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.


Friday, 22 December 2023

O Rex Gentium


Today’s  Antiphon is O Rex Gentium:

O King of the nations ( Rex Gentium ), and their desire,
the cornerstone making both one:
Come and save the human race, 
which you fashioned from clay.

My post about the Antiphon can be read at O Rex gentium


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