One of her most lucrative shells was the appropriatelynamed sand dollar. The Sand Dollar Motel and Marina on Grand Isle was a frenzy of activity on Friday as boaters scrambled to get their vessels to higher ground and marina employees secured the premises.
Still a place of pilgrimage even in these more secular times, the Holy Island of Lindisfarne is the very fountain head of England's Christian heritage.It was on Holy Island that the early Christian message was honed and distributed to a largely pagan Northumberland.indisfarne Priory was the home of St Cuthbert and the birthplace of a true national treasure-the Lindisfarne Gospels, a unique illuminated Latin manuscript of the gospels of Mark, Luke and John.
The Romans selected conspicuous places by major highways for their public executions. The crucifixion probably took place on a hill, because it was visible at a distance (verse 40). As for the tomb or sepulcher, weâre told only that it was in a garden near the place of crucifixion (John 19:41).he Gospel writers call the place where Jesus was crucified Golgothaâ an Aramaic word meaning âthe skull.â Calvary is the Latin form of the word.