As I have mentioned before, one of the best things about retirement is the time to go and re-connect with people face to face, last year Dave in Cyprus, and Helen in Devon, and Ange and Sue over the past couple of years in Scotland and Yorkshire, and now in Spain! It was another...
Cosimo Rosselli'sSaint Catherine of Siena as Spiritual Mother of the Second and Third Orders of Saint Dominic,from c.1499/1500 is now in the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh. (It was in storage in 2021 when I visited but rebuilding and expansion was in progress). It is accepted ...
The London Encyclopedia states that the church was“built on the alleged site of the palace chapel of King Offa, the 8th century ruler of Mercia. In penance for his part in the murder of Alban, the first English martyr. Offa founded St Albans Abbey; and in 793 gave the patronage of W...
Soon after returning to England, the king gave Erpingham the position of constable of Framlingham castle, with the manors of Framlingham, Earl Saham and Kelsale in Suffolk, and Southfield, Framingham and Hanworth in Norfolk. These were part of the Mowbray estates which had reverted to the k...