The Saturday Times crossword. Seven down. Object of pagan worship endlessly hymned .Three letters. - - -

Creation. Then came the Earth. Spinning, giving the appearance of day and night. Plants ,animals, And when tribes started hunting, Talking to each other. “. Our God is the one true God , all the rest are rubbish”. And later,scratching the Earth to plant seeds for food.

…….and from that day on there was trouble …..

St Antony s chapel

The Dodecanese island of Paros . A hut built entirely of stone .

600 km south east of here, (région Poitiers) Le Abbaye Liguge founded in 362 ,where monks built individual cells in the style of the “desert fathers “. Two centuries later there was no sign of these huts . The site had now become a Benedictine monastery. See « Grégoire de Tours “

Sketch . Saint Anthony’s Chapel Penzance

Penance from Paul Hill easter Sunday about 400 A.D.

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From battery rock. actually battery rocks. The Jubilee pool ,built on a long spur of rock and a shorter one to the west. This gives it its roughly triangular shape . It is marked on the Cromwell map quite a wide area, . The blockhouses marked on it were never made .

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Plough boy with ox .

St Antony’s from the harbour. The original chapel had fallen into disuse .The penitential lifestyle of the monks originating with Antony the great was a source of amusement to the pagan locals. But The name still attached to the place and when later monks from the Benedictine order with its more lenient Manner brought their religion to the area And the local fisherman started to use the chapel again it was rededicated to Saint Anthony of Padua . The one who preached to the fishes, More appropriately.

The 17th of January is Saint Anthony’s Day the sunrise is about 8 o’clock and is Southwest at 9:30 in the morning. With the door in the south wall, as is the often the case with ecclesiastical architecture, the Sun is shining through across the floor and lighting the statue . The viewpoint is set at the same level as the statues head, so that the statues eyes are used as a vanishing point of the perspective .

Interior with door to the south and statue in the apse opposite. At the west end stair up the small tower to which a later spire was added .Spires came with the Normans . When later the chapel became a church and mass were celebrated there was rededicated Becoming Saint Mary’s.