Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian. Martyrs. Feast Day 27 September.

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian Plaque,

Budapest. Hungary.

Szent Kozma és Damján Plaque.

Budapest, district V, Hercegprímás utca.

Photo: 7 May 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Andrijko Z.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damien.

Feast Day 27 September.

Martyrdom.

The Supreme Witness Of Our Faith.

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

“Honour the physician for the need thou hast of him: For The Most High hath created him. For all healing is from God, and he shall receive gifts of the King.

“The skill of the physician shall lift up his head, and in the sight of great men he shall be praised. The Most High hath created medicines out of the Earth, and a wise man will not abhor them.

“Was not bitter water made sweet with wood ? The virtue of these things is come to the knowledge of men, and The Most High hath given knowledge to men, that He may be honoured in His wonders.

English: Saints Cosmas and Damian; miniature 

from the Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany.

Français: Saint Côme et saint Damien, miniature 

extraite des Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne.

Deutsch: Die heiligen Brüder Cosmas und Damian, 

Miniatur aus dem Stundenbuch der Anne de Bretagne.

Artist: Jean Bourdichon  (1457–1521).

 

Date: Circa 1503 - 1508.

Collection: Bibliothèque nationale de France.

Source: This file comes from Gallica Digital Library 

and is available under the digital ID ark:/12148/btv1b52500984v/f355.item

(Wikipedia)

“By these he shall cure and shall allay their pains, and of these the apothecary shall make sweet confections, and shall make up ointments of health, and of his works there shall be no end.

“For The Peace of God is over the face of the Earth. My son, in thy sickness neglect not thyself, but Pray to The Lord, and He shall heal thee. Turn away from sin and order thy hands aright, and cleanse thy heart from all offence.

“Give a sweet savour, and a memorial of fine flour, and make a fat offering, and then give place to the physician. For The Lord created him: And let him not depart from thee, for his works are necessary. For there is a time when thou must fall into their hands: And they shall beseech The Lord, that He would prosper what they give for ease and remedy, for their conversation”. [Editor: Ecclus. xxxviii. 1-14,]

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian.

Artist: Donatello  (1386–1466).

Date: Between 1434 and 1443.

Collection: Basilica of San Lorenzo.

Book Source:

Rolf C. Wirtz, Donatello,

Könemann, Colonia 1998.

(Wikimedia Commons)

These words of the Wise Man are appropriate for this Feast. The Church obeying the inspired injunction, honours the medical profession in the persons of Cosmas and Damian, who not only, like many others, sanctified themselves in that career; but, far beyond all others, demonstrated to the World how grand a part the physician may play in Christian society.

Cosmas and Damian had been Christians from their childhood. The study of Hippocrates and Galen developed their love of God, Whose invisible perfections they admired reflected in the magnificence of creation, and especially in the human body, His Palace and His Temple.

To them, science was a Hymn of Praise to their Creator, and the exercise of their art a sacred ministry; they served God in His suffering members, and watched over His human sanctuary, to preserve it from injury or to repair its ruins.

English:

Feast of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian.

Riace, Italy.

Italiano:

Festa dei Santi Cosma e Damiano.

Riace, Italia.

Date: 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Marcuscalabresus

(Wikimedia Commons)

Such a life of Religious Charity was fittingly crowned by the perfect sacrifice of Martyrdom.

East and West vied with each other in paying homage to the “Anargyres” [Editor: Without Fees], as our Saints were called on account of their receiving no fees for their services. Numerous Churches were Dedicated to them.

The Emperor Justinian embellished and fortified the obscure Town of Cyrus out of reverence for their sacred Relics there preserved; and about the same time, Pope Felix IV built a Church in their honour in the Roman Forum, thus substituting the memory of the twin Martyrs for that of the less happy brothers Romulus and Remus.

Statues of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian 

are carried by Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian Society members on the annual Feast Day.

Photo: September 2012.

