Today was our tour of Westminster Abbey. However, I was not
able to go because my stomach was hurting me a lot. I have been to Westminster
Abbey before when I was a sophomore in high school on an exchange program in
which our school, of Brothers of the Sacred Heart diocese, exchanged with one
of our brother schools, St. Columbas, in St. Albans to the south of London.
Westminster
Abbey is more than a thousand years old. Benedictine monks first came to this
site in the middle of the tenth century, establishing a tradition of daily
worship that continues to this day. The Abbey has been the coronation church
since 1066 and is the final resting place of seventeen monarchs. The present
church, begun by Henry III in 1245, is one of the most important Gothic buildings
in the country, with the medieval shrine of an Anglo-Saxon saint still at its
heart. I love Westminster Abbey because it is an example of incredible
architecture and history in England and there are not many edifices like this
in the world.
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