There are many forms of retreat offered at Abbey House, but they all offer the chance to step back from the pressures of daily life, to enter a deeper peace, with the opportunity to pray and to encounter God. A wide variety of people come to Glastonbury. Some are closely involved in the life of their church, others find a retreat centre to be a more natural place to nourish their spiritual side than a mainstream religion. While remaining faithful to its role as a diocesan retreat house in the Church of England, Abbey House welcomes people from a wide range of churches, traditions and backgrounds. Some retreats are designed as group experiences where input from facilitators, group work, and private time in silence weave together to create an enriching experience. Other retreats are individually-guided and enable a deep spiritual encounter to happen in solitude, helped by daily meetings with a guide, where there is an opportunity to talk about the day's experiences, and clarify the next step of the prayer journey. Abbey House offer a range of individually guided retreat plans to help you - topics include Nature, Spirituality, Time to Think and Pray and The Benedictine Way. Morning prayer takes place every Friday at 9am in the chapel. There are opportunities to attend Morning Prayer and a Eucharist most days in a local church - all are within 5-10 minutes walk of the house.
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Glastonbury; Abbey; Benedictine; Somerset; England; Britain; Ruin; Raleigh; Radford; Arthur; Ine; Wessex; Saint Dunstan; Henry Of Blois; Henry De Sully; Savaric FitzGeldewin; Richard Whyting; Nigel Cummings
Footpath, sign, St Michael's Tower, Glastonbury Tor, Glastonbury, Somerset, UK, king of the fairies, Gwyn ap Nudd, King Arthur, Avalon, Arthurian legend, Levels, Somerset Levels, Holy Grail, Annwn, 5th Century fort, IPSV3008
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alleged site of the king of the fairies Gwyn ap Nudd. The Tor came to be represented as an entrance to Annwn or Avalon, the land of the fairies. Glastonbury Tor is one of the possible locations of the Holy Grail. This is because it is close to the location of the monastery that housed the Nanteos Cup. The Tor has been associated with the name Avalon, and identified, since the alleged discovery of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's neatly labelled coffins in 1191, with the legendary hero King Arthur. Modern archaeology has revealed a fort, dated to the 5th century.
St Michael's Tower, Glastonbury Tor, Glastonbury, Somerset, UK, king of the fairies, Gwyn ap Nudd, King Arthur, Avalon, Arthurian legend, Levels, Somerset Levels, Holy Grail, Annwn, 5th Century fort
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alleged site of the king of the fairies Gwyn ap Nudd. The Tor came to be represented as an entrance to Annwn or Avalon, the land of the fairies. Glastonbury Tor is one of the possible locations of the Holy Grail. This is because it is close to the location of the monastery that housed the Nanteos Cup. The Tor has been associated with the name Avalon, and identified, since the alleged discovery of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere's neatly labelled coffins in 1191, with the legendary hero King Arthur. Modern archaeology has revealed a fort, dated to the 5th century.
SACWES57; Glastonbury; tor; sunset; isle of Avalon; st Michael's mound; somerset; levels; myth; mythology; romances; king Arthur; monks; monastery; abbey; hermitage; new age
Glastonbury, Abbey, Benedictine, Somerset, England, Britain, Ruin, Raleigh, Radford, Arthur, Ine, Wessex, Saint Dunstan, Henry of Blois, Henry de Sully, Savaric FitzGeldewin, Richard Whyting, Howard, Mellowes, Guinevere, Edward, Eleanor, Round Table, Mallory
Glastonbury Abbey, now in ruins, believed to be the place of the burial of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. Glastonbury, also famous for its Tor and music festival, lies in the heart of Somerset, England. The Abbey, I believe, is open to the public
Glastonbury, Abbey, Benedictine, Somerset, England, Britain, Ruin, Raleigh, Radford, Arthur, Ine, Wessex, Saint Dunstan, Henry of Blois, Henry de Sully, Savaric FitzGeldewin, Richard Whyting, Howard, Mellowes
Glastonbury, Abbey, Benedictine, Somerset, England, Britain, Ruin, Raleigh, Radford, Arthur, Ine, Wessex, Saint Dunstan, Henry of Blois, Henry de Sully, Savaric FitzGeldewin, Richard Whyting, Howard, Mellowes
