ZEPHYRINUS.

13 September, 2026

Earl Of Shrewsbury. Earl Of Waterford. Earl Talbot. (Part Four).

Arms of Talbot-Chetwynd.

Quarterly:
1st and 4th: Gules, a Lion Rampant
within a Bordure Engrailed Or (for Talbot).
2nd and 3rd: Azure, a Chevron
between three Mullets Or (for Chetwynd).
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ROBES OF THE BRITISH PEERAGE.

Peerage Robes are worn in the United Kingdom by Peers and are of two varieties for two occasions: Parliament Robes, worn on ceremonial occasions in the House of Lords, and Coronation Robes, worn at Coronations of Monarchs.

Peers wear a Robe differentiated by features identifying their Rank.

Since at least the Early Middle Ages, Robes have been worn as a sign of Nobility. At first, these seem to have been bestowed on individuals by the Monarch or Feudal Lord as a sign of special recognition; but, in the 15th-Century, the use of Robes became formalised, with Peers all wearing Robes of the same design, though varied according to the Rank of the wearer.[1]

The 3rd Baron Montagu of Beaulieu

wearing Parliamentary Robes of a Baron.
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Two distinct forms of Robe emerged, and these remain in current use: One is worn for Parliamentary occasions (such at the State Opening of Parliament); the other is generally worn only at Coronations. (Formerly, new Peers were invested with their Coronation Robe by the Monarch, but this Investiture ceremony has not taken place since 1621.)

Coronets are worn with the Coronation Robe; the Robes and Coronets used at Queen Elizabeth II’s Coronation in 1953 cost about £1,250[2] (roughly £46,000 in 2026).[3] (Peers under the Rank of an Earl, however, were allowed in 1953 to wear a cheaper “Cap of Estate” in place of a Coronet, as were Peeresses of the same Rank, for whom a simpler Robe was also permitted: A one-piece Gown with wrap-around Fur Cape, designed by Norman Hartnell.)[1]

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He was succeeded in his other titles by his first cousin, the thirteenth Earl. He was the son of the Hon. Gilbert Talbot, second son of the tenth Earl.

Lord Shrewsbury was in Holy Orders of the Church of Rome. On his death, the titles passed to his nephew George, the fourteenth Earl (who was the son of the Hon. George Talbot).

Coat-of-Arms of Sir George Talbot, 4th Earl of Shrewsbury, KG. See his Stall Plate, still intact, within its original Stall at Saint George’s Chapel, Windsor.
Quarterly of six: 1: Azure, a Lion Rampant and a Bordure Or (Belleme); 2: Gules, a Lion Rampant Or a Bordure Engrailed of the last (Talbot (modern/Mechyll); for Talbot i.e. Rhys ap Griffith); 3: Gules, a Saltire Argent a Martlet Sable for difference (Neville, Baron Furnival; First adopted by
Thomas Neville, jure uxoris 5th Baron Furnival (1364-1425), 2nd son of John Neville, 3rd Baron Neville of Raby, and younger brother of Ralph Neville, 1st Earl of Westmorland. He married Joan Furnival, suo jure 5th Baroness Furnival, the daughter and heiress of William Furnival, 4th Baron Furnival. The marriage produced one daughter and sole heiress, Maud Neville, suo jure 6th Baroness Furnival, who married w:John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewbury (1387-1453). It is believed the Martlet for difference derives from the Arms of Furnival (Argent, a Bend between six Martlets Gules). Quartered by Talbot, Earl of Shrewsbury 4: Argent, a Bend between six Martlets Gules (Furnival); 5: Or Fretty Gules (Verdon, heiress of Furnival) 6: Argent, two Lions Passant in Pale Gules (Strange of Blackmere).
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He was childless and was succeeded by his nephew Charles, the fifteenth Earl (who was the son of Charles Talbot).

He began in 1812 the creation of the extensive gardens at Alveton Lodge, Staffordshire (later renamed Alton Towers), which estate had been in the family since the 15th-Century.

PART FIVE FOLLOWS.

Lincoln Cathedral. The Cathedral Church Of The Blessed Virgin Mary Of Lincoln. (Part Five).

Lincoln Cathedral’s Nave.
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A Clock by John Thwaite [35] was installed in the North-West Tower in 1775. This was later improved by Benjamin Vulliamy and moved to the Broad Tower around 1835.

