Adore Te Devote. Benediction Hymn Composed By Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274).

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Adore Te Devote.
Another great Hymn from Saint Thomas Aquinas.
The Illustrations are: "The temptation of Saint Thomas Aquinas" by Diego Velazquez;
"Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas over the heretics" by Filippino Lippi;
"The Apotheosis of Thomas Aquinas" by Francisco de Zurbaran.
Available on YouTube at
http://youtu.be/-xs67InkZ3A.

Adoro te devote, 

latens Deitas,

Quæ sub his figuris 

vere latitas;

Tibi se cor meum totum subjicit,

Quia te contemplans totum deficit.

Visus, tactus, gustus in te fallitur,

Sed auditu solo tuto creditur.

Credo quidquid dixit Dei Filius;

Nil hoc verbo veritátis verius.

In cruce latebat sola Deitas,

At hic latet simul et Humanitas,

Ambo tamen credens atque confitens,

Peto quod petivit latro pœnitens.

Plagas, sicut Thomas, non intueor:

Deum tamen meum te confiteor.

Fac me tibi semper magis credere,

In te spem habere, te diligere.

O memoriale mortis Domini !

Panis vivus, vitam præstans homini !

Præsta meæ menti de te vívere,

Et te illi semper dulce sapere.

Pie Pelicane, Jesu Domine,

Me immundum munda tuo sanguine:

Cujus una stilla salvum facere

Totum mundum quit ab omni scelere.

Jesu, quem velatum nunc aspicio,

Oro, fiat illud quod tam sitio:

Ut te revelata cernens facie,

Visu sim beátus tuæ gloriæ. 

Amen.

I devoutly adore you, O hidden Deity,

Truly hidden beneath these appearances.

My whole heart submits to you,

And in contemplating you,

It surrenders itself completely.

Sight, touch, taste are all deceived

In their judgment of you,

But hearing suffices firmly to believe.

I believe all that the Son of God has spoken;

There is nothing truer than this word of truth.

On the cross only the divinity was hidden,

But here the humanity is also hidden.

I believe and confess both,

And ask for what the repentant thief asked.

I do not see the wounds as Thomas did,

But I confess that you are my God.

Make me believe more and more in you,

Hope in you, and love you.

O memorial of our Lord's death !

Living bread that gives life to man,

Grant my soul to live on you,

And always to savor your sweetness.

Lord Jesus, Good Pelican,

wash me clean with your blood,

One drop of which can free

the entire world of all its sins.

Jesus, whom now I see hidden,

I ask you to fulfill what I so desire:

That the sight of your face being unveiled

I may have the happiness of seeing your glory.

Amen.

Whenever You Need To Let Off Steam . . .

. . . Say a Hail Mary . . .

. . . And you'll see things in a better perspective.


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Ave Verum Corpus. Benediction Hymn. William Byrd (1543 - 1623).

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Ave Verum Corpus.
Sung by The Tallis Scholars.

Composed by William Byrd.

Available on YouTube at

http://youtu.be/vFZZMF7SRRo.

Ave Verum Corpus is a short Eucharistic Hymn that has been set to music by various composers. It dates from the 14th-Century and has been attributed to Pope Innocent VI.

During the Middle Ages, it was sung at the elevation of the Host during the Consecration. It was also used frequently during Benediction of The Blessed Sacrament.

The Hymn's Title means "Hail, True Body", and is based on a poem deriving from a 14th-Century Manuscript from the Abbey of Reichenau, Lake Constance. The poem is a Meditation on the Catholic belief in Jesus's Real Presence in The Sacrament of The Eucharist.

Salve Mater Misericordiae. 11th-Century Marian Hymn.

Our Lady of Peace.

Ushaw, Durham,

England.

Photo: April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Zephyrinus.

Salve Mater Misericordiae.

Available on YouTube

at

http://youtu.be/LBLqsWt4msg.

Salve Mater misericordiae, 

Mater Dei et Mater veniae, 

Mater spei et Mater gratiae, 

Mater plena Sanctae Laetitiae,

O Maria!

Salve decus humani generis. 

Salve Virgo dignior ceteris, 

quae virgines omnes transgrederis 

et altius sedes in superis. 

O Maria!

Salve Mater misericordiae,

Salve felix Virgo puerpera: 

Nam qui sedet in Patris dextera, 

Caelum regens, terram et aethera, 

Intra tua se clasit viscera. 

O Maria!

Salve Mater misericordiae,

Esto, Mater, nostrum solatium: 

Nostrum esto, tu Virgo, guadium, 

et nos tandem post hoc exsilium, 

Laetos juge choris caelestium. 

O Maria!

