Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life…
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Stratford-upon-Avon 2022
From Wiki:
William Shakespeare, poet and playwright, was baptised in Holy Trinity on 26 April 1564 and was buried there on 25 April 1616.[17] The church still possesses the original Elizabethan register giving details of his baptism and burial, though it is kept by the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust for safekeeping. He is buried in the beautiful 15th-century [...]
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St Cuthbert is the North of England’s best-loved saint. He lived as a monk, bishop, and then hermit, on Holy Island – Lindisfarne. Revered during his own lifetime for his preaching and holiness, Cuthbert was acclaimed a saint in 698.
His community fled Lindisfarne following the Viking invasion in 793. They travelled around the North of [...]
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A very brief history from the guidebook to the church:
The first Church on this site was built about the beginning of the 12th century and was dedicated to the Holy Trinity. This has disappeared leaving no traces. By about 1300 another church was being built with the help of payments made by the [...]
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