Saint Gregory The Wonderworker. Bishop. Confessor. Feast Day 17 November.

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

Saint Gregory The Wonderworker.
   Bishop.

   Confessor.
   Feast Day 17 November.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Gregory Thaumaturgus.

Русский: Святитель Григорий Чудотворец, икона XIV века.

Date: 14th-Century.

Source/Photographer: ru.wiki

Author: Anonymous.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Gregory was born at Neo-Cesarea, in Pontus (Editor: Modern-day Turkey), about 200 A.D., and became Bishop of his native City.

Famous for his Sanctity and Doctrine, he became still more so by the prodigies and miracles, which God multiplied in such a manner throughout his life, that he was surnamed “Thaumaturgus”, or, “Worker of Miracles”.

One day, putting into practice Our Lord's Word, quoted in today's Gospel, he commanded a mountain to move, so as to leave sufficient room for the building of a Church, and the command was obeyed.

He died in 270 A.D.

Mass: Státuit.

A Dominican Rite Missa Cantata. At Saint Patrick's Church, Columbus, Ohio. On Monday, 22 November 2021, 1900 hrs.

Why A “Scruple” Spoon ?

Illustration: SSPX MANILA (TWITTER)

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The Scruple is a small unit in the Apothecaries' System,[1] derived from the Old Roman “Scrupulum” (Small Pebble) Unit[2] (“Scrupulus/Scrupulum”).

The Scruple is ​1⁄24 Ounce, ​1⁄3 Dram, or 20 Grains.[1] It is therefore equal to 1.2959782 Grams. The Roman “Scruple” was somewhat smaller, around 1.14 Grams.

The Fluid “Scruple” is ​1⁄24 Fluid Ounce, ​1⁄3 Fluid Dram, 20 Minims, or ​1⁄4 Tea-Spoon, or 1 Salt-Spoon. It is therefore equal to 1.23 Milliliters.

Use During The Divine Holy Mass.

The “Ladle” is indeed for Ecclesiastical use and is properly called a “Scruple Spoon”.

During Roman Catholic Celebrations of The Mass, at The Offertory, The Celebrant prepares the Wine to be offered by decanting into the Chalice an appropriate quantity from a Cruet of Wine. To this, is added a tiny amount of Water (using a “Scruple Spoon”).

Saint Gertrude The Great. Virgin. Patroness Of The West Indies. Feast Day 16 November.

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

Saint Gertrude The Great.
   Virgin.
   Feast Day 16 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

English: Ecstasy of Saint Gertrude.

Français: Extase de sainte Gertrude.

Italiano: Estasi di Santa Gertrude.

Current location: Abbey of Santa Giustina Italy.

Photo: 1 June 2016.

Source: Own work.

Author: Didier Descouens

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Gertrude, called "The Great", was a Cistercian, and a Spiritual daughter both of Saint Bernard and Saint Benedict. Her life was almost entirely spent in the Cloister, which she entered as an Oblate in 1261, at the age of five.

On 27 January 1281, Gertrude being then just over twenty-five, the Spouse of her Soul revealed Himself to her in a wonderful manner. He consoled her in a trial which tormented her, and favoured her with remarkable visions during the following eight years.

At God's command, she related them in a book, entitled "Revelations of Saint Gertrude".

English: Saint Gertrude.

Español: Santa Gertrudis.

Artist: Miguel Cabrera (1695–1768).

Date: 1763.

Current location: Dallas Museum of Art, Texas, United States of America.

Note: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of Laura and Daniel D. Boeckman

in honour of Dr. William Rudolph.

Source/Photographer: https://www.dma.org/collection/

artwork/miguel-cabrera/saint-gertrude-santa-gertrudis

(Wikimedia Commons)

Gertrude, holding in her hand her lighted lamp, awaited the coming of her Spouse. "She died," says The Roman Breviary, "in 1334, consumed rather by the ardour of her love than by disease."

