Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B., Writes On Our Lady Of Mount Carmel. Feast Day 16 July. White Vestments.

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
   Volume 13.
   Time After Pentecost.
   Book IV.

Towering over the waves on the shore of the Holy Land, Mount Carmel, together with the short range of the same name, forms a connecting link to two other chains, abounding with glorious memories, namely: The mountains of Galilee, on the North, and those of Judea, on the South.

“In the day of My love, I brought thee out of Egypt into the land of Carmel”, [Jeremiah ii. 2, 7.] said the Lord to the daughter of Sion, taking the name of Carmel to represent all the Blessings of the Promised Land; and when the crimes of the Chosen People were about to bring Judea to ruin, the Prophet cried out: “I looked, and behold Carmel was a wilderness: And all its Cities were destroyed at the presence of the Lord, and at the presence of the wrath of His indignation”.

But from the midst of the Gentile World a new Sion arose, more loved than the first; eight Centuries beforehand, Isaias recognised her by the glory of Libanus, and the beauty of Carmel and Saron which were given her.

In the Sacred Canticle, also, the attendants of the Bride sing to the Spouse concerning His well-beloved, that her head is like Carmel, and her hair like the precious threads of Royal Purple carefully woven and dyed.

There was, in fact, around Cape Carmel, an abundant fishery of the little Shell-Fish which furnished the Regal Colour.

Not far from there, smoothing away the slopes of the noble mountain, flowed the torrent of Cison, that dragged the carcasses of the Chanaanites, when Debbora won her famous victory.

Here lies the Plain where the Madianites were overthrown, and Sisara felt the power of her that was called the Mother in Israel.

Here Gedeon, too, marched against Madian in the name of the Woman “terrible as an army set in array”, whose sign he had received in the dew-covered fleece.

Indeed, this glorious Plain of Esdrelon, which stretches away from the foot of Carmel, seems to be surrounded with prophetic indications of her who was destined from the beginning to crush the Serpent’s head: Not far from Esdrelon, a few defiles lead to Bethulia, the City of Judith, type of Mary, who was the true “joy of Israel and the honour of her people”; while nestling among the Northern hills lies Nazareth, the White City, the Flower of Galilee.

When Eternal Wisdom was playing in the World, forming the hills and establishing the mountains, she destined Carmel to be the special inheritance of Eve’s victorious daughter.

And when the last thousand years of expectation were opening, and the desire of all Nations was developing into the spirit of Prophecy, the father of Prophets ascended the privileged Mount, thence to scan the horizon.

The triumphs of David  and the glories of Solomon were at an end: The Sceptre of Juda, broken by the schism of the Ten Tribes, threatened to fall from his hand; the worship of Baal prevailed in Israel.

 A long-continued drought, figure of the aridity of men’s Souls, had parched up every spring, and men and beasts were dying beside the empty cisterns, when Elias the Thesbite gathered the people, representing the whole human race, on Mount Carmel, and slew the lying Prophets of Baal.

Then, as the Scripture relates, prostrating with his face to the earth, he said to his servant: “Go up, look towards the Sea”. And he went up, and looked and said: “There is nothing”. And again he said to him: “Return seven times”. And, at the seventh time: Behold, a little cloud arose out of the Sea like a man’s foot.

Blessed cloud !!! Unlike the bitter waves from which it sprang, it was all sweetness. Docile to the least breath of Heaven, it rose light and humble, above the immense heavy ocean; and screening the Sun, it tempered the heat that was scorching the Earth and restored to the stricken World Life and Grace and Fruitfulness.

The promised Messias, the Son of Man, set His impress upon it, showing to the wicked serpent the form of the heel that was to crush him.

The remainder of this Article can be read in full at
“The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 13.
Time After Pentecost.
Book IV.

Westminster Abbey (Part One).

Westminster Abbey.

Photo: 26 May 2013.

Source: File:Westminster-Abbey.JPG

Author: Σπάρτακος (changes by Rabanus Flavus)

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Text from Wikipedia, the free encyclopædia,

unless stated otherwise.

Westminster Abbey, formally titled the Collegiate Church of Saint Peter at Westminster, is a large, mainly Gothic, Abbey Church in the City of Westminster, London, England, just to the West of the Palace of Westminster.

It is one of the United Kingdom’s most notable Religious buildings and the traditional place of Coronation and a burial site for English and, later, British Monarchs.

