{"id":1910,"date":"2022-06-22T12:31:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:31:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/?p=1910"},"modified":"2022-06-22T12:59:45","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T18:59:45","slug":"hereford-cathedral-5-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/uk-2022\/hereford-22\/hereford-cathedral-5-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Hereford Cathedral, 5 May"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The principal building of Hereford Cathedral <\/a>dates from the 11th century, but there is evidence of church buildings from the seventh century. A beautiful building, it is still a cultural and spiritual center for the region. Besides its manuscript treasures, the Cathedral also houses relics of two saints: St. Ethelbert and St. Thomas Cantilupe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Shrine to St Thomas Cantilupe, 45th Bishop of Hereford, d 1282<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The biographies of St. Thomas and St. Ethelbert are told in pictorial narratives, either embroidered or painted. You can see part of the embroidered tapestry behind St. Thomas’s shrine, above. An octagonal column supports icon panels for events in St. Ethelbert’s life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ethelbert, King of the East Angles, was killed by King Offa. While his body was being transported, his head fell off into the river.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A blind man retrieved the head from the river and was healed, demonstrating St. Ethelbert’s miraculous powers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

Needlepoint kneelers from all the parishes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cathedral maintenance and repair never end. Stonecutter at work<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The principal building of Hereford Cathedral dates from the 11th century, but there is evidence of church buildings from the seventh century. A beautiful building, it is still a cultural and spiritual center for the region. Besides its manuscript treasures, the Cathedral also houses relics of two saints: St. Ethelbert and St. Thomas Cantilupe. The… Continue reading Hereford Cathedral, 5 May<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[60,57,48,43],"class_list":["post-1910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hereford-22","tag-churches-cathedrals-gb","tag-galleries-museums-gb","tag-history","tag-medieval","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1916,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910\/revisions\/1916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radegunde.com\/notebook\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}