Plaza de España, Seville, Spain.

Tiled Provincial Alcoves along the walls 

of the Plaza de España, Seville, Spain.

Vista parcial de la Plaza de España 

desde la altura de los asientos.

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The Plaza de España is a Plaza in Maria Luisa Park, Seville, Spain. 

It was built in 1928 for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929. It is a landmark example of Regionalism Architecture, mixing elements of the Baroque Revival, Renaissance Revival and Moorish Revival (Neo-Mudéjar) styles of Spanish architecture.[1]

Plaza de España,

Seville, Andalusia, Spain.

Plaza de España de Sevilla,

Andalucía, España.

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Hereford Cathedral (Cathedral Of Saint Mary The Virgin And Saint Ethelbert The King). (Part Six).

Page from the Hereford Gospels, circa 780 A.D.,

illustrating the Gospel of John.

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Work on a new Cathedral Green, with pathways, seating and gated entrance to the Cathedral was undertaken in 2010 to 2011.

In 2015, landscaping and restoration efforts began at the Cathedral, financed by the Heritage Lottery Fund. These efforts involved reburying thousands of corpses, some from 12th-Century to 14th-Century stone-lined graves from the Cathedral burial plot.

Unusually, from the Middle Ages until the 19th-Century, anyone who died on Church Grounds had to be buried within the precinct. Notable among those reburied during the restoration was a Knight, who may have participated in Tourney Jousting, a man with leprosy (it was unusual for lepers to be buried anywhere near a Cathedral due to the stigma associated with the disease), and a woman with a severed hand (a typical punishment for a thief, who would normally be unlikely to receive Cathedral burial).[8]

Hereford Cathedral.

Collection: A. D. White Architectural Photographs,

Cornell University Library. Sir George Gilbert Scott’s

Rood Screen in the background.

Photo: 1865-1885.

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Among eminent men who have been associated with the Cathedral – besides those who have already been mentioned – are:

Robert of Gloucester, the Chronicler, Prebendary in 1291;

Nicholas of Hereford, Chancellor in 1377, a remarkable man and leader of the Lollards at Oxford;

John Carpenter, Town Clerk of London, who was Baptised there on 18 December 1378;

John Rutter’s “Requiem”.

Hereford Cathedral 1991.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Polydore Vergil, Prebendary in 1507, a celebrated literary man, as, indeed with such a name, he ought to have been;

Miles Smith, Prebendary in 1580, promoted to the See of Gloucester – one of the translators of the Authorised King James Version of the Bible;

Another famous Prebendary was Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was appointed to a Stall in 1510.

Hereford Cathedral Altar.

Photo: 1865-1885.

Source: Hereford Cathedral

Author: Cornell University Library

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The list of Post-English Reformation Prelates includes:

Matthew Wren, who, however, was Translated to Ely Cathedral in the year of his Consecration (1635);

Nicholas Monck, a brother of George Monck, 1st Duke of Albemarle, who died within a few months of Consecration (1661);

And two Bishops, around whom Ecclesiastical storms raged; Benjamin Hoadley and Renn Hampden. Hoadley, by his Tract against the Non-Jurors and his Sermon on the Kingdom of Christ, provoked the Bangorian Controversy and so led to the virtual supersession of Convocation from 1717 to 1852.

13th-Century Early-English Arcaded

Triforium and Clerestory at Hereford Cathedral.

Photo: 29 May 2012.

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The appointment of Hampden to this See by Lord John Russell in 1847 was bitterly opposed by those who considered him latitudinarian, including the Dean of Hereford, and was appealed against in the Court of Queen's Bench.

Hampden went his way, which was that of a student rather than that of an administrator, and ruled the Diocese for twenty-one years, leaving behind him at his death, in 1868, the reputation of a great scholar and thinker.

There is decorative work on the Norman Architecture Columns and Arches of the Nave built by Reynelm’s Stone-Masons.

The Canopied Monument in Hereford Cathedral to

Bishop Aigueblanche (Aquablanca), 1268. One of the

earliest and finest of its type in Britain.

