Blessed John Schorne Brooch

The Blessed John Schorne is a copy of a late 15th-century sign now in Salisbury. John Schorne, vicar of North Marston Bucks from 1290-1314, was famous as an exorcist. This pilgrim sign commemorates his most spectacular act – when he forced the Devil into a boot. He was venerated at North Marston and from 1478 at St. George’s Chapel at Windsor where his relics were translated. He was the patron of those ill with fever or toothache, and effected many miraculous cures for gout.