a piece of Avalon here in the city of the blues

From: Donna17190 (Original Message)
Sent: 9/17/2008 3:22 PM

Hello Reverend Donna,

This is my last week living in Memphis. I am taking a job elsewhere in the state, but I did happen to go with a friend to tour the very beautiful St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral downtown. The cathedral has too parts, the earlier smaller Victorian Gothic chapel set up for and by the nuns early on. These were the nuns famous as the Martyrs of Memphis who died trying to save many from the Yellow Fever outbreak.

The larger structure connected to it is the main cathedral and is build in the English Gothic manner. What I thought might be of interest to you is the Glastonbury Stone set within the north facing wall. It is a small piece of column facade (as far as I can tell) obviously carved from an early period, which is apparently from Glastonbury cathedral. How it came by way of Memphis I cannot guess. All this time there was a piece of Avalon here in the city of the blues. One almost wants to pull the stone out of the wall to see what lies behind it.

Here is a picture of it:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Glastonbury_Stone_St_Marys_Episcopal_Cathedral.jpg



LVX,

Jonathon

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