THE HOLIEST STREET IN ENGLAND.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume XXIX, Issue 4, 24 January 1901, Page 15

THE HOLIEST STREET IN ENGLAND.

In the Tnmplc Maqazuie Mr. J. E. Chamberlain writes of Paternoster Row, which he calls ' The Holiest Street in England.' Six centuries ago, beads, breviaries, paternosters were being exposed for sale here in antique English shops kept by Englishmen great and antique in heart Consider its baptism and condition. Old St. Paul's waa standing then. Paternoster Row waß a nameless, dark friM of pathway running- on the outskirts of the sacred precincts. Choristers — bright scampish lads like those of to-day — used to come from St. Paul's ohnnting the Roaary in procession. When they got as far as the beginning of this dim old path it invariably happened that they had reached that part of the Rosary in which the Paternoster ia embedded, and they said the Paternoster as they walked along. Thus the walk in time was known as Paternoster Row. One of its windings where the prayer was finished waa called Amen Corner.