Saint Polycarp (Whose Name Means “Much Fruit”). Bishop. Martyr. Feast Day 26 January. Red Vestments.

Saint Polycarp.

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Text from “The Liturgical Year”.
By: Abbot Guéranger, O.S.B.
Volume 3.
Christmas.
Book II.

Amidst the sweetness he is enjoying from the contemplation of “ . . . The Word Made Flesh . . .” John, the Beloved Disciple, beholds, coming towards him, his dear Polycarp, “the Angel of The Church of Smyrna”, all resplendent with the glory of Martyrdom.

This Venerable Saint has, in his Soul, the fervent love that made him say in the amphitheatre, when asked by the Proconsul to curse his Divine Master: “Six-and-eighty years have I served Him, and He has never done me any wrong; nay, He has laden me with kindness. How could I blaspheme my King, Who has served me ?”

After having suffered fire and the sword, he was admitted into the presence of this King his Saviour, in reward for the eighty-six years of his faithful service, for the labours he had gone through in order to maintain Faith and Charity among his flock, and for the cruel death he endured.

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna.

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He was a disciple of Saint John the Evangelist, whom he imitated by zealously opposing the heretics, who were then striving to corrupt the Faith.

In obedience to the command of his Holy Master, he refused to hold intercourse with Marcion, the heresiarch, whom he called “the first-born of Satan”.

This energetic adversary of the proud sect that denied the Mystery of The Incarnation , wrote an admirable Epistle to the Philippians, in which we find these words: “Whosoever confesses not that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, is an Anti-Christ”.

Polycarp, then, had a right to the honour of standing near the Crib, in which The Son of God shows Himself to us in all His loveliness, and clothed in flesh like unto our own.

Let us honour this disciple of Saint John the Evangelist, this friend of Saint Ignatius, this Bishop of the Apostolic Age, whose praise was pronounced by Jesus Christ, Himself, in the Revelations of Patmos. Our Saviour said to him by the mouth of Saint John: “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the Crown of Life”.

The East Window of Saint James’s Church, New Brighton, England, depicting “The Agony In The Garden” and Jesus Christ bearing The Cross. Across the bottom are depicted: Saint Boniface; Saint Basil; Saint Polycarp; Saint Ignatius.

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Polycarp was faithful even unto death, and has received his Crown; and, whilst we are celebrating the coming of his King among us, he is one of the Saints who assist us to profit by the Holy Season.

The Church gives us a passage from Saint Jerome’s book, “On Ecclesiastical Writers”, in which there is contained the following short notice of our Holy Martyr:

“Polycarp, a disciple of the Apostle John, who Ordained him Bishop of Smyrna, was looked up to by all the Churches of Asia, inasmuch as he had not only known some of the Apostles, and those who had seen Our Lord, but had been trained by them”.

The Greek Church also sings the praises of Saint Polycarp in her “Menæa” on 23 February [Editor: The “Menæa” is a Greek monthly catalogue of Saints. It is used to identify the names of Saints and the dates of their deaths.]

Dunstable Priory. (Part Six).

Print of Dunstable Priory.

Published 24 December 1819.

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and Joseph Harding, London.

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There were only thirteen Monks, besides the Prior, at the time of the Dissolution, and eleven Canons and two Lay Brothers; in the early days, there were probably more, though never a very large number.

Between 1223 and 1275, only twenty-five admissions to the Novitiate are recorded, and thirteen deaths; but the entries were perhaps not always made with equal care, and the entrance of Lay Brothers was not noticed at all.

Besides the Religious, there were a number of other inmates of the Priory; a “new house for the carpenters and wheel-wrights within the court” was built in 1250; there was accommodation also for the Chaplains of the Monastery, and for boarders who had bought corrodies (pensions), as well as pensioners in the Almonry. The Porter of the Great Gate was sometimes a Secular, unlike the custom of Benedictine Houses.[6]

Dunstable Priory, 

Bedfordshire, England.

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There can be no doubt of the good order of the Priory during the time of Prior Richard de Morins; he would scarcely have been chosen twice to visit other Houses unless he had ruled his own with care and diligence.