Salve Mater misericordiae, 

Mater Dei et Mater veniae, 

Mater spei et Mater gratiae, 

Mater plena Sanctae Laetitiae,

O Maria!

English translation.

Hail Mother of Mercy,

Mother of God and Mother of Pardon,

Mother of Hope and Mother of Grace,

Mother full of Holy Gladness.

O Mary !

Hail, honour of the mankind.

Hail worthier Virgin than the other ones

because you overcome all of them

and in the Heaven you occupy

the highest seat of honour.

O Mary !

Hail Mother of Mercy,

Hail Blest Virgin yet bearing Child:

For He who sits at The Father's Right-Hand.

The Ruler of Heaven, of Earth and Sky,

has sheltered Himself in your womb.

O Mary !

Hail Mother of Mercy,

Become, O Mother, our solace:

Be for us our source of joy,

and at the last, after this exile,

unite us rejoicing to The Choir of Angels.

O Mary !

Hail Mother of Mercy,

Mother of God and Mother of Pardon,

Mother of Hope and Mother of Grace,

Mother full of Holy Gladness.

O Mary !

Missa Solemnis. The Vigil Of Pentecost. Saint Anthony Of Padua Church, New Jersey. Saturday, 23 May, 1900 hrs.

The High Altar,

Saint Anthony of Padua Church,

Monmouth Street, New Jersey,

United States of America.

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The following Text is from THE SOCIETY OF ST. HUGH OF CLUNY

On the occasion of the 13th Anniversary of the return of The Traditional Latin Mass to Hudson County, New Jersey, a Missa Solemnis, for The Vigil of Pentecost, will be sung at downtown Jersey City’s historic Saint Anthony of Padua's Church, located at Monmouth Street, between 6th and 7th Streets, on Saturday, 23 May 2015, at 7:00 p.m.

Diocesan Clergy from throughout New Jersey, as well as Priests of both The Institute of Christ The King and The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter, will participate as Ministers at the Altar.

The Cantantes in Cordibus Choir, under the direction of Maestro Simone Ferraresi, will perform Haydn’s acclaimed Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo.

The Church Parking Lot is located on 6th Street, between Coles and Monmouth Street, and is easily accessible from the Grove Street PATH, the Newport PATH and Light Rail stop.

There will be a celebratory coffee served after Mass, as well as a visit to a local establishment for the young people in attendance.

Sacris Solemniis And Panis Angelicus. Benediction Hymn By Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274).

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Sacris Solemniis
and
Panis Angelicus.

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at

http://youtu.be/7iCD2cjnmuU.

Sacris Solemniis is a Hymn written by Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) for the Feast of Corpus Christi. The strophe of Sacris Solemniis, that begins with the words "Panis Angelicus" (Bread of Angels), has often been set to music separately from the rest of the Hymn. Most famously, in 1872, César Franck set this strophe for voice (tenor), harp, cello, and organ, and incorporated it into his Messe à trois voix, Opus 12. The Hymn expresses The Doctrine of Transubstantiation, in which the Bread and Wine are changed into The Body and Blood of Christ.

The phenomenon, whereby the strophe of Sacris Solemniis that begins with the words "Panis Angelicus" is often treated as a separate Hymn, has occurred also with other Hymns that Saint Thomas Aquinas wrote for Corpus Christi: Verbum Supernum Prodiens (the last two strophes begin with "O Salutaris Hostia"), Adoro Te Devote (the strophe beginning with "Pie Pelicane, Jesu Domine"), and Pange Lingua Gloriosi (the last two strophes begin with "Tantum Ergo", in which case the word "Ergo" ["therefore"] makes evident that this part is the continuation of a longer Hymn).

SACRIS SOLEMNIIS

AND PANIS ANGELICUS.

Sacris solemniis

iuncta sint gaudia,

et ex praecordiis

sonent praeconia;

recedant vetera,

nova sint omnia,

corda, voces, et opera.

Noctis recolitur

cena novissima,

qua Christus creditur

agnum et azyma

dedisse fratribus,

iuxta legitima

priscis indulta patribus.

Post agnum typicum,

expletis epulis,

Corpus Dominicum

datum discipulis,

sic totum omnibus,

quod totum singulis,

eius fatemur manibus.

Dedit fragilibus

corporis ferculum,

dedit et tristibus

sanguinis poculum,

dicens: Accipite

quod trado vasculum;

omnes ex eo bibite.

Sic sacrificium

istud instituit,

cuius officium

committi voluit

solis presbyteris,

quibus sic congruit,

ut sumant, et dent ceteris.

