century, which tells of two children that appeared on the edge of a field in the village of Woolpit in England.

The young girl and boy had green-hued skin and spoke an unknown language.

However, a quick answer to your question is that an artist’s depiction of the translation of the Book of Mormon hardly constitutes a doctrinal teaching. In my senior year at BYU one of my philosophy professors asked if I would assist him on writing a philosophical dissertation for the Library of Congress on Joseph Smith.

My job was to study all the negative material written about Joseph Smith and the Church and provide a summary of it.

In the Middle Ages, it lay within the most agriculturally productive and densely populated area of rural England.

The village had belonged to the rich and powerful Abbey of Bury St. century chroniclers - Ralph of Coggestall (died c 1228 AD), an abbot of a Cistercian monastery at Coggeshall (about 26 miles / 42 km south of Woolpit), who recorded his account of the green children in the Chronicon Anglicanum (English Chronicle); and William of Newburgh (1136-1198 AD), an English historian and canon at the Augustinian Newburgh Priory, far to the north in Yorkshire, who includes the story of the green children in his main work Historia rerum Anglicarum (History of English Affairs).

To the collector the mark has greater importance, for not only can he trace the manufacturer of any marked object, but he can also ascertain the approximate date of manufacture and in several cases the exact year of production, particularly in the case of 19th and 20th century wares from the leading firms which employed private dating systems.

I received this question from a friend when I posted Elder Uchtdorf’s post about comparing the seer stones to cell phones: Hi Paul, I saw your post about the seer stone on your FB.

I did not want to comment on your timeline to avoid other people attacking me.

The children became sick and the boy died, but the girl recovered and over the years came to learn English.

She later relayed the story of their origins, saying they came from a place called St Martin’s Land, which existed in an atmosphere of permanent twilight, and where the people lived underground.