Monday, 31 January 2022

Another relic of King Charles the Martyr

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Having written yesterday about surviving relics of King Charles I the serendipity of the Internet yielded another in the form of an article ...
Sunday, 30 January 2022

Relics of the Royal Martyr

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Today is the anniversary of the beheading of King Charles I in 1648/9. The cult of the Royal Martyr has been accompanied by various relics, ...
Thursday, 27 January 2022

Vestments in fifteenth and sixteenth century paintings

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  Shawn Tribe has a beautifully illustrated article on the Liturgical Arts Journal  website about the depiction of liturgical vestments by a...
Wednesday, 26 January 2022

A wooden statuette from early Roman Britain

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In the link to the report on the latest discoveries at Stoke Mandeville in my previous post there is a reference to the discovery on another...

More discoveries from the site of Stoke Mandeville Church

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The excavation of the site of the old parish church of St Mary at Stoke Mandeville in Buckinghamshire continues to yield intriguing and stri...
Tuesday, 25 January 2022

The church that Bishop Fleming built

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Today, January 25th, is the 591st anniversary of the death of Bishop Richard Fleming, the subject of my thesis research. Fleming was born at...

Sale of the King Henry III gold penny

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I recently posted in  Another gold penny of King Henry III   about the forthcoming sale of a King Henry III gold penny, minted in 1257 and d...

St Dwynwen

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Today, apart from being the Feast of the Conversion of St Paul, is also that of the fifth century Welsh nun St Dwynwen.  Now for those of yo...
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