Great Briatain -Glastonbury
Glastonbury Abbey, the earliest Christian sanctuary in the country. The great Norman structures were consumed by fire in 1184 when many of the ancient treasures were destroyed. One story goes, that in order to raise extra funds from pilgrims to rebuild the abbey the monks, in 1191, dug to find King Arthur and his Queen Guinevere; and bones from two bodies were raised from a deep grave in, the cemetery on the south side of the Lady Chapel. These bones were reburied, much later, in 1278 within the Abbey Church, in a black marble tomb, in the presence of King Edward I.
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- em0764835.jpg
- Copyright
- @ENRICOMARTINO
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- 4016x6016 / 15.4MB
- Contained in galleries
- Glastonbury