Only 48 per cent of adults questioned for a survey were aware that the festival marks the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The BBC report at Medieval friary remains reburied
(oddly expressed: 'remains' here is a noun, not a verb).

From The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1941.
Translated and adapted from the Latin by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger.

Part I is here.

From The Golden Legend of Jacobus de Voragine.
Longmans, Green and Co., New York, 1941.
Translated and adapted from the Latin by Granger Ryan and Helmut Ripperger.

Bill White, whose Summa minutiae blog does not discuss *nix or emacs, has instructions on making palm crosses.

Previously found at the Maternal Heart of Mary site (the domain was not renewed and has sadly expired), now it must be accessed via the Internet Archive (also known as the Wayback Machine).

For easier access, here is the Preface.

Until now, the Codex Sinaiticus, a fourth-century manuscript located in four institutions around the world, is accessible only by viewing the leaves in glass cases because the parchment is so fragile.

Now, the four institutions will cooperate on digitizing the Codex, reuniting it.

The two Lucas Cranachs were 16th century Northern German Renaissance painters. Lucas Cranach the Elder's best known work is probably the portrait of Martin Luther in the Uffizi, but he executed several altar pieces for Lutheran churches.

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.

The most noticeable change this day is the veiling of the crucifix and statues, though from this day until Holy Thursday, the psalm Judica me . . . (Ps. 42. 1, 2) is omitted on the Sundays and ferias, as also the Gloria Patri at the Introit and at the Lavabo; but on Feasts they are said as usual.

From Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent at Catholic Culture

The Mass for the Feast of the Holy Martyrs is Missa 'Clamaverunt justi, so-called from the Introit [Psalm 33:18, in the Catholic numbering, 34:17 in the King James].

In the pre-1969 Roman calendar, March 10 is the Feast of the Forty Holy Martyrs (a semi-double before the Sacred Congregation of Rites abolished that rank).

Pius II (1458 - 1464) was the only Pope to write an autobiography, until John XXIII's Journal of a Soul and John Paul II's Gift and Mystery and Rise, Let Us Be on Our Way.

The Boston Archdiocese has 2.1 million Catholics, and one Latin Mass according to the 1962 Missal, at Holy Trinity. The Archdiocese intends to close the parish June 30, 2005.

Silver bells!
What a world of merriment their melody foretells!
How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle,
In the icy air of night!
While the stars that oversprinkle
All the heavens, seem to twinkle
With a crystalline delight

Excerpts from The Liturgical Year by Dom Guéranger.