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When the Charnel House and eight Cemeteries abutting the Cathedral’s side and back walls closed, due to an outbreak of bubonic plague in 1735, the bones within them were moved to the catacombs below the Church.
Burials directly in the catacombs occurred until 1783 when a new law forbade most burials within the City. The remains of over 11,000 persons are in the catacombs (which may be visited).
The basement of the Cathedral also hosts the Bishops, Provosts, and Ducal, Crypts. The most recent interment in the Bishop’s Crypt, completed in 1952 under the South Choir, was that of ninety-eight-year-old Cardinal Franz König in 2004.
Provosts of the Cathedral are buried in another Chamber. Other Members of the Cathedral Chapter are now buried in a special section at the Zentralfriedhof.
The Ducal Crypt located under the Chancel holds seventy-eight Bronze containers with the bodies, hearts, or viscera, of seventy-two Members of the Habsburg dynasty.
Before his death in 1365, Duke Rudolf IV ordered the Crypt built for his remains in the new Cathedral he commissioned.
By 1754, the small rectangular Chamber was overcrowded with twelve sarcophagi and thirty-nine urns, so the area was expanded with an Oval Chamber added to the East End.
In 1956, the two Chambers were renovated and their contents rearranged. The sarcophagi of Duke Rudolf IV and his wife were placed upon a pedestal and the sixty-two urns containing organs were moved from the two rows of shelves around the new Chamber to Cabinets in the original one.
Organ Concert in Saint Stephen’s Cathedral, Vienna.
Saint Stephen’s Cathedral has a renowned Organ Tradition. The first Organ is mentioned in 1334.[13][14]
After the 1945 fire, Michael Kauffmann finished a large Electric Action Pipe Organ in 1960 with 125 Stops and four Manuals, financed with public donations.[15]
persuades the Ship’s Mascot (“Brutus”) to pose for
a portrait. HMS Canada’s Aft 14-inch Guns are in the background, trained to Starboard.
Photo: February 1917.
Source: This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-006497 and under the MIKAN ID number 3398281.
She underwent a thorough modernisation in The United Kingdom in 1929 – 1931.
In September 1931, crewmen aboard “Almirante Latorre” instigated a Mutiny, which the majority of the Chilean Fleet quickly joined.
After divisions developed between the Mutineers, the rebellion fell apart and the Ships returned to Government control.
The Crew of HMS Canada.
Photo: Circa 1914-1920.
Source: This image is available from Library and Archives Canada under the reproduction reference number PA-066816 and under the MIKAN ID number 3393726.
“Almirante Latorre” was placed in Reserve for a time in the 1930s, because of the Great Depression, but it was in good enough condition to receive interest from the United States after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
The Chilean Government declined the overture and the ship spent most of the Second World War on Naval Patrol for Chile.
“Almirante Latorre”, the last Royal Navy Dreadnought Battleship to have fought at The Battle of Jutland in 1916, was scrapped in Japan in 1959.
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Hildegarde von Bingen (1098 – 17 September 1179), also known as Saint Hildegarde and the Sibyl of the Rhine, was a German BenedictineAbbess and Polymath, active as a writer, composer, philosopher, mystic, visionary, and as a medical writer and practitioner during the High Middle Ages.[1][2]
She is one of the best-known composers of Sacred Monophony, as well as the most recorded in modern history.[3]
There are more surviving chants by Hildegarde than by any other composer from the entire Middle Ages, and she is one of the few known composers to have written both the music and the words.[7]
Although the history of her formal Canonisation is complicated, Regional Calendars of the Roman Catholic Church have listed her as a Saint for Centuries.
On 7 October 2012, he named her a Doctor of The Church, in recognition of “her holiness of life and the originality of her teaching.”[8]
Hildegarde was born around 1098. Her parents were Mechtild of Merxheim-Nahet and Hildebert of Bermersheim, a family of the free lower nobility in the service of the Count Meginhard of Sponheim.[9]
Sickly from birth, Hildegarde is traditionally considered their youngest and tenth child,[10] although there are records of only seven older siblings.[11][12] In her “Vita” [Editor: “story of her life”], Hildegarde states that from a very young age she experienced visions.[13]
From early childhood, long before she undertook her public mission or even her Monastic Vows, Hildegarde’s Spiritual awareness was grounded in what she called the “Umbra Viventis Lucis”, “the reflection of the Living Light”. Her letter to Guibert of Gembloux, which she wrote at the age of seventy-seven, describes her experience of this light:
“From my early childhood, before my bones, nerves, and veins were fully strengthened, I have always seen this vision in my Soul, even to the present time when I am more than seventy years old.