It was replaced in 1880 by a new Clock, built by Potts and Sons of Leeds, under the instruction of Edmund Beckett QC.

Cambridge Chimes were a feature of the new Clock.[36] The machinery, featuring a double, three-legged, gravity escapement, to Beckett’s designs, weighs about 4 long tons (4.5 short tons), with the driving weights being 1.5 long tons (1.7 short tons), suspended by steel-wire ropes 270 feet (82 metres) long, and the pendulum weight of 2 hundredweight (100 kg).

Lincoln Cathedral Roof Tour.
Available on YouTube
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The beat is 1.5 seconds. The hour hammer is 224 pounds (102 kg), striking upon the Great Tom Bell. The striking trains require winding daily; when done manually it took twenty minutes. The going train required winding twice per week.

The Clock mechanism contains the inscription “Quod bene vortat Deus Opt. Max., Consiliis Edmundi Beckett, Baronetti, LL.D., Opera Gul. Potts et Filiorum, civium Leodiensium, Sumptibus Decani et Capituli, Novum in Turri positum est Horologium, A.D. MDCCCLXXX”.

The South-West Tower of the Cathedral contains a ring of thirteen Bells, cast by John Taylor and Co in Loughborough.

Vault of Secondary Transept, Lincoln Cathedral.
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The back eight Bells were cast in 1913, with four new Trebles being added in 1927. In 1948, a “Flat 6th” was added to allow for ringing on the middle eight Bells.

The Treble Bell weighs 5 cwt 0 qr 2 lb, with the Tenor weighing 23 cwt 3 qr 23 lb and striking the note D (nominal 600.0 Hz).

The Bells are rung from the section of the Tower just above The Great West Front, with the Ringing Chamber having three windows on all but one side. The bells are hung below the Louvres to minimise Tower movement as much as possible.

Inside Lincoln Cathedral.
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Sometime during the later stages of the Second World War, the accomplished RAF pilot and future Black British civil rights leader, Billy Strachan, almost crashed his aircraft into Lincoln Cathedral.

Strachan credited this experience with ending his piloting career, as he found it psychologically impossible to continue flying combat missions.[37]

Lincolnshire was home to many Bomber Command airfields during the Second World War, giving rise to the nickname of “Bomber County”.[38] The Station Badge for the nearby RAF Waddington station depicts Lincoln Cathedral rising through the clouds.[39]

Lincoln Cathedral.

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Until the opening of the RAF Bomber Command Memorial in 2012, the Cathedral had the only Memorial in The United Kingdom dedicated to Bomber Command’s large losses of aircrew in the Second World War.[40][41]

During the War, “priceless British treasures” were placed in a chamber sixty feet beneath the Cathedral for safekeeping.[42]

This did not include the Cathedral’s copy of Magna Carta, as it was on loan in the United States.[42]

PART SIX FOLLOWS.

The Sixth Day Within The Octave Of The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. 13 September. White Vestments.

“Birth of The Virgin”.
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Date: 1660.
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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.

How beautiful are thy first steps, O Prince’s daughter !

Our eyes are never weary of contemplating in thee the marvel of harmonious sweetness united to the strength of an Army [Canticles vii. 1, 2.]

Blessed Child, continue to grow in Grace; may thy course be prosperous; may thy Royalty be strengthened and established.

But The Church will not wait till thou be grown up, to sing to thee her beautiful Antiphon: “Rejoice, O Virgin Mary; thou alone hast destroyed all heresies throughout the World.” [First Antiphon of the Third Nocturn of the Feast Day.]

Heresy, Satan’s denial of what God affirms by His Christ, this is the great struggle, or rather the only one, which sums up history.

God having created the World for the sole purpose of uniting it to Himself by His Word Made Flesh; the enemy of God and of the World, in order to break the bond of this mysterious love, attacks by turns the Divinity and the Humanity of Christ the Mediator.

But all his lies are in vain: Jesus is Man, for He is born of a Mother, like every one of us; He is God, for He alone is born of a Virgin.

The Man-God, who, according to Simeon’s prophecy, is a sign of contradiction to the sons of perdition, has Himself a sign, for unprejudiced eyes, viz: a Virgin-Mother: “The Lord Himself,” said the Prophet, “shall give you a sign. Behold, a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Son and His Name shall be called Emmanuel: God With Us.”

