Church Of St Mary The Virgin Shrewsbury Shropshire

Author : Thomas Bucknall Lloyd
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230383767
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (837 download)

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Download or read book Notes on St. Mary's Church, Shrewsbury written by Thomas Bucknall Lloyd and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ... S. George was not known as the Patron Saint of England, till the time of Richard I. (1189-1199, ) who during the Crusades placed his army under his especial protection, and made the name of the Saint his battle cry. A great national Council, held at Oxford, 1222, commanded his feast to be kept as a holiday of lesser rank; and it still holds its place in our Calendar among the black letter days. By his name Edward III. in 1330 instituted the most ancient and noble order of knighthood in Europe, that of the Garter. April, 1879. Beneath the figure of S. George, in one of the west lancets of the north transept, is that of S. Barbara, which is also copied from the glass at Ludlow of which I spoke in the Magazine of February. S. Barbara, whom we have already seen represented in the north aisle (Aug., 1878), was a favourite subject of mediaeval art, as the special patroness of all the trades concerned in the making of armour and weapons of. war. The legend respecting her describes her as the beautiful daughter of a very rich man, who in his selfish love of her shut her up in a tower from the eyes of men. She gave herself up to learning, and was instructed in the christian faith by letters passing between her and Origen, by one of whose disciples disguised as a physician she was baptized. Her father had directed an additional story to be added to the tower, with two windows; she in his absence directed the builders to make three. On his return and enquiry, she answered him, that " through three windows the soul receives her light, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit." The father, finding that in spite of his precautions she had become a christian, drew his sword in anger, and cut off her head with his own hands. In token of her high station, ...