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

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).

Date: 25 June 2017.

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When he died, the titles were inherited by his nephew John, the sixteenth Earl, who was the son of the Hon. John Joseph Talbot. 

When, in 1831, the principal home of the family at Heythrop, Oxfordshire, was destroyed by fire, he moved the family seat to Alton Towers. 

The sixteenth Earl was also a noted patron of A W N Pugin. 

He was succeeded by Bertram, his second cousin-once-removed, the seventeenth Earl, who was the great-grandson of the Hon. George Talbot, younger son of the aforementioned Gilbert Talbot (died 1711), second son of the tenth Earl.

Bertram died unmarried at an early age in 1856. By his Will, he left his estates to Lord Edmund Howard (by Royal Licence from 1876-1922: Talbot), son of the Duke of Norfolk, a Will contested by three distant relatives and, after a long and expensive legal case, the House of Lords ruled in 1860 in favour of Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 3rd Earl Talbot, who thus became the eighteenth Earl of Shrewsbury and Waterford. 

Parliament Robe of a Viscount,

with 2½ Bars (Robes of Viscount Nuffield.

Photo: 15 April 2012.

Source: Nuffield Place, Huntercombe.

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He was a descendant of the aforementioned the Hon. Sir Gilbert Talbot (died 1518), third son of the second Earl of Shrewsbury (see the Earl Talbot for earlier history of this Branch). 

He also held the titles of Baron Talbot, of Hensol in the County of Glamorgan, and Viscount of Ingestre, of Ingestre Hall in the County of Stafford. 

Lord Shrewsbury was an Admiral in the Royal Navy and also served in the second Conservative administration of the Earl of Derby as Captain of the Honourable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms (Chief Whip in the House of Lords) from 1858 to 1859.

PART SIX FOLLOWS.

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

The Vault of Lincoln Cathedral’s Nave.

Photo: 22 March 2019.

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Author: Cc364

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A major renovation of the West Front was undertaken in 2000. It was discovered that the Flying Buttresses on the East End were no longer connected to the adjoining stonework, and repairs were made to prevent collapse.

Additionally, the stonework of the Dean’s Eye Window, in the Transept, was crumbling, meaning that a complete reconstruction of the Window has had to be carried out according to the conservation criteria set out by the International Council on Monuments and Sites.

There was a period of great anxiety when it emerged that the stonework needed to shift only five mm (0.20 in) for the entire Window to collapse.

The Angel Choir Gallery, Triforium,

Clerestory, of Lincoln Cathedral.

Photo: 15 September 2018.

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Specialist engineers removed the Window’s Tracery before installing a strengthened, more stable, replacement. In addition to this, the original Stained-Glass was cleaned and set behind a new clear isothermal glass, which offers better protection from the elements. By April 2006, the renovation project was completed at a cost of £2 million.

An announcement in January 2020 stated that, since 2016, archaeologists had found over fifty burials during the renovations, including a Priest buried with a Chalice and Paten.

Among the artefacts recovered was a coin depicting Edward the Confessor, who was King from 1042 to 1066. During the dig, sections of some extensively decorated Roman buildings and related artefacts were also discovered.

The Choir, Lincoln Cathedral.

Photo: 30 July 2014.

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Some of the Roman, Mediæval, and Saxon, objects were to be displayed at the Visitor Centre which was expected to open in 2020.[43][44] In 2022, the scaffolding of Lincoln Cathedral was removed from its Great West Front after thirty-six years.[45]

Maintaining the Cathedral costs £5.86 million a year.[46] Between 2006 and 2009, up to 208,000 people visited Lincoln Cathedral annually. In 2010, the figure dropped to 150,000, making it the sixteenth-most-visited attraction in the East Midlands.[47]

Lincoln Cathedral.

Photo: 20 February 2017.

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The Western Towers, Lincoln Cathedral.

Photo: 4 December 2014.

Source: Geograph Britain and Ireland

Author: Richard Croft

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Lincoln Cathedral.

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The fall in visitor numbers was attributed to the cancellation of the Lincoln Christmas Market that year.[48]

The Cathedral offers tours of the Cathedral, the Tower, and the Roof. The peak of its season is the Lincoln Christmas Market, accompanied by an annual production of Handel's Messiah.[50]

PART SEVEN FOLLOWS.

