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The second paragraph in your introduction advises us that "There was an earlier Saxon fortification on the site" that now conserves Conisbrough Castle.

Is anything known about the fortification and its owners and residents? Might fortification building materials have been removed or used in its successor structure?

Yes indeed. The religious life is full of love, but it is not easy

Maybe.but I suspect revenge.

They were routine cream and jam.

Yes, darkness is sometimes a time for quiet prayer

The second paragraph to the first subheading, The situation, advises us that "Part of a Christian response to illness is not to let it prevent you from serving others, though your service must adapt."

That statement causes me to consider the case of a promising, young football player who collapsed. Medicine at the time and during his lifetime described his condition as fainting tendencies associated with non-horizontal stances.

That 20-year-old had to spend the next 30-some years bedridden, all the way to his death in his early 50s. His mother managed his care that entire time.

All images, all information offers them as nice-behaving, nice-looking people.

Their Catholic faith undoubtedly propelled mother and son through such never-ending obstacles to the latter realizing perhaps personal wishes for spouse and children and professional wishes for an athletic career.

Would that role-model endurance alone serve as service to others?

Thank you for your comment below Sep. 2, 2017, in answer to my previous, same-day question.

English Wikipedia describes Irish breakfast tea as a red-colored black tea, likelier Assam than Ceylon.

It likewise designates that tea as so strong as to encourage sweeteners such as honey or sugar.

Might you opt for honey or sugar or nothing with your tea?

The third paragraph to the second subheading, Suggestions about what happened, advises us that "One possibility is that there were people in South West Britain who were skilled in quick abductions, a skill that they had honed in snatching black people in Africa to be taken as slaves. Could one or two of these characters have been hired to snatch Owen? They arrive in a farm cart,quickly gag and snatch the hapless victim and ride quietly off without even seeming to stop."

Might Owen have been taken to coerce him into confessing site specifics of buried treasure?

Might other abductions have been to receive ransom money for abductee returns?

Thank you for your comment below on Jan. 24, 2024, in answer to my previous question Jan. 23, 2024.

Online sources generally approach French fancies as sponge cake covered with buttercream and icing. Perhaps they describe quite sweet Unitedstatesian equivalents.

Possibly Unitedstatesians fill edibles with rich creams rather than nutritious jams.

Might you recall what cream and what jam so charmingly, so understandably mattered -- ;-D -- to Maureen's mother?

It interests me that Magna Carta is a three-way interaction of barons, Church and king.

It impels me to mull why no societal money- and power-holders between barons and king merited mention.

Might King John have been leaving viscounts, marquesses and dukes alone or might he have been not quite so outrageous according to their perceptions of perceived infractions and intrusions?

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous question.

Liminal places appear quite recognizable if they associate with land and water, light and dark, sky and earth.

And yet dark components can be part of religiously, spiritually unfriendly places, can't it?

The caption You don't have to wear your own clothes to look better to the sixth subheading, The clothes make the man, amuses me.

At the same time, the in-text image above it by Henri Thiriet (Jul 4, 1873-Jun 10, 1946) appears among my favorite images by Puss in Boots illustrators because of the realistic body language of a youngster without clothes in water and of his feline committed to getting help.

Your second link above, about Great old books, contains an effective same-scene illustration by Carl Offterdinger (Jan 8, 1829-Jan 12, 1889). But the latter displays that young man amid tall grass, perhaps as water-body plants, perhaps not.

Your paragraph expresses a water-body context, as epitomized by the water-body image.

Is it Offterdinger's interpretation or might retellings have located the young man within tall grasses?

No. Liminal places are the zonescwhere different elements meet. Light and darkness, land andbwaterbsky and earth.

Very little is known about most Celtic saints. L,

Thank you for your comment below in answer to my previous observations and questions.

You discuss religiously, spiritually friendly, thin-veiled liminal places elsewhere.

Does the White Slope equate to a liminal place?