“The Night Scotsman”.
Artist: Robert Bartlett.
Illustration and Text:
The Locomotive powers into the night landscape, while the bright lights in the footplate area illuminate the skill of the driver and fireman.
17 March, 2026
Zephyrinus Spends Time In The Highlands Of Scotland. Travels Overnight From King’s Cross Railway Station On “The Night Scotsman”.
Saint Patrick. Bishop And Confessor. Whose Feast Day It Is, Today, 17 March. White Vestments.
unless stated otherwise.
Saint Patrick.
Bishop And Confessor.
Feast Day 17 March.
Double.
White Vestments.
Stained-Glass Window depicting Saint Patrick.
Saint Patrick Catholic Church, Junction City,
Ohio, United States of America.
Photo: 21 March 2015.
Source: Own work.
Author: Nheyob
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Saint Patrick.
The Irish Legend.
Available on YouTube
Whilst in the 5th-Century A.D., The Franks, Germans, and other Northern peoples had not yet received The Light of The Gospel, God raised up “the Confessor and Bishop, Saint Patrick, to announce His Glory to the pagans” of Ireland (Collect).
This Holy Bishop (Introit) put to such profit the talents he had received from God (Gospel) that he became the father of all this people (Communion), and that Ireland has preserved for him, after thirteen Centuries, an ardent and tender Devotion which nothing has been able to weaken.
Saint Patrick’s Cathedral,
Dublin, Ireland.
Photo: 21 July 2015.
Source: Own work.
Attribution: Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
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“Hail, Glorious Saint Patrick”.
Available on YouTube
Strengthened by help from above (Offertory), he was great before Kings and Princes (Epistle). At first hostile, they ended by listening to him and helped him, during his thirty-three years' Apostleship, to cover, with Churches, Monasteries, and Schools, the island which was soon to deserve the appellation of Isle of The Saints.
Saint Patrick died in 461 A.D.
17 March is a National Day and a Day of Obligation in Ireland.
Through the merits of this Saint, whose austerities have remained celebrated, let us ask of God the Grace to accomplish the Penances commanded by Him (Collect).
Mass: Státuit.
Commemoration: Of The Feria.
Last Gospel: Of The Feria.
Wells Cathedral (Part Nineteen).
The Great West Front,
Wells Cathedral.
Photo: 30 April 2014.
Source: Own work.
Attribution:
Photo by DAVID ILIFF.
Licence: CC BY-SA 3.0.
Author: Diliff
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Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless stated otherwise.
The Bracing Arches are known as “Saint Andrew’s Cross Arches”, in a reference to the Patron Saint of the Cathedral. They have been described by Wim Swaan – rightly or wrongly – as “brutally massive” and intrusive in an otherwise restrained Interior.[6]
Lady Chapel and Retro-Choir.
Wells Cathedral has a square East End to the Choir, as is usual, and, like several other Cathedrals, including Salisbury and Lichfield, has a lower Lady Chapel projecting at the Eastern End, begun by Thomas Witney about 1310, possibly before the Chapter House was completed.
The Lady Chapel seems to have begun as a free-standing structure in the form of an elongated octagon, but the Plan changed and it was linked to the Eastern End by extension of the Choir and construction of a second Transept, or Retro-Choir, East of the Choir, probably by William Joy.[116]
The Lady Chapel has a Vault of complex and somewhat irregular pattern, as the Chapel is not symmetrical about both axes. The main Ribs are intersected by additional non-supporting, Lierne Ribs, which in this case form a star-shaped pattern at the apex of the Vault. It is one of the earliest Lierne Vaults in England.[116]
The view through William Joy’s Retro-Choir into the Lady Chapel has been described as “one of the most subtle and entrancing architectural prospects in Europe”.[116]
Photo: 9 December 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Mattana
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There are five large windows, of which four are filled with fragments of Mediæval Glass.[116] The tracery of the windows is in the style known as Reticulated Gothic, having a pattern of a single repeated shape, in this case a Trefoil, giving a “reticulate” or net-like appearance.[116]
The Retro-Choir extends across the East End of the Choir and into the East Transepts. At its centre, the Vault is supported by a remarkable structure of angled Piers.
Two of these are placed as to complete the octagonal shape of the Lady Chapel, a solution described by Francis Bond as “an intuition of Genius”.[117]
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The Eastern Bays of the Choir (1329 – 1345)
showing the Reticular Vault and the
Gallery of Saints beneath the Great East Window[113]
Photo: 11 February 2008.
