That's the inscription at the entrance to the Capella dos Ossos (bone chapel) in Evora, Portugal. Translation: our bones lie here awaiting yours.

Some other bone chapel links:

• images of the chapel in Evora. Click on the 'next' link for another,
• more Evora chapel images,
• more Evora chapel images,
• more Evora chapel images, scroll down in the left-hand frame to Evora and click on the images,
• Capuchin bone crypt in Rome's Santa Maria della Concezione de Cappuccini church,
• Boing Boing's post Photos of bone-chapel in Czech Republic (Sedlec, perhaps the best known one).

Google will take you to many more examples. Merely searching on "bone chapel" (with the quotes) returns more than a thousand English pages.

Prodigal Son's post Instruction On The Feast Of All Saints is well worth reading.

Fr Goffine's book is online at The Church's Year, which I'm using the Firefox extension ScrapBook to capture to my machine here.

Today's Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Domini Nostri Iesu Christi Universorum Regis.

From breviary.net, here is Lesson vii from the Feast of Christ the King, a homily of St Augustine.

Here's some information about the shrine at Mentorella which Benedict XVI visited, as pointed out by Jeff Miller at Pope Benedict XVI visits the Virgin Mary at Mentorella.

The feast of Christ the King was established in 1925 by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Quas Primas.

... we deem it in keeping with our Apostolic office to accede to the desire of many of the Cardinals, Bishops, and faithful, made known to Us both individually and collectively, by closing this Holy Year with the insertion into the Sacred Liturgy of a special feast of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. ...

Therefore by Our Apostolic Authority We institute the Feast of the Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ to be observed yearly throughout the whole world on the last Sunday of the month of October - the Sunday, that is, which immediately precedes the Feast of All Saints.

From Quas Primas. Because Dom Guéranger wrote during the nineteenth century of our redemption, his Liturgical Year (or at least the online versions I'm aware of) have nothing on the feast.

Today in 1531 one of the Fra Lorenzo, Bernardino Parenzano (there were two with the same religious and Christian names, living at the same time, died in Parenzo. (The other Fra Lorenzo died in Vicenza about 1500.) Today's Fra Lorenzo is known for the 1494 painting Temptations of St Anthony (see below the break for this and other treatments, which really ought to be viewed full size).

Searching for other treatments of the temptations lead me to a few more art images resources.

Today the Church commemorates St Simon and St Jude (also called Thaddeus). From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for
these saints.

One of the podcasts to which I subscribe is that of the BBC's In Our Time, which explores the history of ideas, but which also wanders into interesting events in history. Radio 4 makes available current (the latest is on Samuel Johnson and his circle) and back releases (browse the archive here) of the weekly program.

Back on October 6, 2005, Melvin Bragg, Steven Gunn, John Guy (pronounced 'G-eye', not 'G-ee'), and Penny Roberts discussed 'The Field of the Cloth of Gold'.

ResourceShelf carries a pointer (Pitt Unveils Web Site That Includes More Than 3,000 Images of Chartres Cathedral) to the University of Pittsburgh's announcement (Pitt Unveils Web Site That Includes More Than 3,000 Images of Chartres Cathedral). The main site of the collection is here.

'This reform [you remember, the one after Vatican II] has highlighted the beauty of Eucharistic action, which shines out in the liturgical rite.'

Did my browser redirect to Today In Alternate History?

The quote is from the Vatican Information Service article Synod Fathers' Propositions.

Mr Fitzpatrick has a good post on his Recta Ratio blog, Ars Moriendi (the art of dying), with woodcuts. Be sure to click on the link at the end.

From Brainy History (mostly accurate) for today, October 25:

Pope Gregory XIII asks renewal of ecclesiastical hymns.

Now, what could that mean? He did ask Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (then at St Peter's, was he maestro then? he was at one point) and Annibale Zoilo (then maestro di cappella at St John Lateran) to revise the Church's chants and responses.

Now, Pope Gregory XIII reigned from 1572 to 1585, and implemented many of Trent's decrees. One of those decrees was of December 4, 1563, in the twenty-fifth and final session:

The sacred and holy Synod ... commissioned certain chosen Fathers to consider what ought to be done touching various censures, and books either suspected or pernicious, and to report thereon to the said holy Synod ... enjoins that whatsoever has been by them done shall be laid before the most holy Roman Pontiff, that it may be by his judgment and authority terminated and made public. And it commands that the same be done in regard of the Catechism, by the Fathers to whom that work was consigned, and as regards the missal and breviary.

From The Council of Trent, The Twenty-Fifth Session, page down to, or search the page for, On the Index of Books; on the Catechism, Breviary, and Missal. This is the commission, or call, for a revision of the missal and breviary.