Since the Coronation of William the Conqueror in 1066, all Coronations of English and British Monarchs have occurred in Westminster Abbey.[4][5]

Westminster Abbey.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Sixteen Royal Weddings have occurred at the Abbey since 1100.[6]

According to a tradition first reported by Sulcard in about 1080, a Church was founded at the site (then known as Thorn Ey (Thorn Island)) in the 7th-Century A.D., at the time of Mellitus, a Bishop of London. Construction of the present Church began in 1245 on the orders of King Henry III.[4]

The Church was originally part of a Catholic Benedictine Abbey, which was Dissolved in 1539. It then served as the Cathedral of the Diocese of Westminster until 1550, then as a second Cathedral of the Diocese of London until 1556.

English: The Chapter house, Westminster Abbey.

Français: Salle capitulaire de l'abbaye de Westminster.

Photo: 29 July 2016.

Source: Own work.

Author: ChrisVTG Photography

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Abbey was restored to the Benedictine Order by Mary I in 1556, then, in 1559, made a Royal Peculiar — a Church responsible directly to the Sovereign — by Queen Elizabeth I.

The Abbey is the burial site of more than 3,300 people, usually of prominence in British history: At least sixteen Monarchs, eight Prime Ministers, Poets Laureate, Actors, Scientists, Military Leaders, and The Unknown Warrior — the first person interred in the Abbey’s Poets' Corner was Geoffrey Chaucer, in 1400.

As such, Westminster Abbey is sometimes described as “Britain’s Valhalla”, after the iconic hall of the chosen heroes in Norse mythology.[7]

A late tradition claims that Aldrich, a young fisherman on The River Thames, had a vision of Saint Peter near the site. This seems to have been quoted as the origin of the salmon that Thames fishermen offered to the Abbey in later years, a custom still observed annually by The Fishmongers’ Company.

The Cloisters, Westminster Abbey.

Photo: 3 October 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas

(Wikimedia Commons)

The recorded origins of the Abbey date to the 960s A.D. or early 970s A.D., when Saint Dunstan and King Edgar installed a Community of Benedictine Monks on the site.[8]

Between 1042 and 1052, King Edward the Confessor began rebuilding Saint Peter’s Abbey to provide himself with a Royal Burial Church. It was the first Church in England built in the Romanesque Style.

The building was completed around 1060 and was Consecrated on 28 December 1065, only a week before Edward’s death on 5 January 1066.[9] A week later, he was buried in the Church; and, nine years later, his wife, Edith, was buried alongside him.[10] His successor, Harold II, was probably Crowned in the Abbey, although the first documented Coronation is that of William the Conqueror, later the same year.[11]

Coat-of-Arms of The Collegiate Church

of Saint Peter at Westminster.

Blazon:

Azure, a Cross Patonce between five Martlets Or; and on a Chief Or a Pale Quarterly of France Modern and England between two Roses Gules Barbed and Seeded Proper.

Date: 16 September 2021.

Source: Own work. 

Elements from File:Royal Arms of Edward the Confessor.svg, File:Royal Arms of England (1603-1707).svg, File:Tudor Rose.svg

Artist: Fenn-O-maniC

(Wikimedia Commons)

The only extant depiction of Edward’s Abbey, together with the adjacent Palace of Westminster, is in The Bayeux Tapestry.

Some of the lower parts of the Monastic Dormitory, an extension of The South Transept, survive in the Norman Undercroft of The Great School, including a door, said to come from the previous Saxon Abbey.

Increased endowments supported a Community that increased from a dozen Monks in Dunstan’s original Foundation, up to a maximum of about eighty Monks.[12]

The 19th-Century Choir Screen

divides the Nave from the Chancel.

Photo: 3 October 2013.

Source: Own work.

Author: CEphoto, Uwe Aranas

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Abbot and Monks, in proximity to the Royal Palace of Westminster, the Seat of Government from the Late-13th-Century, became a powerful force in the Centuries after The Norman Conquest.

The Abbot of Westminster often was employed on Royal Service and, in due course, took his place in The House of Lords as of right.

Released from the burdens of spiritual leadership, which passed to the reformed Cluniac Movement after the Mid-10th-Century, and occupied with the administration of great landed properties, some of which lay far from Westminster, “the Benedictines achieved a remarkable degree of identification with the secular life of their times, and particularly with upper-class life”, Barbara Harvey concludes, to the extent that her depiction of daily life provides a wider view of the concerns of the English gentry in the High- and Late-Middle Ages.[13]

Fanned, Ribbed-Arch, Ceiling and Column,

Chapter House, Westminster Abbey.

