In recent years scholarly interest in Marian studies has boomed and the number of people making pilgrimages is surging. The writer of a forthcoming book about women in the Bible who recently made a pilgrimage to Walsingham considers what impact these developments are having on England’s leading Marian shrine
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The Holy House in the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham
photo: alamy, stuart aylmer
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