In his sermon, Dean Trivett explained the manner in which the slone had come into the possession of the Cathedral. On the occasion Of the jubilee of King George V, the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury Cathedral, with the ancial backing the Friends of Canterbury Catheral," decided to commemorate the Joy-{ful decision bya richly symbolic act, Wall-stones were prepared cut out of surplus bus of the ancient stone work, replicas of the ancient. bronze eross) Were superimposed, together with an inscribed tablet, and the Hones were offered as symbols of the unity of the church to the Cathedral Church of the Anglican communion.
Tu the frst instance, £2 stones were prepared, and. of these ninety ent out to cathedral churches of the British Empire, and two to repre~ sentative churches in the United Slates. Occupying, as did Holy Tr Cathedral, an extra diocesan status, and noi being in a dominion or crown colony, they were not among the original ninety. The Dean and Chapter, however, when approached, graciously agreed to prepare a similar stone for this cathedral, and the cost was borne by Mr. D. Ralph, formerly a member of the committee of the Royal Society of St. George, and also a vestryman of the Cathedral, one of the Friends of Canterbury and a Man of Ker Detailing the history of the ancient Cathedral ilselt, Dean Trivett said that Augustine," accompanied by a band of forty monks, landed in Kent in the year $97, Some said that he found traces of an earlier Christian
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