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In Virginia, a Marian Shrine Reaches Back Through 1,000 Years of Christian History, by Daniel Payne – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Dominican friars lead a pilgrimage to Walsingham in May 2010. Credit: Lawrence OP via Flickr (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)

By Daniel Payne, CNA, Sept. 24, 2025

Daniel Payne is a senior editor at Catholic News Agency. He previously worked at the College Fix and Just the News. He lives in Virginia with his family.

Daniel PayneWilliamsburg, Virginia, Sep 24, 2025 / 14:57 pm – “When you go on pilgrimage, hearts need to change. Something needs to change for a pilgrimage to be fruitful.”

That’s the message Sister Camilla Oberding, COLW, has for those who travel to the Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham in eastern England.

Sister Camilla was joined by two of her fellow sisters of the Community of Our Lady of Walsingham in Williamsburg, Virginia, on Sept. 24, with the nuns speaking at the U.S. National Shrine of Our Lady of Walsingham located in Virginia’s colonial-era capital city. Sister Camilla herself is the foundress of the English community.

The shrine in Williamsburg is part of a thousand-year history of Marian devotion dating back to rural England. The tradition endured centuries of repression and decline before a revival in the late 19th century saw a renewal of devotion to Mary in Walsingham — one that has extended to its sister shrine in Virginia, site of the first permanent English settlement in North America. …

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