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Post by Cearnach » Wed May 27, 2020 11:52 pm

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The southern half of the transept is dominated by the Lady Chapel---a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary. During the coronation, the chapel is blocked off by seating for the Earls and Barons of the realm. Seated to their front, at the edge of the central area, are the seats designated for Prince John and Arthur of Brittany.

Immediately after the coronation, this seating is removed and the chapel becomes a quiet place for prayer, reflection, and the occasional clandestine meeting.
Gm * Man of Angles * Sionnach * Scealai *

Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning,/Every poem an epitaph. And any action/Is a step to the block, to the fire, down the sea's throat/Or to an illegible stone: and that is where we start.
We die with the dying:/See, they depart, and we go with them./We are born with the dead:/See, they return, and bring us with them./The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree/Are of equal duration. A people without history/Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern/Of timeless moments. So, while the light fails/On a winter's afternoon, in a secluded chapel/History is now and England --Eliot, Little Gidding
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