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Joseph and his companions took the miracle as a sign that they had reached the end of their journey. They settled at Glastonbury and built the Old Church. To preserve the Grail from profane hands, Joseph buried it somewhere at the foot of the Tor. The spring now known as Chalice Well is sometimes identified as the place. | Joseph and his companions took the miracle as a sign that they had reached the end of their journey. They settled at Glastonbury and built the Old Church. To preserve the Grail from profane hands, Joseph buried it somewhere at the foot of the Tor. The spring now known as Chalice Well is sometimes identified as the place. | ||
According to a variant of the story, when Joseph and the missionaries came to Glastonbury, they found the Old Church already standing, “built by no human hands.” It had been constructed by Jesus himself, who was brought up | According to a variant of the story, when Joseph and the missionaries came to Glastonbury, they found the Old Church already standing, “built by no human hands.” It had been constructed by Jesus himself, who was brought up in the carpenter's trade and had visited Somerset years before. Hence the opening lines of Blake’s “Jerusalem”: | ||
:::And did those feet in ancient time | :::And did those feet in ancient time | ||