St.John of the Cross and the Broads National Park
Yes, I know he never came here but......... I have been revisiting the arguments of the Reformation. The echos of the bad tempered arguments are visible in - broken 7 sacrament fonts, a few remaining pieces of medieval glass, rood screens where the saints faces have been scratched out and empty niches once occupied by the images of saints. And then there is Lollards' Pit In some ways St.John of the Cross was a Reformer too and he got a lot of grief because of it! When I think about him as a bare foot friar, I am reminded that John Wycliffe had four such friars supporting him when he appeared before the Bishop of London. I find it a very odd thing that the Norfolk Saints Way on its way into Norwich Cathedral has Lollards' Pit as a way station. I wander what the Lollards might have thought about 21st Century pilgrims! In their day they were dead against it. St.John of the Cross is more nuanced. He has this to say about pilgr...