Photo: 29 May 2012.

Source: Hereford Cathedral

Author: Hugh Llewelyn

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Until 1847, the Pavement, which had been laid down in the Nave, completely hid the square bases on which the Piers rest.

Double semi-cylindrical Shafts run up their North and South faces, ending in small Double Capitals at the height of the Capitals of the Piers.

In the South Aisle of the Nave are two 14th-Century Church Monument tombs, with effigies of unknown Ecclesiastics. 

The tomb of Sir Richard Pembridge in the reign of King Edward III, is an example of the armour of that period, and it is one of the earliest instances of an effigy wearing the Garter. 

A square-headed doorway gives access from this Aisle to the Bishop’s Cloister.

PART SEVEN FOLLOWS.

Wells Cathedral's Acts Of Remembrance 2020.

Illustration: WELLS CATHEDRAL

This Article first appeared in November 2020.

Text is from Wells Cathedral's Newsletter.

On Remembrance Sunday, 2020, at 11.00 hrs. Poppy Petals fell from the ceiling of the Nave as The Last Post was played from The South Transept.

A silent vigil was held as an Act of Remembrance by all who were present in the Cathedral for individual Prayer and Reflection.

On Armistice Day, 2020, a similar Act of Remembrance took place at 11.00 hrs, culminating in a moving performance of Elgar's “Nimrod”, given by the Assistant Director of Music, Alexander Hamilton.

The Great West Doors of the Cathedral were opened, and members of the public were free to enter and observe a two-minute silence.

“At the going down of the Sun,

And in the Morning,

We will remember them.”

To ascertain the times of the 2026 Acts of Remembrance, please see the Wells Cathedral Web-Site.

Wells Cathedral’s Web-Site can be found HERE

Saint Vitalis And Saint Agricola. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 4 November. Red Vestments.

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

Saint Vitalis And Saint Agricola.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 4 November.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

Painting of Vitalis and Agricola,

Bologna, Italy.

Date: 7 April 2014.

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English: The Sarcophagus of Saint Agricola,

in the “Basilica dei santi Vitale e Agricola”

(also known as “The Seven Churches”, Bologna, Italy.

Italiano: Complesso monumentale della Basilica di Santo Stefano a Bologna (detto anche “Le sette chiese”): Basilica 

dei santi Vitale e Agricola; sarcofago di San Agricola.

Date: 27 April 2007.

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Saint Vitalis and Saint Agricola.

Available on YouTube

HERE

“At Bologna,” says the Roman Martyrology, “the Holy Martyrs Vitalis and Agricola; the first a servant of the latter, who became his companion and colleague by Martyrdom in 304 A.D.

“His persecutor exhausted on him [Editor: Saint Vitalis] every kind of torment, and not a part of his body was left free of wounds. He suffered these tortures with fortitude and he died Praying.

“Saint Agricola was Crucified. The Translation of the Relics of both Saints took place in the presence of Saint Ambrose, who says that he collected the nails, his glorious blood, and the Cross on which Saint Agricola was nailed, and placed them under The High Altar.”

Mass: Sapiéntiam.

“The Most Beautiful Thing This Side Of Heaven”. Unbelievably Moving Liturgy For All Souls’ Day. Saint John Cantius Church, Chicago. “Mozart’s Requiem”.

The Annual Solemn High Mass of Requiem 

from Saint John Cantius Church, Chicago.

“Mozart’s Requiem”.

Sung by:

SAINT CECILIA CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA

Available on YouTube

HERE

The following Text is from

CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

It is the Mass that Cardinal Newman, the leader of 

The Oxford Movement into The Church, said that 

he could attend forever, and not be tired. 

