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ISBN 0252029402</ref> The [[Bishop of Northampton]], Bishop Youens, promptly gave it to the monks of [[Downside Abbey]] to look after.<ref name=norfolk/> In [[1897]] the chapel was re-established as a shrine by [[Pope Leo XIII]]. |
ISBN 0252029402</ref> The [[Bishop of Northampton]], Bishop Youens, promptly gave it to the monks of [[Downside Abbey]] to look after.<ref name=norfolk/> In [[1897]] the chapel was re-established as a shrine by [[Pope Leo XIII]]. |
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On August 15th, 1934, Bishop Youens of Northampton celebrated the first public [[mass]] in the Slipper Chapel for four hundred years, and two days later [[Francis Bourne|Cardinal Bourne]] led a national pilgrimage of the Catholic bishops of England and [[Wales]] and more than 10,000 people to the shrine. From this date it became the Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady.<ref name=walsingham>[http://www.walsingham.org.uk/romancatholic] The Roman Catholic Walsingham website</ref> |
On August 15th, 1934, Bishop Youens of Northampton celebrated the first public [[Mass (liturgy)|mass]] in the Slipper Chapel for four hundred years, and two days later [[Francis Bourne|Cardinal Bourne]] led a national pilgrimage of the Catholic bishops of England and [[Wales]] and more than 10,000 people to the shrine. From this date it became the Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady.<ref name=walsingham>[http://www.walsingham.org.uk/romancatholic] The Roman Catholic Walsingham website</ref> |
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Located in [[Houghton St. Giles]], many modern pilgrims still remove their shoes at the Slipper Chapel and walk the last mile, called the "Holy Mile", into Walsingham barefoot. |
Located in [[Houghton St. Giles]], many modern pilgrims still remove their shoes at the Slipper Chapel and walk the last mile, called the "Holy Mile", into Walsingham barefoot. |
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The Slipper Chapel, or Chapel of St. Catherine of Alexandria, is a Roman Catholic chapel built in 1340 as the last chapel on the pilgrims' route to Walsingham in Norfolk.
When the Slipper Chapel was built, Walsingham was second only to Canterbury in the ranks of English pilgrimage. After Henry VIII's Reformation of the English Church, in about 1538 the Slipper Chapel fell into disuse and was variously used as a poor house, a forge, a cowshed and a barn,[1] until, in 1863, the chapel was rediscovered by a wealthy local woman, Miss Charlotte Pearson Boyd, a convert to Catholicism from the Anglican Church. She bought the building from the farm owner in 1896, restored it and then donated the chapel to the Diocese of Northampton for Catholic use.[2] The Bishop of Northampton, Bishop Youens, promptly gave it to the monks of Downside Abbey to look after.[1] In 1897 the chapel was re-established as a shrine by Pope Leo XIII.
On August 15th, 1934, Bishop Youens of Northampton celebrated the first public mass in the Slipper Chapel for four hundred years, and two days later Cardinal Bourne led a national pilgrimage of the Catholic bishops of England and Wales and more than 10,000 people to the shrine. From this date it became the Roman Catholic National Shrine of Our Lady.[3]
Located in Houghton St. Giles, many modern pilgrims still remove their shoes at the Slipper Chapel and walk the last mile, called the "Holy Mile", into Walsingham barefoot.
Today, the complex on which the Slipper Chapel is located included a Chapel of Reconciliation, which can seat up to 350 people for services, a bookshop and a tearoom.