I went into Dover Museum on Saturday 10th April and was stunned to find the following information on Saint Mary at the Castle: the first king of Britain, Lucius, embraced the Christian Faith and built a chapel on Eastern Heights next to the Light-tower, which later became the Church that we see now! As he was king, this must have come about when Britain was independent from Rome, and prior to the Anglo-Saxon settlements in Britain.
After the Anglos-Saxons came, a king of Kent made this chapel into a college for the secular canons around 630, after his father, the previous king of Kent, had embraced the Christian Faith at the end of the sixth century!
This goes further than what I had been writing before on this posting: the first Church in BRITAIN was founded in Dover, next to the Roman Light-tower on Eastern Heights, before the Saxons came!
It confirms what I wrote about the Christian Faith returning to the shores of Kent. In 597, the king got Saint Augustin over to Canterbury, where Christianity was re-introduced into our County, and the king's son later made the chapel next to the Light-tower in Dover into an important centre of the Faith! And Christianity spread all through England.
We should give thought to our unique Heritage. This would certainly find a worthy answer in rebuilding Christchurch within the Court! It would be reason to bring our traditionally different Christian congregations in Dover into one House.
A renewed hope came to me in Dover Museum! I knew Our Fair Lady wouldn't give up!
Furthermore, king Lucius introduced port tolls to endow the chapel at the light-tower. This must have come from Our Fair Lady!
