Walsingham Way

Walsingham - England's Nazareth - is one of the most remarkable phenomena in English Church life this century: a restored medieval shrine in a remote part of Norfolk, to which thousands of pilgrims journey every year. An eleventh century Lady of the Manor had a vision of Mary and, following instructions, built a replica of Christ's home in Nazareth. A healing well sprang up. Pilgrims came; miracles happened. But the Reformation saw an end of the Shrine until 1921, when Fr. Hope Patten restored it. A holy and entertaining eccentric, he was Administrator at Walsingham until Colin Stephenson succeeded him. Walsingham Way is the first full-length book about the Shrine, and about Hope Patten. It is a story told with candour and a good deal of humour by the one man ideally qualified to tell it.