CHRISTIANS from across Hertfordshire converged on St Albans yesterday to celebrate nearly 1,000 years of history.
They joined a pilgrimage to St Albans Abbey to welcome a unique visit by the Anglican Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham, which is currently touring the country as part of extensive 950th anniversary celebrations.
The shrine, a small wooden carving of the Virgin Mary, symbolises an apparent apparition by Saxon noblewoman Richeldis de Faverches, who lived in the Norfolk village of Walsingham in 1061.
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