“Ut Queant Laxis”.
Hymn to Saint John the Baptist.
Sung by: Donna Stewart.
Available on YouTube
24 June, 2026
The Nativity Of Saint John The Baptist. Feast Day, Today, 24 June. White Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.
Feast Day 24 June.
Double of The First Class.
With a Common Octave.
White Vestments.
English: The “Voice in the Desert”.
Français: La voix dans le désert.
Artist: James Tissot (1836-1902).
Date: Between 1886 and 1894.
Current location: Brooklyn Museum, New York City
Credit line: Purchased by public subscription.
Source/Photographer:
(Wikimedia Commons)
“Ut Queant Laxis”.
The Hymn to Saint John the Baptist.
Available on YouTube
Saint John the Baptist.
Illustration: PINTEREST
English: Saint John the Baptist Church, Konigsberg. Königsberg is the historical name for the present-day City of Kaliningrad, Russia. Originally a Sambian, or Old Prussian City, it later belonged to the Monastic State of The Teutonic Knights, the Duchy of Prussia, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire, and Germany, until 1946.
After being destroyed in World War II by Soviet forces
and annexed by the Soviet Union, thereafter, the City
was re-named Kaliningrad. Few traces of the former Königsberg remain today.
Deutsch: Im Innern der Probsteikirche in Königsberg.
Date: 1904.
Source: http://www.bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de/index.html
Author: Herausgeber: Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen e.V. Parkallee 84/86 20144
Hamburg HRA VR4551 Ust-ID-Nr.: DE118718969Bundesgeschäftsführer:
Dr. Sebastian Husen.
(Wikimedia Commons)
“A Prophet of The Most High” (Alleluia), Saint John is
pre-figured by Isaias and Jeremias (Introit, Epistle, Gospel); moreover, he was Consecrated before birth to announce Jesus (Secret) and to prepare Souls for His coming.
The Gospel narrates the prodigies which accompanied his birth. Zachary gives his child the name which Saint Gabriel has brought him from Heaven, which signifies: “The Lord has pardoned”. He immediately recovers his speech and, filled with The Holy Ghost, he foretells the greatness of his son: “He shall walk before The Face of The Lord, to give unto the people the knowledge of Salvation.”
The Angel Gabriel had announced to Zachary that “many would rejoice in the birth of Saint John the Baptist”. Indeed, not only “the neighbours and relations of Elizabeth” Solemnised the event, but every year, on its Anniversary, the whole Church invites her children to share in this Holy Joy. She knows that the Nativity “of this Prophet of The Most High”, at this “Summer Christmas”, is intimately connected with the Advent of The Messias.
After the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the days become shorter, while, on the contrary, after the Nativity of The Saviour, of which this Feast is the prelude, the days become longer. The Precursor must efface himself before Jesus, Who is The True Light of Faith. “He must increase,” says Saint John, “and I must decrease.”
The Solstices were the occasion of pagan feasts, when fires were lighted to honour the orb which gives us light. The Church Christianised the Rites, seeing in them a symbol of Saint John, who was “a burning and brilliant lamp”.
Indeed, “she encouraged this kind of manifestation, which corresponds so well with the character of the Feast. The Saint John bonfires happily completed the Liturgical Solemnity: They showed The Church and the Earthly City united in one thought.” [“The Liturgical Year” by Dom Guéranger: The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist.]
The name of The Precursor is inscribed in the Canon of The Mass at the Head of the Second List.
Formerly, on his Feast Day, three Masses were Celebrated in his honour, and numerous Churches were dedicated to him. Parents loved to give his name to their children.
Paul the Deacon, a Monk of Monte Cassino, Italy, and a friend of Charlemagne, had composed, in honour of Saint John the Baptist, the Hymn: "Ut queant laxis." In the 13th-Century, the Benedictine Monk, Guy of Arezzo, noticed that the notes, sung on the first syllables, formed the sequence of the first six degrees of The Scale. He named each degree by the corresponding syllable: "Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si" and thereby greatly facilitated the study of musical intervals.