Source: Wells Cathedral, Somerset
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The windows of the Retro-Choir are in the Reticulated Style, like those of the Lady Chapel, but are fully Flowing Decorated in that the tracery Mouldings form Ogival curves.[116]
The Chapter House was begun in the Late-13th-Century and built in two stages, completed about 1310. It is a two-storeyed structure with the main Chamber raised on an Undercroft.
PART TWENTY FOLLOWS.
The Tuesday Of The Fourth Week In Lent. The Lenten Station Is At The Basilica Of Saint Laurence’s-in-Damaso. Violet Vestments.
Peterborough Cathedral.
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unless otherwise stated.
Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Lent.
Station at Saint Laurence’s-in-Damaso.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
(San Lorenzo-in-Damaso), Rome.
The Lenten Stational Church for
Tuesday of The Fourth Week in Lent.
The Nave, Basilica of Saint Laurence’s-in-Damaso, Rome.
Photo: http://www.abcroma.com/
The Lenten Station is at the Church built in the 4th-Century A.D., by Pope Saint Damasus, in honour of the celebrated Deacon, the Martyr, Saint Laurence. This Sanctuary, in the 5th-Century A.D., was one of the twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome. The Palace adjoining contained the archives of the Church in Saint Damasus’ time; it is now the Pontifical Cancellaria.
The Epistle carries us to Sinai. God had seen, with indignation, His people prostrated at the foot of the golden calf: He announced to Moses His intention of destroying this ungrateful Race.
Moses Prayed and his Prayer appeased The Divine Anger. He descended from the mountain, chastised the idolaters and brought the Israelites to repentance. Let us do Penance, and God will hear our Prayers, since we are, henceforth, part of the people of God.
The Gospel introduces us into the Temple, where Jesus is accused by His perfidious enemies. He confounds them by appealing to the authority of Moses, but fails to change their hearts. Rejected by Jerusalem, He will Found a New People, The Church, which spreads over the whole World and will soon have the joy of seeing increased numbers of her children at the Paschal Festivities. Let us rejoice that we are Members of this Church.
The Prayer of Moses, upon the idolatry of his people (Epistle), has been interpreted as an allusion to the Schism that occurred in Rome on the Election of Pope Damasus. This act of rebellion was like that which was evoked by the opposition that Our Lord encountered on The Feast of Tabernacles (Gospel).
Mass: Exáudi, Deus.
Preface: Of Lent.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
The Gospel introduces us into the Temple, where Jesus is accused by His perfidious enemies. He confounds them by appealing to the authority of Moses, but fails to change their hearts. Rejected by Jerusalem, He will Found a New People, The Church, which spreads over the whole World and will soon have the joy of seeing increased numbers of her children at the Paschal Festivities. Let us rejoice that we are Members of this Church.
The Prayer of Moses, upon the idolatry of his people (Epistle), has been interpreted as an allusion to the Schism that occurred in Rome on the Election of Pope Damasus. This act of rebellion was like that which was evoked by the opposition that Our Lord encountered on The Feast of Tabernacles (Gospel).
Mass: Exáudi, Deus.
Preface: Of Lent.
The Entrance of San Lorenzo-in-Damaso, Rome,
incorporated into the Palazzo della Cancelleria.
Photo: September 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa.
(Wikimedia Commons)
San Lorenzo-in-Damaso (Saint Laurence in the House of Damasus) is a Basilica Church in Rome, one of several dedicated to the Roman Deacon and Martyr, Saint Laurence.
Known since antiquity (the Synod of Pope Symmachus,
499 A.D.) as “Titulus Damasi”, according to Tradition, San Lorenzo-in-Damaso was built by Pope Damasus I in his own house, in the 380s A.D.
Pope Damasus is known to have been raised in the service
Pope Damasus is known to have been raised in the service
of the Basilica of Saint Laurence-outside-the-Walls, in Rome, and, following the death of Pope Liberius, he succeeded to the Papacy amidst factional violence.
A group of Damasus’ supporters, previously loyal to his
opponent, Felix, attacked and killed rivals who were loyal to Liberius’ Deacon, Ursinus, in a riot that required the intervention of the Emperor, Valentinian I, to quell.
Pope Saint Damasus I
(Pope from 366 A.D. - 384 A.D.)
Artist: Juan Carreño de Miranda (1614–1685).