During his forty years of Office, Canons of Dunstable were at least five times elected Priors to other Monasteries of the Order — at Caldwell, St. Frideswide's, Ashby and Coldnorton.

Bishop Grosseteste visited the House once in 1236, not so much to inquire into the daily life of the Priory, as to investigate its title to several appropriate Churches; but he exacted an oath on this occasion from all the Canons individually, and one of them fled to Woburn rather than submit to it.

The Bishop came again while Geoffrey of Barton was Prior. Henry de Bilenda, the Cellarer, upon whom so much depended, was incapable or untrustworthy, and, in 1249, fled to the Cistercians at Merivale, rather than render an account of his stewardship.

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In 1274, Bishop Gravesend sent a Canon of Lincoln to visit Dunstable, who left his corrections in writing; and, in Advent of the same year, he made a personal visitation. 

In November 1279, Bishop Sutton came and discharged his Office “strictly and without respect of persons.” The Sub-Prior and certain others were removed from their duties and forbidden to hold Office in future, and certain “less useful members” of the Priory were expelled.

In May 1280, he deposed the Prior, William le Breton, from all pastoral care. It seems most likely that these depositions were on account of mismanagement, rather than for any personal failings.

PART SEVEN FOLLOWS.

Wells Cathedral (Part Six).

The Great West Front,

Wells Cathedral.

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While Wells survived the The Dissolution Of The Monasteries better than the Cathedrals of Monastic Foundation, the abolition of Chantries in 1547 resulted in a reduction in its income.

Queen Elizabeth I gave the Chapter and the Vicars Choral a new Charter in 1591, creating a new governing body, consisting of a Dean and eight Residentiary Canons with control over the Church estates and authority over its affairs, but no longer entitled to elect the Dean (that entitlement thenceforward belonged ultimately to The Crown).[50]

The stability brought by the new Charter ended with the onset of the Civil War and the execution of King Charles I.

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Local fighting damaged the Cathedral’s stonework, furniture and windows. The Dean, Walter Raleigh, a nephew of the explorer Walter Raleigh, was placed under house arrest after the fall of Bridgwater to the Parliamentarians in 1645, first in the Rectory at Chedzoy and then in the Deanery at Wells.[51]

His Jailer, the Shoe Maker and City Constable, David Barrett, caught him writing a Letter to his wife. When he refused to surrender it, Barrett ran him through with a sword and he died six weeks later, on 10 October 1646.[52] He was buried in an unmarked grave in the Choir before the Dean’s Stall.[53]

During the Commonwealth of England under Oliver Cromwell, no Dean was appointed and the Cathedral fell into disrepair. The Bishop went into retirement and some of the Clerics were reduced to performing menial tasks.[54]

In 1661, after Charles II was restored to the throne, Robert Creighton, the King’s Chaplain-in-Exile, was appointed Dean and was Bishop for two years before his death in 1672.[55]

The Nave, Wells Cathedral.

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PART SEVEN FOLLOWS.

Basilica Santa Maria Della Vittoria, Rome.

Basilica Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

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Basilica Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

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Santa Maria della Vittoria (English: Saint Mary of Victory, Latin: S. Mariæ de Victoria) is a Catholic Titular Church and Basilica dedicated to The Virgin Mary in Rome.

Basilica Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

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Basilica Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

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The Church is known for the masterpiece of Gian Lorenzo Bernini in the Cornaro Chapel, the Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.

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Pipe Organ, Santa Maria della Vittoria, Rome.

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“Father Ted”.

“Father Ted”.

“Entertaining Father Stone”.

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“The Eve Of Saint Agnes”. By: John Keats.

John Keats.

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Date: Circa 1822.

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Zephyrinus has received reports of exceptionally cold Winter weather, from Our North American Correspondent, who relates that temperatures of minus-fifteen degrees are imminent.

Prayers are offered for the safety and comfort of all our North American Readers.

Meanwhile . . .

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St. Agnes’ Eve — Ah, bitter chill it was !