Source: 

Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Author: Sscdfst

(Wikimedia Commons)

Not long before this, Saint Benedict had Dedicated to Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian his first Monastery at Subiaco, now known as Saint Scholastica’s.

But Rome rendered the highest of all honours to the holy Arabian brethren, by placing their names, in preference to so many thousands of her own heroes, in the Solemn Litanies and on the Sacred Dyptichs (Diptichs) of The Mass.

In The Middle Ages, the physicians and surgeons banded together into confraternities, whose object was the sanctification of the members by Common Prayer, Charity towards the destitute, and the accomplishment of all the duties of their important vocation for the greater glory of God and the greater good of suffering humanity.

Catholic Church of Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, Rábakovácsi, Meggyeskovácsi, Hungary.

Photo: 15 March 2021.

Source: Own work.

Author: Pasztilla aka Attila Terbócs

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Society of Saints Luke, Cosmas, and Damian, has now undertaken in France the renewal of these happy traditions. [Editor: Readers should note that these words were written circa 1870.]

The remainder of this Text can be read in full at

   “The Liturgical Year”. 

         By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.

         Volume 14.
         Time After Pentecost.
         Book V.

Dode Church. “Our Lady Of The Meadows”. Prior To Rebuilding In 1902, The Last Mass Was Celebrated Here In 1367. Only Remnant Of A Kent Village Wiped Out In “The Black Death” In 1349.

Dode Church

(Our Lady Of The Meadows),

Kent, England.

Photo: 18 August 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Agw19666.

(Wikimedia Commons)

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unless otherwise stated.

Dode (in Old English, Dowde) was a Village in England that was wiped out by The Black Death in 1349. All that remains is the de-Consecrated Church, which was rebuilt in the 1990s.

Archaeological evidence shows habitation in the Dode area during the time of The Roman Empire.

The Church at Dode was built during the Reign of William II of England at some point between 1087 and 1100. It was built on a man-made mound. The nearby hill is known as “Holly Hill”, which is a corruption of “Holy Hill”, and the lane which leads to the Village is “Wrangling Lane”, showing that the mound could be the site of a meeting place.

The Church stands at the end of a 10-mile long Easterly-running Ley Line, connecting three Pre-Reformation Churches, two Roman sites, a Bronze Age burial ground, and two of the Medway megaliths - the Coffin Stone and Kit's Coty House.

Dode Church,

Kent, England.

Photo: 18 August 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Agw19666.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Village of Dode was virtually wiped out by The Black Death during the 14th-Century, and its Church last used as a place of Worship in 1367, then de-Consecrated on the orders of Thomas Trilleck, the Bishop of Rochester. It was originally twinned with another Early-Norman Church in Paddlesworth (now in Snodland). Kent.

Stones from the Church were used to build a Mediæval Church nearby.

According to local legend, the last survivor of The Black Death at Dode was a seven-year-old girl, known as The Dode Child. It is said that she took refuge in the Church after all the other Villagers were dead, and died within its walls. The Dode Child is supposed to haunt the Churchyard, having first appeared on a Sunday morning each month for several years, and then every seven years.

Dode Church,

Kent, England.

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Dowde (or Dode) Church, Kent.

This Norman Church was originally twinned with the Church in Paddlesworth, Kent, and served the Village of Dode. Today, the Church is left virtually isolated down a No-Through Road, with only a few local farms to keep it company. The Village of Dowde no longer exists, as it was wiped out by

The Black Death in the 14th-Century.

Photo: 25 June 2005.

Source: From geograph.org.uk

Author: Hywel Williams

Attribution: Attribution: Hywel Williams.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Following The Black Death, the Village was abandoned, and the Church stood empty for Centuries. In 1901, it was purchased by an antiquarian, George M. Arnold, Mayor of Gravesend, Kent. He restored the walls and roof of the Church and, in 1954, the Arnold family returned the building to The Catholic Church. It was re-Dedicated as The Church of Our Lady of The Meadows and Mass was Celebrated there at least once a year.