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by order of Cardinal Raffaele Riario, within the restoration works of the neighbouring Palazzo della Cancelleria. The last restoration was necessary after a fire that damaged the Basilica in 1944.
Immediately to the Right of the Entrance, is the Memorial of Alessandro Valtrini, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1639.
The first Chapel, to the Right, houses a “Virgin with Saints Filippo Neri and Nicolò” by Sebastiano Conca, while the Ceiling is frescoed with “Eternity Appears to San Nicola” by Corrado Giaquinto.
Immediately to the Right of the Entrance, is the Memorial of Alessandro Valtrini, designed by Gian Lorenzo Bernini in 1639.
The first Chapel, to the Right, houses a “Virgin with Saints Filippo Neri and Nicolò” by Sebastiano Conca, while the Ceiling is frescoed with “Eternity Appears to San Nicola” by Corrado Giaquinto.
The first Chapel, to the Left, has a “Last Supper” by Vincenzo Berrettini.
In the first Nave to the Left, are statues of Saints Francesco Saverio and Carlo Borromeo by Stefano Maderno.
Façade of the Palazzo della Cancelleria, Rome.
The smaller door, in the centre, is the entrance to
The Minor Basilica of Saint Laurence’s-in-Damaso
(San Lorenzo-in-Damaso).
Photo: January 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
To the Right of the Nave, there is a Monument to Gabriella di Savoia Massimo by Pietro Tenerani. The Presbytery, modified by Bernini, is the “Altarpiece of Saints” and “Coronation of Mary” by Federico Zuccari.
In the Nave, to the Left of the Presbytery, is the Chapel of The Santissima Concezione, completed and frescoed (1635-1638) by Pietro da Cortona.
In the Nave, to the Left of the Presbytery, is the Chapel of The Santissima Concezione, completed and frescoed (1635-1638) by Pietro da Cortona.
Other works include the Monument of Cardinal Trevisan (1505), the Madonna delle Gioie, attributed to Nicolò Circignani, and the Monument of Annibal Caro (1566), by Giovanni Antonio Dosio.
Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,
Baguio, Philippines.
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Wells Cathedral.
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16 March, 2026
Cardinal Eijk’s Pontifical High Mass.
Cardinal Willem Eijk, of Utrecht, Celebrated his public
Latin Mass (Pontifical High Mass), yesterday, at the
Church of the Immaculate Conception (better known as
Grote Kerk, the Great Church) in Oss, in the Netherlands.
Note the beautiful Rose Vestments for Lætare Sunday.
Text and Illustration: RORATE CÆLI
A large number of the Faithful were present
for the Lætare Sunday Mass.
Ad multos annos, Cardinal !!!
Fr. Wilfrid (Wilf) Elkin (R.I.P.).
Fr. Wilfrid (Wilf) Elkin (R.I.P.).
Please remember in your Prayers
Fr. Wilfrid (Wilf) Elkin,
who died on Saturday, 13 March 2021.
Please Pray for the repose of his Soul.
May He Rest In Peace.
The Web-Site of The Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle
can be found HERE
Fr. Wilfrid (Wilf) Elkin (R.I.P.).
Fr. Elkin told Zephyrinus how, in the Early-1960s, ON A DAILY BASIS, there were FOUR HUNDRED Priests and Seminarians attending The Divine Holy Mass in Saint Cuthbert’s Chapel, Ushaw College.
Mass in Saint Cuthbert’s Chapel,
Ushaw College, Durham, England,
during a Latin Mass Society Training Week
for Priests and Servers, April 2011.
Fr. Elkin was one of the Priests
on the Right-Hand Side in the Choir Stalls.
Photo: Latin Mass Society
http://www.lms.org.uk/
http://www.lms.org.uk/
When Fr. Elkin told the above saga to Zephyrinus in 2011, there were only FOUR Priests and Seminarians at Ushaw College.
In 2011, said Fr. Elkin, the current Seminarians (FOUR) would attend the Modern Novus Ordo Mass in one of the Offices of the College, cluttered with hoovers, dust-pans and brushes, plastic dustbins, etc, because they thought “the Saint Cuthbert’s Chapel was too large”.
Such is the success of The Modern Novus Ordo Mass and the outstanding success of “. . . the breath of fresh air through the windows of The Catholic Church”, as regaled in Vatican II.
