It is presently, quite baldly, in the film, Elizabeth, released in the last two or three years. It is in a scene shot in the chapel of Durham Cathedral (is it Galilee Chapel?) I don't know if there is any substantive historical archive in which this policy was stated but it makes sense. Even today, many if not most Anglican Cathedrals have a Lady Chapel.
Ian Welch
Canberra
----- Original Message -----
From: Craig Kilby <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 9:06 am
Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Virginia: the term
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> Isn't it ironic that the state motto is "Virginia is for Lovers?"
>
> On Feb 9, 2009, at 4:47 PM, Elizabeth Whitaker wrote:
>
> > I have seen _something_ _somewhere_ in which Elizabeth I's
> > popularity and public image is "traced" to her "replacing" the
> > Virgin Mary in the hearts of the English people after the
> > Reformation. I will attempt to track that down. I believe I
> > read it in a moderately recent (10 to 30 years old)
> > biography.
> >
> > Elizabeth Whitaker
> > Alexandria, Virginia -- from the "Jabez" line but my folks left
> > the state in the early 1700s for North Carolina
> >
> > Tarter, Brent (LVA) wrote:
> >> This is a very good question that has been asked here and elsewhere
> >> before but not adequately answered. Everybody knows that
> Walter
> >> Ralegh
> >> named the place for the queen, but has anybody found a source
> (his or
> >> another's) that explicitly states as much and gives a date?
> Ralegh
> >> wrote
> >> quite a bit, and the answer may be concealed somewhere in one
> of his
> >> books or in some obscure British archival source. What
> everybody
> >> knows
> >> ain't always so.
> >>
> >> Brent Tarter
> >> The Library of Virginia
> >> [log in to unmask]
> >>
> >
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