Canterbury Cathedral [antikvár]

A JL CATHEDRAL is not a museum. As you look at the pictures in this book and read the history of the great building they illustrate, remember that with all its beauty, grandeur and powerfully evocative sense of the past, the Cathedral Church of Christ at Canterbury remains at its still centre what it has always been: a holy place in which God is worshipped, a focal point for the religious aspirations of many millions of Christians, and a symbol of the living Church in the modern world. Only by seeing it in these terms is it possible to understand the power that it has exercised over the minds of the countless people who have visited it during the long centuries of its existence: from those who, like Chaucer's pilgrims, '... .from every shires end Of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, The holy blisful martyr for to seke, That hem hath holpen, when that they were seke/ to those who come today from all over the world - among them, with a message of peace and hope for the future, the first Popé in history to be received at Canterbury.