The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold;

The hare limp’d trembling through the frozen grass,

And silent was the flock in woolly fold:

Numb were the Beadsman’s fingers, while he told

His Rosary, and while his frosted breath,

Like pious Incense from a Censer old,

Seem’d taking flight for Heaven, without a death,

Past the sweet Virgin’s picture, while his Prayer he saith.

His Prayer he saith, this patient, holy man;

Then takes his lamp, and riseth from his knees,

And back returneth, meagre, barefoot, wan,

Along the Chapel Aisle by slow degrees:

The sculptur’d dead, on each side, seem to freeze,

Emprison’d in Black, Purgatorial rails:

Knights, Ladies, Praying in dumb orat’ries,

He passeth by; and his weak Spirit fails

To think how they may ache in icy hoods and mails.

Northward he turneth through a little door,

And scarce three steps, ere Music’s golden tongue

Flatter’d to tears this aged man and poor;

But no — already had his deathbell rung;

The joys of all his life were said and sung:

His was harsh Penance on Saint Agnes’ Eve:

Another way he went, and soon among

Rough ashes sat he for his Soul’s reprieve,

And all night kept awake, for sinners’ sake to grieve.

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John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821) was an English poet of the second generation of Romantic poets, along with Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley. 

His poems had been in publication for less than four years, when he died of tuberculosis at the age of twenty-five. 

They were indifferently received in his lifetime, but his fame grew rapidly after his death.[1] 

By the end of the 19th-Century, he was placed in the Canon of English literature, strongly influencing many writers of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood; the Encyclopædia Britannica of 1888 described his “Ode to a Nightingale” as “one of the final masterpieces”.

“The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly”. The Final Duel.

“The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly”.

The Final Duel.

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“Mary Versus The Attacks Of The Devil”. The Devil Cannot Touch The Beloved Mother Of God, Because She Is Full Of Grace. Where The Madonna Is At Home, The Devil Dare Not Enter. Mary Is The Terror Of Hell.

The Blessed Virgin Mary

is Crowned “Queen of Heaven”

and “Queen of The Angels”

by her Beloved Son.

Illustration: AD MAIOREM DEI GLORIAM

Fr. Vincent Lampert.

“Mary Versus The Attacks Of The Devil”.

Necessity of Exorcists.

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The Conversion Of Saint Paul. Whose Feast Day Is, Today, 25 January. White Vestments.

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The Conversion of Saint Paul.
   Feast Day 25 January.

Greater-Double.

White Vestments.

The Conversion of Saint Paul.

Artist: Caravaggio (1571–1610).

Date: 1600.

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The Conversion of Saint Paul.

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Paul of Tarsus was a Jew of the Tribe of Benjamin. A most zealous Pharisee, he appears in the Epistle as full of hatred "for the Disciples of The Lord". He becomes a "Vessel of Election", so filled with The Holy Ghost (Epistle), "that all Nations shall drink of its fulness," says Saint Ambrose, and shall learn through him that "Jesus is The Son of God" (Epistle).

Saint Paul is, like The Twelve, an Apostle of Christ (Alleluia), "he shall sit in one of the twelve seats and shall judge the World when The Son of Man shall Himself be seated on The Throne which belongs to Him as Son of God" (Gradual and Gospel).

We owe it to today's Feast, which follows by a few days that of The Chair of Saint Peter at Rome, and which had for its origin a Translation of the body of Saint Paul, that we are enabled to see the whole Season after Epiphany represented in a picture [Editor: A Theoretical Picture], giving us an admirable vision of The Kingship of Jesus.

In the foreground [Editor: Of this Theoretical Picture] are the two witnesses of The Divinity of Christ, Saint Peter, more especially sent to the sons of Israel, and Saint Paul, to the Gentiles (Collect, Gradual).

In the background [Editor: Of this Theoretical Picture], is Galilee with its verdant hills, where we perceive Cana, the Synagogue of Nazareth, and the Lake of Genesareth, where Jesus, by His Miracles, proved that He was The Son of God.