She was proclaimed Patroness of The West Indies, and in New Mexico a town was built in her honour and still bears her name.

Mass: Dilexísti.

The Divine Beauty For The Divine Liturgy. Where One Hears The Divine Word.

The High Altar,

Damenstiftskirche Sankt Anna,

Munich, Germany.

Photo: 26 June 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rufus46

(Wikimedia Commons)

Christmas Mass 2014,

Damenstiftskirche Sankt Anna,

Munich, Germany.

Illustration: CATHOLIC NEWS

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Damenstiftskirche Sankt Anna is a Church in Munich, Germany. It was commissioned in the 18th-Century by The Elector, Charles Albert (later, The Emperor Charles VII), and the cornerstone was laid in 1733.

A Monastery, in the legal form of a Chapter of Nuns, was set up. The architect was Johann Baptist Gunetzrhainer, while the Asam brothers were responsible for the Interior. The Women's Collegiate Church was Consecrated in 1735.

All but the outer walls were destroyed in World War II. The Interior was restored from old photographs in 1980, but the murals are now painted in Black and White.

On 1 September 2014, Reinhard Cardinal Marx, Metropolitan Archbishop of München und Freising, permanently entrusted the Church to The Priestly Fraternity of Saint Peter (FSSP).

Since then, daily Mass has been exclusively offered in The Extraordinary Form.

The Web-Site of Damenstiftskirche Sankt Anna can be found HERE

The High Altar,

Damenstiftskirche Sankt Anna,

Munich, Germany.

Palm Sunday 2019.

Illustration: NEW LITURGICAL MOVEMENT

Saint Albert The Great (1200-1280). Bishop. Confessor. Doctor Of The Church. Feast Day, Today, 15 November.

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

Saint Albert the Great.
   Bishop.

   Confessor.

   Doctor of The Church.
   Feast Day 15 November.

Double.

White Vestments.

Saint Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus).

Illustration: RELEASING THE ARROW

Saint Albert the Great

(Albertus Magnus).

Artist: Tommaso da Modena (1326–1379).

Date: 1352.

Current location: Chiesa di San Nicolò, Treviso, Italy.

Source/Photographer: Kapitelsaal des ehemaligen

Dominikanerklosters San Niccolò in Treviso.

First uploaded by sv:Användare:Lamré to Swedish Wikipedia

as sv:Bild:AlbertusMagnus.jpg

(Wikimedia Commons)

Born in Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, circa 1200, Albert, even as a child, loved The Blessed Virgin in a special manner. He resolved to enter The Order of Saint Dominic, but, tempted by the devil, he gave up the idea.

Ultimately, however, at the earnest entreaty, and through the ardent Prayers, of Blessed Jourdan of Saxony, he resolved definitely to enter The Order of Saint Dominic. He studied Philosophy at Cologne, then at Paris, where he became one of the most renowned Professors of the University.

Saint Thomas Aquinas was one of his students. He was made Bishop of Ratisbon (Regensburg) by Pope Urban IV and defended The Church against the errors of Guillaume de Saint-Amour and died at Cologne in 1280.

He was Canonised and proclaimed Doctor of The Church in 1931.

Mass: In médio (from The Common of Doctors).

The Tympanum and Archivolts of Strasbourg Cathedral, France,

with iconography inspired by Albertus Magnus (Albert the Great).

Photo: 22 July 1989.

Source: Own work.

Author: Rebecca Kennison

(Wikimedia Commons)

The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia.

Albertus Magnus, O.P. (circa 1200 – 15 November 1280), also known as Albert the Great, and Albert of Cologne, is a Catholic Saint. He was a German Dominican Friar and a Catholic Bishop. He was known during his lifetime as "Doctor Universalis" and "Doctor Expertus", and, late in his life, the term "Magnus" (Great) was appended to his name.

