Gift To Wife.
"ISLE OF 20,000 SAINTS." ONCE HOME OF MONKS. Mr. L. D. Whitehead, the Monmouthshire steel and torpedo magnate, has bought a 600-acre island off the south-west coast of Wales as a birthday gift for his wife. Ijfc 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. Now 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 legend says it once had some valuable bells, which were stolen by pir.ates.
St. Justinian was the confessor of St. David, the patron saint of Wales. His servants .killed him on account of his disciplinary measures, and he is supposed to have walked across Ramsey Sound with his head in his hand.
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Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19253, 7 November 1934, Page 4
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162Gift To Wife. Thames Star, Volume LXV, Issue 19253, 7 November 1934, Page 4
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