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Roving Medievalist <\/a>has this habit of posting pictures of places in England that I know and love. Here\u2019s Ely Cathedral.<\/p>\n

Interesting facts about Ely:
\n1.It\u2019s called \u2018Ely\u2019 because it is built on the edge of vast marshes where they used to catch lots of eels. Yes, the English still eat eels. In the East end of London they eat eel pie, mashed potates and green gravy.<\/p>\n

2. The great abbey at Ely was founded by St Etheldreda\u2013a saxon princess who ran away from a royal marriage to be a nun.<\/p>\n

3. Etheldreda\u2019s body was incorrupt for centuries and the great Abbey Church which held her shrine became a major pilgrimage point in the Middle Ages.<\/p>\n

4. The shortened form of \u2018Etheldreda\u2019 is \u2018Audrey\u2019. There is a common serving wench in Shakespeare\u2019s Twelfth Night <\/em>called Audrey.<\/p>\n

4. The trinkets and cheap lace which were sold at the markets around the shrine were referred to as \u2018St Audrey\u2019s\u2019. The corrupted form of \u2018St Audrey\u2019 became the word \u2018tawdry\u2019.<\/p>\n

4. Henry VIII\u2019s storm troopers destroyed the abbey, pillaged the church and shrine of St Etheldreda, and destroyed the still incorrupt body of the saint.<\/p>\n

5. The saint\u2019s hand was handed down (\u2018scuse the pun) among recusant Catholic families, and when a little Catholic Church was built in Ely in the 1800s, the hand of the saint was enshrined once again in Ely.<\/p>\n

I wrote an article about Ely once. Here\u2019s the full article<\/a> and here\u2019s another article I once wrote about incorruptibles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"