“The Angel Gold Coin”. Mediæval Gold Coin. Replaced “The Noble”.

Angel Gold Coin.
England, Tudor. Henry VIII of England. 1509 - 1547. AV 

Angel (29mm, 5.12 g, 8h). First coinage. Tower mint; 

mm: crowned portcullis with chains. Struck 1513-1526.

hEnRIC' x VIII' x DI' x GRA x REX x AGL' x Z x FR' xx, Archangel Michael slaying the DragonPER x CRVCE' x TVA' x SALVA x nOS x XPC' x REDE', ship bearing shield and cross, 

h and rose flanking cross.Whitton p. 187, iii; cf. Schneider 561; North 1760; SCBC 2265.
English: This coin is listed in the 

Standard Catalogue of British Coins under the ID 2265.
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(Left): The image of the Archangel Michael slaying a dragon, the legend inscribed with 

“HENRIC VIII DI GRA REX AGL & FR”.

(By The Grace Of God, 

King Of England And France).

(Right): The image of an English Galley with the monogram “H” and a Rose set below the Main Top Mast; the Ship surmounted by a Shield bearing the King’s Coat-of-Arms. The legend inscribed: “PER CRVCE TVA SALVA NOS XPC REDE”. (By Thy Cross, Save Us, Christ The Redeemer.)

The Angel was an English Gold Coin, first minted in 1465 under King Edward IV and circulating until the Mid‑17th-Century. 

This Gold Coin was valued at six Shillings and eight Pence (one-third of a Pound) when introduced (the old value of 

“The Noble”, which it replaced).

Design: 

Archangel Michael spearing a Dragon on the Obverse:

A Royal Ship on the Reverse.

Origin: 

Modelled on the French “Angelot” 

(or “Ange”) minted since the 1340s.

Period of issue: 

From King Edward IV (1465) through the Tudor 

and Early-Stuart reigns; discontinued as currency by 1642.

The Angel became famous not only as money, 

but as a Royal “Touchpiece”. 

Monarchs used pierced Angels in healing ceremonies 

for “Scrofula” (“The King’s Evil”), believing the 

Coin carried Divine Virtue once touched by the Sovereign. 

This practice continued even after the Coin ceased circulating.

There was a “Half‑Angel” Coin, introduced in 1472, 

worth 3s 4d (one-sixth of a Pound).

Liturgical Worship. (Part Two).

All Illustrations previously published on Zephyrinus’ Blog.

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

Saint Paul says: “By Him (i.e., Our Lord) we have access both in one Spirit to The Father”. 

All the properly sacerdotal formulas said by the Celebrant at the Altar (Collect, Secret, Preface, Postcommunion) are addressed to The Holy Ghost. That is to say that, under the influence of Grace attributed to The Holy Ghost, we are united with Christ as man, as our Priest or mediator in order to honour The Father in Whom the whole Blessed Trinity may be said to be implicitly contained, since, from Him, The Son and The Holy Ghost both proceed.

It is “through Christ that we go to God”. Therefore, all The Church’s Prayers conclude with the words: “Through Jesus Christ Our Lord”; and the Canon of The Mass ends with the formula: “Through Him, and with Him, and in Him, be unto Thee, O God The Father Almighty, in the unity of The Holy Ghost, all honour and glory, World without end. Amen”.

Christ, by His bloody sacrifice on The Cross, merited for each of us our redemption and the graces necessary for obtaining it. After His Resurrection and Ascension, His Priesthood is continued in Heaven by presenting His Glorious Wounds to The Father in our favour.

By this perpetual oblation, He obtains the application to our Soul of that which He merited for us on Calvary.

In order to save us, the mediatorship of Jesus is necessary also upon Earth. For this purpose did The Saviour institute the Holy Eucharist, whereby He might find the means of being made man no longer merely in Palestine and for a determined time, but every day and in every Country.

That our Souls could benefit from the merits of Jesus, Who was both Priest and Victim on The Cross, God wills that He should continue to offer Himself on the Altar under the species of Bread and Wine, recalling the separation of His Body and His Blood on Calvary.

“The sacrifice offered on the Altar”, says the Council of Trent, “is the same which was offered on Calvary, since it is the same Priest and the same Victim”.

Christ is the High Priest, but to perform the rites of this sacrifice, a lower order of Priesthood  is necessary to supply what Our Lord does not Himself perform.

These Ministers of the Priesthood of Christ are the members of the Catholic hierarchy, and thus at one and the same time by Christ invisible, and by Christ visible, it is ordained that we shall Pray to God in the person of the Pope, Bishops, and Priests.

PART THREE FOLLOWS.

Republic Pictures. RKO Pictures. Radio City Music Hall.

Republic Pictures Logo 

used from 1949 to 1959.