Father Faber, Priest of the Brompton Oratory 

in the 19th-Century, described The Mass as 

“the most beautiful thing this side of Heaven”, 

and he continued:

“It came forth out of the grand mind of The Church, and lifted us out of Earth and out of self, and wrapped us round in a cloud of mystical sweetness and the sublimities of a more than Angelic Liturgy, and purified us almost without ourselves, and charmed us with the Celestial Charming, so that our very senses seemed to find vision, hearing, fragrance, taste, 

and touch beyond what Earth can give”

Father Adrian Fortescue, a great English Liturgical 

historian, has said that The Mass of The Roman Rite 

is the most Venerable Rite in Christendom.

Pious Popes, too, have often 

wondered at the majesty of The Mass. 

Pope Clement VII said in 1604:

“Since the Most Holy Sacrament of the Eucharist, by means of which Christ Our Lord has made us partakers of His Sacred Body, and ordained to stay with us unto the consummation of the World, is the greatest of all the Sacraments, and it is accomplished in The Holy Mass, and offered to God the Father for the sins of the people, it is highly fitting that we, who are in one body which is The Church, and who share of the one Body of Christ, would use in this ineffable and awe- inspiring Sacrifice the same manner of Celebration 

and the same Ceremonial Observance and Rite”

Pope Urban VII in 1634 said:

“If there is anything Divine among man’s possessions 

which might excite the envy of the citizens of Heaven (could they ever be swayed by such a passion), this is undoubtedly the Most Holy Sacrifice of The Mass, by means of which men, having before their eyes, and taking into their hands, the very Creator of Heaven and Earth, experience, while still on Earth, a certain anticipation of Heaven.

“How keenly, then, must mortals strive to preserve and protect this inestimable privilege with all due Worship and Reverence, and be ever on their guard, lest their negligence offend 

the Angels who vie with them in eager adoration !”

The Mass ! 

What a treasure ! 

Christ’s own Sacrifice on The Cross, left for us wrapped 

in an act seeping with Beauty and Divine Celebration !

Saint Charles Borromeo. Bishop. Confessor. Feast Day, Today, 4 November. White Vestments.

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

Saint Charles Borromeo.
   Bishop.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 4 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Coat-of-Arms of the House of Borromeo, 

in the Scurolo di san Carlo Borromeo (“Saint Charles Borromeo’s Crypt”), Milan Cathedral, Italy.

Date: 29 January 2007.

Photo by Giovanni Dall'Orto,

Italiano: Duomo di Milano - Stemma della famiglia 

Borromeo, nello Scurolo di san Carlo Borromeo.

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Saint Charles Borromeo.

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Saint Charles Borromeo.

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Portrait of Saint Charles Borromeo.

Artist: Giovanni Ambrogio Figino (1553–1608).

Date: Between 1560 and 1608.

Collection: Museo Diocesano in Milan

Source/Photographer: Museo Diocesano di Milano

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Saint Charles Borromeo was raised up by God to be one of the chief instruments of the true Reformation of The Church in the 16th-Century. It was greatly to his wisdom that the Council of Trent was happily concluded.

Made a Cardinal at the age of twenty-three, he soon became Archbishop of Milan (Introit, Epistle, Gradual, Communion, Offertory). He held Synods and Councils, established Colleges and Communities, renewed the spirit of his Clergy and of Monasteries, and Founded Asylums for the Poor and Orphans.

The most remarkable of his works was the creation of Diocesan Seminaries, whose Rules were adopted in all those that were instituted later. He died in 1584.

Mass: Státuit.

Commemoration: Of the Octave of All Saints.

Commemoration: Saint Vitalis and Saint Agricola. Martyrs.

Feast Of The Holy Relics.

Text and Illustrations: 

SOCIETY OF ST. BEDE — LITURGICAL RESOURCES

The Web-Site of the 

SOCIETY OF ST. BEDE — LITURGICAL RESOURCES 

can be found

HERE

FEAST OF THE HOLY RELICS.

This Feast is Celebrated in various places on 3 November; it was formerly Celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave of All Saints. 

In the Monastic Breviary, it is Celebrated on 30 October.

