Replica Medieval Pilgrim Badges and Apostle Spoons, Cast in the UK

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...

Saint Werburga was an Anglo Saxon abbess. Her body was translated to Chester from the Midlands due to the Viking threat. This badge depicts one of ...

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...

The cult of the Virgin Mary gained widespread appeal throughout Europe in the medieval period, with many shrines to her achieving international pop...

Walsingham in Norfolk, with its miracle working image of the Virgin Mary, was one of the principal European pilgrim resorts, even eclipsing Canterb...

Walsingham is dedicated to the Virgin Mary, whose symbol is the lily, representing purity. When found, the original of this badge was lacking its j...