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Rheims Cathedral, France. (Part One).
English: Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral
(Our Lady of Rheims).
Français: La cathédrale de Reims.
Photo: 31 October 2014.
Source: Own work.
Author: Alexander Franke.
(Wikimedia Commons)
English: The West Rose Window,
Notre-Dame de Reims Cathedral
(Our Lady of Rheims).
Français: La cathédrale de Reims.
Photo: March 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Eric Pouhier
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
Please note: “Reims” (French) is often spelled “Rheims” in English.
unless stated otherwise.
Please note: “Reims” (French) is often spelled “Rheims” in English.
Notre-Dame de Reims (Our Lady of Rheims) is the Roman Catholic Cathedral of Rheims, where the Kings of France were once Crowned.
It replaces an older Church, destroyed by fire in 1211, which was built on the site of the Basilica where Clovis was Baptised by Saint Remi, Bishop of Rheims, in 496 A.D. That original structure had been erected on the site of the Roman Baths. As the Cathedral, it remains the Seat of the Archdiocese of Rheims.
Excavations have shown that the present building occupies roughly the same site as the original Cathedral, Founded circa 400 A.D., under the Episcopacy of Saint Nicaise. That Church was rebuilt during the Carolingian period and further extended in the 12th-Century.
On 6 July 1210, the Cathedral was damaged by fire and reconstruction started shortly afterwards, beginning at The Eastern end. Documentary records show the acquisition of land to The West of the site in 1218, suggesting the new Cathedral was substantially larger than its predecessors, the lengthening of the Nave presumably being an adaptation to afford room for the crowds that attended the Coronations.
In 1233, a long-running dispute between the Cathedral Chapter and the Townsfolk (regarding issues of taxation and legal jurisdiction) boiled over into open revolt. Several Clerics were killed or injured during the resulting violence and the entire Cathedral Chapter fled the City, leaving it under an Interdict (effectively banning all public Worship and Sacraments).
Work on the new Cathedral was suspended for three years, only resuming in 1236, after the Clergy returned to the City and the Interdict was lifted, following mediation by the King and the Pope.
The area from the The Crossing, Eastwards, was in use by 1241, but The Nave was not roofed until 1299 (when the French King lifted the tax on Lead used for that purpose). Work on The West façade took place in several phases, which is reflected in the very different styles of some of the sculptures. The upper parts of the façade were completed in the 14th-Century, but apparently following 13th-Century designs, giving Rheims an unusual unity of Style.
Excavations have shown that the present building occupies roughly the same site as the original Cathedral, Founded circa 400 A.D., under the Episcopacy of Saint Nicaise. That Church was rebuilt during the Carolingian period and further extended in the 12th-Century.
Rheims Cathedral.
Photo: July 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: bodoklecksel
(Wikimedia Commons)
In 1233, a long-running dispute between the Cathedral Chapter and the Townsfolk (regarding issues of taxation and legal jurisdiction) boiled over into open revolt. Several Clerics were killed or injured during the resulting violence and the entire Cathedral Chapter fled the City, leaving it under an Interdict (effectively banning all public Worship and Sacraments).
Work on the new Cathedral was suspended for three years, only resuming in 1236, after the Clergy returned to the City and the Interdict was lifted, following mediation by the King and the Pope.
English: The Chevet,
Rheims Cathedral.
Français: Vue du chevet de la cathédrale de Reims.
Photo: 18 March 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: Vassil
(Wikimedia Commons)
PART TWO FOLLOWS.
Salisbury Cathedral (Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary). (Part Two).
Salisbury Cathedral.
Artist: John Constable.
Date: Circa 1825.
This File: 9 December 2014.
User: Tohma
(Wikimedia Commons)
Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
Although the Spire is the Cathedral’s most impressive feature, it has proved troublesome. Together with the Tower, it added 6,397 tons (6,500 tonnes) to the weight of the building.
