HISTORIC TABLEAUX.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVII, Issue 235, 3 October 1936, Page 14

HISTORIC TABLEAUX.

CHRISTIANITY IN ENGLAND. SUNDAY SCHOOL FESTIVAL. A pageant entitled "Avalon," depicting liow the Gospel first came to England, will be presented, in the Town Halljiext Tuesday evening by the Auckland diocesan Sunday schools. About a dozen schools will take part and will depict in a series of eight period tableaux tin story of the early Church history of England, commencing with the traditional founding of the Church in Britain by Joseph of Arimathea in 65 A.D. , . • . . . The firs? beginnings of British Cnriv; tianitv are hidden in the mists or antiquity but the tradition which associates those beginnings with Glastonbury, or Avalon as it was earlier called, is perhaps the strongest and certainly the most picturesque of all the folklore that has survived from twilight days of our nation's childhood. Groups from the various schools clad in the costumes of the period will depict in order dramatic scenes from the lives of the great saints of those early centuries—the martyrdom J of St. Alban, the preaching of ht. i Columba to the Picts. the mission of bt. Augustine, St. Oswald's battle for # free-1 dom, the school of St. Aidan at Lindis- 1 fame Island, Caedmon. the cowherd-poo., and the missionary labours of St. Cuthhymns, in which the whole audience will be asked to join, will be introduced throughout the pageant.