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St Withburga by Hugh Arnold, 1910, at Saxlingham Nethergate, Norfolk, a detail of his south aisle glass produced at the Glass House, Fulham.
Saxlingham Nethergate: norfolkchurches.co.uk/saxlin…
There's a couple of good ones in East Anglia, others not so very far away. The Glass House order book (which may well not be complete) shows he produced glass for a total of sixty windows there, though presumably some were fairly prefunctory, but he also did a fair bit for Powell & Sons. My favourites are his work at Saxlingham Nethergate in Norfolk, 1910. Two details:
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This month for #HiddenCatholicCollections, we spotlight Jesuit meteorologist Ernesto Gherzi, S.J., whose work at the Zikawei Observatory in the 1920s helped shape modern geophysical research. To read more about this archive, go to achahistory.org/hidden/.
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Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations.
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/…
Cartoon in The Catholic Advocate, April 1965: "The traditionalists sent me!"
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ALT The Catholic Advocate, Volume 14, Number 18, 22 April 1965
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How One American Parish Put the Catechism Online — and Caught the Vatican’s Eye
St. Charles Borromeo in Picayune, Mississippi, made internet history with a project so bold it needed Vatican approval — and got it.⤵️
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Microsoft Weather forecasts that central PA will briefly turn into the surface of Mars tomorrow with a high of 128F
1945
“RELIGIOUS FREEDOM RETURNS”
“Now that Nazi power has been smashed in Germany, Catholics of that country are once more permitted to celebrate the Feast of Corpus Christi. This year the traditional procession was held through bombed streets.
ALT The Catholic World in Pictures, 18 June 1945
1949
“Farm women of Oberau, in Bavaria, sing hymns during the colorful Corpus ChristiDay celebration there. The town is located at the foot of Obersalzberg, where Hitler had his mountain retreat. The celebration included…the firing of ancient pistols to expel wicked "ghosts.””
ALT The Catholic World in Pictures, 1 July 1949
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This is, as usual, a magnificent thread emanating from the wonderful work of @SharonKabel.
Thank you SO much!!
Do yourself a favor and look at it in its entirety.
Last Sunday was Trinity Sunday!
Did you know that before The Council of Trent codified the wedding mass, the most common wedding texts were the Trinity Sunday readings, NOT what Trent picked? Let's take a look at some pre-Tridentine "Benedicta sit" wedding masses!
ALT Grenoble, France. 1530. BM Marseille, 57802. Missale secundum usum Gratiannopolitanum maximo tum labore tum studio emendatum. https://usuarium.elte.hu/book/817/view
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A story UL could be doing without...
University of Limerick to investigate how AI text was part of book written by senior academic
irishexaminer.com/news/arid-…
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Pope Leo XIV on Palestrina: “His compositions, solemn and austere, inspired by Gregorian chant, closely unite music and liturgy, both giving prayer a sweeter expression and encouraging unanimity, and enriching the sacred rites with greater solemnity.”
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Historical Images of Corpus Christ Processions, from Sharon Kabel (Part 1) dlvr.it/SqMpJC
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Vienna, Austria (1918)
Featuring Karl and Zita Habsburg, to the left under the tent! I would imagine that 1918 was the last time the royal couple participated in a Corpus Christi procession in Vienna.
ALT Fronleichnamsprozession der Hofburgpfarre mit dem Kaiserpaar Karl I. und Zita. Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek. https://onb.digital/result/10DD986C