In 2020 I wrote about the proposal to rebuild of missing north-west tower and spire of the Abbey of St Denis. My post can be seen at  Resto...

A friend has drawn my attention to an article in The Guardian about a proposal to move the bodies of King Charles X, King Louis XIX and Qu...

Today is the seventh centenary of the death of King John I of France. The son of King Louis X and his Queen Clemence of Hungary, he was bor...

Today is the seventh centenary of the death of King Louis X of France in 1316. He was 26, and had been King for little more than eighteen m...

Rorate Caeli yesterday had a post by Kenneth J. Wolfe  about a visit to the royal abbey and basilica of St Denis on the northern edge of Pa...

Today is by tradition the feast of the mid-third century Bishop of Paris St Denis and his companions in martyrdom SS. Rusticus of Paris and...

Following on from my recent posts about the positive identification of the skeleton of King Richard III and about the drawing of the sku...

Were today not Sunday, and were it not also the feast of Bl.John Henry Newman, we might well be observing the feast of St Denis and his com...