Gosh, I couldn't think about anything to post today. I went through all of my bookmarked pages, "blog ideas" and found something useful. Kinda random, I know.
When Mary arrived in southern France, after freeing from Israel, she quickly set forth to England. Somerset, Glastonbury, is very south England -- I've provided a map... view below:
In one corner of the almost-fallen church, is an inscription translating to: "Jesus Maria" (Picture below):
This church is claimed the first "above ground" Christian church -- before this, the Christians were forced underground by the Romans.
Bride's Mound takes its name from Bride (pronounced Breed), Brigit and Brighde (pronounced Bree-dah), the Triple Goddess of the Celts. Bride was one of the most widely worshipped Goddesses in Celtic Britain and is known as the Guardian of Wells and Springs. Furthermore, She has an affinity with Fire and is entitled Keeper of the Flame and Goddess of Fire. The Grail is associated with Her through its link to the Cauldron of Inspiration which was given to the Dagda, father of Bride. Unable to remove such a powerful Deity from the Celtic people, Bride was adapted by the Roman Catholic Church into the cult of St Brigid, who founded a religious community at Kildare in Ireland.
According to legend, King Arthur was told in a dream to visit the Mary Magdalene Chapel at Beckery. Whilst doing so, he received a vision of the Virgin Mary, holding the Infant Jesus. She presented Arthur with a crystal cross which he gave to the Abbot of Glastonbury who placed it above the High Altar. This crystal cross is now said to be one of the lost treasures of Glastonbury. The experience led Arthur to adopt a new coat-of-arms, replacing the Pagan Red Dragon with a crystal cross on a green background and an image of the Virgin and Child in the top left hand corner and is said to have contributed to Arthur's conversion to Christianity.
It is also very possible that indeed Tamar, Mary's daughter, used this church to start up her secret society. It had to start somewhere, right? Indeed, all of southern France and Somerset is very rich, historic land -- I hope to one day tour all of it, so I can get a feel for what this amazing land is like -- in fact, my family is very French, dark hair, dark eyes... typical southern French-looking people :)
Here is the link to the official "Brides Mound" website, so hit it up! It has a description on it's history, copied here (It was too long to copy the entire thing. For those of you who want to read the full thing, I suggest you go to the real website) : http://www.friendsofbridesmound.com/
Bride's Mound takes its name from Bride (pronounced Breed), Brigit and Brighde (pronounced Bree-dah), the Triple Goddess of the Celts. Bride was one of the most widely worshipped Goddesses in Celtic Britain and is known as the Guardian of Wells and Springs. Furthermore, She has an affinity with Fire and is entitled Keeper of the Flame and Goddess of Fire. The Grail is associated with Her through its link to the Cauldron of Inspiration which was given to the Dagda, father of Bride. Unable to remove such a powerful Deity from the Celtic people, Bride was adapted by the Roman Catholic Church into the cult of St Brigid, who founded a religious community at Kildare in Ireland.
According to legend, King Arthur was told in a dream to visit the Mary Magdalene Chapel at Beckery. Whilst doing so, he received a vision of the Virgin Mary, holding the Infant Jesus. She presented Arthur with a crystal cross which he gave to the Abbot of Glastonbury who placed it above the High Altar. This crystal cross is now said to be one of the lost treasures of Glastonbury. The experience led Arthur to adopt a new coat-of-arms, replacing the Pagan Red Dragon with a crystal cross on a green background and an image of the Virgin and Child in the top left hand corner and is said to have contributed to Arthur's conversion to Christianity.
It is also very possible that indeed Tamar, Mary's daughter, used this church to start up her secret society. It had to start somewhere, right? Indeed, all of southern France and Somerset is very rich, historic land -- I hope to one day tour all of it, so I can get a feel for what this amazing land is like -- in fact, my family is very French, dark hair, dark eyes... typical southern French-looking people :)
Here is the link to the official "Brides Mound" website, so hit it up! It has a description on it's history, copied here (It was too long to copy the entire thing. For those of you who want to read the full thing, I suggest you go to the real website) : http://www.friendsofbridesmound.com/
"Beckery is known locally as Little Ireland; derived from the Gaelic beag Eiriu, although the true derivation
of the name may be from bheach na hAorai meaning Mound of the Bees from bheachaire ay meaning Beekeeper's Island.
Medieval writings by William of Malmsbury (c.1135) and John of Glastonbury (c.1400) state that Bridget visited
Glastonbury in 488 AD., which was quite usual for Celtic missionaries at that time. Both writers state that
Bridget spent time at Bride's
Mound where there was an oratory dedicated to Mary Magdalene. It is an established fact that early Christian
shrines and chapels were named after their founders so it may be that Mary Magdalene also visited Bride's Mound."
So there we have it! Can you imagine how fun it would be to visit Bride's Mound? To those of you in England, Wales, or any surrounding areas, please do mwah a favor and go visit! Kidding, though I'd appreciate if you did!
Thank you, thank you for viewing!
~~Clarabelle
Parts above may have been referenced from: glastonbury-pilgrim.co.uk
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