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1150... Augustinian Canons build a Priory beside the "Holy House".
1465... Ballad published by Pynson, the first record of the Walsingham Story from its founding as a shrine in 1061. 1479... William of Worcester records the dimensions of the shrine as 7 yards 30 inches long and 4 yards 10 inches wide. The priory church was 136 paces long. 1485... Red Mount Chapel in King's Lynn built as wayside chapel for Walsingham bound pilgrims.
1534... Walsingham is one of the first religious houses to sign the Oath of Supremacy recognising Henry VIII's marriage to Anne Boleyn, and accepting Henry as head of the Church in England. (The Reformation). 1537... Sub-Prior Nicholas Mileham, and layman George Guisborough were executed in Walsingham.
1578... Elizabeth I visited Walsingham. 1781... John Wesley preached in Walsingham. 1896... Charlotte Boyd buys the Slipper Chapel and gives it to Downside Abbey.
1906... Charlotte Boyd dies. 1921... Rev Alfred Hope-Patten appointed as Vicar of Walsingham. 1922... Statue of Our Lady of Walsingham enshrined in Anglican Parish Church. 1923... First organised Anglican pilgrimage to Walsingham. 1930... Slipper Chapel conveyed to the Diocese of Northampton. 1931... Anglican Shrine built and statue is translated from The Parish Church.
1937... Capuchin Friars establish a house in Walsingham until withdrawing in 1948. 1938... Slipper Chapel and Holy Ghost Chapel consecrated by Bishop Youens of Northampton. 1945... First post-reformation Mass in the Priory Ruins organised by American Forces. 1946... First Benediction in Priory Ruins organised by the Union of Catholic Mothers. 1948... First Student Cross Pilgrimage came to Walsingham at Easter. Also the Cross Carrying Pilgrimage for Peace, Penance and Prayer set out on 3rd July and carried fourteen crosses to Walsingham from all parts of the country. They were dedicated to the Way of the Cross on 16th July. 1950... Temporary Catholic Church dedicated to the Annunciation built in Walsingham.
1961... Archaeological dig in the Priory ruins establishes exact site of original shrine. 1968... The Marist Fathers become responsible for the Shrine. 1976... The Diocese of East Anglia established. 1980... The Archbishop of Canterbury visits The Slipper Chapel. 1981... The Chapel of Reconciliation is built.
1997... Celebrations begin in August, to mark the centenary of the re-founding of the Shrine King's Lynn, and last until The Dowry of Mary Pilgrimage 1998. Annunciation window installed in the Slipper Chapel to mark the Centenary. 1997... East Anglia Diocese signs covenant with CAFOD during Diocesan pilgrimage. Shrine adopts CAFOD as its Millennium charity.
The feast replaces the old feast of Our Lady of Ransom, which was the only feast of Our Lady proper to England. Devotion to Our Lady of Ransom came to express the desire of Catholics in England to restore her Dowry to Mary. The Guild of Our Lady of Ransom has long connections with the Shrine and it is unlikely that the old title of Our Lady of Ransom will disappear altogether nor will the title, Our Lady of Mercy, which is also associated with September 24th. The new feast was celebrated at the Shrine on September 24th for the first time. It is hoped that each year there will be a special preacher.
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de Faverches is taken in spirit to Nazareth and asked by Our Lady
to build a replica, in Norfolk, of the Holy House of the Annunciation.
Henry III was the first monarch to visit the shrine. Many Kings
and Queens came several times in their reigns. Edward I is recorded
as coming 11 times. Edward II came in 1315, Edward III in 1361,
King David of Scotland in 1364, Richard II and Queen Anne in 1383,
Queen Joan in 1427, Edward IV in 1469, Henry VI in 1487 and many
other times, and the last English Monarch to visit was Henry VIII.
Slipper
Chapel built as the last pilgrim chapel on the way to Walsingham.
England
presented to Our Lady as her Dowry by Richard II in Westminster
Abbey.
Erasmus,
the Dutch scholar visited Walsingham and left this description
of the shrine "When you look in you would say it is the abode
of saints, so brilliantly does it shine on all sides with gems,
gold and silver… Our Lady stands in the dark at the right side
of the altar… a little image, remarkable neither for its size,
material or workmanship." 
The deed of surrender was signed on August 4th. The Shrine was
closed, and the statue taken to London with other images to be
burnt. The Shrine and the Priory church were destroyed. The Slipper
Chapel was used as a barn, a cow byre and as a workhouse, until
it was rescued. 
Pope Leo XIII re-founds the Ancient Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham
in King's Lynn. The first post-reformation pilgrimage takes place
to the Slipper Chapel and to Walsingham. 
First
post-reformation Mass said in Slipper Chapel on August 15th, and
on the 19th August Cardinal Bourne led a pilgrimage of 10,000
people and declared the Slipper Chapel the Roman Catholic National
Shrine of Our Lady. 
Assumption
window placed in the Slipper Chapel. 
Before a crowd, variously estimated between 10,000 and 20,000
the Papal Delegate, Archbishop O'Hara crowned the new statue of
Our Lady of Walsingham on 15th August.
The
Statue is taken to Wembley to be venerated by Pope John Paul II,
during his British visit.
The
Shrine celebrates the great Jubilee of the Incarnation.
Feast
of Our Lady of Walsingham. In 1993, the Bishops' Conference of
England and Wales presented to Rome proposals for a new liturgical
calendar for England and Wales. These were finally approved by
the Vatican to take effect from Advent 2000. Among the changes
is a new feast of Our Lady of Walsingham to be celebrated as a
memorial (a feast in East Anglia) on September 24th.