Show Canterbury's Famous Old Cathedral Host to Amer Americans c ns for First T Time me l CANTERBURY Eng Jul July 24 A I Canterbury's famous old cathedral for tor the first time In nearly a a. thousand years was 1 host to Americans In England England Eng Eng- land today Eng I This was the third day of or the cathedrals cathedral's ca cathedrals cathedral's cathedrals cathedral's ca- ca thedral's commemoration week week under Under under un un- der the auspices of the Friends of or Canterbury Cathedral which Is In Interested In In- r In preserving ening and restoring the beauties of or the church REPRESENTATIVES NAMED Tho 1110 Invitation to Americans was extended by the dean and chapter of the cathedral and the United States delegated Ray ay Atherton counselor of the American embassy Albert Halstead Halstead Hal- Hal stead the consul general and the theand military and naval attaches as official official cial cia representatives es I The Archbishop o of Canterbury head of ot the Church of England vasI was vas I the preacher at the special service program and for the first time the Battle Hymn lImn of oC the Republic was WM Included In the music list Although the archbishop has a place In London where most of the I business of oC the church is done Can Can- still stUl Is the metropolis of oC the I anglican church HISTORY RECOUNTED It w was to Canterbury that St. St Augustine Augustine Au Au- gustine and his band o of missionaries came cam from Rome In 5 7 The church I he built bum W was J long In use u-se and finally was destroyed by fire In 1067 In 1070 another cathedral was built bunt but this I was partially burned and the I ture tore was not completed until 1134 1184 SU St Augustine W was the first archbishop arch arch- bishop of Canterbury and Dr Lang l Is tho the ninety Between them are names such as elhard Thomas a BeckeL The site W was given to the church by bj the fourth Saxon king of Kent whose hose queen Bertha was a Christian I Perhaps Canterbury's chief fame famel to ro much of the modem modern world orld comes comes' from the poet t Chaucer whose Canterbury Canterbury Canterbury Can Tales relate the adventures and manners of a group of pious people in the fourteenth century on ona a pilgrimage to Canterbury I |