The Gospel narrates the prodigies which accompanied his birth. Zachary gives his child the name which Saint Gabriel has brought him from Heaven, which signifies: “The Lord has pardoned”. He immediately recovers his speech and, filled with The Holy Ghost, he foretells the greatness of his son: “He shall walk before The Face of The Lord, to give unto the people the knowledge of Salvation.”
The Virgin and Child, with The Infant Saint John,
appearing to Saint Jerome and Saint Anthony.
Artist: Andrea Celesti (1637-1712).
Date: Circa 1700.
Current location: Santa Maria dei Derelitti, Venice.
Source/Photographer: Web Gallery of Art
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Angel Gabriel had announced to Zachary that “many would rejoice in the birth of Saint John the Baptist”. Indeed, not only “the neighbours and relations of Elizabeth” Solemnised the event, but every year, on its Anniversary, the whole Church invites her children to share in this Holy Joy. She knows that the Nativity “of this Prophet of The Most High”, at this “Summer Christmas”, is intimately connected with the Advent of The Messias.
After the Feast of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist, the days become shorter, while, on the contrary, after the Nativity of The Saviour, of which this Feast is the prelude, the days become longer. The Precursor must efface himself before Jesus, Who is The True Light of Faith. “He must increase,” says Saint John, “and I must decrease.”
The Solstices were the occasion of pagan feasts, when fires were lighted to honour the orb which gives us light. The Church Christianised the Rites, seeing in them a symbol of Saint John, who was “a burning and brilliant lamp”.
Artist: Caravaggio (1573-1610).
Date: 1608.
Current location:
Source/Photographer: The Yorck Project:
10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei.
DVD-ROM, 2002. ISBN 3936122202.
Distributed by DIRECTMEDIA Publishing GmbH.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The name of The Precursor is inscribed in the Canon of The Mass at the Head of the Second List.
Formerly, on his Feast Day, three Masses were Celebrated in his honour, and numerous Churches were dedicated to him. Parents loved to give his name to their children.
Gregorian Chant.
The Life of Saint John the Baptist.
La vie de saint Jean-Baptiste.
Available on YouTube
Paul the Deacon, a Monk of Monte Cassino, Italy, and a friend of Charlemagne, had composed, in honour of Saint John the Baptist, the Hymn: "Ut queant laxis." In the 13th-Century, the Benedictine Monk, Guy of Arezzo, noticed that the notes, sung on the first syllables, formed the sequence of the first six degrees of The Scale. He named each degree by the corresponding syllable: "Ut, re, mi, fa, sol, la, si" and thereby greatly facilitated the study of musical intervals.
Ut queant laxis resonare fibris [Do - Re]
Mira gestorum famuli tuorum [Mi - Fa]
Solve polluti labii reatum [Sol - La]
Sancte Johannes [Si] (S J makes Si)
“Unloose, great Baptist, our sin-fettered lips; That with enfranchis’d voice we may proclaim, The Miracles of thy transcendent life, Thy deeds of matchless fame.” “That thy servants may sing with full voice the marvels of thy works, purify their sullied lips, O Saint John.”
Immediately, Zachary made signs that he wished to call his son “John”, he recovered his speech; and Lo !, a Hymn composed in honour of The Prophet, whose voice resounds in the desert, becomes the occasion of a new progress in music.
Every Parish Priest Celebrates Mass for the people of his Parish.
Mass: De ventre.
Creed: Is Sung.
English: Chapel of Saint John and Saint Paul,
Szekszárd, Hungary.
Magyar: A barokk stílusú Szent János
és Pál kápolna Szekszárdon
Esperanto: Kapelo Sanktaj Johano
kaj Paŭlo en Szekszárd, Hungario.
Photo: 4 October 2010.
Source: Hungarian Wikipedia, file
Author: Pásztörperc
(Wikimedia Commons)
23 June, 2026
Beautiful Typographical Design Work In Zephyrinus’s 1936 Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
Such beautiful typographical design work in
Zephyrinus’s 1936 Saint Andrew Daily Missal.
You don’t get such a beautiful aid
to one’s Prayer Life in a Missalette !!!
Illustration: Zephyrinus.
