Alfred Hope Patten (17 November 1885 in the Town Brewery,

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– 11 August 1958 in the College, Little Walsingham), known as "Pat" to his friends, was an

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priest in the

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, best known for his restoration of the

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Life

An introspective only child, he became an

in Brighton whilst still a teenager. He became interested in not only the medieval church but also the

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, visiting the Anglican Benedictines at Painsthorpe in 1906 and being profoundly influenced by their abbot,

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. After attending

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he was ordained deacon in 1913 at Holy Cross, Cromer Street in the St Pancras area of London. After three other curacies, including the Good Shepherd church,

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, in 1921 he became Vicar of Great and

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with St Giles',

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. Within months of arriving, he had a statue of

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modelled on the medieval priory's seal and placed it in the parish's main church, St Mary's. He also started

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in his church and - aided by the League of Our Lady (later the Society of Mary) - the first pilgrimages from London. His bishop in

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, opposed the statue and Patten agreed to move it out of the church, using this as a chance to rebuild the Holy House in 1931."ACC Parishes in US and UK celebrate Walsingham Pilgrimage", ''Anglican Catholic News'', June 15, 2015
/ref> The Holy House was rebuilt in 1938 to accommodate rising pilgrim numbers and became the

. In 1930, Patten led a pilgrimage to the Shrine of Our Lady of Egmanton."History", The Society of Our Lady of Egmanton
/ref> On his death he was buried in the churchyard of St Mary's in Walsingham.

Works

*''Pilgrims' Manual'' (1928) *''England's National Shrine of Our Lady Past and Present'' with

Enid Chadwick Enid Mary Chadwick (1902–1987) was a British artist known for religious art and children's religious material. Enid Chadwick lived in Walsingham for more than fifty years. She came to Walsingham from Brighton in 1934. She was the daughter o ...

(1939) *''Mary's Shrine of the Holy House, Walsingham'' (1954) *''Our Lady's Mirror'', a quarterly paper set up in 1926 by Hope for the members of the Society of Our Lady of Walsingham

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Patten, Hope 1885 births 1958 deaths People from Sidmouth English Anglo-Catholics Alumni of Lichfield Theological College Anglo-Catholic clergy Clergy from Brighton People from Walsingham