Without the addition of Buttresses, Bracing Arches and Anchor Irons, over the succeeding centuries, it would have suffered the fate of Spires on other great ecclesiastical buildings, and fallen down, such as:
Malmesbury Abbey, 1180 to 1500;
Lincoln Cathedral, 1311 to 1548;
Old St Paul’s Cathedral, London, 1314 to 1561;
Chichester Cathedral, 1402 to 1861.
Instead, Salisbury Cathedral became the tallest Church Spire in the Country on the collapse at Saint Paul’s (as the result of a fire) in 1561.
The Trinity Chapel (The Lady Chapel), Salisbury Cathedral
The artwork below the Window is a Nicholas Pope installation “The Apostles Speaking in Tongues Lit By Their Own Lamps”, exhibited in the Summer of 2014.
Photo: 8 July 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: “Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0”.
Author: Diliff
(Wikimedia Commons)
Significant changes to the Cathedral were made by the architect James Wyatt in 1790, including the replacement of the original Rood Screen and demolition of a Bell Tower, which stood about 320 feet (98 metres) North-West of the main building.
Salisbury is one of only three English Cathedrals to lack a Ring of Bells, the others being Norwich Cathedral and Ely Cathedral. However, its Mediæval Clock does strike the time with Bells every fifteen minutes.
Salisbury Cathedral.
Photo: 3 May 2023.
Source: Own work.
Author: Tomaszp
(Wikimedia Commons)
On 25 October 2018, there was an attempted theft of the Cathedral”s copy of Magna Carta; the alarms were triggered and a forty-five-year-old man was later detained on suspicion of attempted theft, criminal damage and possession of an offensive weapon.
The outer layer of a double-layered glass case containing the document was broken, but the document suffered no damage.[16]
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West façade of Salisbury Cathedral.
Photo: 27 August 2017.
Source: Own work.
Author: Chauhan.shweta14
(Wikimedia Commons)
In January 2020, the perpetrator, Mark Royden, aged forty-seven, from Kent, was found guilty of the attempted theft, which caused £14,466 of damage, and guilty of criminal damage.[17]
From 16 January 2021, while closed to Services during the COVID-19 pandemic, the Cathedral was used to accommodate the vaccination programme in The United Kingdom, a day after Lichfield Cathedral became the first place of Worship to become part of the immunisation plan against the pandemic in England.[18][19]
A selection of music was played on the Organ as people received their vaccinations.[18]
PART THREE FOLLOWS.
Saint John Fisher And Saint Thomas More. Martyrs. Feast Day 9 July. Red Vestments.
Saint John Fisher.
Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger.
File: 22 June 2016.
User: Miguel Palafox
(Wikimedia Commons)
Saint Thomas More.
Artist: Hans Holbein the Younger (1497–1543).
Collection: The Frick Collection.
Source/Photographer:
(Wikipedia)
unless stated otherwise.
Saint John Fisher And Saint Thomas More.
Martyrs.
Feast Day 9 July
(Local Feast).
Double of The First-Class.
Red Vestments.
Note: This Feast Day Mass is not to be confused with The Votive Mass for Saint John Fisher nor The Votive Mass for Saint Thomas More, both of which are distinctly different Masses.
Among the Christian heroes who fought resolutely against heresy and laid down their lives, rather than adhere to the schism in England, a place of honour is due to Cardinal John Fisher and to Chancellor Thomas More.
John Fisher, born in Beverley, Yorkshire, in 1469, Chancellor of the Academy of Cambridge, later on for thirty-three years the Bishop of Rochester, refuted in many books the Protestant errors (Breviary).
Thomas More, born in London in 1478, a Layman, married and the father of a family, learned Jurist and Scholar, was made High Chancellor of England by King Henry VIII.
Both were imprisoned in The Tower of London by order of the King, because they were opposed to his illegitimate union with Anne Boleyn and because they refused him the usurpated title of Supreme Head of The Church of England in matters Spiritual as well as Temporal.
John Fisher, created Cardinal by Pope Paul III on 21 May 1535, ascended the scaffold on 22 June 1535 and was beheaded after reading this sentence of the Gospel: “This is Eternal Life, that they may know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent.” (Alleluia).
