Strange But True...

• Many middle age churches (Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran) have tombstones lining their floors.  Why you ask?  Because some people are either buried under that stone or on the church premises.  This is even true with St. James Cathedral in Toronto.  Bishop Strachan's body was buried close to the cathedral on the property (no one is sure of its exact location).  At St. Mary's Richmond Hill, there is an indoor cemetary of sorts within the church building.  People have been buried there right up till the present time.
• The Canterbury Cathedral in England has graffitti on one of the inner walls dating from the 17th century.
• St. Thomas, an Anglican Church in Moose Factory has holes in its floor to allow for spring flooding of the church.  Before the holes were drilled, the church had been pushed by the floods to different locations.
• When the chapel part of St. Athanasius, Orillia was given to the Anglican church it was situated almost a kilometre away and had to be moved down a large hill to its current site on Westmount Dr.  The chapel was mounted on a base and pulled by horse the whole way.