“Beneath yon eastern ridge, the craggy bound,
Rugged and high, of Charnwood’s forest ground,
Stand yet, but, Stranger, hidden from thy view
The ivied ruins of forlorn Grace Dieu,
Erst a religious House, which day and night
With hymns resounded and the chanted rite.”
Grace Dieu Priory near Thringstone in Leicestershire, is a location with a vibrant past. Who is the 'white lady' that haunts the ruins?
The priory was founded between 1235 and 1241 by Rose de Verdon for 14 Augustinian nuns and their prioress. The nuns at Grace Dieu lead a solitary life and were forbidden to leave the walls of the priory.
They elected to wear white habits as opposed to the traditional black that was worn by nuns of the Augustinian order. The women went on to call themselves the 'White Nuns of St. Augustine'.Rose's remains were exhumed and re-interred at nearby Belton Church. Was Rose's spirit disturbed when she was moved from her original resting place?
The white woman in said to walk the grounds, and with reported more and more frequant activitys.
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