Beaulieu

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Beaulieu Abbey

This image is my current desktop, and at a recent Property Committee Meeting it caused some discussion over what it actually was.

The answer is the stone floor in Beaulieu Abbey worn by years of monks feet, I think it is beautiful.

There was also this little bridge which while the hand rail is new you can see the wear that hundreds of feet have made into the stone.

And while we are on Beaulieu, how about this for a pulpit?  St Mary’s Beaulieu is now the parish church in what used to be part of the Abbey.

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Beaulieu Abbey

Another brief snippet from our holidays, this time from a plaque in Beaulieu Abbey, words which I feel would make a pretty good dictionary explanation for the word contentment.  The words are attributed to Saint Bernard – and no not a dog with a barrel of rum around it’s neck – but the French Abbot who was, in part, responsible for reforming the Cistercian order of which Beaulieu Abbey was a part.

It is good for us to be in this place for here a man lives more worthily falls from grace more rarely, rises more swiftly, walks more carefully, rests more peacefully, dies more happily, is absolved more speedily, is rewarded more bountifully.