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Updated: May 29, 2025
Bristol Cathedral was the convent-church of St. Augustine's Abbey, and was begun in the twelfth century. It formerly consisted only of the choir and transepts, the nave having been destroyed in the fifteenth century, but the nave was rebuilt in uniform style with the remainder of the church in 1876.
You remember the convent-church at St. Leonard's the incense, the vestments, the white-veiled congregation oh, how beautiful it was; we shall never be so happy again! 'Yes, indeed; and how cross we used to think those dear nuns. You remember Sister Mary, how she used to lecture Violet for getting up to look out of the windows. What used she to say?
Soon after a distribution of prizes began, and when the different awards had been distributed, and the Bishop had made a speech, there was benediction in the convent-church. 'And to think, said Alice, 'that this is the very last evening we shall ever pass here! 'I don't see why you should be so very sorry for that, replied May; 'I should have thought that you must have had enough of the place.
And when, just at dusk, we clattered into the curious little convent-church town of Nivelles, and found the tiny square before the Black Eagle Inn full of refugees who had trudged in from towns beyond, the liverymen, after taking off their varnished high hats to scratch their preplexed heads, announced that Brussels was where they belonged and to Brussels they would return that night, though their spent horses dropped in the traces on the way.
It is remarkable that the heads of many of the figures are surmounted with cross-shaped ornaments similar to the one discovered at Palenque by Mr Stevens. One of these crosses which no doubt had their origin in Babylon, where they are well-known symbols was set up by the Spaniards in the convent-church of Tonala, and there venerated.
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