| A: The Marian Shrine of Walsingham originated in the eleventh century and was the most important site of pilgrimage in medieval England. In 1897, a church was built at King's Lynn, and a statue of Mary, similar to the medieval one, was installed. In the same year, a pilgrimage was organized, the first since the Reformation. Today the main sanctuary is Anglican, containing an Orthodox chapel inaugurated by the Russian Orthodox bishop in Paris in the 1930s. A short distance away is the small Gothic chapel that survived the destruction of the monasteries, the Chapel of the Slipper, which is now the Catholic shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham. |  |
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