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The following four paragraphs are taken from Wikipedia, and the Article can be read in full at REPUBLIC PICTURES

Republic Pictures is a label owned by Paramount Pictures.[2] Its history dates back to Republic Pictures Corporation, an American film studio that originally operated from 1935[3] to 1967, based in Los Angeles, California. It had production and distribution facilities in Studio City, as well as a movie ranch in Encino.

Republic was known for specialising in Westerns, cliffhanger serials, and B-films emphasising action and mystery. 

Monogram Pictures, a predecessor to Republic Pictures.

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Republic Pictures History.

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The studio was also notable for developing the careers of such famous Western stars as Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, and John Wayne. It was also responsible for the financial management and distribution of several big-budget feature films directed by John Ford, as well as one Shakespeare motion picture directed by Orson Welles.

Under the supervising leadership of Herbert J. Yates, Republic was considered a mini-major film studio, producing almost 1,000 motion pictures.[4]

Classic opening Logo of RKO Radio Pictures.

The famous “Transmitter” Production Logo 

of RKO Radio Pictures 1929 - 1957.

Date: 1929.

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Classic closing Logo of RKO Radio Pictures.

Date: 1936 - 1955.

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RKO Pictures, commonly known as simply RKO, is an American film, television and stage production company owned by Concord. 

Radio-Keith-Orpheum Logo, 1929.

Original Rights Holder: Radio Pictures Inc.

Heir to Rights Holder: RKO Pictures LLC.

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In its original incarnation, as RKO Radio Pictures, Inc., it was one of the “Big Five” film studios of Hollywood’s Golden Age. 

The business was formed after the Keith-Albee-Orpheum Theatre Chain and Joseph P. Kennedy’s Film Booking Offices of America Studio were brought together under the control of the Radio Corporation of America (RCA) in October 1928.

Poster for the 1931 film “Alias French Gertie”.

Date: 1 April 1930.

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RCA executive David Sarnoff engineered the merger to create a market for the company’s sound-on-film technology, RCA Photophone, and in Early-1929 production began under the RKO name (an initialism of Radio-Keith-Orpheum). 

Two years later, another Kennedy concern, the Pathé Studio, was folded into the operation. By the Mid-1940s, RKO was controlled by investor Floyd Odlum.

RKO has long been renowned for its cycle of musicals starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the Mid- to Late-1930s. Actors Katharine Hepburn and, later, Robert Mitchum had their first major successes at the Studio. 

Cary Grant was a mainstay for years, with credits including touchstones of the screwball comedy genre with which RKO was identified. 

The work of producer Val Lewton’s low-budget horror unit and RKO’s many ventures into the field now known as film noir have been acclaimed, largely after the fact, by film critics and historians.

The Studio produced two of the most famous films in motion picture history: King Kong and producer/director/star Orson Welles’s Citizen Kane.

RKO was also responsible for notable co-productions such as It's a Wonderful Life and Notorious, and it distributed many celebrated films by animation pioneer Walt Disney and leading independent producer Samuel Goldwyn. 

Scan of the original publicity poster for King Kong.

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Though it often could not compete financially for top star and director contracts, RKO’s below-the-line personnel were among the finest, including composer Max Steiner, cinematographers Nicholas Musuraca and Gregg Toland, and designer Van Nest Polglase.

Maverick industrialist Howard Hughes took over RKO in 1948. After years of disarray and decline under his control, the Studio was acquired by the General Tire and Rubber Company in 1955. 

It soon broke new business ground as the first major Studio to sell the bulk of its film library’s TV Rights. The original RKO Pictures ceased production in 1957 and was effectively dissolved two years later. 

In 1978, broadcaster RKO General, the corporate heir, launched a production subsidiary, RKO Pictures Inc., which revived the film production brand with its first theatrical releases three years later. 

In 1989, this business, with its remaining assets, including the Studio trademarks and the Remake Rights to many classic RKO films, was sold to new owners. 

It was re-established as the production company RKO Pictures LLC., which operated independently for thirty-five years until it was acquired by Concord Originals in 2025.

Radio City Christmas Spectacular.

Date: 30 January 2008.

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Radio City Music Hall (also known as Radio City) is an entertainment venue and Theatre at 1260 Avenue of the Americas, within Rockefeller Center, in the Midtown Manhattan neighbourhood of New York City.

Nicknamed “The Showplace of the Nation”, it is the headquarters for The Rockettes. 

Radio City Music Hall was designed by Edward Durell Stone and Donald Deskey in the Art Deco Style.

Radio City Music Hall was built on a plot of land that was originally intended for an Opera House for the Metropolitan Opera, plans for which were cancelled in 1929. 