Scholars, such as James A. Weisheipl and Joachim R. Söder, have referred to him as the greatest German Philosopher and Theologian of The Middle Ages. The Catholic Church honours him as a Doctor of The Church, one of only thirty-six persons so honoured (as at 2015).

The Catholic Doctors of The Church (as at 2015) are:

Saint Gregory the Great;

Saint Ambrose;

Saint Augustine;

Saint Jerome;

Saint Thomas Aquinas;

Saint John Chrysostom;

Saint Basil the Great;

Saint Gregory of Nazianzus;

Saint Athanasius;

Saint Bonaventure;

Saint Anselm;

Saint Isidore of Seville;

Saint Peter Chrysologus;

Saint Leo the Great;

Saint Peter Damian;

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux;

Saint Hilary of Poitiers;

Saint Alphonsus Liguori;

Saint Francis de Sales;

Saint Cyril of Alexandria;

Saint Cyril of Jerusalem;

Saint John Damascene;

Saint Bede the Venerable;

Saint Ephrem;

Saint Peter Canisius;

Saint John of The Cross;

Saint Robert Bellarmine;

Saint Albert the Great;

Saint Anthony of Padua;

Saint Lawrence of Brindisi;

Saint Teresa of Avila;

Saint Catherine of Siena;

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux;

Saint John of Avila;

Saint Hildegard von Bingen;

Saint Gregory of Narek.

Commemoration Of All Souls Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.). Today, 14 November.

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

In The Supplement For The Order Of Saint Benedict, contained within The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, there is listed all The Feasts associated with that Order.

Commemoration Of All Souls Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.).
   14 November.

Double.

Black Vestments.

Mass: Requiem, as on All Souls’ Day (2 November), except:

Collect: Deus, véniæ.
Secret: Deus, cujus.
Postcommunion: Præsta, quaésumus.

Saint Josaphat. Bishop And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 14 November.

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

Saint Josaphat.
   Bishop And Martyr.
   Feast Day 14 November.

Double.

Red Vestments.

Martyrdom of Josaphat Kuntsevych.

Artist: Józef Simmler (1823–1868).

Date: Circa 1861.

Current location: National Museum in Warsaw, Poland.

Source/Photographer: cyfrowe.mnw.art.pl

(Wikimedia Commons)

A native of Wladimir, in Volhynia (then Poland, now Ukraine), and belonging to a noble family, Josaphat Kuncewitcz embraced Monastic Life in The Order of Saint Basil. He always kept fresh the flower of his Chastity, which he had from his youth Consecrated to Mary.

Commissioned in spite of his early age to govern the Monastery of Bytene, he became shortly afterwards Archimandrite of Vilna and, lastly, very much against his wish, Archbishop of Polotzk, of The Ruthenian Rite.

The Apostolic zeal of the youthful Archbishop excited against him the hatred of Hell. Attacked at Vitebsk by the Schismatics, he was cruelly put to death in 1623, and obtained from God the conversion of his murderers.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes in Dómino.

The Basilica of Saint Josaphat,

Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States of America.

Copyright © 2005 Sulfur

Date: 4 March 2007 (original upload date).

Source: Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons

by James Steakley using CommonsHelper

Author: The original uploader was Sulfur at English Wikipedia

(Wikimedia Commons)

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Josaphat Kuntsevych, O.S.B.M., (1580 – 12 November 1623) (Belarusian: Язафат Кунцэвіч, Jazafat Kuncevič, Polish: Jozafat Kuncewicz, Ukrainian: Йосафат Кунцевич, Josafat Kuntsevych) was a Monk and Archeparch (Archbishop) of The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who was killed at Vitebsk, Vitebsk Voivodeship, in The Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth (now in Belarus), on 12 November 1623. He is "the best-known victim" of sectarian violence related to implementing The Union of Brest, and is declared a Martyr and Saint of The Catholic Church.