Photo: 12 November 2014.

Source: Imported from 500px (archived version)

by the Archive Team. (detail page)

Author: Begnaud

(Wikimedia Commons)

The proximity of the Palace of Westminster did not extend to providing Monks or Abbots with high Royal connections; in social origin, the Benedictines of Westminster were as modest as most of the Order.

The Abbot remained Lord of the Manor of Westminster, as a Town of two- to three-thousand persons grew around it: As a consumer and employer on a grand scale, the Monastery helped fuel the Town economy, and relations with the Town remained unusually cordial, but no enfranchising Charter was issued during The Middle Ages.[14]

The Abbey became the Coronation site of Norman Kings. None were buried there until Henry III, intensely devoted to the cult of Edward the Confessor, rebuilt the Abbey in Anglo-French Gothic Style as a shrine to Venerate King Edward the Confessor and as a suitably Regal setting for Henry’s own tomb, under the highest Gothic Nave in England. Edward the Confessor’s Shrine subsequently played a great part in his Canonisation.[8]

PART TWO FOLLOWS.

Commemoration Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Mount Carmel. Feast Day 16 July. White Vestments.

Our Lady of Mount Carmel,

Saint Simon Stock, Saint Angelus of Jerusalem,

Saint Mary Magdalene de’Pazzi, Saint Teresa of Avila.

Date: 1641.

Collection: Museo Diocesano di Palermo

Source/Photographer:

SANTI BEATI

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Texts and Illustration, unless stated otherwise, from

CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

Prayer To Our Lady Of Mount Carmel.

Thou, who, with special mercy,

look upon those clothed in thy beloved Habit,

cast a glance of pity upon me.

Fortify my weakness with thy strength;

enlighten the darkness

of my mind with thy wisdom;

increase my Faith, Hope and Charity.

Assist me during life,

console me by thy presence at my death,

and present me to The August Trinity

as thy devoted child,

that I may Bless thee

for all Eternity in Paradise.

Amen.

The following Text is from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Commemoration: The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Mount Carmel.
   Feast Day 16 July.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

According to a pious Tradition authorised by The Liturgy, on The Day of Pentecost a number of men who walked in the footsteps of The Holy Prophets, Elias and Eliseus, and whom John the Baptist had prepared for The Advent of Jesus, embraced The Christian Faith, and erected the first Church to The Blessed Virgin on Mount Carmel, at the very spot where Elias had seen a cloud rise, a figure of the fecundity of The Mother of God (Lesson of Second Nocturn at Matins).

They were called: Brethren of Blessed Mary of Mount Carmel (Collect). These Religious came to Europe in the 13th-Century and, in 1245, Pope Innocent IV gave his approbation to their Rule under the Generalship of Simon Stock, an English Saint.

On 16 July 1251, Mary appeared to this fervent servant [Simon Stock] and placed in his hands the Habit which was to be their distinctive sign. Pope Innocent IV blessed this Habit and attached to it many privileges, not only for The Members of The Order, but also for those who entered The Confraternity of Our Lady of Mount Carmel.

By wearing the Scapular, which is in smaller form than that of The Carmelite Fathers, they participate in all their merits and may hope to obtain through The Virgin a prompt delivery from Purgatory, if they have Faithfully observed Abstinence, Chastity (according to their state), and said the Prayers prescribed by Pope John XXII, in The Sabbatine Bull, published on 3 March 1322.

The Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, at first Celebrated only in the Churches of the Order, was extended to all Christendom by Pope Benedict XIII in 1726.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes.
Creed: Is said.
Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. “Et te in Commemoratióne”.

Saint Henry. “Romanorum Imperator”. The Holy Roman Emperor And Confessor. Whose Feast Day Is 15 July. White Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.

Saint Henry.
   Holy Roman Emperor and Confessor.
   Feast Day 15 July.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: 

Coat-of-Arms of Leopold II and Francis II, 

Holy Roman Emperors.

Deutsch: 

Wappen des Kaisers Leopold II. 

und Franz II. (HRR), Gold Schild.

Date: 8 January 2014.

Source: [With supporters] Otto Posse.

Die Siegel der deutschen Kaiser und Könige v. 4.

Image with supporters.

Inescutcheon: 

Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Bilddatenbank.