In The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, this Feast is Celebrated on 

5 November under the Title of “Feasts Of The Holy Relics Preserved In The Churches Of The Diocese”. Red Vestments.

Zephyrinus will be publishing a Post on this subject on Thursday, 5 November 2026.

From “The Liturgical Year”.

By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

MASS OF THE HOLY RELICS.

As the Feast of The Holy Relics is in many places Celebrated on the Sunday within the Octave of All Saints, we here give the Mass and Vespers most commonly used. 

The Liturgical formulæ are, however, not less variable than the date of the Feast. 

The Introit, borrowed from Psalm Thirty-Three, tells us of God’s solicitude for His own, in death as in life. 

Whatever may become of the Just under trial and persecution, their bones shall be gathered together again on The Last Day at the voice of The Son of Man.

VESPERS OF THE HOLY RELICS

This Feast usually uses the Hymns for Martyrs, but Proper Hymns are used in some places,

In some Churches, the Hymn for this Feast is the following, composed by Claud Santeüil, who must not be confounded with John Baptist Santeüil of Saint Victor. 

The compositions of the former are superior to those of his brother, in unction and simplicity, as well as by their orthodoxy.

O vos unanimes Christiadum chori, 

Vespers and Matins Hymn.

Salvete, magni Præsules, 

Lauds Hymn (Coming soon).

Saint Thomas Aquinas Speaks On Praying For The Dead.

Solemn High Mass Of Requiem On All Souls’ Day. 2 November 2024. Saint John Cantius Church, Chicago.

Solemn High Mass of Requiem.

All Souls’ Day.

2 November 2024.

Saint John Cantius Church, Chicago.

Available on YouTube

HERE

“Someone You Loved”. Sung By: Lewis Capaldi.

“Someone You Loved”.

Sung By: Lewis Capaldi.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Saint Hubert Of Liège. Bishop. Confessor. Feast Day 3 November. White Vestments.

Saint Hubert of Liège. 

Stained-Glass Window, 

Saint Patrick’s Basilica, Ottawa, Canada. 

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
   By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
      Volume 15.
      Time After Pentecost.
      Book Six.

Rome, wishing to admit as few interruptions as possible into the present great Octave, gives but a brief notice of Saint Hubert in the Martyrology.

It is fitting that we should imitate her reserve. Were we, however, to omit all mention of him, Christian huntsmen, so faithful in proclaiming their glorious Patron, would not forgive us.

It is right, also, to satisfy popular piety, and the gratitude of numberless clients saved from hydrophobia and led to the feet of the Saint by a Tradition of a thousand years’ standing.

A few words suffice to recount his life.

Saint Hubert Abbey (French: Abbaye de Saint-Hubert), officially the Abbey of Saint Peter in the Ardennes (Abbaye de Saint-Pierre en Ardennes), was a Benedictine Monastery Founded in the Ardennes in 687 A.D., and suppressed in 1797. 

The former Abbey Church is now a Minor Basilica 

in the Diocese of Namur, Belgium.

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After the mysterious Stag had revealed Christ to him, he became, from a hunter of wild animals, a hunter of Souls; and merited to be called the Apostle of the Ardennes, whose forests had often echoed to the baying of his hounds.

He became the disciple and successor of Saint Lambert; and transferring from Maestricht both the Relics of the holy Martyr-Bishop and the Episcopal See, he raised Liège from an obscure village to a great Town.

His Blessed death took place on 30 May 727 A.D. And, on 

3 November 743 A.D., his precious remains were taken up for the first time, which led to the Celebration of his Feast on this day.

In the following Century, the Abbey of Andain (Andage) was put in possession of the Sacred deposit, and took from him the name of Saint Hubert, as did likewise the Town which sprang up around and soon became a centre for pilgrimages.

Two Orders of Knighthood were established in honour of Saint Hubert; the first perished with the fall of the Bourbons, its last Chiefs; the other still exists, and the Kings of Bavaria are its Grand-Masters [Editor: Abbot Guéranger was writing in the Late-19th-Century].