Eventually, the building deteriorated again and was vandalised. In 1990, Doug Chapman, a Chartered Surveyor who had worked at Canterbury Cathedral, purchased the Church and began restoring the building, originally with the intention of turning it into a week-end home. Since 1999, it has been Licensed as a Civil Wedding venue.

The Wedding venue hit the British Press in December 2009 because of the snowfall which occurred across the Country. A bride-to-be called BBC Radio Kent for assistance, when she realised that the transport arranged for her wedding would not be able to travel down the narrow lane to Dode.

A number of volunteers stepped forward, providing enough Four-Wheel-Drive vehicles to transport the Wedding Party and their guests, both to the venue at Dode, and then, afterwards, to The Leather Bottle pub, in Cobham, Kent.

J. R. R. Tolkien And The Beauty Of The Blessed Virgin Mary.

This Article is taken from, and can be read in full at,
CATHOLICISM PURE AND SIMPLE

The acclaimed British novelist J. R. R. Tolkien loved The Blessed Mother and considered her the standard for beauty.

My daughter is currently reading “The Lord Of The Rings” for the second time. As she progresses, I’m trying to point out to her some of the interesting Catholic trivia hidden within it.

For instance, did you know that the date when Frodo finally destroys The Ring is March 25 ? That day happens to be The Feast of The Annunciation, the day on which Christ was conceived and began the process of overthrowing evil once and for all.

Or, did you know that Lembas (the special Elven bread) is strangely similar to The Eucharist ? These allusions to Catholicism aren’t surprising. After all, Tolkien was a committed Catholic whose Faith was central to the way he viewed the World.

He says: “Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on Earth: The Blessed Sacrament.”

With “The Lord Of The Rings”, he didn’t set out to write a specifically Catholic novel, but later admitted that it did turn out to be “a fundamentally Religious and Catholic Work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision.”

My favourite bit of Catholicism, that seeps through into the books, is the appearance of The Blessed Virgin Mary. The elf, Galadriel, isn’t strictly speaking an analogy for The Blessed Virgin - meaning she isn’t simply a character that’s Mary in disguise - but she shares a number of characteristics with Mary.

Tolkien considered Galadriel the “greatest of elven women,” in the same way we might consider Mary to be the greatest of all Saints. Galadriel is a Queen, a Mother, and often appears as a Miraculous Helper. Sometimes, she is referred to simply as: “The Lady of Light”.

These are clear references to The Blessed Virgin. Mary shares all of these characteristics. She often appears to those in need to offer aid, which is why one of her Titles is “Mother of Perpetual Help.”

The most interesting image of Galadriel occurs in “The Two Towers”, when she appears as an apparition to Sam and offers assistance. Tolkien writes: Far off, as in a little picture drawn by elven-fingers, he saw Lady Galadriel standing on the grass in Lorien, and gifts were in her hands. “And you, Ringbearer”, he heard her say, remote but clear, “for you, I have prepared this.”

She then reminds Sam that he has a Miraculous Light, that will cast out The Darkness and all The Evil Creatures who dwell in it. Sam uses it, and he and Frodo are saved.

Tolkien really loved Mary. He even translated The Hail Mary into an elven language. Above all, he considered her to be the standard for beauty, which is why he describes Galadriel as surpassingly beautiful.

In a letter to a Priest friend, Father Robert Murray, who had pointed out the similarities between Mary and Galadriel, Tolkien writes: “I think I know exactly what you mean . . . by your references to Our Lady, upon which all my own small perception of beauty, both in majesty and simplicity, is founded.”

That’s an audacious claim, to say that Mary is the foundation upon which all other beauty is built. What does he mean by this ? He probably doesn’t mean that she is the most physically beautiful woman who has ever lived. He’s referring to an inner beauty, a beauty of Soul.

