Each year a few days before Christmas, the Mayor of Glastonbury in Somerset, cuts sprays from the worldfamous Glastonbury Thorn which is sent to the Monarch for the royal table on Christmas Day. The Thorn is a very famous tree in Christianity. It is said that Saint Joseph of Arimathea visited Glastonbury soon after the Crucifixion to bring Christianity to its people and to found the Abbey. He is said to have planted his thorn staff and it immediately rooted and flowered.

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