Glastonbury, Abbey, Benedictine, Somerset, England, Britain, Ruin, Raleigh, Radford, Arthur, Ine, Wessex, Saint Dunstan, Henry of Blois, Henry de Sully, Savaric FitzGeldewin, Richard Whyting, Howard, Mellowes
Glastonbury, Abbey, Benedictine, Somerset, England, Britain, Ruin, Raleigh, Radford, Arthur, Ine, Wessex, Saint Dunstan, Henry of Blois, Henry de Sully, Savaric FitzGeldewin, Richard Whyting, Howard, Mellowes
Glastonbury, Abbey, Benedictine, Somerset, England, Britain, Ruin, Raleigh, Radford, Arthur, Ine, Wessex, Saint Dunstan, Henry of Blois, Henry de Sully, Savaric FitzGeldewin, Richard Whyting, Howard, Mellowes
SACWES59; Holy Thorn; Wearyall Hill; Glastonbury; Joseph of Arimathea; Staff; Myth; Legend; Romances; Arthurian; Arthur; Isle of Avalon; Jerusalem; St Brigit; St Bridget; Easter; Flowering
path, steps, Glastonbury Tor, Somerset, England, UK, United Kingdom, days out, weekend, family outing, grass, tower, castle, hill, Tor, countryside, holiday, National Trust, King Arthur, legend, Knights of the Round Table, Wessex, famous, landmark, highpoint
Abbey Ruins Oxfordshire Walls Arch Stone Wall Ancient Abbey Door Archway entrance exit art orange rustic terracotta monk church gravel grave gothic alley corridor mystery
The Villa Poppaea is a Roman villa situated between Naples and Sorrento, in southern Italy, which dates from the early Imperial times. The villa is a large structure situated in the Roman town of Oplontis (the modern Torre Annunziata), about ten metres below the modern level. It was owned by the Emperor Nero, and used by his second wife Poppaea Sabina, as her main residence when not in Rome. The archeological evidence suggests that at the time of the eruption of Vesuvius in 79, the villa was empty, being in the process of rebuilding and redecoration, possibly in the aftermath of the earthquake of 62. Nero had killed Poppaea in 65; according to Suetonius, by kicking her in the abdomen when she was in late pregnancy. The frescos decorating the walls are among the best preserved, both in form and in colour, of all Imperial Roman frescoes; the roof of the building largely survived the eruption, thus affording protection from the elements. The frescoes are in the Pompeiian Second Style, with feigned Architecture with windows that seem to open onto views or perspectives of trompe-l'oeil colonnades, ambitious undertakings that, after Rome's demise, would not be equalled in Italy until the fifteenth century.
HISTEN, IPSV5265, IPSV5267, Glastonbury Abbey, alleged site of King Arthur's tomb, As noted above, Glastonbury has also been linked with Arthur, the Legendary English King who was born out of wedlock and raised by the wizard Merlin. When he was only a boy, after many men had tried and failed, Arthur gained the throne by withdrawing the magic sword Excalibur from a stone. Supposedly, Arthur was buried in the graveyard of Glastonbury Abbey south of the Lady Chapel, at a great depth, between two monumental pillars. Prompted by hints and rumours, the monks excavated the spot. They dug down seven feet and unearthed a stone slab. Under it was a lead cross about a foot long, with a Latin inscription: "Hic iacet sepultus inclitus rex arturius in insula Avalonia", "Here lies buried the renowned King Arthur in the Isle of Avalon". Some smaller bones, and a scrap of hair that crumbled away when touched, were explained as Guinevere's. The bones were placed in caskets, and in 1278 they were transferred, during a state visit by Edward I, to a black marble tomb before the high altar of the main Abbey church. There they remained until the Abbey was vandalized after the dissolution. No one has seen or heard of them since. Legend proclaims that after Arthur's death, a powerful spirit haunted the ruins of the Abbey, appearing as a black-armoured knight with glowing red eyes and a burning desire to eradicate all records of the ancient Arthurian legends which is why, it is said, that those seeking to discove
Paestum is the classical Roman name of a major Graeco-Roman city in the Campania region of Italy. It is located in the north of Cilento, near the coast about 85 km SE of Naples in the province of Salerno, and belongs to the commune of Capaccio, officially also named Capaccio-Paestum.
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