The Order of Saint Basil the Great (O.S.B.M. Latin: Ordo Sancti Basilii Magni, Portuguese: Ordem de São Basílio Magno, Ukrainian: Чин Святого Василія Великого, Chyn Sviatoho Vasyliia Velykoho), also known as The Basilian Order of Saint Josaphat, is a Monastic Religious Order of The Greek Catholic Church that is present in many Countries and has its Mother House in Rome (Santi Sergio e Bacco degli Ucraini).

The Order received approbation on 20 August 1631. Its Monks, Brothers, and Priests, work primarily with Ukrainian Catholics and are also present in other Greek-Catholic Churches in Central and Eastern Europe.

The Feast Day Of All Monks Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.). Today, 13 November.

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

In The Supplement For The Order Of Saint Benedict, contained within The Saint Andrew Daily Missal, there is listed all The Feasts associated with that Religious Order.

On 13 November is Celebrated The Feast Of All Monks Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.).

The Feast Of All Monks Of The Benedictine Order (O.S.B.).
   13 November.

Double of The Second-Class.

White Vestments.

Up to the end of the 16th-Century, there was no General Feast of this name for the whole Benedictine Order, since “The Order Of Saint Benedict”, in the modern sense, was unknown.

In individual Monasteries, as Monte Cassino, Cluny, Fontenelle, etc, a Feast of all the Saints proper to the Monastery was observed, on different dates; only by the Revision of The Monastic Breviary, by Pope Saint Paul V, in 1612, a General Feast of All Holy Monks of The Benedictine Order was instituted,

on 13 November.

Mass: Gaudeámus omnes.
Epistle: Exhibeámus.
Gospel: Ecce nos relíquimus (from The Common of Abbots).
Creed: Is Said or Sung.
Preface: Of Saint Benedict (Page 19 in The Supplement For The Order Of Saint Benedict, contained within The Saint Andrew Daily Missal).

Saint Didacus. Confessor. Feast Day 13 November.

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

Saint Didacus.
   Confessor.
   Feast Day 13 November.

Semi-Double.

White Vestments.

English: Didacus of Alcalá

Español: San Diego de Alcalá obra de

Francisco de Zurbarán pintada, entre 1651 y 1653, al óleo sobre lienzo.

Artist: Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664)

Date: 1651-1653.

Collection: Museo Lazaro Galdiano, Madrid, Spain.

This File: 10 August 2015.

User: Raimundo Pastor

(Wikimedia Commons)

Born in Spain about 1400, Saint Didacus gave up all he possessed (Gospel, Communion) and entered, as a Lay-Brother, The Franciscan Monastery at Arrizafa. He devoted himself especially in contemplation, and was favoured by God by such wonderful light that he spoke of Heavenly things in an almost Divine way.

His ardent desire for Martyrdom, while he was in the Canary Isles, was partly satisfied by all manner of tribulations (Epistle). He returned to Rome in the year of The Jubilee, under the Pontificate of Pope Nicholas V, and was put in charge of The Sick at the Convent of Ara Cæli.

He practised so much Charity that, in spite of the scarcity which desolated the City, those who were committed to his care never wanted the necessities of life. The Passion of Jesus was the ordinary subject of his Meditations and Prayers.

Feeling that his end was near, and clothed only in an old torn Habit, with his eyes fixed on The Cross, he uttered the words of the Sacred Hymn: "Wood and Nails, full of sweetness, ye bear the sweetest of loads; how great your glory, since you have been judged worthy to bear The King of Heaven."

He piously gave up his Soul to God at Alcala de Henares in 1463,

Mass: Justus.

San Diego Pro-Cathedral,

Silay, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

Previously called Saint Didacus Parish Church.

Photo: 9 September 2012.

Source: Own work.

Author: Ninya Regalado

(Wikimedia Commons)

San Diego Pro-Cathedral

(formerly known as Saint Didacus Parish Church)

Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines

Photo: 19 July 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: ClaireMRA

(Wikimedia Commons)

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San Diego Pro-Cathedral, formerly known as San Diego Parish Church, or Saint Didacus Parish Church, before its declaration as a Pro-Cathedral in 1994, is an Early-20th-Century Church in Silay City, Negros Occidental, Philippines.

