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Lionel Smithett Lewis.
St. Joseph of Arimathea at Glastonbury, or, The Apostolic Church of Britain.
Published Cambridge: James Clark & Co., 1982 reissue (original edn. was 1922).
ISBN 0227678680.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printer: Redwood Burn, Trowbridge.
Size: 135x214x15mm.
Page count: 211pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition fair to good: this copy has some general wear on the covers, some curling to the corners; pages yellowed with age; spine faded but not creased from reading, text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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[Lutterworth Press edn. in print at £12.75/$28.00]
Weight without packaging: 263g.

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Contents: Antiquity of Glastonbury & origin of the national church; Joseph of Arimathea; Good King Lucius; Our Lord & the Blessed Virgin; Topical support of the traditions; Authorities — The coming of the disciples of Christ — of St. Joseph of Arimathea — of St Philip to France — of Aristobulus — of St. Paul; Early missions from Britain; Early fathers, Diocletian persecution, church councils & Pelagian heresy.
Appendices: Account of St. Joseph's tombs; Kinships of the holy family; Salient dates of Glastonbury Abbey — its historians; Our Lord's traditional visit to Britain; Frederick Bligh Bond & the Arimathean tradition; Joseph was in the tin trade; Was Virgin Mary buried in St. Mary’s?; Close connection between Britanny & Britain; Archbishop Ussher's account of Glastonbury traditions; William of Malmesbury; Glastonbury tradition & precedence of the English ambassadors; The Celtic church.

Illustrations: 1 monochrome text illustration
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: 1
Chronology: yes
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Index: no

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See also | Joseph of Arimathea | Glastonbury | Folklore | Esoteric studies |
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