Panis angelicus

fit panis hominum;

dat panis caelicus

figuris terminum;

O res mirabilis:

manducat Dominum

pauper, servus et humilis.

Te, trina Deitas

unaque, poscimus:

sic nos tu visita,

sicut te colimus;

per tuas semitas

duc nos quo tendimus,

ad lucem quam inhabitas.

Amen.

English translation.

At this our solemn feast

let holy joys abound,

and from the inmost breast

let songs of praise resound;

let ancient rites depart,

and all be new around,

in every act, and voice, and heart.

Remember we that eve,

when, the Last Supper spread,

Christ, as we all believe,

the Lamb, with leavenless bread,

among His brethren shared,

and thus the Law obeyed,

of all unto their sire declared.

The typic Lamb consumed,

the legal Feast complete,

the Lord unto the Twelve

His Body gave to eat;

the whole to all, no less

the whole to each did mete

with His own hands, as we confess.

He gave them, weak and frail,

His Flesh, their Food to be;

on them, downcast and sad,

His Blood bestowed He:

and thus to them He spake,

"Receive this Cup from Me,

and all of you of this partake.

"So He this Sacrifice

to institute did will,

and charged His priests alone

that office to fulfill:

to them He did confide:

to whom it pertains still

to take, and the rest divide.

Thus Angels' Bread is made

the Bread of man today:

the Living Bread from heaven

with figures dost away:

O wondrous gift indeed!

the poor and lowly may

upon their Lord and Master feed.

Thee, therefore, we implore,

O Godhead, One in Three,

so may Thou visit us

as we now worship Thee;

and lead us on Thy way,

That we at last may see

the light wherein Thou dwellest aye.

Amen.

Verbum Supernum. Benediction Hymn By Saint Thomas Aquinas (1225 - 1274).

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Verbum Supernum.

Saint Thomas Aquinas.

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http://youtu.be/EIbjR1X8qys.

Verbum Supernum Prodiens is a Catholic Hymn in long metre by Saint Thomas Aquinas. It was written for the Hour of Lauds in the Divine Office of Corpus Christi. It is about the institution of the Eucharist by Christ at the Last Supper, and His Passion and Death.

The last two verses form a Hymn on their own, as well, O Salutaris Hostia, which is sung at the Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament.

There is also an unrelated Latin Nativity Hymn of the same name.

Verbum supernum prodiens,

Nec Patris linquens dexteram,

Ad opus suum exiens,

Venit ad vitæ vesperam.

In mortem a discipulo

Suis tradendus æmulis,

Prius in vitæ ferculo

Se tradidit discipulis.

Quibus sub bina specie

Carnem dedit et sanguinem;

Ut duplicis substantiæ

Totum cibaret hominem.

Se nascens dedit socium,

Convescens in edulium,

Se moriens in pretium,

Se regnans dat in præmium.

O salutaris hostia,

Quæ cæli pandis ostium,

Bella premunt hostilia;

Da robur, fer auxilium.

Uni trinoque Domino

Sit sempiterna gloria:

Qui vitam sine termino

Nobis donet in patria.

Amen.

English translation.

The Word descending from above,

without leaving the right hand of His Father,

and going forth to do His work,

reached the evening of His life.

When about to be given over

to His enemies by one of His disciples,

to suffer death, He first gave Himself

to His disciples as the bread of life.

Under a twofold appearance

He gave them His flesh and His blood;

that He might thus wholly feed us

made up of a twofold substance.

By His birth He gave Himself as our companion;

at the Last Supper He gave Himself as our food;

dying on the cross He gave Himself as our ransom;

reigning in heaven He gives Himself as our reward

O salutary Host,

Who expandest the door of the sky,

Hostile wars press.

Give strength; bear aid.

To the Lord One in Three,

May there be sempiternal glory;

May He grant us life without end

In the native land.

Amen.

A Concert Of Music And Readings On The Life Of Saint Augustine Of England. 1900 hrs. Sunday 24 May 2015. The Shrine Of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate, Kent.

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Catholics In San Francisco Rally To Support Their Archbishop.

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The following Text is from CATHOLICVOTE.ORG

This picture says it all.

Hundreds of Catholics showed up at a picnic in San Francisco last weekend.

Their purpose ?

To show their love and support for their shepherd, Archbishop Cordileone.


This photo shows the laughter and joy as a dove hovered around the Archbishop.

I’ll leave it to you to draw any connections. 

As you know, the media onslaught against the Archbishop of San Francisco has been relentless. We are grateful to those men and women who organised this picnic, and to all those people who came to show their support. I can only imagine how happy their support made Archbishop Cordileone.