Fr. Elkin was, for many years, the Author of a well-regarded Catholic Blog, entitled “Let The Welkin Ring”. His Blog can be found HERE
He Served in Pennywell, Sunderland; North Kenton, Newcastle; Consett; Ryhope, Sunderland; then, finally, in Barnard Castle.
Requiescat In Pace.
May He Rest In Peace.
The Monday Of The Fourth Week In Lent. The Lenten Station Is At The Basilica Of The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs (Santi Quattro Coronati). Violet Vestments.
Peterborough Cathedral.
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Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless otherwise stated.Monday of the Fourth Week in Lent.
Station at the Four Holy Crowned Martyrs.
Indulgence of 10 Years and 10 Quarantines.
Violet Vestments.
The First Courtyard, with The Guard Tower,
The Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati
(The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs), Rome.
Photo: November 2005.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Station is on Mount Cælius, in a Church erected in the
7th-Century A.D. in honour of The Four Officers of The
Roman Army, who, having refused to adore a statue of Aesculapius, received The Crown of Martyrdom. These were "The Four Crowned Ones", whose Relics are Venerated in this Sanctuary, together with the head of the Martyr, Saint Sebastian, an Officer of The Army of Emperor Diocletian. This Basilica was one of twenty-five Parish Churches of Rome in the 5th-Century A.D.
The Epistle relates to us the famous Judgement of Solomon. One of the two women who appealed to his justice, having suffocated her child, whilst asleep, was jealous of her rival, whose son was living. She represents the Synagogue, whose rulers, by their indifference, had stifled Religious Life in Israel and who were jealous of the Gentiles, to whom the Church had given life through Baptism and Penance. Penitents and Catechumens prepared themselves for Baptism and Penance during Lent. Let us also prepare ourselves for our Easter Confession.
The Wisdom of Solomon, admired by the whole World, is a figure of the wisdom of the true Solomon, whose doctrine comes to regenerate the world. The Gospel of today establishes another superiority of Jesus over His Royal Ancestor: Solomon had built a Temple, rich beyond compare. Jesus, speaking of His Own Body, throws this challenge to His enemies: "Destroy this Temple, and in Three Days I will raise It up." He Rises, indeed, The Third Day after His Death. From The Church, His Mystical Body, He drives out the unworthy, as He had driven out The Sellers from the Temple, and receives into it all those who believe in Him.
Let us make ourselves pleasing to God, in body and in Soul, by the Religious Observance of The Holy Practices of Lent.
Mass: Deus, in nómine.
Preface: Of Lent.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Santi Quattro Coronati is an ancient Minor Basilica in Rome. The original Church dates back to the 4th- or 5th-Century A.D., and is devoted to four anonymous Saints and Martyrs.
The Epistle relates to us the famous Judgement of Solomon. One of the two women who appealed to his justice, having suffocated her child, whilst asleep, was jealous of her rival, whose son was living. She represents the Synagogue, whose rulers, by their indifference, had stifled Religious Life in Israel and who were jealous of the Gentiles, to whom the Church had given life through Baptism and Penance. Penitents and Catechumens prepared themselves for Baptism and Penance during Lent. Let us also prepare ourselves for our Easter Confession.
The Wisdom of Solomon, admired by the whole World, is a figure of the wisdom of the true Solomon, whose doctrine comes to regenerate the world. The Gospel of today establishes another superiority of Jesus over His Royal Ancestor: Solomon had built a Temple, rich beyond compare. Jesus, speaking of His Own Body, throws this challenge to His enemies: "Destroy this Temple, and in Three Days I will raise It up." He Rises, indeed, The Third Day after His Death. From The Church, His Mystical Body, He drives out the unworthy, as He had driven out The Sellers from the Temple, and receives into it all those who believe in Him.
Let us make ourselves pleasing to God, in body and in Soul, by the Religious Observance of The Holy Practices of Lent.
Mass: Deus, in nómine.
Preface: Of Lent.
Internal Courtyard,
The Basilica of Santi Quattro Coronati
(The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs), Rome.
Photo: September 2006.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
Santi Quattro Coronati is an ancient Minor Basilica in Rome. The original Church dates back to the 4th- or 5th-Century A.D., and is devoted to four anonymous Saints and Martyrs.
The complex of the Basilica, with its two Courtyards, the fortified Cardinal Palace with the Saint Sylvester Chapel, and the Monastery, with its cosmatesque Cloister, is built in a silent and green part of Rome, between the Colosseum and San Giovanni-in-Laterano.
