Gasquet, Francis Aidan, 1846-1929 · New York, Dodd, Mead and company · leaf 157
m the HolyGrail, the chalice of his Masters Supper, and plantingin the soil of Somerset his staff cut from some Easternthorn. Tennyson thus alludes to this ancient legend: The cup, the cup itself from which our LordDrank at the last sad Supper with his own,This from the blessed land of Aramat,After… … GLASTONBURY And the long story of the place ends in the sixteenthcentury with the violent and ignominious death of an old,white-haired monk, the last of a long and honourable suc-cession of abbots, by order of an English king in the evildays of Tudor despotism. Between St. Joseph of Arimathea, the…
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