Members of CatholicVote have also shown their support for the Archbishop. Late last week we sent $54,385.00 to the Archdiocese of San Francisco. And we plan to send more later this week.

CLICK HERE TO DONATE TO THE CORDILEONE SUPPORT FUND
I’m proud to see so many Catholics from every corner of our Country

step forward in defense of an Archbishop under such personal attacks.

Please, please continue to Pray for our Bishops, especially Archbishop Cordileone in San Francisco. 

  

Saint Pudentiana. Virgin. Feast Day 19 May.

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

Saint Pudentiana.
Virgin.
Feast Day 19 May.

Simple.

White Vestments.

English: Saint Pudentiana.

Detail of a mosaic in the Apse of Santa Pudenziana,

Rome, Italy.

Deutsch: Pudentiana, Mosaik aus Santa Pudenziana.

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User: Marcus Cyron.

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The Nave,

Basilica of Santa Pudenziana,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 13 May 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Welleschik.

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Saint Pudentiana, in this part of the Cycle, participates in the Triumph of Christ over the Devil, the Flesh, and the World. The daughters of Pudens, a Roman Senator, she and her sister, Praxedes, Consecrated their Virginity to Jesus.

At the death of her father, she distributed all her riches to the Poor, in agreement with her sister, and she was barely sixteen years old when she died, in the Reign of Emperor Antoninus.

Her remains rest in her house, which she had converted into a Church. Her father had received Saint Peter there and she had placed it at the disposal of Pope Pius I, who Celebrated The Holy Mysteries there during "The Persecution".

This is the "Title-Church" of Pudentiana, where The Station is held on the Tuesday in The Third Week of Lent. ["Title-Churches", bearing as Title the name of their Founder or Foundress, were the usual Meeting Places of Christians in Rome, and became the first "Parish Churches".]

Mass: Dilexísti.

"Saint Praxedes and Saint Pudentiana collecting the Blood of The Martyrs".

Artist: Giovanni Paolo Rossetti (1621).

Painting in the Basilica of Santa Pudenziana,

Rome, Italy.

Photo: 13 April 2010.

Source: Own work.

Author: Georges Jansoone (JoJan).

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Pope Saint Peter Celestine V (1221-1296). Confessor. Feast Day 19 May.

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

Saint Peter Celestine.
Pope and Confessor.
Feast Day 19 May.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Painting of Pope Celestine V.

Español: Pintura del papa celestino V.

Artist: Giulio Cessare Bedeschini.

Date: 1700.

Source: Museo de l'aquila, Italia.

Author: Giulio Cessare Bedeschini.

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Among all the Pastors to whom Jesus lovingly committed the care of His Church, Saint Peter Celestine is the one who most particularly shows forth the virtue of humility, the foundation of all Holiness [Rule of Saint Benedict. Chapter Seven] according to Saint Benedict, his father in God.

Born in 1221, he retired into the desert when hardly adolescent (Gospel), and his virtues soon drew disciples round him. Such was the origin of the Branch of The Benedictine Order, known since under the name of Celestines, from the name which Saint Peter took when he became Pope in 1294.

At the age of seventy-two, he had to leave his sweet solitude, received full Sacerdotal power (Introit, Epistle) and occupied The Chair of Saint Peter (Communion), which had been vacant twenty-seven months. Raised to this eminent dignity, he thought himself incapable of bearing such a burden, and, "placing humility above that elevation" (Collect), he voluntarily resigned the highest dignity.

He ended his days in contemplation, which his Soul craved for, and died on 19 May 1296.

Following the example of Saint Peter Celestine, let us despise the honours of this World, in order to attain possession of the rewards promised to the humble (Collect).

Mass: Státuit.

Commemoration of Saint Pudentiana, by the Collects of the Mass: Dilexísti.

Saint Venantius. Martyr. Feast Day 18 May.

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

Saint Venantius.
Martyr.
Feast Day 18 May.

Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Saint Venantius is hung upside-down over a fire, and then thrown to the lions.

Wall mural from Saint Venantius Church, Horgenzell, Germany.

Deutsch: Filialkirche St. Venantius, Pfärrenbach, Gemeinde Horgenzell.

Wandgemälde im Kirchenschiff: Venantiuslegende.

Photo: 18 April 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: AndreasPraefcke.

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The Church, anxious during this part of The Easter Cycle to Glorify God for the Victory of His Son, "Consecrates this day by the triumph of The Blessed Martyr Venantius" (Collect). "Living in Jesus and Jesus in him, he bore much fruit" (Gospel), "and was persecuted in order that he should bear still more" (Ibid).

English: The Basilica of Saint Venantius,

in Camerino, Italy.

Français: Vue de la basilique Saint Venanzio à Camerino (Italie).