“Santi Quattro Coronati” means “The Four Holy Crowned Ones” [i.e. Martyrs], and refers to the fact that the Saints’ names are not known, and therefore referred to with their number, and that they were Martyrs, since the Crown, together with the Branches of Palm, is an ancient symbol of Martyrdom.
“Santi Quattro Coronati” means “The Four Holy Crowned Ones” [i.e. Martyrs], and refers to the fact that the Saints’ names are not known, and therefore referred to with their number, and that they were Martyrs, since the Crown, together with the Branches of Palm, is an ancient symbol of Martyrdom.
According to the Passion of Saint Sebastian, the Four Saints were Soldiers, who refused to sacrifice to Aesculapius, and therefore were killed by order of Emperor Diocletian (284 A.D. - 305 A.D.).
The bodies of the Martyrs were buried in the Cemetery of Santi Marcellino e Pietro, on the fourth mile of via Labicana, by Pope Miltiades and Saint Sebastian (whose Skull is preserved in the Church).
Pope Miltiades decided that the Martyrs should be Venerated with the names of Claudius, Nicostratus, Simpronianus and Castorius.
The bodies of the Martyrs are kept in four ancient Sarcophagi in the Crypt. According to a Lapid, dated 1123, the Head of one of the Four Martyrs is buried in Santa Maria-in-Cosmedin.
The bodies of the Martyrs were buried in the Cemetery of Santi Marcellino e Pietro, on the fourth mile of via Labicana, by Pope Miltiades and Saint Sebastian (whose Skull is preserved in the Church).
Pope Miltiades decided that the Martyrs should be Venerated with the names of Claudius, Nicostratus, Simpronianus and Castorius.
The bodies of the Martyrs are kept in four ancient Sarcophagi in the Crypt. According to a Lapid, dated 1123, the Head of one of the Four Martyrs is buried in Santa Maria-in-Cosmedin.
Tradition holds the first Church was begun by Pope Miltiades in the 4th-Century A.D., on the North Side of The Cælian Hill. One of the first Churches of Rome, it bore the Titulus "Aemilianæ", from the name of the Foundress, who probably owned the elaborate Roman villa, whose structure is evident under the Church. The Church was completed at the end of the 6th-Century A.D., and, because of its proximity to the Mediæval Papal residence of The Lateran Palace, it became prominent in its day.
The first renovations occurred under Pope Leo IV (847 A.D. - 855 A.D.), who built the Crypt under the Nave, added Side Aisles, enclosed the Courtyard before the facade, and built the Bell-Tower and the Chapels of Saint Barbara and Saint Nicholas. The Basilica, Carolingian in Style, was ninety-five metres long and fifty metres wide.
Basilica of The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs,
Rome.
Photo: May 2008.
Source: Own work.
Author: Lalupa
(Wikimedia Commons)
This Church, however, was burned to the ground by Robert Guiscard's Troops during the Norman Sack of Rome (1084). Instead of re-building the original Basilica to scale, Pope Paschal II built a smaller Basilica with two Courtyards, one in front of the other; the first corresponding to the original 9th-Century A.D. Courtyard, while the second was sited over the initial part of the Nave.
The two Aisles were included in The Cardinal Palace and in The Benedictine Monastery, Founded by Pope Paschal II. The original Apse of The Basilica, however, was preserved, and seems over-sized for the new Church, whose Nave was divided into three parts by means of Columns. The new Church was Consecrated on 20 January 1116. In 1338, it was a possession of Sassovivo Abbey.
In the 13th-Century, a Cosmatesque Cloister was added. “Cosmatesque”, or, “Cosmati”, is a Style of geometric decorative inlay stonework, typical of Mediæval Italy,
and especially of Rome and its surroundings.
It was used most extensively for the decoration of Church Floors, but was also used to decorate Church Walls, Pulpits, and Bishop's Thrones.
The two Aisles were included in The Cardinal Palace and in The Benedictine Monastery, Founded by Pope Paschal II. The original Apse of The Basilica, however, was preserved, and seems over-sized for the new Church, whose Nave was divided into three parts by means of Columns. The new Church was Consecrated on 20 January 1116. In 1338, it was a possession of Sassovivo Abbey.
English: Sassovivo Abbey, Perugia, Italy. This Abbey owned The Basilica of The Four Holy Crowned Martyrs in 1338.
Italiano: Abbazia di Sassovivo,
Foligno, Perugia, Umbria, Italy.
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This File: 29 September 2007.