Thomas More was beheaded in his turn on 6 July 1535, for having resisted, after the example of the great doctor of the law, Eleazar (Epistle), all solicitations on the part of his own family and which he deemed contrary to his conscience and to The Rights of God, of Christ, and The Church (Gospel).
Pope Pius XI solemnly Canonised these two Saints on 19 March 1935.
May the merits and the Prayers of these Martyrs of The True Faith and of The Primacy of The Church of Rome obtain that we may be united in Christ by the same profession of Faith (Collect).
Mass: Multæ tribulatiónes.
08 July, 2026
Samuel Barber’s “Agnus Dei”. Sung By: VOCES8.
VOCES8 perform Samuel Barber’s setting of
the “Agnus Dei” at the VOCES8 Centre in London.
Available on YouTube
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, miserere nobis.
Agnus Dei, qui tollis peccata mundi, dona nobis pacem.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the World,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the World,
have mercy on us.
Lamb of God, Who takes away the sin of the World,
grant us Peace.
5 February 1953. Gooseberry Eyes. Coconut Mushrooms. Pear Drops. Jelly Babies. Now Available. Piggy-Banks Emptied. Swarms Of Youngsters Heading For The Local Sweet-Shop.
“Smarties”.
Date: 16 September 2007.
Source: http://www.flickr.com/
photos/alazaat/2357636026/
Author: St0rmz
(Wikimedia Commons)
THE SALISBURY JOURNAL
For children all over Britain, 5 February 1953 was an important day.
Piggy-Banks were emptied and swarms of youngsters headed for their local Sweet-Shop.
For children all over Britain, 5 February 1953 was an important day.
Piggy-Banks were emptied and swarms of youngsters headed for their local Sweet-Shop.
The Government had ended Sweet Rationing, which had been introduced during The Second World War (1939-1945), and the sugar rush was on.
It wasn't the first time that Sweets had come off Ration - the first attempt to de-Ration in 1949 had been derailed after four months, when demand outstripped supply.
Super Shrimps.
Image: TRADE SWEETS
Super Shrimps.
Image: TRADE SWEETS
But, four years later, with promises from the Government that sugar stocks were sufficient to cope with any feeding frenzy at the Sweet Shop, confectionery was back on the shelves and dentists were back in business.
“Just William”.
William was a great advocate
and supporter of various sweets.
Available on YouTube
For years, Pocket Money was mis-spent at the “Pick’n’Mix” counter, where shop assistants filled paper bags, at our direction, with Penny Chews, Shrimps, Black Jacks and Fruit Salads (a Farthing each, or, four for a Penny), Liquorice Pipes and Sherbet Fountains, as we “eked out” Sixpence, over as many Sweets as possible.
William Brown, Richmal Crompton’s immortal “Enfant Terrible”, better known as “Just William”, understood.
“In the matter of Sweets, William frankly upheld the superiority of quantity over quality”, we are told in “William Goes To The Pictures”, when, armed with a Shilling, he decides to spend half of it on Sweets.
Coconut Mushrooms.
Image: TRADE SWEETS
“Both were sold at four Ounces for 2d [Editor: Two Pennies].
“William never purchased more expensive luxuries”.
Gooseberry Eyes, it turned out, were the sort of Sweets, not unlike Sherbet Lemons, that grow sticky over time and collect fluff from the insides of Blazer pockets, where they eventually ended up, paper-bag-less.
I'm not convinced that Gooseberry Eyes existed - not in the way I know that Aniseed Balls, Cough Candy Twists, Pineapple Cubes and Chewing Nuts did.
A packet of Black Jacks.
Date: 26 June 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: DineshAdv
(Wikimedia Commons)
Or, Sherbet Crystals, that you dipped your wet finger into and sucked like a Lollipop ?
Or, Gobstoppers, so huge they made your mouth bulge like a hamster ?
Etched forever on my memory they might be, but, for a time, it seems these very important symbols of my childhood had disappeared, along with Ounces and Pennies in £. s. d. [Editor: Pounds, Shillings, and Pence] form.
Flying Saucers.