The Cope And Altar Frontal, Made By Watts & Co For The Coronation Of King Edward VII In 1902.

“The Anointing of Queen Alexandra”.

Painting by: John Byam Liston Shaw.

Text and Illustration: 

Supplied by Copilot and is subject to error.

This Painting shows the Coronation Vestments 

in use at the 1902 Ceremony in Westminster Abbey. 

Watts & Co. confirms that the Copes worn by the Abbey Clergy in this scene are the Crimson Velvet “Rose & Crown” Copes made specifically for King Edward VII’s Coronation.

The original 1902 Coronation Copes 

for the Coronation of King Edward VII were:

Crimson Velvet, specially woven for the Coronation

Embroidered with Gold Japanese Thread

Decorated with the Rose and Crown motif 

(later renamed “Coronation” fabric).

Designed to match the High Altar Frontal 

for King Edward VII’s Coronation.

Re-used for the Coronations of 

King George V and King George VI.

The following Text and Illustrations are from 

“English Church Embroidery 1833 - 1953”.

“The Watts Book Of Embroidery”.

By: Mary Schoeser.

A Cope (above) and Altar Frontal (below) embroidered 

by Watts & Co, under Davenport, for the Coronation of 

King Edward VII in 1902, makes bold use of the Embossed Velvet “Rose and Crown”, vigorously  outlined in Gold 

Thread to create an opulence suggesting Italian 

Renaissance Brocaded Velvets.

Feast Day Of The Seven Sorrows Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. White Vestments.

The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Illustration: SHUTTERSTOCK

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

[Note: When Abbot Guéranger wrote this, the Feast we Celebrated, yesterday on 15 September, was Celebrated on the Third Sunday of September.]

“O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow !” [Lamentations i. 12.]

Is this, then, the first cry of that sweet babe, whose coming brought such pure joy to our Earth ? Is the Standard of suffering to be so soon unfurled over the cradle of such lovely innocence ?

The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Illustration: SHUTTERSTOCK

Yet the heart of Mother Church has not deceived her; 

this Feast, coming at such a time, is ever the answer to that question of the expectant human race: What shall this child be?

The Saviour to come is not only the reason of Mary’s existence, He is also her exemplar in all things. It is as His Mother that The Blessed Virgin came, and therefore as the “Mother of Sorrows”; for the God, Whose future birth was the very cause of her own birth, is to be in this World “a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with infirmity.” [Isaias, liii. 3.]

“To whom shall I compare thee ?” sings the Prophet of Lamentations: “O Virgin . . . great as the sea is thy destruction.” [Lamentations ii. 13.]

On the mountain of the sacrifice, as Mother she gave
her Son, as bride she offered herself together with Him; by
her sufferings both as bride and as Mother, she was the
Co-Redemptress of the Human Race.

“Mater Dolorosa With Open Hands”.

Artist: Titian (1490–1576).

Date: 1555.

Current location: Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: http://www.museodelprado.es/

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This teaching and these recollections were deeply engraved on our hearts on that other Feast of Our Lady’s Dolours which immediately preceded Holy Week.

Christ dieth now no more: And Our Lady’s sufferings are over. Nevertheless, the Passion of Christ is continued in His Elect, in His Church, against which Hell vents its rage it cannot exercise against Himself.

To this Passion of Christ’s mystical body, of which she is also Mother, Mary still contributes her compassion; how often have her Venerated images attested the fact, by miraculously shedding tears !

This explains The Church’s departure from Liturgical custom, by Celebrating two Feasts, in different Seasons, under one same Title.

The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Illustration: SHUTTERSTOCK

On perusing the Register of the Apostolic Decrees concerning Sacred Rites, the reader is astonished to find a long and unusual interruption lasting from 20 March 1809 to 18 September 1814, at which latter date is entered the Decree instituting on this present Sunday a second Commemoration of Our Lady’s Dolours.

1809 - 1814, five sorrowful years, during which the government of Christendom was suspended; years of blood which beheld the Man-God agonising once more in the person of His captive Vicar.

But the Mother of Sorrows was still standing beneath The Cross, offering to God The Church’s sufferings; and when the trial was over, Pope Pius VII, knowing well whence the mercy had come, dedicated this day to Mary as a fresh Memorial of the Day of Calvary.

