Pilgrims and politics
The site for the next in our series by the title of "Terribly English , that's why they came to Rome", takes us to the Venerable English College here in Rome.
Historian Stella Fletcher in a programme produced by Veronica Scarisbrick.
“ ..In the course of time the English occupied different sites and this is the principal one ... in the medieval times it was the English hospice . It was where the English stayed ….but it was also associated with the English Ambassadors or proctors and over here we’ve got a memorial to John Sherwood , Bishop of Durham who was one of the most distinguished of the English proctors or ambassadors in late 15th century Rome..."
“ …Very few of the English medieval cardinals ever came to Rome and actually functioned as proper curial cardinals . Bainbridge was an odd one out, he was sent to Rome by Henry VIII in 1509 for a specific political reason. He was a Prince of the Church but he was an Englishman first... it was all very political and all about alignment of the powers..."
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