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Before you go, think about this…

The tradition of a church providing sanctuary is not Christian but goes back to the ancient Britons according to Geoffrey of Monmouth (History of the Kings of Britain), himself bishop of S Asaph. He says Molmutius, a British king around 500 BC decreed:
The temples of the gods and the cities should be so privileged that anyone who escapes to them as a fugitive or when accused of some crime must be pardoned by his accuser when he came out… Moreover, the roads which led to these temples and cities should be included in the same law.
One might doubt the authenticity of these claims but Geoffrey made the additional claim that these laws were “famous today among the English” Whatever. Sanctuary was a feature of Roman law, and burial grounds were said to have been sanctuary even to animals in the tradition of the Celtic Church.