On Fri, 19 Dec 1997, George FERZOCO wrote:
> Thanks, Julia and John, for your helpful replies, which made me recall news
> I'd heard earlier this year of the opening of St Thomas of Cantilupe's tomb
> in Hereford. All I knew was that they were about to open it several months
> ago; anyone hear what did in fact happen? Did they find anything of interest?
> A miracle, perchance? :-)
>
George, I KNOW you don't really mean to imply that one was just lurking in
there, trapped all those centuries and waiting to jump out like the genie in
Aladdin's lamp? Seriously, I'd be interested as well in hearing the results of
such an excavation. Grosseteste's tomb was opened in the 18th or early 19th
century, and some episcopal graves in one of the other English cathedrals were
opened in recent decades (since WWII in any event), but to my knowledge nothing
since then. Interesting chalices and remains of croziers were found in the
later excavations; the contents of a saint's tomb might be artistically quite
valuable.
John Parsons
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