Case file · Apparition / miracle
Richeldis's vision at Walsingham
Tradition says that in 1061 the widow Richeldis de Faverches was shown the house of the Annunciation in Nazareth in a vision of the Virgin Mary, and built a copy at Walsingham, Norfolk.
1061 CE · 52.89, 0.88 · status: legend
The account
Walsingham became one of the greatest pilgrimage sites of medieval Europe until its destruction in 1538. Catholic and Anglican shrines revived pilgrimage in the 20th century.
The sceptical view
The date comes from a 15th-century ballad; historians think the shrine was founded later in the 11th or 12th century.