Jesus has manifested His Divinity by healing both Souls and bodies. Saint Peter Nolasco, impelled by this example of Divine Charity, and by a Heavenly inspiration (Collect) of which Saint Raymund of Pennafort was the instrument, spent all the money he possessed (Gospel) in delivering Christians from the captivity in which their bodies languished among the infidels and their Souls were exposed to great dangers.
The Order of Our Lady of Ransom, Founded with this object, shows how The Kingship of Jesus extends to both the natural and supernatural Worlds. By a special Vow, The Religious bound themselves to become prisoners of the pagans, if necessary for the deliverance of their brethren in Christ (Epistle).
He died in 1256 and was buried with his Cuirass and Sword.
Mass: Justus. Collect: Deus, qui. Secret: From The Mass: Os justi. Postcommunion: From The Mass: Os justi. Commemoration: The Second Feast of Saint Agnes.
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Memorial Plaques of the Egerton family in the South Transept: A Tablet to family members killed during the First World War and a Tablet to Vice-Admiral Wion Egerton, killed in the Second World War.
The Chapter House has Stained-Glass in its Great East Window by Heaton, Butler and Bayne, and Grisaille Windows in the North and South Walls, dated 1882 – 1883, by Blomfield.[57]
It contains an Oak Cope cupboard from the Late- 13th-Century.[58] The front of the Chapter House was rebuilt to a design by Hussey.[33]
South Choir Aisle.
The South Aisle was shortened about 1870 by Scott, and given an Apsidal East End, becoming the Chapel of Saint Erasmus.[4]
The Stained-Glass in the Apse Window is dated 1872 and is by Clayton and Bell.
Elsewhere the Stained-Glass in the Aisle is by Wailes, and by Hardman & Co. to a design by Pugin.[55]
The Aisle contains the tomb of Ranulf Higdon,[36] a Monk at Saint Werburgh’s Abbey in the 12th-Century, who wrote a major work of history entitled “Polychronicon”.[59]
South Transept.
The South Transept, formerly the Parish Church of Saint Oswald, contains a Piscina and Sedilia in the South Wall.[21]
The West Wall of the South Transept has many Memorials, including War Memorial Cenotaphs to The Cheshire Regiment, the Royal Air Force, and the Free Czech Forces.[4]
Auschwitz-Birkenau. Train tracks leading to Auschwitz-Birkenau, Nazi Germany’s largest Concentration Camp, near Oświęcim, Poland. Photo Credit: Dinos Michail—iStock Editorial/Getty Images Illustration: BRITANNICA
Yom HaZikaron laShoah ve-laG'vurah (Hebrew: יום הזיכרון לשואה ולגבורה (“Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Day”), known colloquially in Israel and abroad as Yom HaShoah (Hebrew: יום השואה, Yiddish: יום השואה) and in English as Holocaust Remembrance Day, is observed as Israel’s Day of Commemoration for the approximately six million Jews murdered in the Holocaust by Nazi Germany and its collaborators.
The first inmates, German criminals brought to the Camp in May 1940 as Functionaries, established the Camp's reputation for sadism. Prisoners were beaten, tortured, and executed, for the most trivial reasons. The first Gassings — of Soviet and Polish Prisoners — took place in Block 11 of Auschwitz I around August 1941.
Construction of Auschwitz II began the following month, and, from 1942 until Late-1944, Freight Trains delivered Jews from all over German-occupied Europe to its Gas Chambers.
Of the 1.3 million people sent to Auschwitz, 1.1 million died. The Death Toll includes 960,000 Jews (865,000 of whom were Gassed on arrival), 74,000 ethnic Poles, 21,000 Roma, 15,000 Soviet Prisoners of War, and up to 15,000 other Europeans.[5]
Those not Gassed, died of Starvation, Exhaustion, Disease, Individual Executions, or Beatings. Others were killed during Medical Experiments.
At least 802 Prisoners tried to escape, 144 successfully, and, on 7 October 1944, two Sonderkommando Units, consisting of Prisoners who staffed the Gas Chambers, launched an unsuccessful uprising.
Only 789 Staff (no more than fifteen per cent) ever stood trial;[6] several were executed, including Camp Commandant Rudolf Höss.
The Allies’ failure to act on early reports of atrocities by bombing the Camp or its Railways remains controversial.
As the Soviet Red Army approached Auschwitz in January 1945, toward the end of the War, the SS sent most of the Camp’s population West on a Death March to Camps inside Germany and Austria.
In the decades after the War, survivors, such as Primo Levi, Viktor Frankl, and Elie Wiesel, wrote Memoirs of their experiences, and the Camp became a dominant symbol of
By contrast with their tendency towards extreme length,
the Vaults of English Cathedrals are low compared with
many of those found in other Countries. The highest Mediæval Stone Vault in England is at Westminster Abbey at 102 feet
(31 metres),[5] that at York Minster being of the same height but, despite its appearance, not actually of Stone, but Wood.
