Saint Cecilia. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 22 November.

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

Saint Cecilia.
Virgin and Martyr.
Feast Day 22 November.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Saint Cecilia.

Church of Saint Cecilia, Trastevere, Rome, Italy.

In the sculpture, by Stefano Maderno (1576-1636), Saint Cecilia extends three fingers with her

Right Hand and one with her Left Hand, testifying to The Trinity. The sculptor attested that

this was how the Saint's body looked when her tomb was opened in 1599.

Photographed at the Church of Saint Cecilia,

Trastevere, Rome, Italy, by Richard Stracke.

Please credit the photographer and the Church.

Date: 26 September 2011 (original upload date).

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Born at Rome, of the illustrious family of the Coecilli,, Cecilia, as a child, consecrated her Virginity to God. When she was forced to marry Valerian, a young pagan, she said to him on the night of the wedding: "Valerian, I am placed under the guardianship of an Angel, who protects my Virginity; therefore, do not attempt anything which may bring down on thee God's anger."

Valerian dared not approach her and declared that he would believe in Jesus Christ if he saw the Angel. Cecilia assured him that this was impossible unless he was first Baptised, and sent him to Pope Urban I, who lived hidden in The Catacombs, on account of the persecutions.

Pope Urban I Baptised him and Valerian saw, near his Virginal Spouse, an Angel, brilliant with a Divine Light. Cecilia also instructed Tiburtius, the brother of Valerian, in the Faith of Jesus Christ, and Tiburtius, having been Baptised, also saw Cecilia's Angel. A short time after, both brothers were Martyred under the Prefect Almachius.

The Church of Saint Cecilia,

Trastevere, Rome, Italy.

The body of the Saint lies beneath The High Altar.

The Station on The Wednesday in

The Second Week of Lent is held here.

Illustration: LITURGIA LATINA

Finally, the last-named arrested Cecilia and ordered her to be put to death in her house. This was about 230 A.D.

Her body was discovered in 1599 by Cardinal Sfondrati, just as it was at the moment of her death. Stefano Maderno sculptured a famous reproduction of the body, which is seen under The High Altar of her Church in Rome.

Her house was transformed into a Church, where her body lies. For many Centuries, a number of Virgins of The Order of Saint Benedict have watched over this treasure. The Church is one of the two ornaments of The Trastevere, the other being Saint Mary's. Here is held The Station on The Wednesday in The Second Week of Lent. The name of Saint Cecilia is mentioned in The Canon of The Mass (Second List).

"To the sound of musical instruments," says The First Antiphon at Vespers, "the Virgin Cecilia sang to God in her heart." On this account, she has been chosen as The Patroness of Musicians.

Mass: Loquébar de testimóniis.

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The Anglican Cathedral In Norwich.

Norwich Cathedral.

Photo: Norwich Cathedral

by C J Paul (chris) on Flickr

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The Nave,

Norwich Cathedral.

Photo: 29 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diliff.

Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

License: CC-BY-SA 3.0"

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The history of Norwich Cathedral.

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Anglican Chant:

Psalm 124 (Nisi Quia Dominus).

Choir of Norwich Cathedral.

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English: The view of the Spire of Norwich Cathedral from The Cloisters.

Français: La tour, la flèche et le transept sud de la cathédrale de Norwich, vus depuis le cloître.

Photo: 29 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Diliff.

Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

License: CC-BY-SA 3.0"

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Norwich Cathedral is a Cathedral, located in Norwich, Norfolk, England. Dedicated to The Holy and Undivided Trinity. It is the Cathedral Church for The Church of England Diocese of Norwich and is one of the Norwich Twelve Heritage Sites.

The Cathedral was begun in 1096 and constructed out of flint and mortar and faced with a cream-coloured Caen limestone. A Saxon settlement and two Churches were demolished to make room for the buildings. The Cathedral was completed in 1145, with the Norman Tower, still seen today, topped with a wooden Spire, covered with lead. Several episodes of damage necessitated rebuilding of The East End and Spire, but, since the final erection of the Stone Spire in 1480, there have been few fundamental alterations to the fabric.

The Choir,

Norwich Cathedral.

Photo: 29 July 2014.

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Author: Diliff.

Attribution: "Photo by DAVID ILIFF.

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The large Cloisters have over 1,000 Bosses, including several hundred carved and ornately-painted.

Norwich Cathedral has the second-largest Cloisters in England, only smaller to Salisbury Cathedral. The Cathedral Close is one of the largest in England, and one of the largest in Europe, and has more people living within it than any other Close.