Author: Tom Lemmens (in collaboration with Heralder).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Henry II, “The Pious”, was King of Bavaria in 972 A.D., King of Germany in 1002, and Head of The Holy Roman Empire from 1014 to 1024. He promised on oath to Pope Benedict VIII, who had Crowned him, “to be faithful in all things to him and his successors”.

He did his best to spread Religion, restoring destroyed Churches, and Founding Monasteries which he liberally endowed (Epistle). Detained at Monte Cassino by severe illness, he was miraculously cured through the intercession of Saint Benedict.

In order to be ready for the coming of The Divine Master (Gospel, Communion), he returned from Italy, through 

France, was admitted as a Secular Oblate at Cluny and 

asked to be received into the Benedictine Abbey of Saint 

Vanne at Verdun, France. The Abbot welcomed him, but immediately commanded him, in the name of Religious Obedience, to re-ascend The Imperial Throne.

He so loved The Law of God (Introit), that he preserved absolute Virginity in marriage (Introit). Indeed, by agreement with his holy spouse, Cunegund, he determined to make Jesus Christ their heir, and, with this view, he Founded The Bishopric of Bamberg, to which he left all his possessions.

He was buried in Bamberg Cathedral in 1024.

Mass: Os justi.

English: Emperor Henry II and Empress Cunigunde's tomb,

by Tilman Riemenschneider, in Bamberg Cathedral, Germany.

Deutsch: Bamberger Dom - Grab Heinrich und Kunigunde.

Photo: May 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Reinhard Kirchner.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Henry II (German: Heinrich II; Italian: Enrico II) (6 May 973 A.D. – 13 July 1024), also known as Saint Henry, Obl. S. B., was Holy Roman Emperor (“Romanorum Imperator”) from 1014 until his death in 1024 and the last member of the Ottonian Dynasty of Emperors, as he had no children.

The Duke of Bavaria from 995 A.D., Henry became King of Germany (“Rex Romanorum”) following the sudden death of his second cousin, Emperor Otto III, in 1002, was Crowned King of Italy (“Rex Italiæ”) in 1004, and was crowned by the Pope as Holy Roman Emperor in 1014.

The son of Henry II, Duke of Bavaria and his wife Gisela of Burgundy, Emperor Henry II was a great-grandson of German King Henry I and a member of the Bavarian Branch of the Ottonian Dynasty. Since his father rebelled against two previous Emperors, the younger Henry was often in exile. This led him to turn to The Church at an early age, first finding refuge with the Bishop of Freising and, later, being educated at the Cathedral School of Hildesheim.

He succeeded his father as Duke of Bavaria in 995 A.D., as “Henry IV”. As Duke, he attempted to join his second-cousin, Holy Roman Emperor Otto III, in suppressing a revolt against Imperial Rule in Italy in 1002.

Before Henry II could arrive, Otto III died of fever, leaving no heir. After defeating several other claimants to the Throne, Henry II was Crowned as King of Germany (“Rex Romanorum”) on 9 July 1002 and as King of Italy (“Rex Italiæ”) on 15 May 1004. Henry II, in 1004, aided Jaromír, Duke of Bohemia, against the Poles, definitively incorporating the Duchy of Bohemia into the Holy Roman Empire.

English: Sacramentary of King Henry II [1002-1014].

München BSB Clm 4456 Seite 33c.

Polski: Sakramentariusz króla Henryka II [1002-14]: Henryk II Święty. Chrystus nakłada koronę. Po prawej stronie Emmeram z Ratyzbony i cesarski miecz, a po lewej i Ulryk z Augsburga i włócznia Świętego Maurycego.

Deutsch: Krönung Heinrich II., Christus setzt ihm selbst die Krone auf. Als Zeichen seiner Macht werden ihm von w:de:Emmeram (rechts) das w:de:Reichsschwert und Ulrich I. von Augsburg (links) die w:de:Heilige Lanze überreicht. Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.

Español: oronación de Enrique II,

«Sacramentario de Enrique II», 1002-1014.

Date: Circa 1002-1014.

Current location: Bavarian State Library

Source/Photographer: digitale-sammlungen.de

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Unlike his predecessor, who had focused upon Imperial attention in Italy, Henry spent most of his reign concerned with Imperial territory North of the Alps.

His main focus was a series of wars against the Polish Duke Bolesław I, who had conquered a number of Countries surrounding him. Henry did lead three expeditions into Italy to ensure Imperial dominion over the Peninsula; twice to suppress secessionist revolts and once to challenge the Byzantine Empire for dominance over Southern Italy.