This is why he talks about her Majesty, which in The Catholic Tradition is based in her humble obedience to God’s call, and her simplicity, by which he means her life as intensely focused on Love, alone, suffering no complicating distractions. Mary’s physical beauty is a reflection of her beautiful Soul.

Yes, Tolkien’s claim is shocking at first, but it’s a truly Catholic claim. For instance, the Venerable Fulton Sheen says something similar:

“Mary’s beautiful purity must have been such that it attracted less the eyes than the Souls of men . . . It is very likely that a human eye, looking on Mary, would scarcely have been conscious that she was beautiful to the eye. Just as corrupt men are made pure in thought by the sight of an innocent child, so all fleshly thoughts would have been left behind, by one vision of The Immaculate Mother.”

 

He’s saying the same thing as Tolkien, that her simple beauty becomes the foundation for purifying the minds of those of us who look to her. If our lives are made beautiful, if our Souls begin to glow with love, it is because we first saw the beauty of our spiritual Mother.

The way Tolkien describes Mary’s beauty, helps us to define what it really is. It has nothing to do with physical looks or flattering clothes; it has everything to do with the way the Soul shines through and makes a person beautiful inside and out.

Beauty is pure, innocent, graceful, and transcendent. It is radiant with love. If we, too, would be beautiful, the first place to adorn is our Interior Life. In this, we can have no better example than The Blessed Virgin.

(Source: Michael Rennier).

“The Lark Ascending”. Composed By: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Vocals: VOCES8. Violin: Jack Liebeck.

“The Lark Ascending”.

Composed by: Ralph Vaughan Williams.

Vocals: VOCES8.

Violin: Jack Liebeck.

Arrangement: Paul Drayton.

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Liturgical Worship. (Part One).

All Illustrations previously published on Zephyrinus’ Blog.

Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,

unless stated otherwise.

“When you Pray, say: Father”. This is the name that from all eternity God the Son gives to His Father, the name that Our Lord invariably pronounced with respect and love, the name He silently repeats in The Blessed Sacrament, and that we find constantly on the lips of His Bride, The Church.

“You have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry, Abba (Father)”. The Holy Ghost, as it were, flows forth from the Word in the sacred humanity of Christ and in The Church, bearing us all to The Father on the waves of His Divine Love.

This fount of living water, which springs up in our hearts unto life eternal, is doubtless the private Prayer with which The Holy Ghost may inspire us, and in which we are led by Him to have recourse to God as children to their Father, but the principal and official Prayer whereby The Holy Ghost inspires His Church is that which we call the Liturgy.

In this Prayer, all members of Christ’s mystical body bear an authentic part in that infinite Worship of Adoration that its Head ceaselessly renders to God: “Always living to make intercession for us”, as the Apostle tells us.

Thus the word of The Master is realised: “The hour cometh when the true adorers shall Adore The Father in spirit and in truth”, which Saint Anselm explains as meaning that they will render a filial Worship to God in The Holy Ghost and in union with Christ The Son of God.

PART TWO FOLLOWS.

Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian. Martyrs. Feast Day, Today, 27 September.

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

Saint Cosmas And Saint Damian.
   Martyrs.
   Feast Day 27 September.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Saints Cosmas and Damian.

Miniature from The Grandes Heures of Anne of Brittany

Français: Saint Côme et saint Damien,

miniature extraite des Grandes Heures d'Anne de Bretagne

Deutsch: Die heiligen Brüder Cosmas und Damian.

Miniatur aus dem Stundenbuch der Anne de Bretagne

Artist: Jean Bourdichon (1457–1521).

Date: Circa 1503-1508.

Current location: Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Source/Photographer: Image comes from Gallica Digital Library. Uploaded, stitched and restored by JLPC

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Cosmas and Saint Damian, brothers by blood, were more closely united by their Faith in Jesus Christ, and by their common Martyrdom suffered for His sake (Alleluia). They were born, and lived, at Aegea, Asia-Minor, and distinguished themselves as physicians in the reign of the Emperors Diocletian and Maximian.