It is the only Pro-Cathedral in the Country, and is unique in Negros Occidental for being the only Church in the Province featuring a Cupola, or Dome.

John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893). The Victorian-Era Artist From Leeds, England.

"November".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1879.

This File: 19 September 2013.

User: Austriacus

(Wikimedia Commons)

"Nightfall on The Thames".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1880.

Current location: Leeds City Art Gallery, England.

Source/Photographer: Direct link via Leeds Museum & Galleries.

(Wikimedia Commons)

John Atkinson Grimshaw (6 September 1836 – 13 October 1893) was a Victorian-era artist, a "remarkable and imaginative painter" known for his City night-scenes and landscapes.

His early paintings were signed "JAG," "J. A. Grimshaw," or "John Atkinson Grimshaw," though he finally settled on "Atkinson Grimshaw."

John Atkinson Grimshaw was born Leeds, England. In 1856, he married his Cousin, Frances Hubbard (1835–1917). In 1861, at the age of twenty-four, to the dismay of his parents, he left his job as a Clerk for The Great Northern Railway to become a painter.

He first exhibited in 1862, mostly paintings of birds, fruit and blossom, under the patronage of The Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society. He became successful in the 1870s and rented a second home in Scarborough, which became a favourite subject of his paintings.

Several of his children, Arthur E. Grimshaw (1864–1913), Louis H. Grimshaw (1870–1944), Wilfred Grimshaw (1871–1937) and Elaine Grimshaw (1877–1970) became painters.

"A Moonlit Evening".

Artist: John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836–1893).

Date: 1880.

Current location: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum,

Madrid, Spain.

Source/Photographer: posted to Flickr as John Atkinson Grimshaw -

A Moonlit Evening, 1880 at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza Madrid Spain

with a Copy Fraud License by Flickr user mbell1975.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Martin I. Pope And Martyr. Feast Day, Today, 12 November.

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

Saint Martin I.
   Pope And Martyr.
   Feast Day 12 November.

Semi-Double.

Red Vestments.

English: Saint Martin I.

Pope and Martyr.

Italiano: Cromolitografia in L. Tripepi,

Ritratti e biografie dei romani pontefici:

da S. Pietro a Leone 13, Roma, Vaglimigli Davide.

Date: 1879.

Author: Oleografia Panigati e Meneghini Milano.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Saint Martin I succeeded Pope Theodore.

Having convoked at Rome a Council, where The Monothelites, who only admitted a Divine Will in Christ, were condemned, he was treacherously seized by order of the heretics Heraclius and Constant and carried away to Constantinople.

After enduring much suffering and humiliation, he was exiled to Chersonesus, where he died of fatigue in 655 A.D.

His body, Translated to Rome, was laid in The Church of Saint Sylvester and Saint Martin, the Apostle of Gaul.

Mass: Sacerdótes Dei.

“Tommy” Bows His Head For His Fallen Comrades.

The “Tommy” statue,

officially named “1101”, on Terrace Green, Seaham, County Durham.

Picture Credit: OWEN HUMPHREYS/PA WIRE.

Illustration: BBC NEWS

Lance-Sergeant Stuart Laing, from the 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, plays “The Last Post” during a small Armistice Day Ceremony at The Cenotaph, in Whitehall, London, marking over 100 years since the inauguration of the permanent version of The Cenotaph. The bugle was found next to the body of a Welsh Guard who fought during The Battle of The Somme in 1916.

Picture Credit: YUI MOK / PA WIRE.

Illustration: BBC NEWS

Remembrance Day. 11 November 2021.

 

Faure Requiem Op.48.

Durufle Requiem Op.9.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

They shall grow not old,

as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them,

nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the Sun,

and in the morning,

We will remember them.

Illustration: THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION

We will remember them.

