Ikhoneni Lezimbongi eWestminster Abbey

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Ukuvakasha kwe- I-abbey yaseWestminster Kungaba mnandi kakhulu, kuningi ongabhekana nakho futhi kuningi ongakubona, namuhla ikakhulukazi ngikulethela i- Imbongi Corner ukuze bakwazi. Itholakala eningizimu ye-transept, futhi ithola lelo gama ngenxa yenani elikhulu le- izikhumbuzo namathuna abaculi, ababhali nabaculi lokho kusendaweni.

Lezi zikhumbuzo yizo empeleni ezakha umzila, ziqala ngezokuthi UGeoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400), umbhali odumile, umbhali we Izinganekwane zaseCanterbury, ngubani owaqala wangcwatshwa lapha. Yize engumbhali owaziwayo, kukholakala ukuthi uthole ilungelo lokuba lapha ngenxa yokubamba iqhaza kwakhe emisebenzini ye Isigodlo saseWestminster, ngaphezu kwethalente lakhe, kodwa ngaphandle kokungabaza kuliqiniso elingabalulekile lapho kukhulunywa nge-abbey, ngoba nguyena owaqala isiko lokuhlonipha abaculi abaziwa kakhulu ezweni ngale ndlela.

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Phakathi kwesixuku se izingcwecwe, amabhasi nezithombeUzokwazi ukubona abalingiswa abahlukahlukene kakhulu, kuzokuthatha isikhathi eside ukuthola phakathi kwabaningi ukuthi ngamunye ungokabani, kepha ngaphandle kokungabaza kuzoba yinto emnandi ukuyenza ntambama. Ngikunikeza usizo oluncane ngamagama ukuze ukwazi ukuthola indlela yakho, uzokwazi ukubona ubuntu obufana nobakho nkosi byron, Charles Dickens, UGeorge Eliot, UThomas Hardy o Jane Austen, phakathi kokunye okuningi. Ngaphezu kwetshe lesikhumbuzo elaphakanyiswa ukukhumbula William Shakespeare, phambi kwesifanekiso sika GF Haendel, wangcwatshwa lapha ngo-1759, ngenxa yeminyaka ezweni kanye nemibukiso eminingi ayinikeza e-abbey.

Futhi njengokuhlanganiswa komzila, phakathi kwazo zombili izikhumbuzo ungathola ezimbili imidwebo yefresco kwatholakala ngo-1936, okuhlala ku- isimo esihle kakhulu, kugcinwa imibala yayo nokwakheka kwayo, ukuthi kubalwe okungaphezulu noma okuncane iminyaka 700 selokhu yasungulwa. Omunye umele UJesu Kristu noSanta Thomas, nomunye uku ISan Cristóbal.

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  1.   U-Eric Sales kusho

    Beautiful !!