Around 1100 A.D., the King of England at the time, King Edward tried to destroy the abbey by fire. The monks were able to save some of the precious documents from the abbey, the place where Joseph of Arimathea, the great Uncle of Jesus, founded the earliest Christian church in England. Joseph, a rich tin merchant who traveled to England on business, was the one who donated his tomb for the then crucified Jesus. There are some who say that Jesus came with him on at least one of his trips here, when he as about 20
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