Division Of The Ecclesiastical Year (Continued): The Sanctoral Cycle.
High Altar, Church of Saint John Cantius, Chicago.
Text from The Saint Andrew Daily Missal,
unless stated otherwise.
unless stated otherwise.
The Ecclesiastical Year begins on The First Sunday of Advent and ends on the Saturday following The Twenty-Fourth Sunday After Pentecost.
It is composed of Liturgical Seasons, or Times.
THE TEMPORAL CYCLE, or, PROPER OF THE TIME, reveals
Our Lord to us in the Traditional setting of the
great mysteries of our Holy Religion.
Simultaneously with this TEMPORAL CYCLE, is a secondary one, called THE SANCTORAL CYCLE, or, PROPER OF THE SAINTS, because it is composed of all the Feasts of those Blessed Souls in which the work of the redemption is already accomplished.
The first place is given to The Blessed Virgin Mary.
Then come the Holy Angels.
Next, according to the greater or less share
they have in the plan of The Incarnation:
Saint John the Baptist, the Precursor of The Messias;
Saint Joseph;
Saint Peter and Saint Paul;
and the other Apostles, whose Feasts have
always been Celebrated with special Solemnity.
The Feasts of National Saints, Patrons of Dioceses and Parishes, come in the First Rank because of special
gratitude due to them.
Next, come:
Feasts of Dedication of Churches;
Martyrs;
Pontiffs, i.e., Popes or Bishops;
Doctors, i.e., Fathers of The Church,
the authorised interpreters of The Word of God;
Confessors, i.e., those who, by their life or doctrine,
have Confessed Christ;
Virgins and other Holy Women.
The most important and the most numerous Solemnities of
this Cycle, especially those of the Time after Pentecost, bring into full light the Cycle of Christ, for it is by Him that the
World must be renewed: “Instaurare Omnia In Christo”.
[Editor: The following is taken from “Catholic Insight”
[“Instaurare Omnia In Christo” was Pope Saint Pius X’s chosen Motto — “To Restore All Things In Christ” — one
to which he lived admirably, reforming The Church
from the inside out: Soon after being elected, he penned
“Tra le Sollecitudini”, (22 November 1903), re-instating Gregorian Chant and Polyphony and the Solemn
Splendour of Liturgy and The Mass.
[Against the dour rigorism of Jansenism, he promoted
daily reception of Holy Communion – nearly unheard of –
and clarified the simple requirements to receive – at the Age
of Reason, and being free from Mortal Sin, that The Bread of Life is Medicine for Sin, and Supernatural Sustenance for Eternal Life, and not a reward for being virtuous].
Resting one upon the other, these two Cycles form, as it were, an immense Monstrance set with precious stones. In the centre is the Host, or The Mass of The Faithful with the three parts which constitute it;
The Offertory;
The Consecration;
The Communion.
Around it is The Mass of The Catechumens, which varies every day, whereby at the Altar, as with luminous rays, we are shown the different Mysteries on each Sunday and Solemnity of the Proper of the Time. Then, in the intervals left free, like lesser rays, shine the Feasts in honour of the Saints.
The Church carries this Divine Sun through the World
in all times, raises it daily toward Heaven in her Liturgical Worship, that, by it, we may offer to God an ever-renewed homage of our gratitude, and receive from it the treasures
of Grace and Holiness.
The Occurrence and Concurrence of Feasts.
In this simultaneous movement of the Temporal
and Sanctoral Cycles, it happens that Feasts of
the Proper of the Time and those of the Proper
of the Saints fall upon the same day.
This is called “Occurrence of Feasts”.
When the Second Vespers of a Feast coincide
with the First Vespers of the following Feast,
it is called “Concurrence of Feasts”.
It should be noted that First Vespers are said on the
Eve of a Feast and the Second Vespers on the Feast, itself.
When two Feasts “Occur”, the lesser
Feast gives place to the greater Feast.
When two Feasts “Concur”, the greater Feast
supersedes the lesser Feast, and if they are of
the same degree (Rank), they share Vespers.
The Vigil Of Saint John The Baptist. 23 June. Violet Vestments.
unless otherwise stated.
