Legend tells us that Joseph of Arimathea

a tin merchant,

came to Glastonbury,

and put his staff in the ground

and it sprouted.

This tree blooms twice a year

in the spring

and on Christmas.

And this tree, the Glastonbury Thorn,

is the root of Christianity in Britain.

And by the way,

this tree,

genetically linked to the eastern mediterranean,

survives through cuttings

and still blooms at Christmas.

In the undercroft of the York Minster

is a tile from the first century,

and that tile is inscribed with the monogram of Christ,

the Chi-Rho.

So we have two bits of evidence

that Christianity has been in Britain for two-thousand years.

And it is the tree from which Belonging House springs.

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