Once I was a clever boy learning the arts of Oxford... is a quotation from the verses written by Bishop Richard Fleming (c.1385-1431) for his tomb in Lincoln Cathedral. Fleming, the founder of Lincoln College in Oxford, is the subject of my research for a D. Phil., and, like me, a son of the West Riding. I have remarked in the past that I have a deeply meaningful on-going relationship with a dead fifteenth century bishop... it was Fleming who, in effect, enabled me to come to Oxford and to learn its arts, and for that I am immensely grateful.


Tuesday 16 August 2011

St Stephen of Hungary


Today is the feast of St Stephen of Hungary, about whom I posted last year in St Stephen of Hungary and in The Holy Crown of Hungary.

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The reliquary containing "The Holy Right", the hand of St Stephen

St. Stephen's Basilica in Budapest

Image: Curious Expeditions photostream on Flickr


So talking of Hungary and Christendom leads, in the way these things do, to this rather curious story about the prospects for Anglicanism in the Apostolic Kingdom.


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2 comments:

Tancred said...

Hello, thanks for link, but the story is entirely untrue thanks to an exaggeration:

http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=14756

19 August 2011 at 15:58
Once I Was A Clever Boy said...

I must admit I was somewhat sceptical, but it had something of topicality to it!

19 August 2011 at 16:19

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