What we know of Joseph of Arimathea from the Bible is minimal. Let’s start exploring Glastonbury’s myths with the legend of Joseph of Arimathea… Joseph of Arimathea and Jesus Patrick’s tomb, and a hill leading to the underworld. The town of Glastonbury is awash with many such stories: Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail, the Holy Thorn, St. They stirred it all up and the result was a rousing good tale. Pinging is currently not allowed.Medieval storytellers were known for mixing a bit of history with a dose of myth and a dash of legend. You can skip to the end and leave a response. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Wednesday, September 28th, 2016 at 10:34 am and is filed under Home Page. Tags: Chaucer's England, historical fiction, medieval mysteries Each year a blossom of one of these trees is sent to Queen Elizabeth II as a gift at Christmas. Several examples exist in the Saint John the Baptist churchyard in Glastonbury.
One is at the ruins of Glastonbury Abbey and another at the medieval abbey tithe barn which now houses the Somerset Rural Life Museum. Other descendants of the tree are found around Glastonbury. In the epilogue of my book, Lady Apollonia with her recently widowed son and her granddaughter, Juliana, ascend Wearyall Hill to see the Glastonbury Thorn. You can see little messages and pieces of fabric attached by contemporary pilgrims to the thorn tree that survives behind us.
The Glastonbury Thorn of 2014 is shown in the picture above with two of my English cousins, Paul and Ann Yielding, and me surrounding it. Subsequent efforts for it to grow new branches were also vandalised. The most recent growth of the thorn on Wearyall Hill was vandalised in 2010. Other legends also say that Joseph brought Jesus as a teenager to visit Glastonbury while another describes two vessels that Joseph brought with him, one containing the blood and the other the sweat of Jesus.Īny descendants of the thorn tree have to be grafted in order to bloom twice a year and have become known collectively as the Glastonbury Thorn.
From his staff grew a thorn tree which, unusually for a hawthorn, bloomed twice a year, especially at Christmas time. In the story, my heroine, the Lady Apollonia of Aust, tells her granddaughter that this well-known New Testament character, a secret disciple of Jesus, came to Glastonbury after the Crucifixion and Resurrection and planted his staff near the top of Wearyall Hill to declare the arrival of Christianity in England from the Holy Land. One of the legends surrounding Joseph of Arimathea in Glastonbury, England, plays a role in the story of my fifth Lady Apollonia West Country Mystery, Joseph of Arimathea’s Treasure, set in 1397.
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