On 14 February 1014, Pope Benedict VIII Crowned Henry as Holy Roman Emperor (“Romanorum Imperator”) in Rome.

The Rule of Henry II is seen as a period of centralised authority throughout the Empire. He consolidated his power by cultivating personal and political ties with The Catholic Church. He greatly expanded the Ottonian Dynasty’s custom of employing Clergy as counter-weights against Secular Nobles.

Through donations to The Church and the establishment of new Dioceses, Henry strengthened Imperial Rule across the Empire and increased control over Ecclesiastical affairs. He stressed Service to The Church and promoted Monastic reform. For his personal holiness and efforts to support The Church, Blessed Pope Eugene III Canonised him in 1146, making Henry II the only German Monarch to be a Saint.

Henry II being crowned as Emperor

by Pope Benedict VIII in 1014.

Date: 1400-1410.

Source: Vincent of Beauvais, 

Le Miroir Historial (Vol. IV).

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Henry II married Cunigunde of Luxembourg, who became his Queen and Empress. As the union produced no children, after Henry’s death the German Nobles elected Conrad II, a great-great-grandson of Emperor Otto I, to succeed him. Conrad was the first of the Salian Dynasty of Emperors.

Saint Henry II was Canonised in July 1147 by Blessed Pope Eugenius III; his spouse, Cunigunde, was Canonised on 29 March 1200 by Pope Innocent III. His Relics were carried on campaigns against Heretics in the 1160s. 

He is the Patron Saint of the City of Basle, Switzerland, and of Saint Henry's Marist Brothers' College, in Durban, South Africa.

Saint Henry’s name was inserted in 1631 into the Roman Calendar as a Commemoration within the Celebration of Saint Anacletus on 13 July, the day of his death and the Traditional Day for his Celebration on a local level.

Gospel Book of Henry II.

Artist: Unknown Miniaturist, German (active around 1020).

Current location: Vatican Library

Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art

(Wikimedia Commons)

In 1668, it was moved to 15 July for Celebration as a Semi-Double. This Rank was changed by Pope Pius XII in 1955 to that of Simple, and by Pope Saint John XXIII in 1960 to that of Third-Class Feast. In 1969, it was returned to its original date of 13 July as an Optional Memorial.

During his lifetime, Henry II became an Oblate of the Benedictine Order, and today is Venerated within the Order as the Patron Saint of all Oblates, along with Saint Frances of Rome.

Henry II was a Member of the Ottonian Dynasty of Kings and Emperors, who Ruled the Holy Roman Empire (previously Germany) from 919 A.D., to 1024. 

In relation to the other Members of his Dynasty, Henry II was the Great-Grandson of Henry I, Great-Nephew of Otto I, First-Cousin-Once-Removed of Otto II, and a Second-Cousin to Otto III.

Benediction Of The Blessed Sacrament.

Monstrance.

Photo: 18 October 2004 (original upload date).

Source: Own work.

Originally from nl.wikipedia; description page is/was HERE

Author: Original uploader was Broederhugo at nl.wikipedia

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Illustration: PINTEREST

The following three Paragraphs are taken from

The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

In his Motu Proprio of 1903, Pope Saint Pius X insists on “the importance of the Solemn Chanting of Vespers, to which may be added with advantage a suitable Sermon and Benediction of The Blessed Sacrament”.

Compline, chanted in the evening, may also be followed by Benediction, this latter Devotion is thus brought into association with the official Worship of The Church.

If Benediction is to follow Vespers, see Page 1909
of The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

“Cor Jesu Sacratissimum”.

“Sacred Heart of Jesus”.

Benediction Hymn.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Cor Jesu Sacratissimum

advéniat regnum tuum

regnum veritátis et vitæ

regnum caritatis et grátiæ

regnum justitiæ, amóris et pacis.

Catholic Holy Card 

depicting The Sacred Heart of Jesus,

circa 1880.

Auguste Martin collection, 

University of Dayton Libraries.

Source: Turgis.

Author: Turgis.

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Carillon-Sacré-Coeur:

Flag waved by French Canadian Roman Catholics 

until the 1950s.

Français: Le Carillon-Sacré-Cœur est un drapeau

qui fut arboré par les Canadiens-français, et adopté par

la Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste au Québec.