Following the example of Saint Paul, let us show by our Faith, and by a new life, that Jesus is God and that He is our King.

Mass: Scio cui crédidi.
Commemoration: Saint Peter.
Gospel: Ecce nos.
Creed: Is said.

Chester Cathedral. Church Of Christ And The Blessed Virgin Mary. (Part Nine).

The Nativity Window, Chapel of Saint Werburgh, 

Chester Cathedral. It shows Baby Jesus in a Manger. 

Created by Michael Connor, 1857.

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“Be still and know I am with you”.

Psalm 46.

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Queen’s School Choir in Chester Cathedral.

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Psalm 46.

Be still and know I am with you,

Be still I am the Lord.

I will not leave you orphans.

I leave you My word.

Be one, be one.

You fear the light may be fading,

You fear you may lose your way.

Be still and know I am near you.

I’ll lead you to the day and the sun.

Be glad the day you have sorrow,

Be glad, for then you live.

The stars shine only in darkness,

And in your need I give,

I give My peace,

My peace, My peace.

The most famous feature of the Quire (Choir) is the set of Choir Stalls, dating from about 1380. 

The Lectern, in the form of a Wooden Eagle, symbol of John the Evangelist, dates from the first half of the 17th-Century.[50] 

The Candlesticks also date from the 17th-Century and are by Censore of Bologna, who died in 1662.[44]

With these exceptions, most of the decoration and the fittings of the Quire date from the 19th-Century and are in keeping with the Gothic Revival, promoted by The Oxford Movement and Augustus Welby Pugin. 

Chester Cathedral’s South Transept. The Galleried Perpendicular Western Portal with Niches for Statues. Early-1500s. May have been the work of Seth and George Derwall.

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The restored Vault of the Quire is typical of the period, having been designed by Scott and decorated and gilded by Clayton and Bell.[34]

The Quire is entered through a Screen designed by George Gilbert Scott, with Gates made by Skidmore. The Rood was designed by Scott, and was made by F. Stuflesser.[4] 

The Bishop’s Throne, or “Cathedra” was designed by Scott to complement the Choir Stalls. It was constructed by Farmer and Brindley in 1876. 

The Reredos and the Floor Mosaic date from 1876, and were designed by J. R. Clayton. The Great East Window has Tracery of an elegant Decorated Gothic design, which is filled with Stained-Glass of 1884 by Heaton, Butler and Bayne.[44]

The building of Chester Cathedral’s Nave, begun in 1323, 

was halted by The Plague and completed 150 years later.

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The Chancel and The High Altar has a Reredos by J. R. Clayton of Clayton and Bell, and a seasonal Altar Frontal (Antependium) in the Art Nouveau Style.

The Lady Chapel.

The 13th-Century Lady Chapel contains the Stone Shrine of Saint Werburgh, which dates from the 14th-Century and which used to contain her Relics. 

The Shrine, of similar Red Sandstone as the Cathedral, has a base pierced with deep Niches. The upper part takes the form of a miniature Chapel containing Statuettes. 

During The Dissolution of the Monasteries, it was dismantled. Some of the parts were found during the 1873 restoration of the Cathedral and the Shrine was re-assembled in 1888 by Blomfield. 

World War I and World War II Memorial to 

The Cheshire Regiment at Chester Cathedral.

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A carving of Saint Werburgh by Joseph Pyrz was added in 1993.[51] Also in the Chapel are a Sedilia and a Piscina. 

The Stained-Glass of 1859 is by William Wailes. The Chapel contains a Monument to Archdeacon Francis Wrangham, made by Hardman & Co. and dating from 1846.[52] 

In 1555, George Marsh, Protestant Martyr stood trial here accused of Heresy.[53]

The North Quire Aisle has a Stone Screen by R. C. Hussey and an Iron Gate, dated 1558, that came from Guadalajara. 

The Choir, Chester Cathedral.

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At the East End of the Aisle is the Chapel of Saint Werburgh, which has a Vault of two Bays,[54] and an East Window depicting the Nativity by Michael O’Connor, dated 1857. 

