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Canon Malone Relates Legend Of Glastonbury £9’ Joseph Of ihnnlatheaﬂ

in with the Christmas pifankis. 7m interesting address lenva-eq at Rotary luncheon yes- m-day by Rev. Canon ill-M MB!- nev rector of St. Peters Cathe- ‘ll-al, who took for his subject “The tegend of the Christmas Thorn: plastonbury and Joseph of Alim- tthea." Followingdl the text of penon Malone's address:

The connection of Joseph of Ar- mathea with Glastonbury in gomerset, Ehgland, is often dis- nmed by scholars and historians l; fantastic; and yet there must y, some substratum of fact in the story, or how else can we exlplain |he origin of the traditions and legends which cluster around this saint and this sacred place.

Is it reasonable to invasive a world-wide conspiracy of fiction which extended from Jerusalem to me untamed forests of Britain. {ram the centre of the world's re- ligion to the furthest confines of the savage West? Hardly. P111"!- ujg-ly when one realizes that the legend is- not one connected story. u lt would have been had it been invented for some pious plupose

It is rather a series of local mditiona. First. however, let me quote bom William Blake's (1757- lgm) poem and remind you that h, was o painter and prophet. ra- ther than a poet, and above all a mystic and eccentric whose lips were touched with the gift of elfin mus/lo.

“And did those feet in ancient time

Walk upon England's mountains green?

And was the holy lamb of God

On lhslend‘: {assent pastures seen?

And did the oolmtenanoo divine

Shine forth upon our clouded hills?

And was Jemsalem butlded here

Among these dark satanic mills?"

The Legend

The basis of the idea that Christ our Lord came ‘to England rests on the tradition that Joseph of Arimatbea in m; oavseitv u a metal merchant, collecting tin for hi; trade, visited Britain. was fav- Iurably received by King Arvira- gus, and was given a piece of land at Glastonbury. If, as it is some- times claimed. Joseph was the uncle of the Biased Virgin Moth- r o! our 10rd, then it was not hnpoaslble that he might have brought with him on his travels the buy Jesus It must be remem- bered that there la a very eon- eldarsble gap in the life o! Christ, not covered in the Gospel story. A period of eighteen years elaps- ed between hi1 visit to the Tam. pie at the age of twelve years and his Bsptlmi by John at the age of thirty. There would be plenty 0d time for "bha holy Lamb o! God on England's pleasant pastures (to be) seen".

But to :0 on with the Legend of Glastonbury - Good Friday has come; Christ has been cruci- ﬁed- That evening Joseph. de- scribed in bhe Gospels as a rich lnan who looked for the Kingdom. and was s disciple of Jesus, though secretly for fear of the Jews; a iouncillor who had not consented in the counsel and deed of con- iamnlng Christ, came boldly and

ked Pilate for the body of Jesus.

and Nicodemus wrapped the lend body of their Master with plces and ointments in its wind- lrll sheet and placed it in the new tomb which Joseph had in- ﬂcnded for himself. From this time Joseph disappears from Holy writ. Dur story, however, goes on. The Resurrection and Ascension have taken place. Whitsunday too has come and gone, and we read in the Scripture that after the mar- tyrdom of St. Stephen, "there nmsa a great persecution against the Chmch in Jerusalem", and all, except the Apostles, were scat- tered abroad and went about Dftﬂvvhing the word.

We can imagine a meeting o! the Apostles and these scattered brethren Outside of Jerusalem. Possibly at some focal point such as Caesarca on the sea coast. in ardent con-verse they plan n. means of nlvakixlg the Gentile world to I knowldgc of the true light of the world. How shall they Ivar without a preacher? ltlpllen and James are dead, well, what about Jvstph of Arimathea, who has al- "‘-""ll' travelled to the West?

Joseph's Journeys

An ancient tradition In Southezn France states that some of these "<11". mien: whom was Jcseph. look ship-and voyageci to far off Provence. Some stayed there, and the district bears the imprint of their missionary labours and holy lives. But Joseph journeys on. We 0m follow the route of that jour- "W by the legends which ra-nain in the wake of his travels. It is l“! the path wh‘ch s. merchant acquainted Wit-h the Phoenwnn traders in tin might be likely to lake. Prod-l. Caerares on to Plov-

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ence and Brittany, across the channel to Marazlon in Cornwall and i0 Glastonbury, whioh today is a peninsula, but was then an island easily reached from the Bristol Channel.

Tennyson in his Idylls o.’ the King says:

"from our old Books I lmow

That Joseph came of old to Glas- tonbury,

And that the Arviragua,

Gave him an isle whereon to build.

And there he built with wattles

from the marsh

A little lonely church in days of

yore."

heslthen Prince. o! marsh

This little chapel made o! the twisted branches of trees must have been the first Christian Church to be erected In Britain, o! mystic dimensions ‘60’ x 28‘. roughly those oi’ the Tabernacle in the wilderness. A wooden church was later built on the site, and the chapel u! 5t, Joseph. which is the first building to greet the eye of the pilgrim as he en- ter; the great enclosure of the ancient monastery, originally en- closed the old wooden structure. It was destroyed by fire in 1184 and the present chapel was built afterwards. It is accounted one of the most beautiful pieces of Ner- man architecture anywhere. So soundly was it built that, even af- ter the neglect of four centuries. it remains as one of the best pre- served ruins in England.

English on ‘em

This site was esteemed for cen- turies as one of the holiest shrines ln Erlgland. It has been called the English Jerusalem, the Mother of Saints, the Grave of Kings. 1n- deed Glraldus Cambrcnsis (Geraki the Welshman), s great writer of traveloguea in the twelfth cen- tury says that here is to be found the grave of King Arthur o! round table fame and his wife. Queen Guinevere. He identiﬁes Glastonbury with Avalon, the Is- land of the blest. Arthur's final resting place, but this we are told is due to etymological confusion.

