Our Lady of Walsingham

In 1061, the Blessed Virgin appeared to Richeldis de Faverches, a wealthy Saxon noblewoman, in three visions. Mary transported Richeldis in spirit to the house in Nazareth where the Annunciation took place and asked her to build an exact replica in Walsingham. The Holy House was constructed and became one of the four great pilgrimage sites of medieval Christendom, alongside Jerusalem, Rome, and Santiago de Compostela. Every English king from Henry III to Henry VIII made pilgrimage to Walsingham. The shrine was destroyed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538, but was restored in the 20th century and is now both an Anglican and Catholic pilgrimage site.