Fr Michael over at the Ely Forum kindly mentioned some holy places in Britain, associated with the lives of the Saints. Does anybody know of any such places in the North-west of England, which are associated with Saints of the pre-schism era, and to which a small pilgrimage of a few people may be made? It would be very good to know, as, at some point, I would like to arrange a trip to such a place, even if there is no permanent shrine.
Many thanks.
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Thought you might be intrested in this site:
http://www.walsinghamanglican.org.uk/welcome/index.htm
I'm thinking of visting it myself one of these days.
I'm afraid its just over the border in Scotland these days, but the mother church of the north-west of Britain, including the north-west of England is Ninian's Candida Casa, now the site of Whithorn Priory in Galloway. Which is still there, and I am told a wonderful place to visit.
Ninian was British (AKA Welsh), probably born in what is now Cumbria in the days when the English still lived in north Germany. A contemporary of St. Patrick. He was the first notable missionary to the Strathclyde Britons and the Picts & founded many churches, two generations before Columba and centuries before Augustine of Canterbury.
If you want specifically English saints I think you must cross to the East coast - the land of Aidan and Cuthbert and Caedmon and Bede isn't short of places of pilgrimage.
takes notes for any further trips to the British Isles...
Thank you.
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