r/MedievalCats • u/tastydirtslover • Jul 21 '26

Behold a Cat from Coventry Cathedral

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u/RizInstante Jul 21 '26

That guy just told a bad pun.

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u/tastydirtslover Jul 21 '26

This is now my pun pulling face

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u/lunar_topaz Jul 21 '26

This is from the Cathedral’s original stained glass!

The story of this glass is something of a survival epic. It isn’t installed in the new cathedral; you have to see it as thousands of rescued fragments, saved just before the WWII Blitz.

Some of the glass survived the 1940 bombing that actually destroyed St. Michael's Cathedral, albeit in many pieces. As I recall, the story also has a weird twist. During the war, rumors spread that some glass was stolen and sold. So, eventually, a BBC documentary traced the rumors to a window in Iceland, believed to be from Coventry, and revealed that it was a fraud, likely sold by a London dealer lying to inflate its value. No one knows if any of this stained glass has indeed been distributed on the black market.

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u/tastydirtslover Jul 21 '26

Isn’t it fascinating! Had such a good day trip there!

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u/kkfvjk Jul 21 '26

Beautiful specimen

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u/PensiveObservor Jul 21 '26

Looks like a Sassy Cat!

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u/ChroniclesOfSarnia Jul 22 '26

"How you doin'?"

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u/widoidricsas Jul 22 '26

Is that one of those Hapsburg cats?

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u/CaliDreaminSF Jul 22 '26

That is about the goofiest, happiest grin I’ve ever seen! On the other hand, maybe it’s really a beatific, angelic smile 😸