Image: TRADE SWEETS
Flying Saucers.
Image: TRADE SWEETS
But now they are back - Sweets in Jars, that is, not Ounces or Pre-Decimal currency - and young and old, alike, are preparing to ruin their teeth in an orgy of sucking and chewing, that brings back memories, for some, and creates them, for others.
Old-fashioned Sweets like Clove Balls, Bulls’ Eyes, Humbugs, Acid Drops, and Lemon Bon-Bons, have acquired a certain trendy kudos, and there are any number of sites, on the Web, where you can buy “Retro” Sweets.
But that’s not as good as nipping into your local Sweet Shop, and buying a little of what you fancy off the shelves.
Shops, like Pothecary’s, in Fisherton Street, Salisbury, as well as some Newsagents and Village Stores, keep a small selection of Sweets in Jars behind the Counter, but, for a Sweetie Emporium, you will have to travel to Tisbury, Porton or Ringwood.
Sour Strawberry Bites.
Go into Jenny and Greg's “Chocolate Box”, in Ringwood, or “Sweets Galore”, in Tisbury, and it’s like stepping back in time.
Sue Bracken has just opened “Sweets Galore”, her second Shop, in Tisbury’s High Street. Her first is in a Shopping Centre in Swindon.
“But I didn't want a Shopping Centre, again, and I picked a Village because Village-Life is old-fashioned”, says Sue, whose sister lives in Tisbury.
“You see lots of Sweet Shops, up North, but not many in The South”.
Sue Bracken has just opened “Sweets Galore”, her second Shop, in Tisbury’s High Street. Her first is in a Shopping Centre in Swindon.
“But I didn't want a Shopping Centre, again, and I picked a Village because Village-Life is old-fashioned”, says Sue, whose sister lives in Tisbury.
“You see lots of Sweet Shops, up North, but not many in The South”.
Fizzers.
Image: TRADE SWEETS
In “My Favourite Things”, attached to The Pet and Aquatic Centre, in Porton, there are ranks of Sweets in Jars at the entrance to the Shop.
Liquorice Allsorts.
Image: TRADE SWEETS
One of the directors, Gareth Allen, said: “People wanted old-fashioned Sweets - that’s what they were asking for”.
So, modern confectionery was swept aside and Jars of Coconut Mushrooms, Tom Thumb Drops, Liquorice Comfits, Jelly Babies, restored to the shelves.
When it comes to getting your “five a day”, I doubt if the Government had Rhubarb and Custard, Pear Drops, Sherbet Lemons, Strawberry Bon-Bons, and Fruit Salads in mind, but memories are made of this.
Saint Elizabeth. Feast Day 8 July. Queen Of Portugal. Widow. (1271 - 1336). White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Elizabeth.
Queen of Portugal.
Widow.
Feast Day 8 July.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
(Santa Isabel de Portugal),
Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán
Date: Circa 1635.
Current location: Museo del Prado, Madrid.
Source: http://www.museodelprado.es/
uploads/tx_gbobras/P01239.jpg
Author: Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664).
(Wikimedia Commons)
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Flag of Portugal.
Created by Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro (1857-1929),
officially adopted by the Portuguese Government 30 June 1911.
Date: 10 May 2021.
Source: Símbolos Nacionais.
Original: Columbano Bordalo Pinheiro
Vector: Vítor Luís Rodrigues, António Martins-Tuválkin.
Permission: The original of this set was contracted by
the Portuguese Presidential Office in June 2004 to
Vítor Luís Rodrigues and António Martins-Tuválkin.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Her father, seeing her Holiness, used to say that she would surpass all other women of Royal Race (Epistle, Communion). She married Denis I, King of Portugal.
She had received the prerogative of re-establishing Peace, where there had been divisions, and of mitigating the fury of War (Collect). When she became a widow, she took The Habit of The Third Order of Saint Francis, distributed her riches and acquired, at this price, The Precious Pearl and The Hidden Treasure of Life Everlasting (Gospel).
She died at Estremos, Portugal, in 1336, and her body has remained incorrupt.
