And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Thursday, December 25, 2025
Saint Botolph’s (who?) Church Boston, Lincolnshire, England
This looks very much like the Episcopal church that my wife and I attended a truly lovely Children's Christmas Padget yesterday, Christmas Eve.
ReplyDeletethe Lincoln cathedral is even more impressive
ReplyDeletePatron Saint of Nonentities.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can bet its empty. What a stupid country to put architecture like that.
ReplyDeleteSo Beautiful! He has arisen.
ReplyDeleteThe church is known colloquially as the "Boston Stump".
ReplyDeleteThe man: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Botolph_of_Thorney