Other Stained-Glass Windows in the North Aisle are by William Wailes, by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, and by Clayton and Bell. 

The Chapel contains a Piscina, dating from the 14th-Century,[4]

North Transept, Sacristy, and Chapter House.

The small Norman Transept has Clerestory Windows containing Stained-Glass by William Wailes, installed in 1853.[55] 

The Sacristy, of 1200, has an East Window depicting Saint Anselm, and designed by A. K. Nicholson. In the North Transept is a free-standing Tomb Chest Monument to John Pearson, who died in 1686, designed by Arthur Blomfield and carved by Nicholas Earp, with a recumbent effigy by Matthew Noble. 

The Wall Monuments include Cenotaphs to Members of The Cheshire (Earl of Chester’s) Yeomanry killed in the Boer War and in the First and Second World Wars.[4] 

At the corner of the Transept with the North Aisle is a 17th-Century Tree of Jesse carved in Whale Ivory. A Niche contains a rare example of a “Cobweb Picture”, painted on the web of a caterpillar. Originating in the Austrian Tyrol, it depicts The Blessed Virgin Mary and The Christ-Child, and is based on a painting by Lucas Cranach the Elder.[56]

PART TEN FOLLOWS.

The Twenty-Six Mediæval Cathedrals Of England (Part Nine).

Carlisle Cathedral.

Note the Chancel’s Decorated Gothic tracery window.

Български:

Главният кораб на Катедралата на Карлайл,

графство Къмбрия, Англия.

Français:

La nef de la cathédrale de Carlisle, Cumbrie.

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Like the majority of Mediæval Cathedrals, those of England are cruciform. While most are of the Latin Cross shape with a single Transept, several, including Salisbury, Lincoln, Wells, and Canterbury, have two Transepts, which is a distinctly English characteristic.

The Transepts, unlike those of many French Cathedrals, always project strongly. The Cathedral, whether of Monastic or Secular foundation, often has several clearly defined subsidiary buildings, in particular the Chapter House and Cloister.

With two exceptions, the Naves and Eastern arms of the Cathedrals have single lower Aisles on either side, with a Clerestory, that illuminates the central space.

Ely Cathedral.

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At Bristol, the Aisles are at the same height as the Mediæval Choir, like some German Cathedrals, and, at Chichester, there are two Aisles on either side of the Nave, like some French Cathedrals.

At a number of the Cathedrals where the Transepts are large, they also have Aisles, either on the Eastern side, as at Peterborough, Durham, Lincoln, and Salisbury, or both, as at Wells, Winchester, Ely, and York.[4][5]

Winchester and Ely, additionally, have a third Aisle at the end of both Transepts.[11]

Durham Cathedral’s Nave

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The Nave, and sometimes the Eastern arm, are often of great length by comparison with the Mediæval Cathedrals of other countries.[5]

Seven of the twenty-six English Cathedrals — Canterbury, Durham, Ely, Lincoln, Saint Albans, Winchester, York — exceed 150 metres (between 509 feet and 554 feet), and are only equalled by the Cathedrals of Milan and Florence.

Another nine of the Cathedrals — Norwich, Peterborough, Salisbury, Worcester, Gloucester, Wells, Exeter, Chichester, Lichfield — are between 397 feet and 481 feet (121 metres and 147 metres) long.

By comparison, the largest Cathedrals of Northern France, Notre Dame de Paris, Amiens, Rouen, Reims, Chartres, are all about 135 – 140 metres in length, as is Cologne in Germany.

The longest Cathedrals of Spain, including Seville, which has the largest floor area of any Mediæval Church, are about 120 metres.[5]

Five English Cathedrals: Chester; Hereford; Rochester; Southwell; Ripon, are between 318 and 371 feet (97 metres and 113 metres) in length.

At Bristol and Southwark, the Naves were built in the Victorian era, leaving Carlisle and Oxford, with Naves of only two Bays and four Bays, respectively, as the smallest of England’s ancient Cathedrals at 73 Metres (240 feet) and
57 Metres (187 feet)[2]

PART TEN FOLLOWS.