“In this vision, my Soul, as God would have it, rises up high into the vault of Heaven and into the changing sky and spreads itself out among different peoples, although they are far away from me in distant lands and places.
“And because I see them this way in my Soul, I observe them in accord with the shifting of clouds and other created things. I do not hear them with my outward ears, nor do I perceive them by the thoughts of my own heart or by any combination of my five senses, but in my Soul, alone, while my outward eyes are open.
“So, I have never fallen prey to ecstasy in the visions, but I see them wide awake, day and night. And I am constantly fettered by sickness, and often in the grip of pain so intense that it threatens to kill me, but God has sustained me until now.
“The light which I see thus is not spatial, but it is far, far brighter than a cloud which carries the sun. I can measure neither height, nor length, nor breadth in it; and I call it “the reflection of the Living Light.”
“And, as the Sun, the Moon, and the Stars, appear in water, so writings, sermons, virtues, and certain human actions take form for me and gleam”.[14]
Perhaps, because of Hildegarde’s visions, or as a method of political positioning, or both, Hildegarde’s parents offered her as an Oblate to the Benedictine Monastery at Disibodenberg, which had been recently reformed in the Palatinate Forest.
The date of Hildegarde’s Enclosure at the Monastery is the subject of debate. Her “Vita” says she was eight years old when she was Professed with Jutta, who was the daughter of Count Stephan II of Sponheim and about six years older than Hildegarde.[15]
Today, the Catholic Parish and Pilgrimage Church of Saint Hildegarde, rebuilt between 1932 and 1935 after a fire, and incorporating earlier stylistic elements, stands on the foundations of the former Monastery Founded by Hildegarde of Bingen in 1165.
The Church houses Hildegarde’s Shrine, with the
Relics of Saint Hildegarde von Bingen. Every year on 17 September, the Feast Day of Saint Hildegarde, large numbers of Pilgrims flock to Eibingen to participate in the procession of Relics in honour of the Saint.
However, Jutta’s date of Enclosure is known to have been in 1112, when Hildegarde would have been fourteen.[16]
Their Vows were received by Bishop Otto of Bamberg on All Saints’ Day 1112. Some scholars speculate that Hildegarde was placed in the care of Jutta at the age of eight, and that the two of them were then Enclosed together six years later.[17]
The following Text is from “The Liturgical Year”. By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B. Volume 14. Time After Pentecost. Book V.
At Bingen, in the Diocese of Mayence (Mainz), Germany, Saint Hildegarde, Virgin. Let us salute the “Great Prophetess of The New Testament”.
What Saint Bernard’s influence over his contemporaries was in the first half of the 12th-Century, that in the second half of the 12th-Century was Hildegarde’s, when the humble Virgin became the oracle of Popes and Emperors, of Princes and Prelates.
Multitudes from far and near flocked to Mount Saint Rupert, where the doubts of ordinary life were solved, and the questions of doctors answered.
At length, by God’s command, Hildegarde went forth from her Monastery to administer to all alike, Monks, Clerics, and Laymen, the word of correction and salvation.
The Spirit indeed breatheth where He will [Saint John iii. 8]. To the “massy” [Editor: Massive. Gargantuan] pillars that support His Royal Palace, God preferred the poor little feather floating in the air, and blown about, at His pleasure, hither and thither in the light [Hildegarde. Epist. ad Eugenium Pontificem].
In spite of labours, sicknesses, and trials, the Holy Abbess lived to the advanced age of eighty-two, “in the shadow of the Living Light”.
Her precious Relics are now at Eibingen Abbey, Germany. The writings handed down to us from the pen of this illiterate Virgin, are a series of sublime visions, embracing the whole range of contemporary science, physical and theological, from the creation of the World to its final consummation.
May Hildegarde von Bingen deign to send us an interpreter of her works, and an historian of her life, such as they merit !
PRAYER.
O, God, Who didst adorn Thy Blessed Virgin, Hildegarde, with Heavenly gifts; grant, we beseech Thee, that walking in her footsteps, and according to her teachings, we may deserve to pass from the darkness of this World into thy lovely light.
Through Our Lord Jesus Christ, Thy Son, Who lives
and reigns with Thee in the union of The Holy Ghost,
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, unless otherwise stated.
