It is Martin Luther that is credited with the tradition of adding twinkling lights to trees at Christmas although in his day it was candles and not electric lights. It is told that he was so struck by the stars twinkling through the evergreen trees as he walked home one night that he attached lighted candles to a tree erected in his home to show his family. I dread to think what the Health and Safety Executive would have made of that if they had been around then.
This tree outside St Mary's is bedecked with small blue lights that have been twinkling all day long among the frosted and snowy branches but thay really come into their own when darkness falls.
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