Our Lady of Walsingham is a title given to Mary, the mother of Jesus, venerated by Catholics, high-church Anglicans and Western Rite Orthodox Christians. According to tradition, the title is linked to a Marian vision experienced in 1061 by Lady Richeldis de Faverches, an Anglo-Saxon noblewoman and widow, in the village of Walsingham, Norfolk, England. In the vision allegedly seen by Lady Richeldis, the Blessed Virgin Mary showed her the Holy House in Nazareth and commissioned her to construct a counterpart in Walsingham, dedicated to the sacred mystery of the Annunciation.
