ST. MARY AXE
STREET IN LONDON Curious names are to be found in the City of London's oldest streets, and none is more attractive than SI. Mary Axe. “Whence did it derive?” you ask. Far down the Middle Ages there was a church there known as Santa Maria de Ilacqs. In 15(12 Queen Elizabeth gave it lo the Spanish Protestant refugees for Divine service. Its precious relic had been an axe, “one of the three that “the 11,00(1 virgins had been beheaded with.” From this source came the names both of the church and of the street.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 8
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97ST. MARY AXE Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20081, 30 October 1939, Page 8
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