Be that as it may, both St. David and St. Patrick accepted the tra- dition of Joseph's connection with Glastonbury as one which dates from Arpostqlic times.

At Glastonbury, St. Patrick died. Here also St. David came to wor- ship and bestowed on, the altar a great sapphire which was later rapaclously appropriated by Henry VIII. St. Dunstan was abbot- 0! Glastonbury and enriched the sanctuary with beautiful metal work. It was while he was ensﬂasd in such work that he was reported to have caught the devil by the nose with his toﬂﬂﬂ-

To this shrine St. JOQQPh 57W?!“ the Holy Grail, the sacred cup used by our Lord at the Last Supper. Tradition has it that Joseph took the chalice used on that occasion into his keeping and carefully caught in it. some drops o! blood and water which seeped from the side of Christ when it had been pierced by the soldier's spear.

As Tennyson tells it: -

"Thn cup, the cup lit-self "f!" which our Lord

Drank at the last sad supper

with his oven.

‘This, from tihe blessed land of Arcmat,

After the day of darkness. W59" the dead

Went wandering o'er Morlah.

the good Saint

Arﬁmathean Joseph journeying brought

To Glastonbury, where the win- ter thorn

Blossoms at Chrlsunas, mlnrlful of cur Lord."

We cannot here apeak of the Holy Crail. That has a story of ltl own. Scme years ago I had the privilege of telling it to one of our service clubs. We must stick to Glastonbury ‘where the winter thorn blossom-s at Christmas." St Joseph, it is said, planted his staff in the ground before his wattle church. It budded the following spring and ever since has flower- ed at Christmas thne.

The Thorn Tree

All that rcmnins at Glastorbury of St. Joseph's time is the tho"n tree, but ovm this is only an off- shoot of the great Pee which de- velopezi through the centuries ‘Tom his staff. In the. days of "Nowell I fanatic hacked at it to " it; a sp'lnter pierced his rye and caused his death, we are

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J_ ed, died, but not before several other ‘trees had been buddcd from it. One stands in the Abbey grounds, another in those of the Parish church and yet another transplanted to the grounds of the National Cathedral at Washng- ton, USA... also blossoms at Christmas. It Ls said to be a vur- loty of Syrian or Mediterranean thorn, not found elsewhere.

The sliver casket supposed lo contain the remains of St. Jos- eph, for two centuries an object cf reverence to pilgrims wus des- stroyed. The tomb itself was re- moved for protection In ti-oublous times. but. a record of its removal was kept, and in 1928 the vicar of the parish discovered it and found it to be indeed that which had been removed in the seven- teenth century. It. is hard to think that all this can be fiction. but. you must judge the matter for yourselves.

Let me, ilowever, end on a prac- tical note. Let me close with the second verse of Blake's poem. which provides a veritable slog n for those who are devoted to the uplift and amelioration of cur so-i cial life, {or the sequel to belief Ls actim.

"Bring me my bow of burning Bold! |

Bring me my arrows of desirel|

Bring me my spear! O ckrudsl unfolrli

Bring me my chariot cf fire!

I will mt cease freq mental fight,

Nor shall my sword sleep in my hand.

Till we have built Jerusalem

In this cur lreen and pleasant lend."

Guests at yesterday's luncheon in- eluded Rotarian DR. Bun-tain, Port Arthur, Rev. JD. Davison, Messrs Arthur Belcher, E.G. Dowling, Flee- chcr Troop, Ronald Parker, Al'- thur AVilfd, Douglas Pierce, Fur- rcl Gaudet, James Doyle, City, and Vernon Czaznpbcll, IIallfnX.

Til-o vocal solos by Mr. Raoul Reymond were greatly enjoyed,

The secretary read a note he had received from the school chil- drcn of North Rustlco in which they sent two hundred and fifty cents to be given as their con- tribution to the crippled children work of the club.

A now member, Mr. TI‘. Mitch-

eii was introduced by Rotariaxl Raoul LePage. Go-chairmm were Rotarians

Austin Scales and Frank Hutch- lnson.

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ST. JOHN'S. Nfldre Dec 20 — (CP)—A butter substitute manu- facturer sald here today his firm expects to send some 15,000,000 pounds of butterlne to Canada hu- fore Canadian manufacturers gel into production. Butterlne la |lm~ liar to margarine.

Restrictions on the sale and manufacture of margarine in Can- ada were lifted by a Supreme Court decision but. the import ban was continued. .

The manufacturer here laid his

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factory would be running 24-hour shifts to build up production for the Canadian market. He did not. comment on the effect of the con- tinuing import bnn on goods from Newfoundland which is still tech- nically not part of Canada. l-ie did not say whether he would wait. un- til confederation became a fact March 31 before shipping to Can- nda. By this time it was reported margarine would be pouring out of Canadian factories.

Newfoundland margarine pro- duction in 1947 amounted to 10.000 000 lbs valued at $2,750,000. Through an error in transmission the Can- adian Press previously reported the i947 production was only 100,000 pounds. ‘

Two grades are manufactured. one for table purposes, the other for cooking. High-grade margarine is sold at a ceiling price of 39

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During the Second World War. margarine-scarce because of cocoa- nut oil shortages-wold for 42 cents. Prior to the “or, premier grades bought 28 cents. Butterlne retails for 39 cents a pound.

Most butter consumed on the ls- iand is imported fl-om Canada und has risen in price from 48 cents a pound before the war to $1.10 a pound in most stores today.

LONDON—Catapult gangs have broken so many street lamp bulbs that Flnsbury, North London. school children are to be lectured on the cost. to ratepayers of wan- ton damage.

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