Alfred Hope Patten was a larger than life figure, terrifying to some, but determined to realise his vision of restoring the medieval shrine in the Norfolk countryside that had been closed at the Reformation. Colin Stephenson's account of his ambitious enterprise, his successes and failures (including a failed attempt to establish religious communities of men and women at Walsingham), his penchant for flamboyant clerical dress, his love of the Roman Church but his dislike of Roman Catholics, does not claim to be the last word in historical scholarship, but is a warm, engaging and entertaining account of one the highest achievements of Anglo-Catholicism in the last century and of one of its most colourful and controversial personalities.
- ISBN10 0232511373
- ISBN13 9780232511376
- Publish Date October 1970
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 October 2003
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Darton, Longman & Todd Ltd
- Edition Illustrated edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 256
- Language English