Mass: Cognóvi.
Photo: 10 February 2014.
Source: Own work.
Author: Jbribeiro1
Attribution:
© José Luiz Bernardes Ribeiro / CC-BY-SA-3.0
(Wikimedia Commons)
Elizabeth showed an early enthusiasm for her Faith. She said the full Divine Office, daily, Fasted, and did other Penance, as well as attended twice-daily Choral Masses.
Religious fervour was common in her family, as she could count several members of her family who were already Venerated as Saints. The most notable example is her Great-Aunt, Saint Elizabeth of Hungary, (Third Order of Saint Francis, T.O.S.F.), after whom she was named.
07 July, 2026
History In Motion: “Big Boy’s Journey Across America”.
History in Motion:
“Big Boy’s Journey Across America”.
Available on YouTube
From Sacramento to Philadelphia, “Big Boy” 4014’s
historic Coast-to-Coast journey in partnership with
Norfolk Southern is more than a celebration of an iconic Locomotive — it’s a tribute to the people, innovation and determination that helped build America.
As our Nation marks 250 years, this legendary Steam Locomotive reminds us that progress belongs to those willing to go further, bridge distances and pursue what’s possible.
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Philadelphia
over the Fourth of July weekend to witness history in motion.
Saint Cyril And Saint Methodius. Bishops And Confessors. Feast Day 7 July. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
Bishops and Confessors.
Feast Day 7 July.
Double.
White Vestments.
Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius.
Bishops and Confessors.
English: “Saints Cyril and Methodius holding
the Cyrillic Alphabet,”, a mural by Bulgarian
iconographer Z. Zograf.
Troyan Monastery, Bulgaria.
Deutsch: Die beiden Hl. Kyrill und Method.
Artist: Zahari Zograf (1810–1853).
Date: 1848.
Current location: Troyan Monastery, Bulgaria.
Source/Photographer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
File: Cyril-methodius-small.jpg
(Wikimedia Commons)
Still filled with a Holy Love for her Apostles, whose Octave she has concluded, The Church Celebrates today The Feast of Saint Cyril and of Saint Methodius, “who both promised, under oath, to persevere in The Faith of Blessed Peter and of The Roman Pontiffs,” [Fifth Lesson at Matins] and brought innumerable recruits, to Peter, from among the Bulgarians, Moravians and Bohemians [Hymn at First Vespers].
Brothers by blood,, they were born in the 9th-Century A.D.
at Salonica, Greece, and distinguished themselves by their progress in The Sciences at Constantinople.
Anointed Bishops, by Pope Adrian II (Introit, Epistle, Alleluia), they converted the Slavonic Nations (Collect). To them is attributed the Slav Alphabet; into which tongue they translated the Scriptures and celebrated the Sacred Rites.
Saint Cyril died in 869 A.D., and was buried at Rome, near the Relics of Saint Clement, which he had brought from Chersonesus, Crimea. Saint Methodius died in 885 A.D.
Mass: Sacerdótes tui.
Anointed Bishops, by Pope Adrian II (Introit, Epistle, Alleluia), they converted the Slavonic Nations (Collect). To them is attributed the Slav Alphabet; into which tongue they translated the Scriptures and celebrated the Sacred Rites.
Saint Cyril died in 869 A.D., and was buried at Rome, near the Relics of Saint Clement, which he had brought from Chersonesus, Crimea. Saint Methodius died in 885 A.D.
Mass: Sacerdótes tui.
English: The Basilica of The Assumption of Mary,
and Saint Cyrillus and Saint Methodius,
Velehrad, Czech Republic.
Čeština: Bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie
Date: 20 December 2005.
Source: Originally from cs.wikipedia;
description page is/was HERE
Author: Original uploader was
Cibtom at cs.wikipedia.
(Wikimedia Commons)
“Pax Inter Spinas” Editions. Now Available From The Printing House Of The Monastère Saint-Benoît, Brignoles, France.
Monastère Saint-Benoît, Brignoles, France.
Available on YouTube
All the following Publications, and Special Offers,
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