The Vigil of Saint John the Baptist.
23 June.
Simple.
Violet Vestments.
The Sermon of Saint John the Baptist (detail).
Artist: Pieter Breughel the Elder (1526-1569).
Date: 1566.
Photo: 20 July 2013.
Current location: Szépművészeti Múzeum
(Museum of Fine Arts), Budapest, Hungary.
Source: Own work.
Author: Yelkrokoyade
(Wikimedia Commons)
Feast Day Procession of Saint John the Baptist,
Patron Saint of Florence, June 2017.
Available on YouTube
The Infant Jesus and John the Baptist.
Artist: Bartolomé Esteban Murillo (1617-1682).
Date: 1600s.
Source:
(Wikimedia Commons)
In the Gospel of 25 March, we read that The Angel Gabriel announced to Mary that, three months later, Elizabeth, in virtue of a Divine Miracle, would have a son. This is why The Nativity of Saint John the Baptist is Celebrated towards the end of June.
This important Feast is preceded by a Vigil.
Mass: Ne tímias.
Fresco of The Birth of Saint John the Baptist.
Date: 1486-1490.
Artist: Domenico Ghirlandaio
Current location: Tornabuoni Chapel,
Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy.
(Wikimedia Commons)
The Tornabuoni Chapel (Italian: Cappella Tornabuoni) is the main Chapel (or Chancel) in the Church of Santa Maria Novella, Florence, Italy. It is famous for the extensive and well-preserved fresco cycle on its walls, one of the most complete in the City, which was created by Domenico Ghirlandaio and his workshop between 1485 and 1490.
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.
At the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel appeared to The Virgin Mary to inform her that she would conceive of The Holy Ghost, he also informed her that Elizabeth, her cousin, was already six months pregnant (Luke 1:36). Mary then journeyed to visit Elizabeth. Luke’s Gospel recounts that the baby “leapt” in Elizabeth’s womb at the greeting of Mary (Luke 1:44).
The Nativity of John the Baptist, on 24 June, comes three months after the Celebration on 25 March of the Annunciation, when the Angel Gabriel told Mary that her cousin Elizabeth was in her sixth month of pregnancy, and six months before the Christmas Celebration of the Birth of Jesus. The Nativity of John the Baptist Anticipates the Feast of Christmas.
Vespers for the Feast of Saint John the Baptist.
Recorded on 19 June 2014, Church of Saint Jean Baptiste,
New York City, by Tom Durack, Michael McGuinnes, and
video editing by Anthony Indelicato.
Available on YouTube
Ordinarily, the day of a Saint’s death is usually Celebrated as his or her Feast Day, because that day marks their entrance into Heaven. To this rule there are two notable exceptions: The Birthday (Nativity) of The Blessed Virgin Mary (8 September); and the Birthday (Nativity) of Saint John the Baptist
(24 June).
According to Catholic Tradition and teaching, Mary, already, in the first moment of her existence, was free from Original Sin (her Conception, itself, is Commemorated by a separate Feast (8 December)), while Saint John the Baptist was cleansed of Original Sin in the womb of his mother.
The Nativity of John the Baptist, though not a widespread public holiday outside of Quebec, Canada, is a high-ranking Liturgical Feast, kept in Roman Catholic, Anglican and Lutheran Churches.
In the Roman Rite, it is Celebrated, since 1970, as a Solemnity. In the 1962 Missal, it is a Feast of the First-Class and, in still-earlier Missals, as a Double of the First-Class with a Common Octave.
Like the Birth of The Virgin Mary, the subject is often shown in art, especially from Florence, whose Patron Saint is John the Baptist.
Saint Etheldreda. Abbess. Feast Day 23 June. White Vestments.
Saint Etheldreda (Æthelthryth) of Ely.
illuminated Manuscript in the British Library.
Date: 10th-Century.
Source: [1]
![[1]](http://rubens.anu.edu.au/htdocs/bytype/manuscripts/survey/0005/598.JPG){kind=link}
Author: Monk.
(Wikimedia Commons)
unless stated otherwise.
