We'll welcome back to another episode of Five Minutes in Church History for this month

of February and the year 2023. Five minutes in Church History will be conducting a world

tour. We are going to visit four significant cities this month and we will begin with the

charming and fabled city of Cambridge. The town takes its name as a bridge over the river

camp and so Cain Bridge was a place for clerics and trade from the 800s to the 1200s.

The town of course is synonymous with its university and it was founded in 1209. We learned that

it was founded by scholars taking refuge from hostile townsmen and Oxford who then migrated to

Cambridge and settled there. There is nothing more difficult for a scholar to contend with than

hostile townsmen and whatever the issue was back in Oxford it sent these particular scholars to

Cambridge. As an aside, Cambridge is the third oldest university. The first is Bologna and Bologna

Italy. The second is the aforementioned Oxford and then thirdly is Cambridge. Cambridge University

is comprised of various colleges. I want to talk about a few of those colleges that have a fascinating

history in their own right. The first is Trinity College. It was founded in 1546 by Henry VIII.

Trinity College Chapel with its stained glass windows tells the entire story of Church History. It

begins up in the front with some of the church fathers and then goes through some of the medieval

figures the reformers and right into the 1718 hundreds. If you ever want to teach a Church history

class in one place you probably would do no better than to go to Trinity College Chapel and use

its windows. Just outside the chapel is the courtyard. The 400 yard perimeter and top is the clock.

The clock that strikes 12 and takes 43 seconds to do it and yes this is the site of the famous

courtyard run and annual event for the students of Cambridge. The other college is a manual.

It was founded in 1584 as a Puritan college. It was founded by Sir Walter Midmoney and when he met

with Queen Elizabeth I, she said to him, I see you erected a Puritan foundation. He replied,

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