Westminster Abbey has served as a coronation, wedding, and burial site for the royalty of England and Britain for nearly a millennium.
"The White Queen wished to worship there and it appears, also, to be buried there as the grant declares prayers should be sung 'around the tomb of our consort' ,""The construction, purpose and fate of the St Erasmus chapel therefore deserves more recognition."
A statue of Saint Erasmus that can be found in the current Lady Chapel, bearing the instrument of his death. , also known as Saint Elmo, was a bishop who lived in the 3rd century CE and fell afoul of authorities. He was reportedly variously tortured, imprisoned, tortured again, burned alive , imprisoned and tortured again, and ultimately killed by having his entrails wound slowly round a. Good times. He's considered a patron of sailors, children, and those suffering abdominal distress.
In the 1470s, the royal family's devotion to Saint Erasmus was strong. Historians can only speculate as to why; perhaps it had to do with the protection of their children, or a sea voyage safely taken by the king in 1971.
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