The Cathedral Spire, measuring 315 ft (96 m), is the second-tallest in England, despite being partly rebuilt after being struck by lightning in 1169, just twenty-three months after its completion, which led to the building being set on fire.

Measuring 461 ft (140.5 m) long and, with The Transepts, 177 ft (54 m) wide, Norwich Cathedral was the largest building in East Anglia.

The Cloisters,

Norwich Cathedral.

Photo: 24 July 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Fæ.

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The structure of the Cathedral is primarily in The Norman Style, having been constructed at the behest of Bishop Herbert de Losinga who had bought the Bishopric for £1,900 before its transfer from Thetford.

Building started in 1096 and the Cathedral was completed in 1145. It was built from flint and mortar and faced with cream-coloured Caen limestone. It still retains the greater part of its original stone structure. An Anglo-Saxon settlement and two Churches were demolished to make room for the buildings. A Canal was cut to allow access for the boats bringing the stone and building materials, which were taken up The River Wensum and unloaded at Pulls Ferry, Norwich.

The Ground Plan remains almost entirely as it was in Norman times, except for that of the Eastern-most Chapel. The Cathedral has an unusually long Nave of fourteen Bays. The Transepts are without Aisles and The East End terminates in an Apse with an Ambulatory. From the Ambulatory, there is access to two Chapels of unusual shape, the Plan of each being based on two intersecting circles.This allows more correct orientation of the Altars than in the more normal kind of radial Chapel.

The Crossing Tower was the last piece of the Norman Cathedral to be completed, around 1140. It is boldly-decorated with circles, lozenges and interlaced Arcading. The present Spire was added in the Late-15th-Century.

"Abide With Me".

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The Latin Mass Society's Booklet Missal.

This Article is taken from RORATE CAELI
and is reprinted from 2015.

Illustration: RORATE CAELI

Members of The Latin Mass Society are this weekend receiving their copies of the quarterly magazine, Mass of Ages; with this edition, is enclosed a brand-new Booklet Missal, or "Missalette", with Ordinary Prayers of The Mass, Benediction, and other Prayers and Devotions.

This new book has a clear, accurate, and readable new translation of all The Ordinary of The Mass, taking account of the improved ICEL translation of The Novus Ordo, where applicable, but using Traditional language ('Thee' and 'Thou', etc.).

It has new illustrations showing the postures of the Priest at different points during The Mass. It includes variants for High Mass and Pontifical Mass, so the Book won't let you down on special occasions; for example, it gives The Pontifical Blessing at the end of Mass.

It includes the Texts for The Angelus and for Benediction, in both Latin and English; if you want to use the lovely Chant Setting of The Divine Praises in Latin, for example, the Text is there.

It also includes two Chant Mass Ordinaries, those most commonly used on Sundays - Mass XI and Mass XVII (for Advent and Lent) - and The Four Marian Anthems.

It has a number of things particularly useful for Catholics who are attached to The Traditional Mass specific to England and Wales, such as The Prayer for The Queen, The Prayer for England (given to us by Pope Leo XIII and commonly said during Benediction, and The 'Long Prayer for England', a charming Prayer ordered by Cardinal Wiseman to be said in Benediction on The Second Sunday of the month.

It also has the authentic version of The Prayer for Wales, in Welsh. Modern books with The Welsh Prayer for Wales use a variety of edited versions, which exclude the petition that The Welsh return to their ancient Catholic Faith. Our version is that used in The Welsh CTS Simple Prayer Book, issued in the 1950s.

Such a Booklet can't include everything, but we have the modest hope that it will set a new standard for such Aids to Devotion.

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The Presentation Of The Blessed Virgin Mary. Feast Day 21 November.

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The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Feast Day 21 November.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

English: The Presentation of The Virgin Mary (detail).

Titian (1490–1576).

Italiano: Tiziano. Presentazione al Tempio (dettaglio).

Date: 1534 - 1538.

Current location: Accademia of Venice, Italy.

Source: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy.

(Wikimedia Commons)

After having Solemnised, on 8 September, The Nativity of The Blessed Virgin, and, four days later, The Feast of The Holy Name of Mary, a name given to her a short time before her Birth, The Cycle celebrates on this day The Presentation in the Temple of The Child of Benediction.

These first three Feasts of Mary's Cycle are an echo of The Christological Cycle, which, likewise, celebrates: The Birth of Jesus, 25 December; The Imposition of His Holy Name, 2 January; and His Presentation in the Temple, 2 February.

