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 18 January 2022

The Two Feasts of the Chair of Peter


Gregory DiPippo has an excellent article on the New Liturgical Movement about the history and evolution of the Feast of the Chsir of Peter into two celebrations, those of it at Rome on January 18th and at Antioch on February 22nd. This rather curious, not to say convoluted, story is set out together with the interaction of the celebration on January 18th with the commemoration of martyr saints in the succeeding days in the articl. The article can be read at The Two Feasts of St Peter’s Chair 


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