They healed the worst diseases as much by the virtue of Christ as by their medical knowledge. Their reputation soon spread everywhere. They were Apostles, rather than physicians. They healed Souls as well as bodies, following the example of Jesus in Palestine (Gospel).

They were denounced to the Prefect, Lysias, and suffered the most cruel torments and were thrown in chains into the sea, stoned, and exposed to the flames of a brazier. After several other tortures, they died about 285 A.D., and their bodies were taken to Rome and laid in the ancient temple of Romulus, transformed into a Church, which was Dedicated to them and where The Station is held on The Thursday of The Third Week in Lent.

Their names are mentioned in The Canon of The Mass, after several Roman Martyrs.

Mass: Sapiéntiam.

“Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent”.

 

“Let All Mortal Flesh Keep Silent”.

Catholic Music Initiative.

Dave Moore, Lauren Moore.

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Nostalgic 1930s - 1940s Autumn Music. A Must Listen While You Are Doing The Washing Up.

Nostalgic 1930s - 1940s Autumn Music.

A must listen while you are doing the washing up.

Avoid the modern-day screaming and screeching.

Lessen your worries and sing along.

Available on YouTube

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The Cloisters. Basilica of Saint Paul-Without-The-Walls, Rome.

The Cloisters,

Basilica of Saint Paul-without-the-Walls, Rome.

Source: Pierers Universal-Lexikon, 1891.

Scanned by --Immanuel Giel 1 Jun 2005.

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Saint Cyprian. Martyr. Saint Justina. Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day 26 September.

English: Church of Saint Cyprian and Saint Justina, 

South Tyrol, Italy.

Deutsch: Die Zypriankirche ist, wie die Tierser Pfarrkirche 

St. Georg, im 13. Jahrhundert entstanden und den 

Heiligen Cyprian und Justina von Antiochia geweiht. 

Sie wurde um 1583 umgestaltet. Das Fresko an der 

Außenseite stammt aus dem 17. Jahrhundert.

Photo: 30 September 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: H.Helmlechner

(Wikimedia Commons)

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

“Whosoever ye bet, that are seduced by the mysteries of the demons, none of you can equal the zeal I once had for these false gods, nor my researches into their secrets, nor the vain power they had communicated to me, to Cyprian, who from my infancy was given up to the service of the dragon in the citadel of Minerva.

“Learn from me the deceitfulness of their illusions. A Virgin has proved to me that their power is but smoke. The king of the demons was arrested at the door of a mere child, and could not cross the threshold.

“He who promises so much is a liar. A woman makes sport of the boaster who vaunted he could shake Heaven and Earth. The roaring lion becomes a startled gnat before the Christian Virgin Justina”.

Cyprian, who was first a magician and afterwards a Martyr, attempted, by charms and spells, to make Justina, a Christian Virgin, consent to the passion of a certain young man.

Cyprian consulted the devil as to the best way to succeed, and was told in reply that no art would be of any service to him against the true disciples of Christ.

This answer made such so great an impression on Cyprian, that, grieving bitterly over his former manner of life, he abandoned his magical arts, and was completely converted to the Faith of Christ Our Lord.

Accused of being a Christian, he was seized together with the Virgin Juliana, and they were both severely scourged. They were then thrown into prison to see if they would change their mind; but, on being taken out, as they remained firm in the Christian Religion, they were cast into a cauldron of boiling pitch, fat, and wax.

Finally, they were beheaded at Nicomedia. Their bodies were left six days unburied; after which, some sailors carried them secretly by night to Rome.

They were first buried on the estate of a noble lady, named Rufina, but afterwards were Translated into the City and laid in Constantine’s Basilica, near the Baptistery.

He who sought to ruin thee, is now, O Virgin, thy trophy of victory; and for thee, O Cyprian, the path of crime turned aside into the way of salvation.

May you together triumph over Satan in this age, when spirit-dealing is seducing so many faltering, faithless Souls.