English: The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary in the Temple.

Italiano: Presentazione di maria al tempio.

Artist: Alfonso Boschi.

Date: 17th-Century.

Source: Giovanni Piccirillo (a cura di),

La chiesa dei Santi Michele e Gaetano,

Becocci Editore, Firenze 2006.

Author: sailko.

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The Feast of The Presentation of Mary is founded on a pious Tradition, originated by two apocryphal Gospels, which relate that The Blessed Virgin was Presented in the Temple of Jerusalem, when three years old, and that she lived there, with other girls and the Holy Women, who had them in their care. Already in the 6th-Century A.D., the event is Commemorated in The East and the Emperor, Michael Comnenus, alludes to it in a Constitution of 1166.

English: Fresco of The Presentation of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

The Monastery Church of The Assumption,

Dillingen-on-The-Danube, Bavaria, Germany.

Deutsch: de:Klosterkirche Mariä Himmelfahrt (Dillingen an der Donau)

der Dillinger Franziskanerinnen in Dillingen an der Donau,

Fresko mit der Darstellung des Tempelganges Mariens.

Photo: 26 September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: GFreihalter.

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A French nobleman, Philippe de Maizières, who was Chancellor at the Court of the King of Cyprus, having been sent in 1372 as Ambassador to Pope Gregory XI, at Avignon, related to the Pope with what magnificence The Feast was Solemnised in Greece, on 21 November. His Holiness introduced The Feast at Avignon and Pope Sixtus V introduced it at Rome in 1585. Pope Clement VIII raised it to the Rank of Greater-Double and re-arranged The Office.

Mass: Salve, Sancta Parens.

Preface: Of The Blessed Virgin Mary: Et te in Praesentatione.

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Saint Mary The Virgin Church. Designed By Sir John Ninian Comper (1864 – 1960). Scottish Gothic-Revival Architect.

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The Interior of Saint Mary The Virgin,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

Sir John Ninian Comper designed this Church.

Image: ST MARY THE VIRGIN, WELLINGBOROUGH

The spectacular Interior of Saint Mary's, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

The Church is little more than a Century old and was designed by the highly-regarded

architect, Sir Ninian Comper. The Church is extremely ornate, but never vulgar, and 

the Golds and Blues blend in perfectly well with the local Deep-Golden Stone.

The Church is in the Anglo-Catholic Tradition 

of The Church of England.

Photo: 18 August 1997.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: nick macneill.

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Sir John Ninian Comper (1864–1960) was a Scottish-born architect. He was one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects, noted for his Churches and their furnishings. He is well known for his Stained Glass, his use of colour and his subtle integration of Classical and Gothic elements, which he described as "unity by inclusion".

Comper was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the eldest of five children of Ellen Taylor, of Hull, and the Reverend John Comper, Rector of St John's, Aberdeen (and, later, St Margaret of Scotland). He was educated at Glenalmond School, in Perthshire, and attended a year at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. On moving to London, he was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe, and, later, to George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. His fellow-Scot, William Bucknall, took him into partnership in London in 1888 and Ninian was married to Grace Bucknall in 1890. Bucknall and Comper remained in partnership until 1905.

Reredos, in Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England, designed by Comper.

Reredos (Altar Screen), with Tester and Rood Figures, designed by Sir Ninian Comper, 1922.

Photographer: Richard Barton-Wood.

Date: 1922 (object created); 27 February 2007 (original upload date).

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Commons using CommonsHelper.

Author: Sir Ninian Comper (creator of the object);

Photographer and Original uploader was Richard Barton-Wood.

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Sir John Ninian Comper's ecclesiastical commissions include:

A line of windows in the North Wall of The Nave of Westminster Abbey;
Saint Peter's Parish Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the Baldachino/Ciborium, High Altar and
East Window, in memory of The Dead of The Great War;
Saint Mary's, Wellingborough;
Saint Michael and All Angels, Inverness;
Lady Chapel at Downside Abbey,Somerset;
The Ciborium, and House Chapel extension, for The Society of Saint John the Evangelist, in Oxford (now Saint Stephen's House, Oxford);
Saint Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London;
Lady Chapel at Saint Matthew's, Westminster;
Lady Chapel and Gilded Paintings in the Chancel of All Saints, Margaret Street, London.

The Sanctuary,

All Saints Church,

Margaret Street, London.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's commissions.