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and especially of Rome and its surroundings.
It was used most extensively for the decoration of Church Floors, but was also used to decorate Church Walls, Pulpits, and Bishop's Thrones.
The name derives from the Cosmati, the leading family workshop of Marble Craftsmen in Rome, who created such geometrical decorations.
The style spread across Europe, where it was used in the most prestigious Churches: The High Altar of Westminster Abbey, for example, is decorated with a Cosmatesque Marble Floor.
The Cardinal Palace was enlarged by Cardinal Stefano Conti, a nephew of Pope Innocent III. Cardinal Conti also transformed the Palace into a Fortress, to shelter Popes in the Lateran during the Conflict with the Hohenstaufen Emperors.
In 1247, the Chapel of Saint Sylvester, on the Ground Floor of the Fortress, was Consecrated; it contains frescoes depicting stories of Pope Silvester I and Emperor Constantine I.
The style spread across Europe, where it was used in the most prestigious Churches: The High Altar of Westminster Abbey, for example, is decorated with a Cosmatesque Marble Floor.
The Cardinal Palace was enlarged by Cardinal Stefano Conti, a nephew of Pope Innocent III. Cardinal Conti also transformed the Palace into a Fortress, to shelter Popes in the Lateran during the Conflict with the Hohenstaufen Emperors.
In 1247, the Chapel of Saint Sylvester, on the Ground Floor of the Fortress, was Consecrated; it contains frescoes depicting stories of Pope Silvester I and Emperor Constantine I.
Painted in the backdrop of political struggles between Pope Innocent IV and the freshly-excommunicated Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, the frescoes are meant to underscore the desired Sovereignty of The Church (Pope Silvester I) over the Empire (Emperor Constantine).
In the 13th-Century, a Cosmatesque Cloister
was added to The Basilica of The Four Holy
Crowned Martyrs. Above, a Cosmatesque Screen,
Photo: September 2005.
Source: http://flickr.com/photos/
Author: Anthony Majanlahti
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In 1564, Pope Pius IV entrusted the Basilica and the buildings to the Augustinians, who still serve it.
The interest in the history of this complex renewed in 1913, thanks to the work of The Fine Arts Superintendent, Antonio Muñoz.
The interest in the history of this complex renewed in 1913, thanks to the work of The Fine Arts Superintendent, Antonio Muñoz.
Once the building became an orphanage, The Augustinian Nuns put a revolving drum by its entrance, which was used as a “Deposit Box” for unwanted babies.
The Apse contains the frescoes (1630) by Giovanni da San Giovanni of the Four Patron Martyr Saints. The Altarpiece on the Left Nave, of San Sebastiano curato da Lucina e Irene, was painted by Giovanni Baglione.
The Apse contains the frescoes (1630) by Giovanni da San Giovanni of the Four Patron Martyr Saints. The Altarpiece on the Left Nave, of San Sebastiano curato da Lucina e Irene, was painted by Giovanni Baglione.
The Second Courtyard holds the entrance to the Oratorio di San Silvestro, with frescoes of Mediæval origin, as well as others by Raffaellino da Reggio.
Santi Quattro Coronati has belonged to the Titular Churches of Rome from at least the end of the 6th-Century A.D.
Pope Pius IV (Pope from 1559-1565)
entrusted The Basilica to The Augustinians.
Date: Circa 1560.
Source: [1] - Olio su tela, cm. 104 x 79.
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Among the previous Titulars are Pope Leo IV (847 A.D.), King Henry of Portugal, who, in 1580, donated the magnificent Wooden Ceiling, and Pope Benedict XV (1914). The full list is known only from the Pontificate of Gregory VII (1073-1085).
In 2002, art historian Andreina Draghi discovered an amazing display of frescoes, dating back to the 13th-Century, while restoring the Gothic Hall of the Monastery.
In 2002, art historian Andreina Draghi discovered an amazing display of frescoes, dating back to the 13th-Century, while restoring the Gothic Hall of the Monastery.
Most of the scenes were well-preserved under a thick layer of plaster, and represented the Twelve Months, the Liberal Arts, the Four Seasons and the Zodiac.
The image of King Solomon, a pious judge, painted on the Northern wall, led scholars to argue the room was meant to be a Hall of Justice.
Plaster was possibly laid after the 1348 Black Death for hygienic reasons, or, perhaps in the 15th-Century, when the Camaldolese left the Monastery.
Our Lady Of The Atonement Cathedral,
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