GLASTONBURY Antiquarian Society will be hearing about Glastonbury Abbey and the English Benedictine Congregation tonight at Glastonbury Library at 7.30pm.On November 15, 1539, Dom Richard Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, was executed on Tor Hill.The abbey's monks were turned out, its servants dismissed and an institution which had thrived for perhaps a thousand years, came to an abrupt and brutal end.But Glastonbury's Benedictine story was far from over. English Benedictine life survived the...
Reported by Wells Journal 13 hours ago.
GLASTONBURY Antiquarian Society will be hearing about Glastonbury Abbey and the English Benedictine Congregation tonight at Glastonbury Library at 7.30pm.On November 15, 1539, Dom Richard Whiting, Abbot of Glastonbury, was executed on Tor Hill.The abbey's monks were turned out, its servants dismissed and an institution which had thrived for perhaps a thousand years, came to an abrupt and brutal end.But Glastonbury's Benedictine story was far from over. English Benedictine life survived the...
Reported by Wells Journal 13 hours ago.