Word: arimathea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sculpture from the time of Charlemagne is surrounded by plants listed in an old herbarium of the period. Most famed plant at Washington Cathedral is the Glastonbury Thorn, grown from a cutting from the British one which is supposed to have grown from the staff of Joseph of Arimathea. The British Thorn blooms occasionally on Christmas. The U. S. Thorn, planted 30 years ago, did not bloom until 1918. Said Dean Bratenahl: "Perhaps the blooms have waited for a true Christmas, when the hearts of men should be filled with goodwill." Last Christmas the Glastonbury blooms were the best...
While Jesus was briefly dead Nicodemus and Joseph of Arimathea wound His corpse in a sheet...