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Thread #159570   Message #3782237
Posted By: Senoufou
30-Mar-16 - 08:26 AM
Thread Name: BS: An Easter Question
Subject: RE: BS: An Easter Question
Doug, being so old as to be almost senile, it's quite probable that I forgot to look to see if I was wearing any clothes. I have been known to go out in the car wearing my slippers.

Regarding the Sanctuary Knocker on the great west door of Durham cathedral, and its pagan style, our cathedral in Norwich has loads of green man bosses around the cloisters and above the nave. I really love the green man, and have several representations of him around our home. In Norfolk (and I'm sure elsewhere) straw dollies representing a John Barleycorn type of being are used to decorate churches during harvest festivals. And you've only got to think of Hallowe'en and all its trappings to realise that the pagan is intertwined with the Christian in lots of ways.

I wonder if Dynamo (the excellent magician who does amazing things around the world) could be persuaded to try reproducing the water-into-wine thing? He walked on water on the Thames, so maybe he'd find it quite simple.