Hugh Ross Williamson Illustrated by Clare Leighton This book tells the story of the coming of Christianity to the English speaking world and features the beautiful legend of the flowering hawthorn that blossoms every Christmas Hugh Ross Williamson relates with charm and understanding the story of the flowering hawthorn and Glastonbury He tells of St Joseph of Arimathea who lowered Jesus from the Cross and buried Him of the Abbey at Glastonbury which became the second Rome of Dunstan and Henry of Blois who forged a state from antagonistic elements of the great soldiers Alfred and Arthur who saved faith and order from threatening chaos and made themselves legends forever of St Patrick patron Saint of Ireland of St David patron Saint of Wales of the destruction Glastonbury by the Puritans its desolation until the present century and its restoration all inextricably interwoven with the story of Glastonbury and the flowering hawthorn Beautifully illustrated with mag