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England's Premier Dean: Dr. Hewlett Johnson in Canterbury Cathedral
Wearing "his cope, alb, and stole, the Dean of Canterbury waits with two young cope-bearers until it
is
time for another service
to
begin. Behind him
is
some of the eari)' Norman work for which the Cathedral, where Thomas
a
I3ecket was murdered,
is
renowned.
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s 'of the
Christianise England, chose the town of
Danish invasion. But Lanfranc, Abbot of Caen,
as
s
(and
Canterbury as ' his Jieadquarters. There he
apP.9inted to the arch-bishopric after the Norman
because of) the ravages of fire and time the archi-
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