South London . feasting and drinkingto fill up the whole day, so that the whole family could get aholiday combined with religious exercises in good companyand return home at night, each happy in the consciousnessthat so many years were knocked off purgatory. For the longer pilgrimages there were of course the fardistant journeys to Jerusalem, generally over land as far asVenice, and then by a personally conducted voyage, the i6o SOUTH LONDON captain providing escort to and from the Holy were also pilgrimages to Compostella: to Rome: toCologne : and other places. For pilgrimage wit
South London . feasting and drinkingto fill up the whole day, so that the whole family could get aholiday combined with religious exercises in good companyand return home at night, each happy in the consciousnessthat so many years were knocked off purgatory. For the longer pilgrimages there were of course the fardistant journeys to Jerusalem, generally over land as far asVenice, and then by a personally conducted voyage, the i6o SOUTH LONDON captain providing escort to and from the Holy were also pilgrimages to Compostella: to Rome: toCologne : and other places. For pilgrimage within the four seas, the pious citizen ofSouth London had surely no choice. For him St. Thomasof Canterbury was the only Saint. There were other Saints,of course, but St. Thomas was his special Saint. No othershrine was possible for him save that of St. Thomas. NotGlastonbury: nor Walsingham : nor Beverley: but Canterburycontained the relics the sight and adoration of which wouldmore effectively assist his CANTERBURY PILGRIMS In Erasmuss Dialogue of the Pilgrimage we have anaccount of what was done and what was shown at the shrinesof Our Lady of Walsingham and St. Thomas of Canterbury. The church that is dedicated to St. Thomas raises itselfup towards heaven with that majesty that it strikes those thatbehold it at a great distance with an awe of religion, and nowwith its splendour makes the light of the neighbouringpalaces look dim, and as it were obscures the place that wasanciently the most celebrated for religion. There are two THE PILGRIMS i6i lofty turrets which stand as it were bidding visitants welcomefrom afar off, and a ring of bells that make the adjacentcountry echo far and wide with their rolling sound. In thesouth porch of the church stand three stone statues of men inarmour, who with wicked hands murdered the holy man, withthe names of their countries—^Tusci, Fusci, and Betri. . Og. When you are entered in, a certain spacious majestyof place opens itself to
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