It opened on 27 December 1932, as part of the construction of Rockefeller Center. The 5,960-seat Music Hall was the larger of two venues built for Rockefeller Center’s “Radio City” section, the other being the RKO Roxy Theatre (later the Center Theatre); the “Radio City” name came to apply only to Radio City Music Hall. 

It was largely successful until the 1970s, when declining patronage nearly drove the Theatre to bankruptcy. 

Radio City was designated a New York City Landmark in May 1978, and it was restored and allowed to remain open. The Theater was extensively renovated in 1999.

The Grand Foyer, 

Radio City Music Hall.

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Radio City’s four-tiered auditorium was the World’s largest when it opened. The Theatre also contains a variety of art. Although Radio City was initially intended to host Stage Shows, within a year of its opening it was converted into a Movie Palace, hosting performances in a film-and-stage-spectacle format through the 1970s, and was the site of several movie premieres. 

By the Late-20th-Century and Early-21st-Century, it primarily hosted concerts, including by leading pop and rock musicians, and live Stage Shows such as the Radio City Christmas Spectacular. 

Radio City has also hosted televised events including the Grammy Awards, Tony Awards, the Daytime Emmy Awards, MTV Video Music Awards, and NFL draft, as well as university graduation ceremonies.

Devotion To The Holy Angels. The Feast Day Of The Dedication Of Saint Michael The Archangel. White Vestments. “He Hath Given His Angels Charge Over Thee To Keep Thee In All Thy Ways”.

Illustration: 

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The Dedication Of Saint Michæl The Archangel. Feast Day 29 September. White Vestments.

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

The Dedication of Saint Michæl The Archangel.
   Feast Day 29 September.

Double of The First-Class.

White Vestments.

Saint Michæl The Archangel.

Illustration: UNA VOCE OF ORANGE COUNTY

Artist: René de Cramer.

“Copyright Brunelmar/Ghent/Belgium”.

Used with Permission.

Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Saint Michael the Archangel.

Available on YouTube

HERE

29 September was formerly Dedicated to all the Angels (Introit, Collect, Gradual, Communion), wherefore Pope Boniface II, about 530 A.D., chose that date to Dedicate a Church in the Great Circus, at Rome, to Saint Michæl.

The Mass composed for the occasion has since been appointed for the 18th Sunday After Pentecost; it still relates to the Dedication of a Church. The present Mass was composed more recently.

The Hebrew meaning of “Michæl” is: “Who is like God ?”, and recalls the combat which took place in Heaven between “The Archangel of God, who deserved to be placed at the Head of the Heavenly Host”, and the devil.

Incredible Miracle.

U.S. Marine saved by Saint Michael the Archangel.

Available on YouTube

HERE

As we have fallen through sin into the power of Satan, it is Saint Michæl’s part to continue the fight for our deliverance (Alleluia, and Prayer after Mass); wherefore, our Guardian Angels are subordinate to him.

Saint Michæl conquers Satan’s pride and obtains humility for us. It is also he who presides over the Worship of Adoration rendered to The Most High, for he offers to God the Prayers of the Saints, symbolised by Incense, whose smoke rises towards Heaven (Offertory, Blessing of the Incense).

The Exaltation of Saint Michael the Archangel.

Available on YouTube

HERE

Mont-Saint-Michel.

Ancient Superstructure Documentary.

Available on YouTube

HERE

When a Christian has left this World, we Pray that the Standard-Bearer, Saint Michæl, should introduce the Christian into Heaven; he is also often represented with the Scales of Divine Justice, wherein Souls are weighed. His name is mentioned in the Confiteor, after that of Mary, who is The Queen of Angels.

Saint Michæl was the Protecting Angel of the Synagogue, as he is now of The Church, which has succeeded it. To him, the Liturgy attributes the Revelation of the Future, made to Saint John in the Apocalypse (Epistle).

Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.

Mass: Benedícite Dóminum, omnes Angeli ejus. 

Bless The Lord, all ye His Angels.
Creed. Is said.

Prayer to Saint Michael the Archangel.

Gregorian Chant.

Available on YouTube

HERE

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

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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Bertram Arthur Talbot, 17th Earl of Shrewsbury, 17th Earl of Waterford (1832–1856);

Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 18th Earl of Shrewsbury, 18th Earl of Waterford, 3rd Earl Talbot (1803–1868);

Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, 19th Earl of Shrewsbury, 19th Earl of Waterford, 4th Earl Talbot (1830–1877);

Charles Henry John Chetwynd-Talbot, 20th Earl of Shrewsbury, 20th Earl of Waterford, 5th Earl Talbot (1860–1921);

Charles John Alton Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount of Ingestre (1882–1915);

John George Charles Henry Alton Alexander Chetwynd-Talbot, 21st Earl of Shrewsbury, 21st Earl of Waterford, 6th Earl Talbot (1914–1980);

Charles Henry John Benedict Crofton Chetwynd Chetwynd-Talbot, 22nd Earl of Shrewsbury, 22nd Earl of Waterford, 7th Earl Talbot (born 1952).

