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The Rood of Grace at Boxley Abbey, near Maidstone in Kent, was one of the most remarkable, and ultimately infamous, of medieval pilgrimages. On the...

Crowned 'A' Pilgrim Badge. 1350-1400. Standing for "Amor Vincit Omnia" - "Love conquers all". Height 3.5cm. With lapel pin fixing.

Crowned 'D' Pilgrim Badge. 1375-1425. "Dominus" - an invocation to God. Height 4cm. With lapel pin fixing.

Crowned 'S' Pilgrim Badge. 1400-1450. "Salvator" for "Saviour". Height 3.7cm. With lapel pin fixing.

By the 14th century the Sudarium or Veronica had become Rome’s principal relic. This relic was reputedly the cloth on which St Veronica had wiped t...

John Shorne was the rector of North Marston in Buckinghamshire from 1290 until 1314. Although not canonised, Shorne was popularly regarded as a Sai...

Our Lady Undercroft Canterbury. This type of badge is most often associated with the shrine of Our Lady Undercroft, a secondary Canterbury cult. Th...

Alban, a Romano- British legionary at Verulamium, was converted to Christianity, but, after being arrested and refusing to give up his faith, was e...

Saint Catherine of Alexandria was one of the most popular of medieval saints. She was martyred in the 4th century for her Christian belief by order...

This badge depicts St Cecilia playing an organ. It is thought that Cecilia died in Sicily in the 3nd century. She became the patroness of Musicians...

Saint Edmund. The Saxon king Edmund was put to death by the Vikings following his defeat at the battle of Thetford in 869. Traditionally, he is sup...

This badge, the original of which was found in Norfolk, depicts a famous episode from the life of St Edward the Confessor. He is shown giving his r...

Etheldreda (or Audrey), was Abbess of the convent she had founded at Ely in the 7th century on the site now occupied by Ely Cathedral. Pilgrimage t...

The cult of Saint George achieved widespread popularity in the late middle ages and by the mid 14th century he had replaced St Edmund and Edward th...

By the 12th century the shrine of St James the Greater, at Compostela in Galicia, north-west Spain, had joined Rome and Jerusalem as one of the thr...

Saint Jos, was the son of a 7th century king of Brittany. He gave up his wealth and position in favour of the life of a pilgrim and subsequently li...

Pilgrim badge depicting the legend of the cutting of the cloak. St Martin of Tours was an extremely popular medieval saint; particularly in France,...

The Archangel Michael was regarded in the middle ages as leader of the spiritual forces in the fight against evil. He was also regarded as a protec...

The relics of St Nicholas found their way to the city of Bari in Italy in the 11th century, having been stolen from Myra (in Modern Turkey) by Bari...

St. Roch was an important and popular late medieval saint, mainly due to his reputation as a deliverer from plague and contagion. According to his ...

One of the major attractions at Canterbury Cathedral was the ‘corona’ reliquary, housed in the Corona Chapel, and in which the severed crown of Sai...

One of the final and most important stations on the Canterbury ‘tour’ was the fabulous head reliquary. This life size, golden, jewel encrusted reli...

Becket’s martyrdom in 1170 at the hands of King Henry II’s knights, was to ensure Canterbury’s position as the principal English pilgrim shrine. It...

From the 13th century, hollow cast figurines of Saint Thomas were a common souvenir of Canterbury. Although these items seemingly went out of produ...