Ancient shrine to be canonically re-erected

OUR LADY SAINT MARY IS RETURNING
Front a Special Corresporuient THE fair isle of Avalon that had long been shrouded in the mists of legend even before English history really began, will see again on Sunday the annual Glastonbury Pilgrimage led by the Bishop of Clifton.
The Bishop wishes it to be a great Marian pilgrimage for four intentions :
I. To honour Our Blessed Lady the Immaculate Mother of God.
2. For Catholics under persecudon.
3. To honour the English Martyrs.
4. The intentions of our Holy Father the Pope.
Later in the year a statue of Our Lady Saint Mary of Glastonbury is to be placed in the parish church immediately opposite the site of the ancient abbey which enshrined the statue of Our Lady of Glastonbury from about 1190 in the new stone Lady Chapel at the west end that replaced the fifth century wattle structure destroyed in the Great Fire of 1184.
The Great Seal
The design of the new statue has been based on the central figure of the Great Seal of Glastonbury last used by Blessed Richard Whiting, its martyred abbot. It is being carved by Mr. P. Lindsey Clark, F.R.B.S.
It depicts Our Lady crowned, with
the Divine Infant on her left arm. in
her right hand she carries a sheaf of roses—the flowering thorn that links up with Joseph of Arimathea.
The dominant colours will be red and gold.
The canonical re-erection of this shrine in Mary's Year is an inspiring and fitting act atoning for the insults of those rapacious fingers of the Reformation that un twined the rosary of purest gold that Queen Philippa, wife of Edward III. clasped around Our lady's right arm at Glastonbury.
All pilgrims arriving by coach on Sunday will he marshalled for disembarking at the temporary park near the end of Stone Down Lane. This year they will ascend Glastonbury Tor informally at their own pace, to assemble at 1.45 p.m. for Solemn Stations of the Cross.
Open-air Mass
At the conclusion of the service on the Tor, the pilgrims, reciting the Rosary, will go in procession eight abreast to the grounds of the Convent of the Sisters of Charity of St Louis.
-I here Solemn Pontifical Mass of Our Lady's Immaculate Conception will be sung at 3.40 p.m. by the Bishop of Clifton. Bishop King of Portsmouth will preach.