This is a reissue of his first book in which he tells, with characteristic candour and humour, the story of the re-founding of the Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham by Alfred Hope Patten, whom he succeeded as Guardian after Hope Patten’s death.
Alfred Hope Patten was a larger than life figure, terrifying to some, but determined to realise his vision of restoring the medieval shrine in the Norfolk countryside that had been closed at the Reformation. Colin Stephenson‘s account of his ambitious enterprise, his successes and failures (including a failed attempt to establish religious communities of men and women at Walsingham), his penchant for flamboyant clerical dress, his love of the Roman Church but his dislike of Roman Catholics, does not claim to be the last word in historical scholarship, but is a warm, engaging and entertaining account of one the highest achievements of Anglo-Catholicism in the last century and of one of its most colourful and controversial personalities.
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ISBN: 9781853119132
Catalogue code: N/A
Publisher: CANTERBURY PRESS - published 31/10/2008
Format: Paperback