazareth", the Marian shrine of Walsingham dates back to medieval times. Erasmus visited Walsingham in 1513 and said: “You would say it is the abode of saints, so brilliantly does it shine with gems, gold and silver.”