Even in the 17th-Century, the Servites had the privilege of possessing this second Feast, which they Celebrated as a Double of the Second-Class, with a Vigil and an Octave.

English: Our Lady of Sorrows,

El Viso del Alcor, Seville, Spain.

Español: Nuestra Señora de los Dolores. Capilla del 

Sagrario de la Iglesia Parroquial de Santa María del Alcor. 

El Viso del Alcor (Sevilla). Procesiona bajo palio en la 

tarde noche del Viernes Santo.

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It is from them that The Church has borrowed the Office and Mass. This honour and privilege was due to the Order established by Our Lady to honour her sufferings and to spread devotion to them.

Philip Benizi, heir to the Seven Holy Founders, propated the flame kindled by them on the heights of Monte Senario; thanks to the zeal of his sons and successors, the devotion to The Seven Dolours of The Blessed Virgin, once their family property, is now the treasure of the whole World.

The prophecy of the aged Simeon, the flight into Egypt, the loss of the Divine Child in Jerusalem, the carrying of The Cross, the Crucifixion, the taking down from The Cross, and the burial of Jesus: These are the Seven Mysteries into which are grouped the well-nigh infinite sufferings which made Our Lady the Queen of Martyrs, the first and loveliest Rose in the garden of the Spouse.

Let us take to heart the recommendation from the Book of Tobias which The Church reads during this week in the Office of the time: Thou shalt honour thy mother: For thou must be mindful what and how great perils she suffered in giving thee birth. [Tobias, iv. 3, 14.]

Ember Wednesday In September. Violet Vestments.

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

Ember Wednesday in September.

   In 2026, it is Celebrated on 16 September.

Station at Saint Mary-Major.

Violet Vestments.

Iona Abbey,

Scotland.

Image: SHUTTERSTOCK

As on other Wednesdays in Ember Weeks, the Station is held at Saint Mary-Major.

The Prophet Amos had foretold in the 8th-Century B.C., the destruction of the Kingdom of Israel and its coming restoration (Lesson). Later on, indeed, Nehemias and Esdras brought back the captives from Babylon and rebuilt Jerusalem.

When this work was completed, they all assembled on the first day of the seventh month, when Esdras read to them the Law of Moses and said: “This is the Holy Day of The Lord, be not sad for the Joy of The Lord is our strength” (Epistle and Communion).

English: Basilica of Saint Mary-Major, Rome, where 

the Mass is said on Ember Wednesday in September.

Italiano: Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore

Photo: 23 May 2016.

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Author: Pierre-Selim Huard

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The Wednesday in September Ember Week, which month was formerly, as its name shows, the seventh month of the year in Roman times, recalls this joyous Anniversary, which was a figure of our redemption by Jesus; indeed, the Introit tells us to be thrilled with joy in God our protector.

This joy is accompanied by the Spirit of Penitence expressed in the Violet Vestments used, and The Church Prays that we, depriving ourselves of bodily nourishment, may also abstain from sins of the mind (Collect). The Gospel, indeed, speaks of the impure spirit, which can only be dispelled by Prayer and Fasting.

Having fallen into sin through our weakness, let us Pray and Fast, that God may give a remedy by His merciful help (Collect before the Lesson).

Mass: Exsultáte Deo.

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In the Liturgical Calendar of the Western Christian Churches, Ember Days are four separate sets of three days within the same week — specifically, the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday — roughly equi-distant in the circuit of the year, that are set aside for Fasting and Prayer.

These days, set apart for special Prayer and Fasting, were considered especially suitable for the Ordination of Clergy. The Ember Days are known, in Latin, as the “Quatuor Anni Tempora” (the “Four Seasons Of The Year”), or, formerly, as the “Jejunia Quatuor Temporum” (“Fasts Of The Four Seasons”).

The four Quarterly Periods, during which the Ember Days fall, are called the Embertides.

The term “Ember Days” refers to three days set apart for Fasting, Abstinence, and Prayer, during each of the four Seasons of the year. The purpose of their introduction was to thank God for the gifts of nature, to teach men to make use of them in moderation, and to assist the needy.

Possibly occasioned by the agricultural feasts of ancient Rome, they came to be observed by Christians for the Sanctification of the different Seasons of the year. 

