Wednesday, 30 October 2013

Rescuing a piece of memorabilia for St Thomas' in Oxford

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Today at an auction here in Oxford I managed to purchase an illuminated address on vellum to the Rev. Francis Underhill when he left his ...

An eagle from Londinium

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Several of today's newspapers have reports about the discovery and display at the Museum of London of a superb piece of Romano-British...
Tuesday, 29 October 2013

York Foundation

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Yesterday Fr Richard, accompanied for the first month by Fr Nicholas, set off to take on the care of St Wilfrid's church in York, and ...

The death of Conradin

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On this date in 1268, 645 years ago, the 16 year old boy- king Conradin was beheaded in Naples with his best friend Frederick of Baden an...
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Monday, 28 October 2013

Celebrating Bl.Salvio Huix-Miralpeix

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Yesterday at the Oxford Oratory the 11am Solemn Mass was a celebration of the Beatification of Bishop Salvio Huix-Miralpeix a fortnight a...
Saturday, 26 October 2013

Roger Scruton on Language and Liturgy

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Last night I went to a meeting of the Prayer Book Society at Pusey House to hear Prof. Roger Scruton speak on the topic of Liturgy and Lan...
Friday, 25 October 2013

Four generations and a baptism

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The baptism of Prince George of Cambridge on Wednesday received more attention from much of the media than has been usual for royal christ...

"Warrior King" - Keith Dockray's view of King Henry V

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Today being the anniversary of the battle of Agincourt it seems an appropriate one on which to comment on a fairly recent biography of t...