In the second of the celebrated conferences held with Manes in 277 A.D. by the holy Bishop Archelaus, the heresiarch, having denied that Christ was born of Mary, Archelaus replied: “If such be the case, If He was not born, then obviously He did not suffer, for to suffer is impossible to one not born.

“If He did not suffer, no mention can be made of The Cross; do away with The Cross, and Jesus cannot have risen from the dead.

“But, if Jesus be not risen, no one else can rise again; and if there is no resurrection, there can be no judgement.

“In that case, there is no use in keeping the Commandments of God: Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die. Such is the corollary to thy argument.

“Confess, on the other hand, that Our Lord was born of Mary, and thence will follow the Passion, the Resurrection, and the Judgement; then the whole of Scripture is saved.

“No, this is no vain question; for, as the whole Law and the Prophets are contained in the two precepts of Charity, so all our hope depends on the Motherhood of The Blessed Virgin.”

The Feast Of The Most Holy Name Of Mary. Sunday Within The Octave Of The Nativity Of Our Blessed Lady. White Vestments.

“The Virgin In Prayer”.

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Giovanni Battista Salvi da Sassoferrato

Date: 1640 - 1650.

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The Feast of The Most Holy Name of The Blessed Virgin Mary is an Optional Memorial Celebrated in the Liturgical Calendar of The Catholic Church on 12 September.

It has been a universal Roman Rite Feast since 1684, when Pope Innocent XI included it in the General Roman Calendar to Commemorate the victory at the Battle of Vienna in 1683.[1]

It was removed from the Church Calendar in the Liturgical reform following Vatican II, but restored by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2002, along with The Feast Of The Holy Name of Jesus.

[Editor: It is surely beyond comprehension and Liturgical competency how the so-called “experts” during Vatican II decided in “their so-called wisdom” to eradicate the Feast of The Most Holy Name Of Mary. By their actions will they be known.]

The Text for this Article was taken from “The Liturgical Year”, by Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B., written circa 1875, when this Feast was on the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of Our Blessed Lady.

Subsequently, after being restored by Pope Saint John Paul II, this Feast was moved to 12 September. Readers can now see other Articles on this wonderful Feast of Our Lady on that date on this Blog.

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.

And the Virgin’s name was Mary. [Saint Luke, i. 27.]

Let us speak a little about this name, which signifies Star of the Sea, and which so well befits the Virgin Mother.

Rightly is she likened to a Star: For, as a Star emits its ray without being dimmed, so the Virgin brought forth her Son without receiving any injury; the ray takes nought from the brightness of the Star, nor the Son from His Mother’s integrity.

This is the noble Star risen out of Jacob, whose ray illumines the whole World, whose splendour shines in the Heavens, penetrates the abyss, and, traversing the whole Earth, gives warmth rather to Souls than to bodies, cherishing virtues, withering vices.

Mary, I say, is that bright and incomparable Star, whom we need to see raised above this vast sea, shining by her merits, and giving us light by her example.

Oh !, whosoever thou art that seest thyself, amid the tides of this World, tossed about by storms and tempests rather than walking on the land, turn not thine eyes away from the shining of this Star if thou wouldst not be overwhelmed by the hurricane.

If squalls of temptations arise, or thou fall upon the rocks of tribulation, look to the Star, call upon Mary.

If thou are tossed by the waves of pride or ambition, detraction or envy, look to the Star, call upon Mary.

If anger or avarice or the desires of the flesh dash against the ship of thy Soul, turn thine eyes towards Mary.

If, troubled by the enormity of thy crimes, ashamed of thy guilty conscience, terrified by dread of the judgement, thou beginnest to sink into the gulf of sadness or the abyss of despair, think of Mary.

In dangers, in anguish, in doubt, think of Mary, call upon Mary.

Let her be ever upon thy lips, every in thy heart; and the better to obtain the help of her Prayers, imitate the example of her life.

Following her, thou strayest not; invoking her, thou despairest not; thinking of her, thou wanderest not; upheld by her, thou fallest not; shielded by her, thou fearest not; guided by her, thou growest not weary; favoured by her, thou reachest the goal.

And thus dost thou experience in thyself how good is that saying: “And the Virgin’s name was Mary.”

Thus speaks the devout Saint Bernard, in the name of The Church. But his pious explanation does not exhaust the meanings of this Blessed name of Mary.