Saint Laurence Justinian. Bishop. Confessor. Feast Day 5 September.
Semi-Double.
White Vestments.
Saint Laurence, born in Venice, Italy, in the 15th-Century, of the illustrious family of Giustiniani, preferred the severe austerities of The Cloister to a glorious alliance arranged for him by his mother.
Looking at a Crucifix, he exclaimed: "It is Thou, O Lord, Who art my hope, and in Thee is consolation and strength." He then entered among The Canons of Saint George of Alga.
All his life, he practised the greatest austerity and it was chiefly in assiduous Prayer that he was inflamed with ardent love for God and devotion to his neighbour. He was called by Pope Eugenius IV to share in the full power of Christ's Priesthood: He was made Patriarch of Grado, but, Transferring the See to Venice, in 1451, he became the first Patriarch of this City.
He died in 1455, saying: "I am going to Thee, O Good Jesus."
He was a member of the well-known Giustiniani family, which includes several Saints. The piety of his mother seems to have served as an inspiration for his own Spirituality, as he chose a life of Prayer and Service.
In 1404, after being Ordained a Deacon, at the suggestion of an uncle who was a Priest, he joined a Community of Secular Canons following a Monastic form of life on the Island of San Giorgio in Alga.
He was admired by his fellows for his poverty, mortification, and fervency of Prayer. Two years after his Ordination to the Catholic Priesthood, in 1407, the Community accepted the Rule of Saint Augustine. He was chosen to be the first Prior of the Community.
Giustiniani promoted the Constitutions which he had established for the Canons of Saint George, which was embraced by other Communities of Canons in the region, and, shortly thereafter, he became the Prior General of a Congregation. He was so zealous in spreading it that he was looked upon as if he were the actual Founder of the Order.
In 1433, Pope Eugene IV, one of the Founders of the Monastery of San Giorgio, named Giustiniani as the Bishop of Castello. He found a Diocese in shambles, and his Administration was marked by considerable growth and reform.
In 1451, Pope Nicholas V united the Diocese of Castello with the Patriarchate of Grado, and the Seat of the Patriarchate was moved to Venice, making Giustiniani the first Patriarch of Venice, a Post that he held for over four years.
It was during Giustiniani’s rule that Constantinople fell to Muslim forces. Due to their Centuries of close trading partnerships with the Byzantine Empire, the people of Venice were in panic as to their future. He took a leading role in helping the Republic of Venice deal with the crisis, working with the Senate to help chart its future, as well as with the Clergy and people to calm them.
He died on 8 January 8 1456, and was Canonised by Pope Alexander VIII (1689–1691). His works, consisting of Sermons, Letters and ascetic Treatises, have been frequently reprinted.
Shrewsbury and Waterford are the oldest Earldoms in their peerages held by someone with no higher title (the oldest Earldoms in each peerage being held by the Duke of Norfolk and Duke of Leinster), and as such the Earl of Shrewsbury is sometimes described as the premier Earl of England and Ireland.[3][4]
Arms of Talbot.
Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or.[7]
These were the Paternal Arms of Gwenllian, the daughter and heiress of Rhys Mechyll (died 1244), Prince of the Welsh House of Deheubarth, grandson of Rhys ap Gruffydd, and wife of Gilbert Talbot (died 1274), grandfather of Gilbert Talbot, 1st Baron Talbot (died 1345), assumed by Talbot as Arms of Alliance of a great heiress, who superseded his own former Paternal Arms of Barry of six Argent and Gules.[8][9][10][11]
The assumption about Gwenllian, however, was unfounded
as Rhys Mechyll also had male heirs[12] who acceded to the Arms of the House of Deheubarth.
He was one of the Marcher Lords, with the Earl of Hereford and the Earl of Chester, a bulwark against the Welsh; he was granted great powers, and his territory, which extended from Shropshire (of which Shrewsbury is the County Town) into Mid-Wales (the County of Montgomeryshire being named after him), was outside the ordinary administration; he was also granted lands across England.
Roger was succeeded in 1094 by his younger son Hugh, his elder son Robert of Bellême succeeding to his lands in Normandy. On Hugh’s death in 1098, the Earldom passed to his brother Robert.
The title was forfeit in 1102 after the 3rd Earl, Robert, rebelled against Henry I and joined Robert Curthose’s invasion of England in 1101.
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