Remembrance Day. At The Eleventh Hour. Of The Eleventh Day. Of The Eleventh Month. The Guns Fell Silent. Lest We Forget.

Text from Wikipedia - the free encyclopædia,
unless otherwise stated.

LEST WE FORGET

HYMN TO THE FALLEN

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

LEYTON ORIENT FOOTBALL CLUB'S

SUPPORTERS' VISIT TO THE SOMME BATTLEFIELDS

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

“IN FLANDERS FIELDS”.

“LEST WE FORGET”.

Remembrance Day at the John McCrae House (birthplace, museum, and Memorial) in Guelph, Ontario, Canada. A detail shot of the "Altar" of the Memorial, with the complete poem "In Flanders Fields"and the line "LEST WE FORGET" inscribed on it.

Photo: 11 November 2009.

Source: Own work.

Author: Lx 121.

Note: Part of a series of photographs taken at the John McCrae site

in Guelph, Ontario, Canada, on 11 November 2009 (Remembrance Day).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustration: LANDSCAPES

Portrait photo of John Alexander McCrae (1872–1918).

Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae was a Soldier, Physician and Poet.

Date: 1918 or earlier.

Image from "In Flanders Fields, And Other Poems", by Lieut.-Col. John McCrae, M.D., with an essay in character, by Sir Andrew Macphail (New York, London: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1919): http://www.archive.org/details/inflandersfields00mccr.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

An autographed copy of the poem "In Flanders Fields".

Unlike the printed copy in the same book, McCrae's handwritten version ends the first line with "grow". Facsimile of handwritten version of McCrae's "In Flanders Fields", in a volume of his poetry where an acknowledgement is given "The reproduction of the autograph poem is from a copy belonging to Carleton Noyes, Esq., of Cambridge, Mass., who kindly permitted its use."

Date: 1919.

Source: Scan of McCrae's "In Flanders Fields And Other Poems", obtained from archive.org, converted to PNG and Black and White, slight rotation.

Author: John McCrae.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Illustrated Page by Ernest Clegg.

Note that the first line ends with "grow".

Page 1 of the main content from a Limited Edition Book containing an Illustrated Poem,

"In Flanders Fields".

Date: 1921.

Source: JP2 zip data at fieldsinflanders00mccrrich archive.org

Author: John McCrae and Ernest Clegg.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The first chapter of "In Flanders Fields and Other Poems",

a 1919 collection of McCrae's works, gives the text of the poem as follows:

IN FLANDERS FIELDS

In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,

That mark our place; and in the sky

The Larks, still bravely singing, fly,

Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago

We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,

Loved and were loved, and now we lie

In Flanders fields.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:

To you from failing hands we throw

The torch; be yours to hold it high.

If ye break faith with us who die,

We shall not sleep, though poppies grow

In Flanders fields.

"Bleuet de France".

Circa 1950.

Source: Own work.

Author: Unknown.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Remembrance Day (11 November) is a national holiday in France and Belgium. It commemorates The Armistice, signed between The Allies and Germany at Compiègne, France, for the cessation of hostilities on The Western Front, which took effect at 11:00 a.m. — the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month."

Illustration: LABOUR UNCUT

Armistice Day is one the most important military celebrations in France, since it was a major French victory and the French paid a heavy price in blood to achieve it. The First World War was considered in France as the "Great Patriotic War". Almost all French villages feature Memorials dedicated to the Fallen. In France, the Blue Cornflower (Bleuet de France) is used symbolically, rather than the Poppy.

"Ghosts of Vimy Ridge"

depicts the ghosts of The Canadian Corps on Vimy Ridge,

surrounding The Canadian National Vimy Memorial.

Date: 1931.

Source: Canadian House of Commons Collection, (AN: O-4714) [1]

Author: William Longstaff

(Wikimedia Commons)

English: The Australian Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux, Somme, France.

Français: Villers-Bretonneux (Somme, France).

