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Joseph Of Arimathea: Closet Christian
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In Glastonbury, England, some curious hawthorn bushes flower twice a year. They are reported to be a variety not native to England but related to those of the eastern Mediterranean, and there is a legend about them. William of Malmsbury, about the year 1135, recorded the legend that Joseph of Arimathea left Jerusalem and went to southern France. From there, in 63 A.D., he went to Britain and founded the first Christian settlement in England at the site of present-day Glastonbury. He took with him his walking staff, cut from his garden in Jerusalem.