Italiano: Scorcio della Basilica di San Venanzio (Camerino - Italia).

Photo: 9 October 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Tuvok89.

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Born, circa 235 A.D., at Camerino, Umbria, Italy (Editor: The same area of Italy as Saint Ubaldus, whose Feast we Celebrated on 16 May), he was led, at the age of fifteen, before Antiochus, Governor of the Town under Emperor Decius. He was made to suffer cruel torments, but Angels came and assisted him.

Camerino,

Umbria, Italy.

20 April 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Parmiss21.

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Martyrdom of Saint Venantius of Camerino.

Artist: Scarsellino (1550–1620).

Date: 1595-1605.

Current location: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,

Texas, United States of America.

Source/Photographer: OQGRBeHzGGFMJw at Google Cultural Institute.

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"His tormentors were touched with  repentance by his constancy" (Epistle) and many were converted. He was beheaded towards 250 A.D. His body lies at Camerino, in the Church Dedicated to him.

"Let us honour the Merits of Saint Venantius and imitate the constancy of his Faith" (Collect).

In Paschaltide, Mass: Protexísti.

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Mulier Fortis And Kitties Move To The Seaside.

The word in The Blogosphere is that MULIER FORTIS

has moved to the Seaside.

There is no truth in the rumour that this is where Mulier Fortis and her two Kitties now abide.

In fact, the photograph (above) is of the Hungarian Parliament Building, Budapest, Hungary,

taken on 8 August 2014 by Jason Halsall.

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"I do like to be beside the seaside",

performed by Mark Sheridan.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/KyFniXdqsQQ

"I do like to be beside the seaside",

performed by Basil Rathbone.

Available on YouTube at

https://youtu.be/XmJVXHLjVhk

"I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside".

Written and Composed by John A. Glover-Kind (1907).

Performed by Basil Rathbone.

Everyone delights to spend their summer holiday

Down beside the side of the silvery sea

I'm no exception to the rule

In fact, if I'd my way

I'd reside by the side of the silvery sea.

But when you're just the common or garden Smith or Jones or Brown

At bus'ness up in town

You've got to settle down.

You save up all the money you can till summer comes around

Then away you go

To a spot you know

Where the cockle shells are found.

Oh! I do like to be beside the seaside

I do like to be beside the sea!

I do like to stroll upon the Prom, Prom, Prom!

Where the brass bands play: "Tiddely-om-pom-pom!"

So just let me be beside the seaside

I'll be beside myself with glee

For there's lots of girls besides,

I should like to be beside

Beside the seaside!

Beside the sea!

Solemn High Mass And Procession. The Shrine Church Of Saint Augustine, Ramsgate, Kent. 1100 hrs. Bank Holiday Monday, 25 May 2015.

The Shrine Church of Saint Augustine,

Saint Augustine's Road,

Ramsgate, Kent CT11 7PA.

Telephone: 01843 592071.

Solemn High Mass

and Procession,

1100 hrs,

Bank Holiday Monday,

25 May 2015.

National Pilgrimage Procession to The Shrine of Saint Augustine at 1100 hrs. Be part of the Procession as the Relic of Saint Augustine is taken along the cliff-top at Ramsgate, overlooking his landing site in 597 A.D. Please assemble in the Church.

More details available at

SAINT AUGUSTINE WEEK

Saint Ubaldus (1084-1160). Bishop And Confessor. Feast Day 16 May.

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

Saint Ubaldus.
Bishop and Confessor.
Feast Day 16 May.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

Fresco of Saint Ubaldus.

Location: Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Source: http://www.ilmiositoweb.it/santubaldo/Santo.htm

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Saint Ubaldus, born at Gubbio, Umbria, Italy, received Episcopal Consecration (Introit, Epistle, Alleluia) and was obliged, by Pope Honorius II, to take the government of that Church (Communion).

After having, under the guidance of The Holy Ghost, by his charity and apostolic zeal, put to full advantage the talents which God had entrusted to him, he piously fell asleep and "entered into the joy of his Lord" (Gospel) on Whitsunday evening.

He died in 1160 and his body has remained intact up to our time. Let us ask this Saint, to whom God gave special power against Satan, to preserve us from all the malice of the devil (Collect).

Mass: Státuit.

The Festival of La Corsa dei Ceri, at Gubbio, Italy.

The statue of Saint Ubaldo leads the Procession, followed by

Ceri topped with the statues of Saint George and Saint Anthony the Great.

Date: 2000.

This File: 29 April 2006.

User: Starlight.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia.

