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Show Ccdrcd f.lcd-s UezT by GU Associations Afer Canterbury cathedral Leu restored from the great tire 01 117-1. jjii'iis Knylisluuen so revered l hi; beauty of thia stronghold of Ibe Church or Knglaud that they came from far and near and even those not so religiously inclined made their "Canterbury pilgrimages." For liOO years this was kept up and many an inn sprang from existence to prosperity prosper-ity in the shadow of the sacred edifice. edi-fice. In time some of these pilgrimages pilgrim-ages became less of a religious exercise exer-cise than a f;A-orite summer excursion excur-sion and their history is shadowed in our word "canter" which is the shortened form of "Canterbury gallop." gal-lop." Another interesting thing assoclat d Willi this cathedral is the division of the Dible into two chapters. Stephen I.augton, who died in 122S. was cardinal car-dinal and archbishop of Canterbury besides being a statesman of no mean foice. This was the age of the beginnings of organized learning and Cardinal Langton, after distinguishing himself as a teacher, gave his time a standardized text of the Vulgate there being up until then almost ns many versions as there were Bibles. It was in this woik that he made the innovation inno-vation of dividing the lengthy books into chapters, thus making specified passages much easier to find. Detroit News. |