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Our Lady's Mirror
Spring 1950
Our Lady Queen of Martyrs,
on North wall outside the
Shrine church
The early part of the year was overshadowed for many of us by the serious illness of Father
Fynes-Clinton, who had to be taken off to S. George’s Hospital at great speed, where he had to undergo
an operation. All his friends, and they are very many, especially those connected with Walsingham, will be
glad to hear of his wonderful recovery.
Another of our Guardians has been seriously ill again, Father Alban Baverstock and he is far from strong.
He too is a devoted client to O.L.W. and one that can ill be spared.
A gallery of photographs is being formed in the College consisting of Guardians of the Holy House past
and present; it will be of great value and interest in years to come.
The Pilgrimage Church is in the hands of the cleaners, and although they are quiet and as good as gold,
we are living in very uncomfortable conditions at the moment.
S. Mary’s, the Parish Church of Walsingham, has had electric light installed, and in such a way that the
beauty of the Church has not been marred and without making a glare when the lights are in full use; a
careful arrangement of shading has been used. The architect, Mr Tolhurst, is to be congratulated on the
result.
We are beginning to get some more natural light in the Pilgrimage Church and a start is being made by
inserting a round window in the South transept gable; this will, we hope, flood the Orthodox Chapel and
the Choir with the bright beams of gladsome day.
There are on our lists twenty Cells of the Society; and it would be good if members of the Society in their
neighbourhood would link up with them and so get the benefit of their activities. We hope many other
Cells will be formed this year. To start it only needs a Superior and three members. At present the great
majority of our confrères are unattached to any local centre.
articles: C S, 'Fatima Diary'; 'Shrine of St Augustine, Pavia'; 'A letter to the Prior of Walsingham, 1255';
'Walsingham from within'; R T B, 'Annunciation' [a poem]
photographs: Our Lady Queen of Martyrs, on North wall outside the Shrine church [above]; the High
Altar, St Mary's Church, Walsingham; two photographs of the Basilica S Pietro Ciel d'Oro, Pavia; the
workmen who discovered the holy well when the foundations of the Shrine church were dug in1931