The Basilica is the finishing-point for the annual Saint Ubaldo Day Procession on May 15 (in Italian, La Corsa dei Ceri). The Procession includes a race between three teams of men, each representing one of the Town's three Guilds:

The Masons (in Gold) with a statue of Saint Ubaldo;
The Merchants (in Blue) with a statue of Saint George;
The Peasants (in Black) with a statue of Saint Anthony.

The participants dress in colourful "Ceraioli" and carry three, nearly-900-pound, wooden stands and statues (Ceri) of their Saints through the City to the City Gates. Thereafter, the teams sprint up Mount Ingino to the Basilica, where the statues remain until the following May. A similar Festival is celebrated in Jessup, Pennsylvania, United States of America. The event is considered an important contribution to the Town's tourism industry.

English: The Courtyard of the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo,

Italiano: Gubbio - Basilica di S. Ubaldo.

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Photo: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

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Ubald of Gubbio (Italian: Ubaldo; Latin: Ubaldus; French: Ubalde; circa 1084–1160) was a Mediaeval Bishop of Gubbio, in Umbria, today Venerated as a Saint by The Catholic Church. Saint Ubaldo Day is still Celebrated at the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo, in Gubbio, in his honour, as well as at Jessup, Pennsylvania.

Born Ubaldo Baldassini, of noble parents, at Gubbio, Italy, Ubaldo lost his father while still very young. He was educated by the Prior of the Cathedral Church of his native City, where he also became a Canon Regular. Saint Sperandia was a relative of Ubaldo.

He felt a Vocation to become a Monk, and entered to the Monastery of Saint Secondo in the same City, where he remained for some years. Recalled by his Bishop, he returned to the Cathedral Monastery, where he was made Prior. Having heard that, at Vienna, Blessed Peter de Honestis, some years before, had established a very fervent Community of Canons Regular, to whom he had given special statutes which had been approved by Pope Paschal II, Ubaldo went there, remaining with his brother Canons for three months, to learn the details and the practice of their rules, wishing to introduce them among his own Canons of Gubbio.

English: The Courtyard of the Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo,

Italiano: Gubbio - Basilica di S. Ubaldo.

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Photo: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

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This he did at his return. He earned a reputation for piety, poverty (for all his rich patrimony, he had given to the poor and to the restoration of Monasteries), humility, mortification, meekness, and fervour, and the fame of his Holiness spread in the Country, and several Bishoprics were offered to him, but he refused them all.

Ubaldo is said to have prevented Frederick Barbarossa from sacking Gubbio, as the Emperor had sacked Spoleto in 1155.

However, the Episcopal See of Gubbio becoming vacant, he was sent, with some Clerics, by the population to ask for a new Bishop from Pope Honorius II, who, having Consecrated him, sent him back to Gubbio. To his people, he became a perfect pattern of all Christian virtues, and a powerful protector in all their Spiritual and Temporal needs.

He died after a long and painful illness of two years.

English: The glass sarcophagus of Saint Ubaldo,

Basilica of Saint Ubaldo,

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Italiano: Gubbio - Urna con le spoglie di S. Ubaldo

(nella Basilica di S. Ubaldo).

Date: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

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Numerous Miracles were attributed to him during his life and after his death. At the solicitation of Bishop Bentivoglio, Pope Celestine III canonised him in 1192. His power, as we read in The Office for his Feast, is chiefly manifested over the evil spirits, and The Faithful are instructed to have recourse to him "contra omnes diabolicas nequitias".

The Life of the Saint was written by Blessed Theobaldus (Theobald, Teobaldo), his immediate successor in the Episcopal See, and, from this source, is derived all the information given by his numerous biographers. The body of Ubaldo, which had at first been buried in the Cathedral Church by the Bishops of Perugia and Cagli, at the time of his canonisation was found flexible and incorrupt, and was then placed in a small Oratory on the top of the hill overlooking the City, where, in 1508, at the wish of the Duke of Urbino, the Canons Regular built a Church, frequented by numerous Pilgrims, who come to visit the Relics.

English: Basilica of Saint Ubaldo,

Gubbio, Umbria, Italy.

Italiano: Gubbio - Basilica di S. Ubaldo.

Date: August 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Geobia.

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The Devotion to the Saint is very popular throughout Umbria, but especially at Gubbio, where, in every family, at least one member is called Ubaldo. The Feast of their Patron Saint is Celebrated by the inhabitants of the country around with great Solemnity, there being Religious and Civil Processions which call to mind the famous Festivities of The Middle Ages in Italy.

The Basilica of Sant'Ubaldo, with a Nave and four Aisles, is a Sanctuary atop Monte Ingino, just above the City. Noteworthy are the Marble Altar and the Great Windows with episodes of The Life of Ubaldo. The finely-sculpted Portals and the fragmentary frescoes give a hint of the magnificent 15th-Century decoration once boasted by the Basilica.

