How to Visit the English CathedralsSingleton, Esther
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How to Visit the English Cathedrals
Singleton, Esther
Cathedrals -- England
“The three windows remaining in the aisles surrounding the Trinity
Chapel are entirely devoted, as were all the rest, to the miracles
of Becket, which commenced immediately on the death of the great
martyr. The miracles represented in the medallions are of various
characters. The Lucerna Angliæ, a true St. Thomas of Kandelberg, as
the Germans called him, restores sight to the blind. Loss of smell
is recovered at the shrine of this _Arbor Aromatica_. Frequently
he assists sailors, the rude crews of the Cinque Ports in his own
immediate neighbourhood. At the Norway fishing his figure came
gliding over the seas in the dusk, and descended, burning like
fire, to the imperilled ships of the Crusaders. In the window
toward the east, on the north of the Shrine, is represented a
remarkable series of miracles, occurring in the household of a
knight named Jordan, son of Eisulf, whose son is restored to life
by the water from St. Thomas’s well, which, mixed with his blood,
was always carried off by the pilgrims. The father vows an offering
to the martyr before Mid-Lent. This is neglected; the whole
household again suffer, and the son dies once more. The knight and
his wife, both sick, drag themselves to Canterbury, perform their
vow and the son is finally restored. On a medallion in one of the
windows on the north side is a representation of Becket’s Shrine,
with the martyr issuing from it in full pontificals to say Mass at
the altar.”--(R. J. K.)
At the extreme east end, just behind Trinity Chapel, is the circular
apse called =Becket’s Crown=, or the =Corona=. On the north side lies
Cardinal Pole, Bloody Mary’s cousin, who died the day after she did.
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