Nog niet eerder hebben we eens de tijd genomen om Port Elizabeth te ontdekken. En eigenlijk was het hardstikke leuk. Vooral het plein bij de vuurtoren en het Mandela Monument zijn een stop waard. Maar wij hebben verder ook nog door achtergelegenstraatjes gelopen.
Achter het stadhuis is het gerechtshof en het oude postkantoor.
Dit is dan ook Court Street.
Ik vond er dit standbeeld op het pleintje.
Ik heb gezocht wie het zijn: (website PE)
PRESTER JOHN MEMORIAL

Prester John, depending on whose history you are studying at the time, was said to be a descendant of the Three Magi, a crusader-era Christian Ethiopian king, or a high-born Mongol from the time of Genghis Khan. The popular theory is that Prester John – who symbolised the ‘universal Christian’ and transcended culture and geography – was the curator of the Holy Grail.

At the Port Elizabeth City Hall, the only monument in the world that celebrates the existence of the elusive and mythical king-priest, depicts Prester John in conversation with an unnamed Portuguese explorer.

The memorial was unveiled in 1986 by the then-Portuguese ambassador to South Africa, and is not only dedicated to Prester John, but also to the Portuguese explorers who discovered South Africa. The memorial consists of a large Coptic cross with the two figures in the central circle.

Interesting fact: It was on a quest to find Prester John and seek him out as a Christian ally that Bartolomeu Dias first rounded the southern tip of Africa and named it “the Cape of Storms”.