Teach Christians, after your example, to arm themselves, against this and every other danger, with The Sign of The Cross; then will the enemy be forced to say again: “I saw a terrible sign and I trembled; I beheld The Sign of The Crucified, and my strength melted like wax”.

A Blast From The Past: “If Tomorrow Never Comes”. Sung By: Ronan Keating.

“If Tomorrow Never Comes”.

Sung By: Ronan Keating.

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Mass In The Heart Of Limerick, Ireland. Deo Gratias.

Mass In The Heart Of Limerick, Ireland. 

Deo Gratias.

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“Tarantella del Gargano”. By: L’Arpeggiata. Christine Pluhar/Lucilla Galeazzi/Marco Beasley.

“Tarantella del Gargano”.

By: L’Arpeggiata.

Christine Pluhar/Lucilla Galeazzi/Marco Beasley.

Available on YouTube

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Saint Cyprian, Martyr. Saint Justina, Virgin And Martyr. Feast Day 26 September.

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

Saint Cyprian and Saint Justina.
   Martyrs and Virgin.
   Feast Day 26 September.

Simple.

Red Vestments.

English: Saints Cyprian and Justina (honoured in

The Eastern Orthodox Church and Oriental Orthodoxy

as Christians of Antioch, Pisidia, who, in 304 A.D., during

The Persecution of Diocletian, suffered Martyrdom at

Nicomedia (modern-day İzmir, Turkey) on

26 September, the date of their Feast).

Български: Икона на Свети Киприан и Юстина. 

Икона подарена от моето семейство, на храм „Св.Св. Кирил и Методий“.

Photo: 26 October 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Biso

(Wikimedia Commons)

"At Nicomedia,", says The Roman Martyrology, "the birth in Heaven of the Holy Martyrs Cyprian and Justina. This Virgin, after having endured many tortures under The Emperor Diocletian and the Judge Eutholmus, converted to Christ, Cyprian the Magician, who had tried to seduce her by his incantations.

Both were Martyred in 304 A.D. Their bodies, after having been exposed to wild beasts, were taken away during the night by some Christian mariners, who carried them to Rome. Later, they were buried in the Basilica of Constantine (Saint John Lateran), near the Baptistry."

Mass: Salus autem. The Third Mass for Several Martyrs.
Secret: Munera. From The Second Mass for Several Martyrs.
Postcommunion: Præsta. From The Second Mass for Several Martyrs.

Arch-Basilica of Saint John Lateran, Rome.

Saint Cyprian and Saint Justina

are buried in this Arch-Basilica.

Photo: 21 April 2015.

Source: Own work.

Author: Livioandronico2013

(Wikimedia Commons)

Albi Cathedral, France (Part Eight).

English: The Choir and Rood Screen of Albi Cathedral.

Français: Chœur et jubé (Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi).

Magyar: Kórus és szentélyrekesztő,

Szent Cecília-katedrális, Albi.

Polski: Chór kapłański oraz łuk tęczowy

(katedra Św. Cecylii w Albi we Francji).

Photo: 2 July 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Pom²

(Wikimedia Commons)

Only a small amount of Mediæval Stained-Glass remains in the Windows of the Cathedral; most of the Windows date to the 19th-Century and 20th-Century.

The Chapel of The Holy Cross has two Windows from the 15th-Century, representing Saint Helen, carrying a large Cross, and King Louis IX, holding a Cross-Reliquary.

Some pieces of earlier Glass, including the Coat-of-Arms of Bishop Beraud de Fargues, dated between 1320 and 1330, are incorporated into more modern Windows.[23]

English: Relics and Statue of Sainte-Cécile, dating from 1599, in Albi Cathedral. The Statue is meant to represent the body as it was found in the coffin. The orginal Statue is located at the Church of Saint Cecilia in Rome. Albi Cathedral, Dedicated to the Saint, has a faithful replica.

