Today Friday 15 August is The Assumption of Mary. Once the day was known as Our Lady of the Harvest and today it is a holiday in many countries although in England now it is little noticed. Upper Foyle in Hampshire is rare in having its 13th-century church dedicated to St Mary of the Assumption. […]

St Radegun’s Day is Wednesday 13 August which is a good date to visit Canterbury’s Parrot Inn. This is the city’s oldest pub and has a strong claim to having been accommodation for pre-Reformation pilgrims from 1370. The late 14th-century hall house building is the former St Radigund’s Hall belonging to St Radegun’s Abbey (with […]

Canterbury Cathedral now issues an accreditation for the pilgrimage to the shrine of St Thomas Becket. This is the equivalent of the Compostela issued to pilgrims arriving at Santiago de Compostela with a well stamped credential or pilgrim passport. Canterbury’s Pilgrimage Certificate bears the signature of the Dean of Canterbury The Very Revd David Montieth. […]

Pilgrims arriving at Canterbury Cathedral this summer have been surprised to see a textile hanging behind the high altar and in front of the Thomas Becket shrine site. To some it may look slightly familiar. Is there a London bus seat or a tube train seat somewhere in the middle? The work, called Moon Landing, […]

There is already a poll for the weather next Tuesday 15 July, St Swithun’s Day. A popular rhyme claims that if it rains on 15 July it will rain for forty days This is Winchester Cathedral’s patronal festival and those starting out on the Pilgrims’ Way may wish to be aware of the special occasion. […]

Saturday 5 to Monday 7 July is the Translation of St Thomas of Canterbury weekend. On Saturday there is the Canterbury Medieval Pageant with a parade and many pilgrimage theme activities. On Sunday the focus is on the Cathedral where the First Evensong of the Translation is at 5.30pm. Later that evening, as always on […]

There is a rare chance to see inside the surviving tower of Otford Palace over the midsummer weekend Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 June. The Tudor palace, built for the Archbishop of Canterbury, was the model for Hampton Court Palace. Open free from 11.30am to 4pm. Otford is where the Pilgrim paths from Southwark and […]

A Jubilee Year Pilgrim Mass was celebrated at St George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Southwark on Monday at the start of a week-long walking pilgrimage to Aylesford Priory on the Pilgrims’ Way. Joining the Roman Catholic pilgrims were several Anglicans from Southwark Cathedral. ‘We have a really special and strong bond between our two cathedrals,’ […]

There is a Pilgrim Mass at Southwark’s Roman Catholic St George’s Cathedral (opposite the Imperial War Museum) on Monday 2 June at 10am. This marks the start of the Jubilee Year pilgrimage to Aylesford which is on the Pilgrims’ Way to Canterbury. All starting out tomorrow independently on their way to Canterbury are welcome to […]

Actors dressed as the ‘Saints of Southwark’ have posed for a photograph outside St George’s Roman Catholic Cathedral in Southwark. They will be appearing again during the Southwark Archdiocese’s Jubilee celebration day at Aylesford Priory on Saturday 7 June. The saints include many encountered on the Pilgrims’ Way between Southwark and Canterbury. If you start […]