Saint Peter Chrysologus adds in this same Night Office: “Mary, in Hebrew, signifies Lady, or, Sovereign: And truly the authority of her Son, Who is the Lord of the World, constituted her Queen, both in fact and in name, from her very birth.”

OUR LADY: Such is the Title which befits her in every way, as that of OUR LORD beseems her Son; it is the doctrinal basis of that Worship of Hyperdulia which belongs to her alone [Editor: Hyperdulia means Veneration of the Virgin Mary as the Holiest of Creatures].

She is below her Son, whom she Adores as we do; but above all God’s servants, both Angels and men, inasmuch as she is His Mother.

At the name of Jesus, every knee is bent; at the name of Mary, every head is bowed.

And, although the former is the only name whereby we may be saved; yet, as the Son can never be separated from His Mother, Heaven unites their two names in its Hymns of praise, Earth in its confidence, Hell in its fear and hatred.

It was therefore in the order of Divine Providence that devotion to the Most Holy Name of Mary should spread simultaneously with the cultus of the adorable name of Jesus, of which Saint Bernadin of Siena was the apostle in the 15th-Century.

In 1513, the Church of Cuenca, in Spain, was the first to Celebrate, with the approbriation of the Holy See, a special Feast in honour of the Name of Mary, while the Franciscan Order had not yet succeeded in obtaining a like privilege for the adorable Name of Jesus.

The reason of this is that the memory of that Sacred Name included in the Feast of the Circumcision, seemed to the prudence of the Pontiffs to suffice.

From the same motive we find the Feast of the Most Holy Name of Mary extended to the Universal Church in the year 1638, and that of the Most Holy Name of Jesus not until 1721,

Our Lady justifies her beautiful Title by partaking in the warlike exploits of the King of Kings, her Son. The City of Vienna having been delivered by her, contrary to all hope, from the power of the Crescent, the Venerable Innocent XI made this Feast the Memorial of Universal Gratitude to the Liberatrix of The West.

But we shall speak more explicitly of this glorious deliverance on 12 September, the day on which it occurred.

The Name of Mary, which is the joy of Angels and the terror of demons, protects man against countless evils, and supports him on his way to Heaven.

May The Church’s Collect in the Mass, today, obtain for us the Grace to profit fully of so great a help.

The Archangel Gabriel appeared to Mary and said to her: “Hail, full of Grace, the Lord is with thee; Blessed art thou among women”.

This is the most Solemn embassy ever recorded in the history of Angels or of men; it shows us how Mary is what her name signifies: Mistress of the World.

The highest interests of the human race, past, present, and to come, of the Heavenly hierarchy, and of God Himself, are here at stake; and the transaction is carried on between The Most High and The Virgin of Nazareth, alone, as having exclusive right, the One to propose, the other to accept, both to conclude.

The Angel is but a messenger; man, too, stands in waiting; Mary enters into a contract with the Creator, in the name of Angels and of men, as in her own name; in the name of the entire World, which she represents, and over which she reigns supreme.

Hail, then, to Our Queen on her birthday !

All hail to Mary !

May she herself, in the Holy Sacrifice, present our offerings to God for her people.

12 September, 2026

Ottobeuren Abbey, Bavaria, Germany. (Part One).

The façade of Ottobeuren Basilica,
designed by Johann Michael Fischer, has been
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Rococo-Style Nave of Ottobeuren Abbey.

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Ottobeuren is a Benedictine Abbey, in Ottobeuren, near Memmingen, in the Bavarian Allgäu, Germany.

For part of its history Ottobeuren Abbey was one of the approximately forty self-ruling Imperial Abbeys of the Holy Roman Empire and, as such, was a virtually Independent State.

At the time of its dissolution in 1802, the Imperial Abbey covered 266 square kilometers (sixty-six thousand acres) and had about 10,000 subjects.

Ottobeuren Abbey.

Bavaria, Germany.

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It was founded in 764 A.D. by Toto, and dedicated to Alexander of Bergamo, the Martyr. Of its early history, little is known beyond the fact that Toto, its first Abbot, died about 815 A.D. and that Ulrich of Augsburg was its Abbot in 972 A.D.

In the 11th-Century, its discipline was on the decline, until Abbot Adalhalm (1082 – 1094) introduced the Hirsau Reform.

The same Abbot began a restoration of the decaying buildings, which was completed along with the addition of a Convent for noble women, by his successor, Abbot Rupert I (1102 – 1145).

