May 11th 973 was Pentecost Sunday and the day chosen for the coronation - or perhaps or probably - re- coronation of King Edgar at Bath...

I have adapted the text of this post from one on the Medieval Religion discussion group about what appears to be a very interesting blend...

Today has been Ascension Day, a feast I prefer to observe on the traditional day rather than the transferred solemnity of next Sunday - t...

  The Ascension   Image:english.cam.ac.uk   This strikingly-coloured and composed Romanesque image of the Ascension is from th...

Pope Celestine V An early mural painting and the new face mask   Image:news.discovery.com I see from a post on the Mediev...

Yesterday I went on a pilgrimage to mark the Year of Faith organised for parishes from the North Oxford Deanery. The idea was to link t...

Today is the 105th anniversary of the ceremonial Acclamation of King Manuel II as King of Portugal and the Algarve in 1908. The formal oa...

The ceremonies for the abdication of Queen Beatrix and the formal accession of King Willem-Alexander as the first King of the Netherlands ...