Photo: 3 November 2001.

Source: From geograph.org.uk; transferred by

User:Kurpfalzbilder.de using geograph_org2commons.

Author: John Salmon.

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Comper is noted for re-introducing the "English Altar", an Altar surrounded by Riddel Posts. [Images, and documentary mentions of early examples [of Ciboria], often have Curtains, called tetravela, hung between the Columns; these Altar-Curtains were used to cover, and then reveal, the view of the Altar by the Congregation at points during Services — exactly which points varied, and is often unclear. Altar-Curtains survived the decline of the Ciborium in both East and West, and in English are often called "Riddels" (from French, rideau, a word once also used for ordinary domestic curtains).

Charles Eamer Kempe, (1860).

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a Victorian Stained Glass designer and manufacturer. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for Altars and Altar Frontals, furniture and furnishings, Lichgates and Memorials, that helped to define a later 19th-Century Anglican style. The list of English Cathedrals containing examples of his work includes: Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Wells, Winchester, York.

This File: 21 July 2006.

User: The Wednesday Island.

Source: Found at [http://homepage.ntlworld.com/peter.fairweather/docs/kempe.htm].

Author: Unknown.

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A few Churches have "Riddle Posts", or "Riddel Posts", around The Altar, which supported The Curtain-Rails, and perhaps a Cloth stretched above. Such an arrangement can be seen in Folio 199v of the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. Late-Mediaeval examples in Northern Europe were often topped by Angels, and the Posts, but not the Curtains, were revived in some new or refitted Anglo-Catholic Churches by Ninian Comper and others around 1900.

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

In earlier periods, the Curtains were closed at the most Solemn part of The Mass, a practice that continues to the present day in The Coptic and Armenian Churches. A comparison to the Biblical Veil of The Temple was intended. The small domed structures, usually with Red Curtains, that are often shown near The Writing Saint in early Evangelist portraits, especially in the East, represent a Ciborium, as do the structures surrounding many manuscript portraits of Mediaeval Rulers.]

English: Saint John the Baptist Parish Church, Cardiff, Wales. Stained-Glass Window (1915)

by Ninian Comper: Saint Luke painting Madonna and Child (detail).

Deutsch: Cardiff (Wales). Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer - Buntglasfenster (1915)

von Ninian Comper: Heiliger Lukas malt Madonna mit Kind (Detail).

Photo: 28 July 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Wolfgang Sauber.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Comper designed a number of remarkable Altar Screens (Reredos), inspired by Mediaeval originals. Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, has one of the finest examples.

Only one major ecclesiastical work of Comper's is in The United States, the Leslie Lindsey Chapel of Boston's Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The work is an all-encompassing product of, and testimony to, Comper's design capability, comprising the entire decorative scheme of the Chapel, designed by the architectural firm of Allen and Collins. Comper designed its Altar, Altar Screen, Pulpit, Lectern, dozens of statues, all its furnishings and appointments, and most notably the Stained-Glass Windows. The Chapel commemorates Leslie Lindsey and Stewart Mason, her husband of ten days, who were married at Emmanuel Church, and perished when the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915.

Detail of Reredos at Saint James Church,

High Melton, England, by Ninian Comper.

Photo: 27 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Dearnesman.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Sir John Ninian Comper's Rood Screen,

Saint John the Baptist Church,

Lound, Nottinghamshire, England.

Photo: 24 September 2009.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: Evelyn Simak.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint John the Baptist's Church 1507412 - 1507426 , in Lound, is widely known as the 'Golden Church', its fame originating from the generosity of Father Booth Lyes, a past Rector, who employed Sir Ninian Comper's genius to restore it. The Round Tower 1507419 - the oldest part of the Church and believed to be Early-Norman - was probably rebuilt at some later time. The Church was extensively restored in 1912/1913. The High Altar 1507434 was raised on new flooring, and richly decorated Posts, surmounted by gilded bronze Angels, support curtains of Spanish silk.

Below the Altar, Ninian Comper's magnificent Rood Screen is adjoined at the South End by The Altar of Our Lady, above which Saint Mary Salome, Saint Mary The Virgin, and Saint Elizabeth, are depicted on boards with richly gilded gesso backgrounds 1507432. By Comper, is also the only modern wall painting in Suffolk depicting a Saint Christopher 1507439 - the Saint is surrounded by a water mill, with a Suffolk Punch horse and its rider, waiting patiently in front of it, and a portrait of Sir Ninian driving his Rolls Royce along the river bank. The airplane, at top right, was added during the 1964 restoration of the painting.

