Following the Battle of Agincourt in 1415, King Henry V instructed
the Church of York to recognise the contribution of one of her eighth-century bishops.
According to an ancient tradition, the Roman authorities banished St John the
Divine to the island of Patmos because they were quite unable to kill him.
In 1607, settler Captain John Smith was captured by the Algonquin near
the English colony at Jamestown, and watched his captors’ ceremonies with rising anxiety.