Westminster Abbey: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)
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Encyclopedia: Westminster Abbey
According to tradition a shrine was first founded in 616 on the present site, then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island); its tradition of miraculous consecration after a fisherman on the River Thames saw a vision of Saint Peter justifying the presents of salmon from the Thames fishermen that the Abbey received. In the 960s or early 970s Saint Dunstan, assisted by King Edgar, planted a community of Benedictine monks here. The stone Abbey was built around 1045–1050 by King Edward the Confessor, who had selected the site for his burial: it was consecrated on December 28, 1065, only a week before the Confessor's death and subsequent funeral. It was the site of the last Saxon coronation, that of his successor King Harold.
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How to say "Westminster Abbey" in other languages:
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(Chinese) | 西敏寺 |
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(Japanese) | ウェストミンスター寺院 |
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(German) | Westminster Abbey |
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(Spanish) | Abadía de Westminster |
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(French) | Abbaye de Westminster |
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(Italian) | Abbazia di Westminster |
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Years: 1062 1063 1064 - 1065 - 1066 1067 1068 Decades: 1030s 1040s 1050s - 1060s - 1070s 1080s 1090s Centuries: 10th century - 11th century - 12th century Events December 28 - Westminster Abbey is consecrated. Births Deaths...
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Cathedral Westminster Abbey In 1927 Nicholson founded the School of English Church Music. He was editor.... He was knighted in 1938. He died at Ashford, Kent at the age of 73. He was buried at Westminster Abbey...
Bishop of Westminster could be The first, in the Church of England, existed from 1540 to 1550, and its only holder was Thomas Thirlby. He sat at Westminster Abbey. Since 1850 there has been a Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Westminster, with the Archbishop of Westminster sitting at Westminster...
Princess Anne of England (17 March, 1637 - 8 December, 1640) was the daughter of King Charles I of England and Henrietta Maria. She was born in St James's Palace and died of natural causes in the Palace of Richmond at the age of 4. She was buried in Westminster Abbey...
conquer England William the Conqueror was crowned King of England on Christmas Day in Westminster Abbey. 1068 Japan changes emperors. Significant Persons: William the Conqueror Harold Godwinson...
. Edward the Confessor begins construction on Westminster Abbey. Pope Benedict IX sells the Papacy to...
The Archbishop of Westminster is the Roman Catholic primate of England and Wales. His seat is in Westminster Cathedral in London (not to be confused with Westminster Abbey). The office was created in 1850, when the Catholic Hierarchy was restored in England. The Archdiocese of Westminster includes...
The Eleanor crosses were stone monuments in the shape of a cross that Edward I of England erected in memory of his wife Eleanor of Castile at the twelve places where her funeral procession stopped overnight on its route from Harby, Lincolnshire, to Westminster Abbey in London in 1290. Those twelve...
The Henry VII Lady Chapel is a large chapel at the far eastern end of Westminster Abbey. The Chapel was built in 1503 by the architect and statesman Sir Reginald Bray, one of Henry VII's closest advisors. Henry VII was buried in the Chapel on his death in 1509 in a tomb designed by the Italian...
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