Outside of Italy, a finger Relic of Ubald is Venerated in the Saint-Theobald Collegiate Church of Thann, Haut-Rhin (France).

Are You Aware Before Whom You're Kneeling? Solemnity. Profundity. Silence. All Are Required When Kneeling Before Your Maker.

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Sir John Ninian Comper (1864 – 1960). Scottish Gothic-Revival Architect.

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Interior of Saint Mary The Virgin,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

Sir John Ninian Comper designed this Church.

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The spectacular Interior of Saint Mary's, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. The Church is little more than a Century old and was designed by the highly-regarded architect, Sir Ninian Comper. The Church is extremely ornate, but never vulgar, and the Golds and Blues blend in perfectly well with the local Deep-Golden Stone. The Church is in the Anglo-Catholic Tradition 
of The Church of England.

Photo: 18 August 1997.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: nick macneill.

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Sir John Ninian Comper (1864–1960) was a Scottish-born architect. He was one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects, noted for his Churches and their furnishings. He is well known for his Stained Glass, his use of colour and his subtle integration of Classical and Gothic elements, which he described as "unity by inclusion".

Comper was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, the eldest of five children of Ellen Taylor, of Hull, and the Reverend John Comper, Rector of St John's, Aberdeen (and, later, St Margaret of Scotland). He was educated at Glenalmond School, in Perthshire, and attended a year at the Ruskin School of Art in Oxford. On moving to London, he was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe, and, later, to George Frederick Bodley and Thomas Garner. His fellow-Scot, William Bucknall, took him into partnership in London in 1888 and Ninian was married to Grace Bucknall in 1890. Bucknall and Comper remained in partnership until 1905.

Reredos, in Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, England, designed by Comper.

Reredos (Altar Screen), with Tester and Rood Figures, designed by Sir Ninian Comper, 1922.

Photographer: Richard Barton-Wood.

Date: 1922 (object created); 27 February 2007 (original upload date).

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Author: Sir Ninian Comper (creator of the object);

Photographer and Original uploader was Richard Barton-Wood.

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Sir John Ninian Comper's ecclesiastical commissions include:

A line of windows in the North Wall of the Nave of Westminster Abbey;

Saint Peter's Parish Church, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, the Baldachino/Ciborium, High Altar and
East Window, in memory of the Dead of the Great War;

Saint Mary's, Wellingborough;

Saint Michael and All Angels, Inverness;

Lady Chapel at Downside Abbey,Somerset;

the Ciborium, and House Chapel extension, for the Society of Saint John the Evangelist, in Oxford (now Saint Stephen's House, Oxford);

Saint Cyprian's, Clarence Gate, London;

Lady Chapel at Saint Matthew's, Westminster;

Lady Chapel and Gilded Paintings in the Chancel of All Saints, Margaret Street, London.

The Sanctuary, All Saints Church, 

Margaret Street, London.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's commissions.

Photo: 3 November 2001.

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Author: John Salmon.

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Comper is noted for re-introducing the 'English Altar', an Altar surrounded by Riddel Posts. [Images, and documentary mentions of early examples [of Ciboria], often have Curtains, called tetravela, hung between the Columns; these Altar-Curtains were used to cover, and then reveal, the view of the Altar by the Congregation at points during Services — exactly which points varied, and is often unclear. Altar-Curtains survived the decline of the Ciborium in both East and West, and in English are often called "Riddels" (from French, rideau, a word once also used for ordinary domestic curtains).

Charles Eamer Kempe, (1860).

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Charles Eamer Kempe (29 June 1837 – 29 April 1907) was a Victorian Stained Glass designer and manufacturer. His studios produced over 4,000 windows and also designs for Altars and Altar Frontals, furniture and furnishings, Lichgates and Memorials, that helped to define a later 19th-Century Anglican style. The list of English Cathedrals containing examples of his work includes: Chester, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Wells, Winchester, York.

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A few Churches have "Riddle Posts", or "Riddel Posts", around the Altar, which supported the Curtain-Rails, and perhaps a Cloth stretched above. Such an arrangement can be seen in Folio 199v of the Très Riches Heures du duc de Berry. Late-Mediaeval examples in Northern Europe were often topped by Angels, and the Posts, but not the Curtains, were revived in some new or refitted Anglo-Catholic Churches by Ninian Comper and others around 1900.

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

Altar Frontal (Antependium) designed by Charles Eamer Kempe.

Upon moving to London, John Ninian Comper was Articled to Charles Eamer Kempe.

