good talk

Took the bus from Glasgow to Edinburgh and used my RT back to bus station near Victoria Station and then 2 hours on the train to Canterbury, to which I had never been.  Canterbury Cathedral was founded by Archbishop Augustine in 597, it was damaged by Viking Raids and destroyed by fire in 1067, a year after the Norman Conquest, rebuilt from 1070 to 1077, but greatly damaged by an earthquake in 1382, the Gothic Cathedral is from 1390.  Its interior is very beautiful, with some of the stained-glass from 1190.  The event for which it is best-known is the murder of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, on Dec. 29, 1170.  Thomas was a good friend of King Henry 11, and after taken the priestly-rites became Archbishop in 1162.  Henry had thought that Thomas would acquiesce to his wishes in the continual power struggle between the Crown and the Church.  He thought wrong, as Thomas took his post seriously and became devout and ascetic.  On the afore-day, Henry was heard to say, probably ...Who lets their Lord be treated with such shameful contempt by a low-born cleric? and not ...Who will rid me of this troublesome priest?  4 knights were moved to action and went to the Cathedral, probably to arrest Thomas.  The Archbishop resisted, a strongly-built man, one of the knights wound-up on his back, arose with his sword and cleaved Thomas' skull.  Of course, I took the l-hour Cathedral Tour, there's an altar at the spot where Thomas was slain, and many miracles have been attributed to the Saint's intercession.  For centuries Pilgrims brought money and rich-gifts to the Cathedral and Thomas' Shrine.  In 1538, King Henry V111 summoned the Saint to Court to answer charges of Treason, not appearing, Thomas was found guilty, and his Shrine's riches becoming that of the Crown. The Cathedral of Canterbury is the Seat of the Anglican Faith and its 80 mil believers, and is in a state of disrepair with a leaking-roof and everything else, such that there is a continual Fund-Raising Campaign, to which Scott and his Mum have contributed, those of the Anglican Denomination and the Fat Butt can get off-it and give a good-donation to this worthy-purpose