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2 unusual facts about Walsingham


Anglican devotions

One example of Anglo-Catholic veneration is the annual procession in honour of Our Lady of Walsingham (see picture).

Michael Robbins

In one of his last television appearances, in A Little Bit of Heaven Robbins recalled his childhood visits to Norfolk and spoke of his faith and love of the Shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham.


Bermuda Flicker

Though most material is from Late Pleistocene deposits unearthed by Storrs L. Olson, David B. Wingate and others in the Admirals Cave, the Wilkinson Quarry, and in the Walsingham Sink Cave in Hamilton Parish in Bermuda in 1981 there is one bone, a tarsometatarsus from a juvenile, which is from a Holocene layer in the Spittal Pond.

Christopher Carleill

After Alexander's death, Christopher's mother Anne married Francis Walsingham in January 1562; Walsingham was spymaster to Queen Elizabeth I of England.

William Walsingham, Jr.

When Breadon parted company with his longtime general manager, Hall of Famer Branch Rickey, at the close of the 1942 campaign, Walsingham became the club's chief of baseball operations, although the GM title was not formally assigned to him.


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