The Trinity Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral, c.1408
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- Опубліковано 12 лют 2020
- This 3D visualisation shows the Trinity Chapel at Canterbury Cathedral as it may have looked mid-morning on a late summer's day in 1408. At the centre of the Trinity Chapel is the marble shrine base, and upon it the golden casket containing St Thomas Becket's remains.
Various pilgrim activities are taking place. Lower-status pilgrims have the miracle-stories in the windows explained to them by a clerk; behind the shrine a monk points out the gems and precious objects to a higher-status merchant and his wife, encouraging them to add a gift of their own; in front of the shrine a merchant couple present their child and give a candle in thanks for his deliverance from sickness, and a sea captain gives a ring after surviving a storm.
It was truly criminal what Protestantism destroyed.
So true
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Protestants claimed that the veneration of relics (not "worship", which is for God alone) wasn't grounded in Scripture. It is. In 2 Kings 13:21 we read of men who were burying a deceased man, when a band of robbers approached them. The men quickly threw the dead man into a cave, where his body fell on the bones of the Prophet Elijah, and he was restored to life. Clearly, God can choose to work miracle through bones or anything at all if He so chooses, and for centuries, Christians honored the remains of holy men and women because of this.
Protestants also condemned the veneration of saints, saying that prayers are to be addressed to God alone, yet "veneration" does not equal "worship", and "prayers" can take the form of worship - for God alone - or simple dialogue. The veneration of saints then is also Scriptural. In Revelation 5:8, we read of the elders (saints) in heaven, presenting golden bowls of incense to the Lamb, that incense being the prayers of the faithful on earth. Clearly, the faithful on earth can address some of their prayers to the saints in heaven, who then present them to God. Today, Roman Catholics, Orthodox Christians, and some Anglicans still venerate relics and regard the saints as intercessors, even as the early Christians did, with such veneration becoming official by the 3rd century.
Good book to read on the destruction of the Medieval Patrimony of England "The Stripping of the Altars" by Eamon Duffy
Yes. That's an excellent book.
St Thomas Becket was not affected by the destruction of his relics by the traitorous tyrant Henry VIII. But we all the faithful on Earth are poorer for not having the relics of such a great saint here.