The Organ Case 1507447, at the West End of the Church, was installed in 1913. The Organ was built by Harrison and Harrison Ltd, of Durham. The original Norman Font Bowl now serves as a base for the Pulpit. The present Octagonal Font 1507445 - given in 1389 by Robert Bertelot - is of the Traditional East Anglian type and the inscription at its base, commemorating the donor, is still legible. Saint John the Baptist's Church has a 'Welcome' banner above the South Doorway and is open every day.

Saint Mary The Virgin Church,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's masterpieces of creation.

Illustration: ST MARY THE VIRGIN, WELLINGBOROUGH

From 1912, Ninian and Grace lived in London at The Priory, Beulah Hill, a house designed by Decimus Burton (1800–1881), where he entertained friends such as John Betjeman. He had a studio nearby at Knights Hill, close to the world's first Gothic Cemetery at West Norwood. After the studio was destroyed in World War II, it was relocated to a building in his garden, which had previously been used by his son, Nicholas Comper (1897–1939), to design aircraft. Comper was Knighted by King George VI in 1950.

On 22 December 1960, he died in The Hostel of God (now Trinity Hospice) in Clapham, London. His body was brought back to Norwood for cremation at West Norwood Cemetery. His ashes were then interred beneath the windows he designed in Westminster Abbey.

Bravo Zulu, Andy.

                        

"Bravo" and "Zulu" Signal Flags.

Bravo Zulu is a Naval Signal, typically conveyed by Flag or Voice Radio,

meaning "Well Done";

Andy Murray, after defeating Novak Djokovic,

to win his first ATP World Tour Finals Title

and end 2016 as The World Number One.

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Illustration: BBC SPORT

Don't Forget To Say Your Night Prayers.

Illustration: PINTEREST

William Morris. Arts And Crafts.

"Compton"

A William Morris Wallpaper.

'Compton' was designed by John Henry Dearle in 1895, specially for Compton Hall in Wolverhampton, England, the home of Laurence Hodson. The original design required two sets of wood blocks to print all twenty-eight colours, owing to the large vertical repeating pattern, but has since been scaled down and adapted for a wider audience. Compton" is still a popular wallpaper and is also available in a printed cotton.

Illustration: THE ORIGINAL MORRIS AND COMPANY

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William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with The British Arts and Crafts Movement, he was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production. His literary contributions helped to establish the modern fantasy genre, while he played a significant role in propagating the early socialist movement in Britain.

Born in Walthamstow, Essex, to a wealthy middle-class family, Morris came under the strong influence of Mediaevalism while studying Classics at Oxford University, there joining the Birmingham Set.

"Mary Isobel" Embroidery.

"Mary Isobel" is a beautifully-ornate design created by John Henry Dearle and originally sold

as an embroidery kit by Morris and Co., circa 1890. Named after the lady who embroidered it,

"Mary Isobel" comes richly-embroidered on linen and on 100% silk and is also available

in a printed fabric in the Morris V Collection.

Illustration: THE ORIGINAL MORRIS AND COMPANY

After University, he trained as an architect, married Jane Burden, and developed close friendships with the Pre-Raphaelite artists Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti and with the Neo-Gothic architect Philip Webb.

Webb and Morris designed a family home, Red House, in Bexleyheath, Kent, where the latter lived from 1859 to 1865, before moving to Bloomsbury, central London. In 1861, Morris founded a decorative arts firm with Burne-Jones, Rossetti, Webb, and others: The Morris, Marshall, Faulkner and Co. Becoming highly fashionable and much in demand, the firm profoundly influenced interior decoration throughout The Victorian Period, with Morris designing tapestries, wallpaper, fabrics, furniture, and Stained-Glass Windows. In 1875, Morris assumed total control of the company, which was renamed Morris and Co.

"Pimpernel".

Morris designed "Pimpernel" in 1876 and later chose it to decorate his dining room at

Kelmscott House in Hammersmith London. With its complex structure and swirling rhythms, Pimpernel is available in five stunning colourways, based on the originals.

Illustration: THE ORIGINAL MORRIS AND COMPANY

Although retaining a main home in London, from 1871 Morris rented the rural retreat of Kelmscott Manor, Oxfordshire. Greatly influenced by visits to Iceland, with Eiríkr Magnússon he produced a series of English-language translations of Icelandic Sagas.

