"The Grey Friars Are Returning To Walsingham For The First Time Since The Reformation".

The statue of Our Lady of Walsingham is held aloft 

during a

Year of Mercy Pilgrimage attended by Cardinal Nichols (Photo: mazur/catholicnews.org.uk)

Illustration: CATHOLIC HERALD

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The Conventual Franciscans

Are Experiencing A Revival In England.

The only remaining building of the first English Franciscan Friary, built in 1267.

It was a considerable Monastery until The Dissolution of The Monasteries,

by King Henry VIII, in 1538, when The Friars were banished.

Photo: 30 June 2008.

Source: https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/866800

Author: Pam Fray.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encylopaedia.

Grey Friars, or Gray Friars, is a term for The Franciscan Order of Friars Minor, in particular,

The Conventual Franciscans.