Canterbury cathedral

Before visit:

On the 20^th of December 2011, we will go to Canterbury. There we will visit many things, including the famous Canterbury cathedral. I think the Canterbury cathedral will be a very big, almost pompous building, with a lot of decoration.
I don’t know for sure if I will really like it, because it maybe that I will think it’s a bit over the top.

History of the Canterbury cathedral

In 597 St Augustine was sent by the Pope to bring Christianity back. He went to Canterbury and he founded the first cathedral in England which is now the enormous Canterbury cathedral. Canterbury cathedral has been a very important place for pilgrimages for over 800 after the assassination of Archbishop Thomas Becker in 1170.

After visit:

Canterbury cathedral was an enormous as I had expected but it was more modest than I thought it would be, and for example as I had seen in Rome in the St. Peter’s Basilica. The parts I liked most of the cathedral were the windows, which were beautifully decorated with stained glass.

This is the main entrance of the cathedral

This is a part of a stained-glass window for which Canterbury
cathedral is famous

The beautiful choir screen of Canterbury cathedral

I think the story is Thomas Becker is interesting because they actually didn’t really like him when he was alive, but when he was killed he got very popular.