He also achieved success with the publication of his epic poems and novels, namely The Earthly Paradise (1868–1870), A Dream of John Ball (1888), the utopian News from Nowhere (1890), and the fantasy romance The Well at The World's End (1896).

"The Red House",

Bexleyheath, Kent.

Co-designed by William Morris and

where Morris lived from 1859 to 1865.

Photo: 27 May 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ethan Doyle White.

(Wikimedia Commons)

In 1877, he founded The Society For The Protection of Ancient Buildings to campaign against the damage caused by architectural restoration. Embracing Marxism and influenced by Anarchism, in the 1880s Morris became a committed revolutionary socialist activist; after an involvement in The Social Democratic Federation (SDF), he founded The Socialist League in 1884, but broke with that organisation in 1890. In 1891, he founded The Kelmscott Press, to publish limited-edition, illuminated-style, print books, a cause to which he devoted his final years.

Morris is recognised as one of the most significant cultural figures of Victorian Britain; though best known in his lifetime as a poet, he posthumously became better known for his designs. Founded in 1955, The William Morris Society is devoted to his legacy, while multiple biographies and studies of his work have seen publication. Many of the buildings associated with his life are open to visitors, much of his work can be found in art galleries and museums, and his designs are still in production.

Portrait of William Morris, aged 53.

Date: First published 1899 (photo, circa, 1887).

Source: http://books.google.com/books?id=0ZQOAAAAIAAJ

Google Books edition of J. W. Mackail The Life of William Morris in two volumes, 

London, New York and Bombay: Longmans, Green and Co., 1899.

Author: Frederick Hollyer (1838–1933).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Stir-Up Sunday. 20 November 2016.

Text from FR. Z's BLOG

All Illustrations: FR. Z's BLOG

Today, Sunday, 20 November, is The Last Sunday of The Church’s Liturgical Year.

It is therefore . . .

STIR UP SUNDAY !

The “Stir Up” comes from the first words of the Traditional Collect in The Roman Rite. It also comes from the Tradition of stirring up the ingredients of The Christmas Pudding !

What are your plans for Christmas Pudding ?

The more important question is: What are MY plans for Christmas Pudding.

I must give this some thought.

UPDATE:

Since I will be moving to a new dwelling in the near future, I have been going through things.

I found a Christmas Pudding from TWO YEARS AGO, tucked away for ageing.

I would say that it is sufficiently Seasoned.

QUAERITUR:

Will it be lethal ?

If not, maybe I won’t make one.

I invite input, especially from experts in Blighty.

The Rock Island Line.

Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific 938 was under steam for the very last time on 16 September 1953, just before proceeding to Chicago's LaSalle Street Station for a Press Announcement of Rock Island's attaining its 100% Diesel goal.

Locomotive 938 had been specially painted and striped for the event. Later in the day, 938 returned to storage at Blue Island. The accession of 4-6-2 Pacific Type Locomotive 938 marks a significant milestone for the Museum's collection, as it represents one of the most common passenger-service wheel arrangements. Photo by R. W Buhrmaster.

Illustration: ILLINOIS RAILWAY MUSEUM

"Rock Island Line".

Sung by Lonnie Donegan (1961).

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"Rock Island Line" is an American blues/folk song, first recorded by John Lomax in 1934, as sung by inmates in an Arkansas State Prison, and later popularised by Lead Belly. Many versions have been recorded by other artists, most significantly the World-Wide hit version in the Mid-1950s by Lonnie Donegan. The song is ostensibly about The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad.

The chorus to the old song reads:

The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road

The Rock Island Line is the road to ride

The Rock Island Line is a mighty good road

If you want to ride you gotta ride it like you find it

Get your ticket at the station for the Rock Island Line

The verses tell a humorous story about a train operator who smuggled pig iron through a toll gate by claiming all he had on board was livestock.

The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad was a Class I Railroad in The United States. It was also known as The Rock Island Line, or, in its final years, The Rock.

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11th-Century Mediaeval English Hymn." Jesu Cristes Mildë Moder". "Jesus Christ's Gentle Mother".

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"Jesu Cristes Mildë Moder".

(Jesus Christ's Gentle Mother).

Sung by Sequentia.

Ensemble for Mediaeval Music,

Cologne, Germany.

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Mater Dolorosa.

Artist: Jusepe de Ribera.

Date: 1638.

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Self-Absorbed Promethean Neo-Pelagians Looking Lack-Lustre. Formation All Awry. Endure Thrashing By Young Devout Trads.

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