Etheldreda (or Æthelthryth or Æðelþryð or Æþelðryþe;
4 March 636 A.D. — 23 June 679 A.D.) was an East Anglian Princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian Queen, and Abbess of Ely.
Æthelthryth is an Anglo-Saxon Saint, and is also known as Etheldreda, or Audrey, especially in Religious contexts.
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Etheldreda Founded Ely Abbey, a Double Monastery in 673 A.D., which was later destroyed in the Danish invasion of 870 A.D.
Saint Etheldreda’s Church, Ely Place, Holborn, London, is dedicated to the Saint. It was originally part of the London Palace of the Bishops of Ely.
4 March 636 A.D. — 23 June 679 A.D.) was an East Anglian Princess, a Fenland and Northumbrian Queen, and Abbess of Ely.
Æthelthryth is an Anglo-Saxon Saint, and is also known as Etheldreda, or Audrey, especially in Religious contexts.
She was a daughter of Anna, King of East Anglia, and her siblings were Wendreda and Seaxburh of Ely, both of whom eventually retired from Secular Life and founded Abbeys.
Saint Etheldreda’s Church is located in Ely Place,
off Charterhouse Street, Holborn, London. It is dedicated
to Æthelthryth, or Etheldreda, an Anglo-Saxon Saint who Founded the Monastery at Ely, East Anglia, in 673 A.D.
The building was the Chapel of the London residence
of the Bishops of Ely.
Photo: 31 July 2013.
Source: https://www.flickr.com/
This File is licensed under the
2.0 Generic Licence.
Author: Jim Linwood
(Wikimedia Commons)
Etheldreda was “in turn, Princess, Wife, Queen, Nun, and Abbess, enjoying every possible position of power a woman could claim in Early-Anglo-Saxon England”.[1]
According to the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Etheldreda Founded Ely Abbey, a Double Monastery in 673 A.D., which was later destroyed in the Danish invasion of 870 A.D.
Saint Etheldreda’s Church, Ely Place, Holborn, London, is dedicated to the Saint. It was originally part of the London Palace of the Bishops of Ely.
After the English Reformation, part of Saint Etheldreda’s Church was briefly used by a Spanish Ambassador for Catholic Worship.
The Chapel was purchased by The Catholic Church in 1874 and is one of the oldest Churches in England to be in current use by The Catholic Church.
Saint Etheldreda’s Church, Hatfield, Hertfordshire, is 13th-Century and was originally Anglo-Saxon. It was named for Saint Etheldreda because it was adjacent to a Palace of the Bishops of Ely, who held her as their Patron Saint.
Saint Etheldreda’s Church, Ely, Cambridgeshire, is a Catholic Parish Church. It is part of the Diocese of East Anglia, within the Province of Westminster. The Church contains the Shrine and Relics of Æthelthryth (Etheldreda).
The common version of Æthelthryth’s (Etheldreda’s) name was Saint Audrey, which is the origin of the word “Tawdry”, which derived from the fact that her admirers bought modesty-concealing Lace goods at an Annual Fair held in her name in Ely, Cambridgeshire.
By the 17th-Century, this Lace-work had become seen as old-fashioned, vain, or cheap, and of poor quality, at a time when the Puritans of Eastern England disdained ornamental dress.[18]
The Vigil Of Saint John The Baptist. Vigilia De La Natividad De San Juan Bautista. 23 June. Violet Vestments.
The Archangel Gabriel announces to Zacharia that he
and his wife, Elisabeth, will have a son, to be called John.
Text and Illustrations: RINCÓN LITÚRGICO
Iglesia del Salvador de Toledo, Espana.
Church of The Saviour, Toledo, Spain.
23 de junio.
VIGILIA DE LA NATIVIDAD DE SAN JUAN BAUTISTA.
II clase, morado.
La Iglesia se prepara para la solemnidad del nacimiento de San Juan Bautista con esta vigilia penitencial: al celebrar el nacimiento del Bautista, la Iglesia celebra la intervención de Dios en la historia de la humanidad y de Israel.