The heir apparent is the present holder’s son, James Richard Charles John Chetwynd-Talbot, Viscount Ingestre (born 1978).

PART TEN FOLLOWS.

Saint Wenceslaus. Duke And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 28 September. Red Vestments.

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

Saint Wenceslaus.
   Duke And Martyr.
   Feast Day 28 September.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, 

The Czech Republic.

Contains the Chapel of Saint Wenceslaus.

Available on YouTube

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Saint Wenceslaus Chapel,

Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague, 

The Czech Republic.

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Saint Vitus Cathedral, Prague,

which has the Chapel of Saint Wenceslaus.

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Wenceslaus, Duke of Bohemia, always practised the greatest Christian Virtues.

Full of Charity, he helped, with his Alms, Orphans Widows, and Poor People. He delivered Captives, and visited Prisoners. He kept all through his life the treasure of his Virginity intact. He had a very great Veneration for Priests and, with his own hands. he sowed the Wheat and pressed the Grapes which were to be used for The Holy Sacrifice.

However, instigated by his mother, the impious Boleslas, his brother, realising what Jesus had foretold "that a man will have for his enemies those of his own family" (Gospel), determined to get rid of the Duke.

He invited him to a banquet, and, afterwards, followed him to a Church, where he cruelly stabbed him as he was Praying for his enemies.

Saint Wenceslaus died in 938 A.D. Hungary, Poland, and Bohemia chose him for their Patron.

Mass: In virtúte.

The Cappa Of The Canons Of The Vatican Basilica.

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at, LITURGICAL ARTS JOURNAL

The Cappa Of The Canons Of The Vatican Basilica.

by John Paul Sonnen

26 September 2024.

Readers sometimes ask for more information on Cathedral Canons. Photos are hard to come by for Canons of the Patriarchal Basilicas of Rome. 

Here is an image (above) of the Right Reverend Monsignor Salvatore Natuccci (1871-1971), a Canon of the Vatican Basilica and the last Treasurer of the Apostolic Camera. 

He wears the Cappa Parva of the Canons of the Vatican Basilica.

The Cappa Parva was essentially the Cappa Magna without the Train. Made of Crimson Silk for the Summer, it had a hood in the back that was looped up and tied in the rear, below the neck, with ribbons to signify the beneficiary had no jurisdiction. 

The hood was only untied and worn over the head for Penitential Processions.

This style of the Cappa is still seen with Canons of Westminster Cathedral in London. In Rome, it was strangely replaced with the Mantelletta, apparently changed to the colour Grey in the Late-1960s, then changed back to Paonazza (Magenta) by order of the Pope, after the horror of him seeing the Canons of Saint Mary Major in their new “duds”.

Incidentally, this illustrious Canon also held, for thirty-three years (from 1927-1960), the title “Promoter General of The Faith” (Promotore Generale della Fede) for the Sacred Congregation of Rites. 

With this role, he was also known informally as the “Devil’s Advocate”, like others in this position before him, because his job required him to find faults in those whose “Causes” were proposed for Sainthood. 

He was involved with over one-hundred persons attaining Sainthood, including Pope Saint Pius X (the first Pope Canonised since Pope Pius V in 1712).

From 1960, he was a Canon of the Vatican Basilica and held his role of Treasurer in the Apostolic Chamber and Pontifical Household. 

Notice his Cappa Parva is Red in colour. Such rich and splendid pageantry in the Vatican, the development of Centuries of Tradition.

The doing away with these traditions sadly coincided with a decline in The Church, aggravated by the “spirit of the age” that piggy-backed with the Vatican Council.

I hope the Canons will return to their Cappa, a living testimony and a direct link with the past and a tradition of The Church.

In 1971, the good Monsignor died, four years after the Papal Court and his illustrious position had been done away with. 

At the time of his passing, he had just turned 100-years old. Nine days before his death, he turned 100, and on that occasion Monsignor Giovanni Benelli, the Vatican Foreign Minister, visited him and presented him with a Chalice from the Pope.

The Monsignor Celebrated Mass every day until a few days before his death, in the end with a dispensation to sit in a chair while Celebrating.

What a beautiful Vocation, to sing daily The Office and Mass in the Vatican Basilica, with the ethereal Hymns of The Roman Church cascading amid the arched ceilings and dome of Saint Peter’s.

God Bless those great ones of old, men of eminent learning and spiritual knowledge, who have gone before us. Let us be inspired by them and may he Pray for us.