The majority of English Cathedrals have Vaults ranging in height up to 26 metres (85 feet).[2] These contrast with Cathedrals such as Beauvais, Amiens, and Cologne, with internal heights of over 42 metres (138 feet).[6]
An important feature of English Cathedrals, uncommon elsewhere except in Normandy, is the large and often elaborate square Central Tower over the Crossing.[5]
The largest of these Towers range from 55 metres (180 ft) at Wells to 83 metres (271 ft) at Lincoln.[2] The Central Tower may exist as a single feature, as at Salisbury, Gloucester, Worcester, Norwich, and Chichester, or in combination with paired Towers at The West Front, as at York, Lincoln, Canterbury, Durham, and Wells.
Among the Cathedrals that have three Towers, the Central Tower is usually the tallest. At Southwell, the two Western Towers are capped by pyramidal Spires sheathed in Lead.
Tall Gothic Central Spires remain at Salisbury and Norwich, that at Chichester having been rebuilt in the 19th-Century after its collapse. The Spire of Salisbury at 404 feet (123 metres) is the tallest in Britain. It is also the tallest 14th-Century Spire, the tallest Ashlar masonry Spire (in contrast to the open-work Spires of Germany and France), and the tallest Spire in the World that remains from the Mediæval period that has not been entirely rebuilt.
However, it was greatly surpassed in height by the Spires of Lincoln and Old Saint Paul’s. At Lincoln, between the Early-14th-Century and 1548, the Central Tower was surmounted by the tallest Spire in the World at about 170 metres (557 ft), but this fell in a storm. Lichfield Cathedral, uniquely in England, has three Mediæval masonry Spires.
Although single Western Towers are common in English Parish Churches, only one Mediæval Cathedral, Ely Cathedral, retains a centrally-placed Western Tower, and, in that case, it was framed by two lower lateral Towers, one of which has since fallen down.[a]
Ely, alone among England’s Cathedrals, has a central feature over the Crossing that somewhat resembles the polygonal Vaulted Lantern Towers of Spain. This elaborate Lantern-like structure, known as “The Octagon”, spans both the Nave and the Aisles, and is thus said to have inspired Christopher Wren’s design for the Dome of Saint Paul’s Cathedral. Its upper parts are supported by hidden wooden Hammer-Beams, an architectural device unique to English Gothic architecture.[4]
When was the last time you heard this beautiful Hymn
during Mass at Communion ?
Why not ask your Parish Priest, Pastor, Choir Master, or Director of Music, to include it during Mass next Sunday ?
An Indulgence of 300 days
each time this Prayer is said or sung.
An Indulgence of seven years
if said or sung after Holy Communion.
If said every day during the month, a Plenary Indulgence, subject to the usual conditions (* see, below), on any day chosen. [Blessed Pope Pius IX, 1854].
The sequence of sentences, in Anima Christi, have rich associations with Catholic concepts that relate to The Holy Eucharist (Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity, of Christ), Baptism (Water) and The Passion of Jesus (Holy Wounds).
As it was once mistakenly attributed to Saint Ignatius Loyola, who included it in his “Spiritual Exercises”, it is sometimes referred to as the “Aspirations of Saint Ignatius Loyola”.
This well-known Catholic Prayer dates to the
Early-14th-Century and was possibly written by Pope John XXII, but its authorship remains uncertain. The Prayer takes its name from its first two words in Latin. “Anima Christi” means “Soul of Christ”.
The Anima Christi was popularly believed to have been composed by Saint Ignatius Loyola, as he put it at the beginning of his “Spiritual Exercises” and often refers to it.
This is a mistake, as has been pointed out by many writers, since the Prayer has been found in a number of Prayer Books printed during Ignatius’ youth and is in Manuscripts which were written a hundred years before his birth (1491).
James Mearns, the English Hymnologist, found it in a Manuscript of The British Museum which dates back to about 1370. In the Library of Avignon, there is preserved a Prayer Book of Cardinal Peter De Luxembourg, who died in 1387, which contains the Anima Christi in practically the same form as we have it today.
It has also been found inscribed on one of the gates of
The Alcazar of Seville, which brings us back to the times
of Don Pedro the Cruel (1350 - 1369).
This Prayer was so-well-known, and so popular, at the time
of Saint Ignatius, that, in the first edition of his “Spiritual Exercises”, he merely mentions it, evidently supposing
that the “Exercitant”, or Reader, already knew it.
In the later editions, it was printed in full. It was by assuming that everything in the book was written by Saint Ignatius, that it came to be looked upon as his composition.