Illustration: MEDIEVAL CHURCH ART

In earlier periods, the Curtains were closed at the most Solemn part of The Mass, a practice that continues to the present day in The Coptic and Armenian Churches. A comparison to the Biblical Veil of The Temple was intended. The small domed structures, usually with Red Curtains, that are often shown near The Writing Saint in early Evangelist portraits, especially in the East, represent a Ciborium, as do the structures surrounding many manuscript portraits of Mediaeval Rulers.]

English: Saint John the Baptist Parish Church, Cardiff, Wales.

Stained Glass window (1915) by Ninian Comper: 

Saint Luke painting Madonna and Child (detail).

Deutsch: Cardiff (Wales). Pfarrkirche St. Johannes der Täufer -

Buntglasfenster (1915) von Ninian Comper:

Heiliger Lukas malt Madonna mit Kind (Detail).

Photo: 28 July 2011.

Source: Own work.

Author: Wolfgang Sauber.

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Comper designed a number of remarkable Altar Screens (Reredos), inspired by Mediaeval originals. Wymondham Abbey, Norfolk, has one of the finest examples.

Only one major ecclesiastical work of Comper's is in the United States, the Leslie Lindsey Chapel of Boston's Emmanuel Episcopal Church. The work is an all-encompassing product of, and testimony to, Comper's design capability, comprising the entire decorative scheme of the Chapel, designed by the architectural firm of Allen & Collins. Comper designed its Altar, Altar Screen, Pulpit, Lectern, dozens of statues, all its furnishings and appointments, and most notably the Stained Glass windows. The Chapel commemorates Leslie Lindsey and Stewart Mason, her husband of ten days, who were married at Emmanuel Church, and perished when the Lusitania was torpedoed in 1915.

Detail of Reredos at Saint James Church,

High Melton, England, by Ninian Comper.

Photo: 27 July 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Dearnesman.

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Sir John Ninian Comper's Rood Screen, 

Saint John the Baptist Church,

Lound, Nottinghamshire, England.

Photo: 24 September 2009.

Source: From geograph.org.uk.

Author: Evelyn Simak.

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Saint John the Baptist's Church 1507412 - 1507426 , in Lound, is widely known as the 'Golden Church', its fame originating from the generosity of Father Booth Lyes, a past Rector, who employed Sir Ninian Comper's genius to restore it. The Round Tower 1507419 - the oldest part of the Church and believed to be Early-Norman - was probably rebuilt at some later time. The Church was extensively restored in 1912/1913. The High Altar 1507434 was raised on new flooring, and richly decorated Posts, surmounted by gilded bronze Angels, support curtains of Spanish silk. 

Below the Altar, Ninian Comper's magnificent Rood Screen is adjoined at the South End by the Altar of Our Lady, above which Saint Mary Salome, Saint Mary the Virgin, and Saint Elizabeth, are depicted on boards with richly gilded gesso backgrounds 1507432. By Comper is also the only modern wall painting in Suffolk depicting a Saint Christopher 1507439 - the Saint is surrounded by a water mill, with a Suffolk Punch horse and its rider, waiting patiently in front of it, and a portrait of Sir Ninian driving his Rolls Royce along the river bank. The airplane, at top right, 

was added during the 1964 restoration of the painting. 

The Organ Case 1507447, at the West End of the Church, was installed in 1913. The Organ 

was built by Harrison & Harrison Ltd, of Durham. The original Norman Font Bowl 

now serves as a base for the Pulpit. The present Octagonal Font 1507445 - given in 1389

by Robert Bertelot - is of the traditional East Anglian type and the inscription 

at its base, commemorating the donor, is still legible. Saint John the Baptist's Church 

has a 'Welcome' banner above the South Doorway and is open every day.

Saint Mary The Virgin Church,

Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England.

One of Sir John Ninian Comper's masterpieces of creation.

Image: ST MARY THE VIRGIN, WELLINGBOROUGH

From 1912, Ninian and Grace lived in London at The Priory, Beulah Hill, a house designed by Decimus Burton (1800–1881), where he entertained friends such as John Betjeman. He had a studio nearby at Knights Hill, close to the world's first Gothic Cemetery at West Norwood. After the studio was destroyed in World War II, it was relocated to a building in his garden, which had previously been used by his son, Nicholas Comper (1897–1939), to design aircraft. Comper was knighted by King George VI in 1950.

On 22 December 1960, he died in The Hostel of God (now Trinity Hospice) in Clapham, London. His body was brought back to Norwood for cremation at West Norwood Cemetery. His ashes were then interred beneath the windows he designed in Westminster Abbey.