ISLAND AS A GIFT
BIRTHDAY PRESENT TO WIFE Mr L. D. Whitehead, the Monmouthshire steel and torpedo magnate, has bought a 600-acre island off the southwest coast of Wales as a birthday gift for his wife. It is the Isle of Ramsey —“The Isle of the 20.000 Saints.” Only two people live on it, a farmer and his mother. A thousand years ago the isle was inhabited by large numbers of monks. Nov/ it is to be preserved as a bird sanctuary. On it is a chapel, dedicated to St. Justinian, which is scheduled officially as an ancient monument. It contains traces of a Norman cathedral, and legends says it once had some valuable bells, which were stolen by pirates. St. Justinian was the confessor of St. David, the patron saint of Wales. His servants killed him on account of his disciplinary measures, and is is supposed to have walked across Ramsey Sound with his head in his hand.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 20
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159ISLAND AS A GIFT Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19959, 17 November 1934, Page 20
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