James G. Sabak argues that the Embertide Vigils were “ . . . not based on imitating agrarian models of Pre-Christian Roman practices, but, rather, on an eschatological rendering of the year, punctuated by the Solstices and the Equinoxes, and, thus, underscores the eschatological significance of all Liturgical Vigils in the City of Rome.”

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Saint Cornelius. Pope And Martyr. Saint Cyprian. Bishop And Martyr. Feast Day 16 September. Red Vestments.

English: Saint Cornelius. Pope and Martyr.

Deutsch: Ausstattung der ehemaligen Seitenaltäre 

der Meßkircher St. Martinskirche, Standflügel: Heiliger Cornelius als Papst und Märtyrer.

Artist: Meister von Meßkirch (1500–1543).

Date: 1535-1540.

Current location: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany.

Source/Photographer: Eingescannt aus: Anna Moraht-Fromm und Hans Westhoff: Der Meister von Meßkirch – Forschungen zur südwestdeutschen

Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts, Ulm, 1997, S. 190.

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English: Saint Cyprian. Bishop and Martyr.

Deutsch: Ausstattung der ehemaligen Seitenaltäre 

der Meßkircher St. Martinskirche, Standflügel:

als Bischof und Märtyrer.

Artist: Meister von Meßkirch (1500–1543).

Date: 1535-1540.

Current location: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany.

Source/Photographer: Eingescannt aus: Anna Moraht-Fromm und Hans Westhoff: Der Meister von Meßkirch – Forschungen zur südwestdeutschen

Malerei des 16. Jahrhunderts, Ulm, 1997, S. 190.

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

There is a peculiar beauty in the meeting of these two Saints upon the Sacred Cycle.

Cyprian, in a famous dispute [Editor: On the question of the validity of Baptism conferred by heretics], was once opposed to the Apostolic See: Eternal Wisdom now offers him to the homage of the World, in company with one of the most illustrious successors of Saint Peter.

Cornelius was, by birth, of the highest nobility; witness his tomb, lately discovered in the family crypt, surrounded by the most honourable names in the partrician ranks.

The elevation of a descendant of the Scipios to the sovereign Pontificate linked the past grandeurs of Rome to her future greatness.

Decius, who “would more easily have suffered a competitor in his empire than a Bishop in Rome,” [Editor: Cyprian Epist. x. ad Antonianum, ix] had just issued the edict for the Seventh General Persecution.

But the Cæsar bestowed upon the World’s capital by a village of Pannonia, could not stay the destinies of the Eternal City.

Besides this bloodthirsty emperor, and others like him, whose fathers were known in the City only as slaves or conquered enemies, the true Roman, the descendant of the Cornelii, might be recognised by his native simplicity, by the calmness of his strength of Soul, by the intrepid firmness belonging to his race, wherewith he first triumphed over the usurper, who was soon to surrender to the Goths on the borders of the Danube.

And yet, O holy Pontiff, thou art even greater by the humility which Cyprian, thy illustrious friend, admired in thee, and by that “purity of thy virginal Soul,” through which, according to him, thou didst become the elect of God and of His Christ.

Great in his life, Cyprian was still greater in death. Valerian had given orders for the extermination of the principal Clergy; and in Rome, Sixtus II, followed by Laurence, had led the way to Martyrdom.

Galerius Maximus, Pro-Consul of Africa, was then holding his assizes at Utica, and commanded Thascius Cyprian to be brought before him. But the Bishop would not allow “the honour of his Church to be mutilated,” by dying at a distance from his Episcopal City. He therefore waited till the Pro-Consul had returned to Carthage, and then delivered himself up by making a public entrance into the Town.

The interrogation with the judge was short, for there was no hope of shaking Cyprian’s constancy; and the judge pronounced sentence that Thascius Cyprian must die by the sword.

On the way to the place of execution, the soldiers formed a guard of honour to the Bishop, who advanced calmly, surronded by his Clergy as on days of Solemnity.

The Pontiff Prayed prostrate upon the ground; then rising, he ordered twenty-five Gold Pieces to be given to the executioner, and, taking off his tunic, handed it to the Deacons.

The Bishop, himself, gave the word of command to the executioner. In the evening, the Faithful came with torches and with Hymns to bur Cyprian.

It was 14 September 258 A.D.