Under the rule of the latter, the newly-Founded Marienberg Abbey was recruited with Monks from Ottobeuren Abbey.

PART TWO FOLLOWS.

The Most Holy Name Of Mary. Feast Day 12 September. White Vestments.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal.

Feast Day 12 September.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

Just as a few days after Christmas, we Celebrate The Holy Name of Jesus, so, after the birth of the Virgin, according to the custom of the Jews, her Holy Parents, inspired by God, say Saint Jerome and Saint Antoninus, gave her the Name of Mary.

Wherefore, during the Octave of the Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary, the Liturgy gives a Feast in honour of this Holy Name.

Spain, with the approval of Rome, in 1513, was the first to Celebrate it, and in 1683 it was extended to the whole Church by Pope Innocent XI to thank Mary for the victory which John Sobieski, King of Poland, had just gained against the Turks who beseiged Vienna and threatened the West.

“The Name of the Virgin,” says the Gospel, “was Mary.” The Hebrew name of Mary, in Latin “Domina”, means “Lady”, or, “Sovereign”; for the authority of her Son, Lord of the World, makes her a Sovereign from her birth in fact as well as in name.

Whence, as we call Jesus “Our Lord”, we say of Mary that she is “Our Lady”.

To proclaim her name, is to proclaim her Power.

Let us offer the Holy Sacrifice to God to honour The Most Holy Name of Mary and to obtain by her intercession her continual protection (Postcommunion).

Mass: Vultum tuum.

Preface of The Blessed Virgin Mary: Et te in Festivitáte.

The Fifth Day Within The Octave Of The Nativity Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The Feast Day Of The Most Holy Name Of Mary. 12 September. White Vestments.

Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 14.
Time After Pentecost.
Book V.

“Who is she that cometh forth as the Morning Rising, fair as the Moon, bright as the Sun, terrible as an Army set in array ?” [Song of Solomon (Canticles) vi. 9.]

Such is thy growth, O Mary ! Not the holiest life, were it even

of Patriarchal duration, will ever attain the degree of progress made under the influence of Divine Power by the Soul of the Most Pure Virgin, in these few days elapsed since her coming on Earth.

First, there is the progress of her intellect: Not subject to the obscurity which envelopes the minds of men at their entrance into the World, it is a faithful mirror, into which the Word of God pours floods of that light which is also life.

Then the progress of love in that heart of the Virgin and the Mother, wherein The Holy Spirit already delights to awake such ineffable harmonies, and to dig still deeper depths.

Lastly, the progress of that victorious power, which made Satan tremble at the moment of The Immaculate Conception, and which has constituted Mary the incomparable Queen of the hosts of the Lord.

Two glorious triumphs, two victories won under the protection of Our Lady, have rendered this present day illustrious in the annals of The Church and of history.

Manicheism, revived under a variety of names, had established itself in the South of France, whence it hoped to spread its reign of shameless excess. But Dominic appeared with Mary’s Rosary for the defence of the people.

On 12 September 1213, Simon de Montfort and the Crusaders of The Faith, one against forty, crushed the Albigensian army at Muret. This was in the Pontificate of Pope Innocent III.

Nearly five Centuries later, the Turks, who had more than

once caused the West to tremble, again poured down upon Christendom.

Vienna, worn out and dismantled, abandoned by its Emperor, was surrounded by 300,000 infidels. But another great Pope, Innocent XI, again confided to Mary the defence of the Baptised Nations.

Sobieski, mounting his Charger on the Feast of Our Lady’s Assumption, hastened from Poland by forced marches. On the Sunday within the Octave of the Nativity of The Blessed Virgin Mary, 12 September 1683, Vienna was delivered; and then began for the Osmanlis that series of defeats which ended in the Treaties of Carlowitz and Passarowitz, and the dismemberment of the Ottoman Empire.

The Feast of The Most Holy Name of Mary inscribed on the Calendar of the Universal Church, was the homage of the World’s gratitude to Mary, Our Lady and Our Queen.

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The Feast of The Most Holy Name of Mary was removed

from the Church Calendar in the Liturgical reform following Vatican II. [Such wonderful and beneficial actions from that ignoble undertaking.]

It was restored by Pope Saint John Paul II in 2002, along

with The Feast Of The Holy Name of Jesus.

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