Juan, "lleno del Espíritu Santo –santificado - desde el seno de su madre" por obra del mismo Cristo es el primero en recibir la "visita de Dios a su pueblo". El saltar de gozo en el vientre de su madre es anuncio profético de alegría ante la inminencia de la consolación de Israel.
Con Juan Bautista, el Espíritu Santo, inaugura, prefigurándolo, lo que realizará con y en Cristo: volver a dar al hombre la "semejanza" divina.
Imitemos al Precursor en su penitencia y vida,
para que también nosotros, que vivimos en tinieblas
y en sombras de muerte, podamos ser iluminados
y guiados por el camino de la paz.
The Web-Site of RINCÓN LITÚRGICO
can be found HERE
22 June, 2026
English Words Inherited From Victorian And Edwardian British-Indian Army Life.
Officers of the 1st Battalion, 4th Ghurkha Rifles (1st/4th GR)
at Bakloh, India, 2 March 1916. Seated, Left to Right:
Captain John Redmond Hartwell (Adjutant); Major Zellard (Commanding Officer); Captain L. P. Collins; Second Lieutenant H. E. Giles (Quartermaster). Standing, Left to Right: Lieutenant Ross Smith (Indian Medical Service); Lieutenant R. V. Brandon; Lieutenant A. W. Woodhead; Second Lieutenant Samuel Grant Mellis-Smith.
Picture Credit: Image: IWM (Q 81669).
Illustration: IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM
Buckshee.
[Meaning: Free].
(From: “Baksheesh”).
Hindi/Urdu.
Bungalow.
[Meaning: A low-roofed house].
(From: “Bangla”).
Bengali.
Thug.
[Meaning: Bandit].
(From: “Thugee”).
Hindi.
Doolally.
[Meaning: Mad].
(From: “Deolalli”).
A British Indian Army Camp in Maharashtra, India, where Soldiers awaiting repatriation often went “Stir-Crazy”. The term “Doolally Tap” became Soldiers’ slang for madness.
British Indian Army Soldiers, including men from
the 3rd Sikh Regiment and 1st Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force, in Beijing, circa 1900. Sikh and Muslim Soldiers with Medals. Notes: University of Bristol - Historical Photographs of China. Reference number: BL-n057. Caption on typed list accompanying the box of negatives: “28: Group of Sikhs”. Digitised from a negative made for a copy print. The Officer standing, third from the Left, is Sardar Bahadur Mit Singh, 3rd Sikh Regiment. Sitting, first Left, is a Punjabi Muslim, named Bahadur Ali Khan of the 1st Sikh Infantry, Punjab Frontier Force. He received the Indian Order of Merit for Gallantry in East Africa in April 1896 - and his Decorations and Medals include the Neck Badge of the 3rd-Class Order
of the Brilliant Star of Zanzibar.
Source [1]
Author Unknown.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Khaki.
[Meaning: Dust-Coloured/Drab-Brown].
(From: “Khākī”).
Hindi/Urdu.
First adopted by British Indian Army Units
for camouflage uniforms in the Mid‑19th-Century.
Then spread to the whole British Army.
Loot.
[Meaning: Stolen Goods].
(From: “Lūṭ”).
Hindi.
Became common in British Military
slang during Campaigns in India).
Verandah.
[Meaning: A roofed platform outside a house].
(From: Possibly of Portuguese origin).
Its widespread English use came through Anglo‑Indian Colonial architecture and Military housing).
Pyjamas.
[Meaning: Leg Garment].
(From: “Pāy‑Jāma”).
Hindi/Urdu.
Adopted by British troops as
comfortable nightwear in the Indian climate.
A chromolithograph of No. 1 Kohat Mountain Battery
of the Punjab Frontier Force (now part of Pakistan Army).
Illustration: Richard Simkin.
Date: Circa 1896.
Source:
(Wikimedia Commons)
Jungle.
[Meaning: Dense Forest].
(From: “Jangal”).
Hindi.
Juggernaut.
[Meaning: A massive crushing force].
(From: “Jagannātha”).
Sanskrit.
The huge temple chariots at Puri, India. British Troops and travellers reported the overwhelming size of the Procession, giving rise to the metaphor.
Shampoo.
