Walsingham Way: Alfred Hope Patten and the Restoration of the Shrine of Our Lady

Walsingham Way: Alfred Hope Patten and the Restoration of the Shrine of Our Lady

by Colin Stephenson (Author)

Synopsis

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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Format: Paperback
Pages: 258
Edition: 2
Publisher: Canterbury Press Norwich
Published: 31 Oct 2008

ISBN 10: 185311913X
ISBN 13: 9781853119132

Author Bio
Colin Stephenson was Guardian of Walsingham from 1958 until his death in 1973. Walsingham Way was first published in 1970, and followed by his autobiography, Merrily On High in 1973.