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solved by King Henry VIII. The Scott. The Cathedral is built only surviving building is the on a 23-square mile island. chapel, which is now home to Also located in Ely is Oliver Julian Pilgrimage Anglican Franciscans. Cromwell’s House, the CAMBRIDGE kitchen of which dates from with The Rev. Dr. Gwynne Wright 1215. Oliver Cromwell was Cambridge is located on the an English military and po- River Cam in eastern England. September 11–24, 2018 litical leader and later, Lord It is the home of the University Protector of the Common- of Cambridge, which dates wealth of England, Scotland, back to 1209. Other universi- LONDON to other city churches and Ireland. will be included and the ties include King’s, famed for The capital and most its choir and Gother chapel, BURY ST. EDMUNDS populous city of England likelihood to meet with local clergy. Trinity, founded by King Henry This town grew up around and the United Kingdom VIII, and St. John’s with its the Abbey of Bury St. stands on the River CANTERBURY 16th-century Great Gate. Edmunds, which was one Thames. London has This cathedral city in Cambridge also boasts a large of the richest Benedictine been a major settlement southeast England was number of churches, some of monasteries in England until for two millennia. It was once a pilgrimage site which play a signifi cant part in the city’s the dissolution of the monasteries in 1539. founded by the Romans, during the Middle Ages. landscape. Great St. Mary’s Church enjoys The abbey lies in ruins with only two of the who named it Londinium. Ancient Roman walls the status of “University Church” and marks large medieval gatehouses surviving, as Its ancient core, the City encircle its medieval the center of the city. Many of the univer- well as two secondary medieval churches of London, is confi ned to center of cobbled streets sities contain chapels that hold services within the abbey complex. Located on its 1.12-square-mile me- and timber-framed according to the practices of the Church of the north side of Bury St. Edmunds is St. dieval boundaries. Great- houses. The Canterbury England. St. Edmund’s College chapel is Edmundsbury Cathedral. Even though a er London surrounds this Cathedral was founded Roman Catholic. There are several other church has stood on this site since 1065, it core and is split between in 597 AD and is the Catholic churches in Cambridge as well only received the designation of cathedral Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, headquarters of the as a Russian Orthodox church, a Greek in 1914. Work began to transform the for- Kent, and Hertfordshire. Church of England and Orthodox church, and Quaker meeting mer parish church into a cathedral building A City Panorama Tour Anglican Communion. houses. In addition Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, in 1960. provides an overview of the city. Visit the Visit the Cathedral to see its Gothic and and Buddhist worship centers are also NORWICH famous London Eye, a giant observation Romanesque elements evident in its stone found here. Ferris wheel sitting on the South Bank of carvings and stained-glass windows. Wor- Located along the River Wensum, ELY the River Thames. Visit the Anglican St. ship at the Cathedral on Sunday, Sep- Norwich was the second largest city in Paul’s Cathedral, the seat of the Bishop tember 16. While in Canterbury visit the Ely is a cathedral city, 14 miles north- England during the 11th century. Tour the of London. The original church on this site oldest parish church in continuous use and north-west of Cambridge and about 80 churches of Norwich. The prosperity of the was founded in AD 604. The current church the fi rst church founded in England, The miles from London. Construction of Ely wool trade during the Middle Ages was was part of the major rebuilding program Church of St. Martin. Visit St. Augustine’s Cathedral began in 1083 by a Norman ab- responsible for the fi nancing and con- after the Great Fire of London during the Abbey, a Benedictine monastery founded bot, Simeon. Alan of Walsingham’s octagon struction of many churches. Norwich has 17th century. Tour Westminster Abbey and in 598. It was a working monastery until built over the nave crossing between 1322 more medieval churches than any West- stay for Vespers. Westminster is located 1538 when King Henry VIII dissolved all and 1328, which is considered the greatest ern European city north of the Alps. Tour just to the west of the Palace of Westmin- monasteries in England. Also visit Greyfri- individual archeological achievement. The the Norwich Cathedral. Visit St. Julian’s ster and the traditional place of coronation ars Chapel, a Franciscan friary, the fi rst of dissolution also affected the Ely abbey. The Shrine, which is attached to the church of and burial site for British monarchs. Visits its order in Canterbury. It too was dis- Cathedral restoration occurred between St. Julian, Bishop of le Mons. Join in the 1845 and 1870 by architect George Gilbert worship at Norwich Cathedral on Sunday, Clip & mail to Raptim Humanitarian Travel Address on back of coupon. Please print. September 23.

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