La croix du cimetière militaire et la tour du Mémorial National Australien.

Photo: April 2008.

Source: Own work.

Author: Markus3 (Marc ROUSSEL).

(Wikimedia Commons)

Australian Remembrance Day.

Image: STITCHERS CORNER

"De Profundis.".

Psalm 129

(Douay–Rheims Bible).

By Orlando de Lassus.

Taken from The Prayers for The Dead.

Available on YouTube at

YOU TUBE

Psalm CXXIX.

De Profundis.

Out of the depths

I have cried unto Thee, O Lord !

Lord, hear my voice.

Let Thine ears be attentive

To the voice of my supplication.

If Thou, O Lord, shalt mark iniquities,

Lord, who shall endureth ?

For with The Lord there is merciful forgiveness,

And by reason of Thy law

I have waited upon Thee, O Lord.

My Soul doth rely on His word:

My Soul doth hope in The Lord.

From the Morning Watch, even unto night,

Let Israel hope in The Lord.

For with The Lord there is mercy,

And with Him plentiful redemption.

And He shall redeem Israel,

From all his iniquities.

V. Eternal rest give unto them, O Lord.

R. And let Perpetual Light shine upon them.

De profundis clamavi ad te, Domine:

Domine, exaudi vocem meam.

Fiant aures tuae intendentes:

In vocem deprecationis meae.

Si iniquitates observaveris, Domine:

Domine, quis sustinebit ?

Quia apud te propitiatio est:

Et propter legem tuam sustinui te, Domine.

Sustinuit anima mea in verbo ejus:

Speravit anima mea in Domino.

A custodia matutina usque ad noctem:

Speret Israel in Domino.

Quia apud Dominum misericordia:

Et copiosa apud eum redemptio.

Et ipse redimet Israel,

Ex omnibus iniquitatibus ejus.

V. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine.

R. Et lux perpetua luceat eis.

". . . If ye break faith, With us who die,

We shall not sleep,

Though Poppies grow In Flanders fields."

Photo: 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Zephyrinus.

South African Infantry Soldier stands guard at

The Johannesburg Memorial on the 90th Remembrance Day Ceremony.

Image: DIGITAL JOURNAL

Delville Wood, near Longueval, The Somme, France.

Image: WORLD WAR ONE BATTLEFIELDS

Delville Wood was sometimes known as Devil's Wood, and the fighting there during The Battle of The Somme was particularly ferocious. The majority of Delville Wood was eventually taken by South African Soldiers on 15 July 1916, and they held on grimly during numerous German counter-attacks for six days, until they were relieved.

After the War, South Africa purchased the site in 1920, and it serves as a Memorial to those of that Nation who fell, not just there, but elsewhere.

The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier in Confederation Square, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, immediately following the Remembrance Day Ceremonies,

11 November, 2006. Since its installation, it has become traditional

to place Poppies on the Tomb, after the formal Ceremony has concluded.

Photo: 11 November 2006.

Source: Own work.

Author: Mikkel Paulson.

(Wikimedia Commons)

New Zealand Remembrance Day Ceremony.

NEW ZEALAND DEFENCE FORCE WEB-SITE

Armistice Day (also referred to as Remembrance Day) marks the anniversary of the signing of the Armistice that ended World War One and commemorates the sacrifice of those who died serving New Zealand in this War, and all Wars and armed conflict.

The Great War of 1914 to 1918 was one of the most devastating events in human history. New Zealand, with a population of 1.1 million in 1914, sent 100,000 men and women abroad. 16,700 died and over 40,000 were wounded – a higher per capita casualty rate than any other country involved.

The coming of Peace, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, brought Blessed Relief for all involved.

They shall grow not old,

as we that are left grow old.

Age shall not weary them,

nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the Sun,

and in the morning.

We will remember them.

We will remember them.

(Fourth stanza of Laurence Binyon's Poem "For the Fallen")

Illustration: IN CAELO ET IN TERRA