Dr Anne E Bailey

In my latest two-minute Pilgrimage video I visit one of England's best-loved Saxon churches: St Laurence at Bradford on Avon (Wiltshire). If you like ancient churches and other pilgrimage places, please consider subscribing (for free!) to my YouTube channel for more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Oo...

Day Seven, the last day of our Augustine Camino, saw us visiting All Saints, West Stourmouth, before continuing across the Kent marshes.👣

Day Six of the Augustine Camino: walking through the Stodmarsh nature reserve towards the end of the day. 👣

Day Six on the Augustine Camino continued with a stop at St Andrews Church, Wickhambreaux. Remarkable Art Noveau 'Annunciation Window' by Danish artist, Arild Rosenkrantz (1896), and some heavily restored medieval wall painting.

Dougal's asking you to admire his Stick-of-the-Day, please! 🙏

Second church on Day Six: St Mary the Virgin, Fordwich, with its Romanesque tomb reputed to be part of St Augustine's shrine once at St Augustine's Abbey. Pilgrim Shelf was originally a Bread Shelf for the donation of bread to the poor.

Day Six of the Augustine Camino began with a quick visit to St Martin's. The church was founded before St Augustine’s arrival in AD 597 when it was used by Bertha, queen of Æthelberht of Kent, as her private chapel. Oldest surviving English church still in use.

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The pilgrims arrive at Canterbury Cathedral where we meet Torin Brown, the Cathedral's Pilgrim Officer, before attending Evensong, and pausing at the place where Thomas Becket's shrine would once have stood in the Trinity Chapel.

Day Five of the Augustine Camino ... and arrival at Canterbury! 👣

The Roper Chapel at St Dunstan's in Canterbury, showing the entrance to the Roper family vault containing Thomas More's head. More's daughter, Margaret, brought it back from London in 1535 and placed it in the vault. There are plans to exhume the relic and place it in a reliquary above ground.

Continuing onto Canterbury on Day Five of the Augustine Camino, we called in at St Dunstan's. In 1174, Henry II stopped here on his way to do penance for Thomas Becket's murder. The church was originally founded in the 10th century and rededicated to Dunstan in 1030.

On the outskirts of Canterbury, at Harbledown, we reached the site of the medieval leper hospital of St Nicholas, and the Black Prince's Well reputed to cure leprosy. Medieval pilgrims stopped here on their way to St Thomas' shrine in Canterbury.

Day Five of the Augustine Camino saw us walking towards the Church of St Peter and St Paul in Boughton, experiencing a woodland mass, and encounters with yet more apples and orchards!

The inner shrine at the Shrine of St Jude. A 15th-century wooden statue of St Jude and a reliquary containing a small bone relic taken from the major relics at St Peter's in Rome.

Day Four of the Augustine Camino finished at the Shrine of St Jude at Faversham. The Carmelite shrine was opened in 1955 by Father Elias Lynch.

And the well established tradition of waiting outside the Cathedral for the 'all clear' after the incense set off the smoke alarm mid service! 🔥

I had missed the last couple of years, so it was lovely attending yesterday's Patronal Eucharist for Oxford's patron saint, St Frideswide, at Christ Church Cathedral! 😇

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How about celebrating St Frideswide's special day with a walk along her newly created pilgrim route between Oxford and Reading, a section of the Camino Inglés?! 👣

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Happy St Frideswide's Day! 😇 Frideswide is the patron saint of Oxford and her shrine at Christ Church Cathedral is still visited by pilgrims today!

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Arriving in Faversham on the Augustine Camino, passing the Maison Dieu ('House of God') pilgrim hostel at Ospringe, on Watling Street on the route to Canterbury. Founded in 1234 by Henry III, serving pilgrims travelling to Canterbury. 👣

Day Four of the Augustine Camino in Kent and the apple harvest is in full swing! 🍎👣

More from Day Four of our Augustine Camino. On our way to Faversham via the church of St Peter & St Paul at Newnham. 👣

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And so, to continue ... Day Four of the Augustine Camino began at our hostel in Doddington with an energetic warmup before setting out on our way to Faversham. 🏋️ 👣

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After stopping at St Catherine's, Kingsdown, and walking into the late afternoon, we ended Day Three of the Augustine Camino at Doddington. 👣

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If you've registered for my pilgrimage course next term, I'm sorry to say that it's been cancelled due to an unforeseen 'force majeure'. HOWEVER: the course will be back (same term and day) in 2028 - so watch this space for news!

TO COMMEMORATE next year’s 1,000th anniversary of the legendary King Cnut’s pilgrimage through County Durham, Trimdon launches £20,000 appeal for Cnut anniversary cross www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/2658814...

Day Three of the Augustine Camino also took us through the first of many Kent apple orchards ... with plenty of unwanted windfalls to sustain us on our journey! 👣🍎

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Day Three of the Augustine Camino began at Thurnham and passed through Hucking, Gorham, and Milstead on our way to Doddingham. 👣

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More from Day Two of the Augustine Camino (Aylesford to Doddington). Pilgrim stamps at St Mary's Church, Doddington; walking through the Kent vineyards; and dinner at the Black Horse at Doddington where we stayed the night. 👣

Battle Abbey was built on the site of King Harold's death OTD in 1066. Here is Dougal reflecting on "the spot where King Harold died" close to what would have been the abbey church's high altar.

Today is the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings! ⚔️ Some images from last month's visit to Battle Abbey: the Abbey's gatehouse and a Norman knight looking wistfully across Senlac Hill, the site of the battle on 14 October 1066 (with a lone sheep for company!).

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Day Two of the Augustine Camino saw us passing the site of Boxley Abbey, now in private ownership. In the late Middle Ages the Abbey was famous for its miracle-working Rood of Grace. The ruins of a few walls remain. Also a barn, once the hospitium, and now being renovated by its owners (image 4).

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