[Meaning: To knead or massage].
(From: “Chāmpnā”).
Hindi.
British Soldiers encountered the practice in India;
the meaning later shifted to hair‑washing.
Bangle.
[Meaning: Bracelet].
(From: “Bangri”).
Hindi.
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Soldiers of the 3rd Sappers and Miners.
Illustration by Maj. A. C. Lovett.
Published 1911.
Source: Engineers Regimental Centre
Link: “The Armies of India”
Author: A. C. Lovett.
(Wikimedia Commons)
Bandana.
[Meaning: Tie-Dyed Cloth].
(From: “Bandhnu”).
Hindi.
Mogul.
[Meaning: Powerful Figure].
(From: “Moghul”).
Persian/Urdu.
Blighty.
[Meaning: Foreign/British/Home].
(From: “Vilāyatī / Bilētī”).
Hindi/Urdu.
British Soldiers’ corruption adopted during
the Raj and popularised in World War I
as a sentimental term for “Home”.
Hobson‑Jobson (1886) already records this Soldierly corruption. It became hugely popular in World War I, especially in the phrase “Dear Old Blighty.” Soldiers also coined “a Blighty wound” — a wound bad enough to send you home, but not bad enough to kill you.
PLUS
the following are all Indian‑origin words that circulated heavily in British‑Indian Army life and administration and, thus, into British usage.
Cheetah.
Catamaran.
Cashmere.
Chintz.
Ginger.
Pepper.
Punch.
Sugar.
Orange.
Metropolitan Cathedral-Basilica Of The Nativity Of Saint Mary, Milan. Basilica Cattedrale Metropolitana Di Santi Maria Nascente, Milano. (Part Eight).
English: Milan Cathedral.
Italiano: Milano - Duomo.
This File: 30 January 2014.
Source: Own work.
This file is licensed under the
Share Alike 3.0 Unported Licence.
User: Чаховіч Уладзіслаў
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Duomo of Milan.
The Church that took 600 Years to finish.
Available on YouTube
The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,
unless stated otherwise.
On 20 May 1805, Napoleon Bonaparte, about to be crowned King of Italy, ordered the façade to be finished by Pellicani.
In his enthusiasm, he assured that all expenses would fall to the French treasury, which would reimburse the Fabbrica for the real estate it had to sell.
Though the re-imbursement was never paid, it still meant that finally, within only seven years, the Cathedral’s façade was completed.
Pellicani largely followed Buzzi’s project, adding some Neo-Gothic details to the upper windows. As a form of thanksgiving, a statue of Napoleon was placed at the top of one of the Spires. Napoleon was crowned King of Italy at the Duomo.
In the following years, most of the missing Arches and Spires were constructed. The Statues on the Southern Wall were also finished, while, during 1829 – 1858, new Stained-Glass Windows replaced the old ones, though with less aesthetically significant results.
Pellicani largely followed Buzzi’s project, adding some Neo-Gothic details to the upper windows. As a form of thanksgiving, a statue of Napoleon was placed at the top of one of the Spires. Napoleon was crowned King of Italy at the Duomo.
In the following years, most of the missing Arches and Spires were constructed. The Statues on the Southern Wall were also finished, while, during 1829 – 1858, new Stained-Glass Windows replaced the old ones, though with less aesthetically significant results.
English: Stained-Glass Window commissioned by Pope
Pius IV Medici for the monumental grave to his brother, the condottiero Gian Giacomo Medici (1498-1555), called "il Medeghino", by Leone Leoni, in the Cathedral in Milan.
Italiano: Duomo di Milano. Vetrata di papa Pio IV
Medici, al di sopra del monumento funebre a suo fratello, il condottiero Gian Giacomo Medici (1498-1555),
detto "il Medeghino", di Leone Leoni.
Photo: 8 March 2007.
Source: Own work.
Author: G.dallorto
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The last details of the Cathedral were finished only in the 20th-Century: The last Portal was inaugurated on 6 January 1965. This date is considered the very end of a process which had proceeded for generations, although, even now, some uncarved blocks remain to be completed as statues.
PART NINE FOLLOWS.
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