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A New Broom in the Augean Stable: Robert Gregory and Liturgical Changes at St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1868-1890

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Extract

The fifth labour of Hercules required that he clean out, in one day, the thirty years of accumulated mess that the thousands of cattle owned by King Augeus had created. The Augean Stable of St Paul’s Cathedral had taken much longer to accumulate its liturgical mess, and would take much longer to clean out!

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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1999

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