Français: Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi - Reliques et statue de Sainte-Cécile - La statue bien connue de Maderno , datant de 1599, est censée représenter le corps tel qu'il fut retrouvé dans le cercueil. Cette statue se trouve à l'église Sainte-Cécile à Rome ; la cathédrale d’Albi, dédiée à la Sainte, en possède une fidèle réplique.

Italiano : Si ritiene che la famosa statua di Maderno, risalente al 1599, rappresenti il ​​corpo così come è stato trovato nella bara. Questa statua si trova nella Chiesa di S. Cecilia a Roma; La Cattedrale di Albi, dedicata al Santo, ne conserva una fedele replica.

Photo: 4 August 2021.

Source: Own work.

Author: Didier Descouens

(Wikimedia Commons)

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The main Organ of the Cathedral is located on the Upper Level of the Nave, at the West End, above the mural of The Last Judgement.

It was commissioned in 1734 by Bishop de la Croix de Castries from the craftsman Christophe Moucherel.

It replaced the first Organ, dating to the end of the 15th-Century, and a second smaller Organ, which had been attached to the Rood Screen.

English: Chapel of Saint Marguerite, Albi Cathedral.

Français: Décor géométrique des chapelles hautes 

et basses de la cathédrale d'Albi. Décor assez mystérieux. Certains critiques y voient des anamorphoses, parfois 

à sous-entendus érotiques.

Photo: 26 October 2018.

Source: Own work.

Author: Franzrycou

(Wikimedia Commons)

The 1734 Organ re-used some of the Pipes of the first Organ. The decoration atop the Pipes of the Organs includes, at the top, statues of Angels with wings spread and with Trumpets, heralding Saint Cécile and Saint Valerien. Below these, are two White Unicorns with the Coats-of-Arms of the Bishop, and, below these, five towers of Pipes, crowned with statues of Angel-Musicians. The Cornice of the Organ rests on the shoulders of two sculpted Atlantes.[24]

The Organ was rebuilt and restored several times in the 18th-Century and 19th-Century; it was radically rebuilt in 1903 into a more Romantic Style, while preserving the older Pipes, above. Between 1977 and 1981, it was rebuilt, again, restoring its original Classical Style.[24]

The Treasury of the Cathedral is a rare example of a Cathedral Treasury located in its original place. It is a Vaulted Chamber attached to the Disambulatory of the Nave on the North Side of the Cathedral, above the Vestiaire and adjoining the Sacristy, which was constructed in the Late-13th-Century, and was used to keep the Church Archives and precious objects.

English: Decoration in the Choir, Albi Cathedral.

Français: Clôture du chœur

de la cathédrale Sainte-Cécile d'Albi.

Photo: 8 June 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: GO69

(Wikimedia Commons)

It has a series of Niches, closed with Iron Grills. It was remade into a museum in 2001. It originally contained the Cathedral’s most precious Relic, a fragment of The True Cross, which disappeared in 1792 during The French Revolution, at the same time that the Cathedral High Altar and Silver Retable were destroyed.

The objects displayed now are largely those that were preserved in the tombs of the Bishops, as well as more recent objects made in the Early-19th-Century.

It also contains a collection of paintings, including a polyptyque of scenes from the life of The Virgin and Child from the 16th-Century, with a gilded background, and paintings of the life of Saint Cecilia, the Patron Saint of the Cathedral.

English: Part of Albi Cathedral’s Quadripartite 

Cross-Ribbed Vault thirty metres above the ground. 

Painted between 1509 and 1512.

Deutsch: Teilansicht eines vierteiligen Kreuzrippengewölbes, 30 m über Bodenniveau, in den Jahren 1509 bis 1512 ausgemalt, Kathedrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi, Frankreich.

Français: Détail d'une voûte sur croisée d'ogives quadripartite située à 30m du sol, peintes entre 1509 et 1512 (Cathédrale Sainte-Cécile, Albi)

Photo: 2 July 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Pom²

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