Little Walsingham

Walsingham is a village in the English county of Norfolk, which is known for its religious shrines to the Virgin Mary. It has been a major pilgrimage site for centuries, despite the Dissolution of the Monasteries. The story goes that in 1061, Richeldis de Faverches, a Norman noblewoman had a vision in which she was instructed by the Virgin Mary to replicate the house of the Holy Family in Nazareth to honour the Annunciation. The finished building contained a wooden statue of Virgin Mary enthroned with the infant Jesus on her lap, and possessed a phial of the Virgin's milk among its relics. Several English kings visited the shrine, including Henry III, Edward I, Edward II in 1315, Edward III, Henry VI, Henry VII, and then Henry VIII, who later destroyed it. 

A new statue was provided by Pope Leo XIII, in 1897, and there has since been a resurgence, in particular since the statue was given a place of honour during the Wembley Mass in the visit of Pope John Paul II in 1982.