Date: 27 September 2007.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:

Drapeau-Carillon-Sacr%C3%A9-Coeur.jpg

Author: uploaded by C.P. Champion

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The Devotion to The Sacred Heart (also known as The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, “Sacratissimum Cor Iesu”, in Latin) is one of the most widely-practised and well-known Catholic Devotions, wherein The Sacred Heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of “God’s boundless and passionate love for mankind”.[1]

This Devotion is predominantly used in The Catholic Church, followed by High-Church Anglicans, Lutherans, and some Western Rite Orthodox. In The Latin Church, the Liturgical Solemnities of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are Celebrated on the First Friday after Corpus Christi, or nineteen days after Pentecost Sunday.[2] The twelve Promises of The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus are also devoutly remembered and followed.

The Devotion is especially concerned with what The Church teaches to be the long-suffering love and compassion of The Most Sacred Heart of Christ towards humanity.

The popularisation of this Devotion, in its modern form, is derived from a Roman Catholic Nun from France, Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque, who said she learned the Devotion from Jesus during a series of Apparitions between 1673 and 1675,[3] and, later, in the 19th-Century, from the mystical revelations of another Catholic Nun, in Portugal, Blessed Mary of The Divine Heart Droste zu Vischering, a Religious of The Good Shepherd, who requested, in The Name Of Christ, that Pope Leo XIII Consecrate the entire World to The Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Predecessors to the modern Devotion arose unmistakably in The Middle Ages in various facets of Catholic mysticism, particularly with Saint Gertrude the Great.[4]

Salisbury Cathedral (Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary) (Part Four).

Salisbury Cathedral.

Artist: John Constable.

Date: Circa 1825.

This File: 9 December 2014.

User: Tohma

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Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.

The Font is cruciform in shape, and has a ten-foot-wide vessel filled to its brim with water, designed so that the water overflows in filaments through each corner into bronze gratings embedded in the Cathedral’s stone floor. 

The project cost £180,000 and was funded entirely by donations. Some parishioners reportedly objected to the new Font, considering it “change for change’s sake”, although Pye argued that the majority opinion was in favour: “I would say ninety per cent are in happy anticipation, five per cent are nervously expectant and five per cent are probably apoplectic”.[26]

The Chapter House is notable for its octagonal shape, slender Central Pillar and decorative Mediæval frieze. 

Salisbury Cathedral.

Available on YouTube

HERE

It was redecorated in 1855–1859 by William Burges. The frieze, which circles the Interior above the Stalls, depicts scenes and stories from the Books of Genesis and Exodus, including Adam and Eve, Noah, the Tower of Babel, and Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

The Chapter House displays the best-preserved of the four surviving original copies of Magna Carta.[27] This copy came to Salisbury because Elias of Dereham, who was present at Runnymede in 1215, was given the task of distributing some of the original copies. Elias later became a Canon of Salisbury and supervised the construction of the Cathedral.

The Salisbury Cathedral Clock, which dates from about 1386, is supposedly the oldest working modern Clock in the World.[28]

Mediæval Clock in Salisbury Cathedral. 

Dating from about 1386 and restored in 1956.

Photo: 22 September 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rwendland

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Clock has no face; all Clocks of that date rang out the hours on a Bell. It was originally located in a Bell Tower that was demolished in 1792.

Following this demolition, the Clock was moved to the Cathedral Tower, where it was in operation until 1884. The Clock was then placed in storage and forgotten, until it was discovered in an attic of the Cathedral in 1928. It was repaired and restored to working order in 1956. In 2007, remedial work and repairs were carried out.[29]

The Cathedral is the subject of a famous painting by John Constable. As a gesture of appreciation for John Fisher, Bishop of Salisbury, who commissioned this painting, Constable included the Bishop and his wife in the canvas (at bottom left of picture (see, above)). The view depicted in the painting has changed very little in almost two centuries.

The Choir,

Salisbury Cathedral.

Photo: 8 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Attribution: “Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0”.

Author: Diliff

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Cathedral is apparently the inspiration for William Golding’s novel “The Spire”, in which the fictional Dean Jocelin makes the building of a Cathedral Spire his life’s work.

The construction of the Cathedral is an important plot point in Edward Rutherfurd’s historical novel “Sarum”, which explores the historical settlement of the Salisbury area.

The Cathedral has been mentioned[30] by the author Ken Follett as one of two models for the fictional Kingsbridge Cathedral in his historical novel “The Pillars of the Earth”.

PART FIVE FOLLOWS.