Green Court you realize something of what the monastery must have been in its palmy days. Now the boys of the King's School, one of England's oldest public schools, dwell where the home of the monks once stood and near by is a rarely beautiful old Norman stairway, one of Canterbury's most cherished possessions. The Cathedral Library is housed in an ancient dormitory and round about are the houses of Dean and Bishop and the recently rebuilt palace of the Archbishop of Canterbury. Until a few years ago, the Archbishops had had no official home in Canterbury since Puritan fanatics pillaged and destroyed the old palace more than two hundred years ago.

Retracing our steps we enter the Cathedral by the beautiful south door adorned with kings and other worthies of Canterbury's glorious past. The south entrance, unlike the chief doorways of many cathedrals which open at the west, indicates a survival of Canterbury's long past custom when disputes not referable to other courts were heard in the south porch of the Cathedral. It was an old British practice "and the one link between the present Cathedral and the old British Church which Augustine received from Ethelbert." In the panel just above the doorway is a weatherworn representation of the altar of Becket and you are reminded that Canterbury was for centuries in the minds of thousands of people, chiefly the Shrine of St. Thomas. We can only understand the amazing results of the murder and canonization of Becket by remembering that at the time of his death Christianity had fallen under the strange domination of relic-worship and the importance of the great monasteries was so dependent upon the possession of relics that the most surprising efforts were made to secure them, with results both pitiful and ludicrous as shown by the modern traveler's experience with fragments of so-called saints.

The burial of St. Augustine's body outside the city walls with the subsequent interment there of succeeding archbishops gave to the Abbey a prestige which the monks of