Of course, Pope St Pius V revised the Roman Missal. (Interesting that there's no separate entry for the Bull Quo Primum at the Catholic Encyclopedia, though there are many mentions of it there.)

This is getting a little long, so, more below the break.

At the Manybooks.net site, there are 11,609 eBooks available, for free. In the RSS feed today, there's A Handbook for Latin Clubs, from 1916, the Project Gutenberg version.

I missed Fr Jim Tucker's first mention of the Benedict XVI 'Habemus papam' announcement dance remix (.mp3 format), but he points to it again, along with an unedited .wav file of the announcement of John Paul I's election.

Today in the 1962 calendar the Church commemorates St Raphael.From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this feast day, which Pope Benedict extended to the whole church in the last century. The accompanying images of the angel and Tobias are arranged in chronological order

The Venetian Mannerist Paolo Veronese's Christ and the Woman with the Issue of Blood, 1565-70, from Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum, illustrates yesterday's gospel. See it and a brief comment below the break.

The Internet Mission Photography Archive at the University of Southern California, is a searchable compilation of images from Catholic and Protestant missionary activities from the middle of the nineteenth to the middle of the twentieth century. Some images are below the break. I found this site via a link at Cross & Crucifix: resources.

The Internet Archive has made available Lord Acton's Letters from Rome on the Council, in a 57 Meg .pdf file. (That's the First Vatican Council, 1869-1870.)

Acton was opposed to the definition of papal infallibility and of papal immediate and ordinary jurisdiction, not because it was inopportune, but because he believed it to be false. The Letters, which appeared in the German Allgemeine Zeitung newspaper, had the support of his fellow historian Döllinger, but while Döllinger was excommunicated, Acton never left or was expelled from, the Church. The Letters contain much heated prose as to the effect on Church-State relations as consequences to the definition:

In a word, the absolute dominion of the Church over the State will next year come into force as a principle of Catholic faith, and become a factor to be reckoned with by every Commonwealth or State that has Catholic inhabitants; and by "Church" in this system must always be understood the Pope, and the Bishops who act under absolute control of the Pope. ...

No Government therefore can hereafter count on the loyalty and obedience of its Catholic subjects, unless its measures and acts are such as to secure the sanction or agreement of the Pope. As to non-Catholic Governments, moreover, the former declarations of Popes against heretical princes, which receive fresh life from the dogma of Infallibility, come into full force.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons vii, viii and ix from the Twenty-Third Sunday after Pentecost, commentary by St Augustine.

From my ScrapBook grab of the catholichaven.org site, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary.

Today's Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XXIII. post Pentecosten.

The excellent Internet Archive recently received John Henry Newman's 1838 Hymni ecclesiae, selections of Latin hymns from the Breviaries of Paris, Rome, Salisbury and York. You can download the book in .pdf format, or in the .djvu format. Acrobat version 7 for Linux displays the file well, and for Linux, MS-Windows and Mac users, there is a free (as in beer) browser plugin for the .djvu format available here.

Newman wrote a preface to the work which contains

This post may be a work in progress. Two blog feeds in my 'Catholic but not traditional' grouping, Albertus Minimus and Cacœthes Scribendi have posts asking 'Where have all the intellectuals gone?'. Albertus Minimus started the discussion in Missing: feared dead. Catholic intellectuals, and the follow up is Where have all the intellectuals gone?. Uprooting what was before, the harvest since then is sparse.

With their subtitle or motto 'et quia non habebant radicem, aruerunt' (St Matthew xiii 6), I'm wondering when Traditio in radice might comment: the Upheaval after the Second Vatican Council was marked by a radical hostility to anything pre-conciliar and a radically elitist, top down imposition of a new orthodoxy. When that happens, it will take a generation at least for new, popular exponents to arise, if they ever arise.

Following up on my earlier post, Resources for art images, here are five more sites:

• the Art Renewal Center, whose images and articles collection is growing quite rapidly,
• Devotieprenten, Old devotion images from the 15th to the 20th century, (much of the site is in Dutch)
• lesstyles, which breaks down artistic movements by time and type (in French),
• Index des œuvres at lili.butterfly.free.fr,
• the Web Museum at ibiblio.org, which isn't the easiest site to navigate, so going directly to the Famous Artworks collections is usually the best page to access the collections.

If users type 'line art' (without the quotes) into the search box on the home page here, a list of several posts referencing that form will display.

Today in the 1962 calendar the Church commemorates St John Cantius. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this saint.

I neglected to mention this when the Hypotyposeis blog posted Manuscripts from St. Gall, but better late than never.

You can browse by author, work title, age, language or signature.

In addition to google's image search, here are a few places I visit for art images:

• Artcyclopedia,
• Artchive,
• The University of Notre Dame's Art Slide Library,
• A Fine Art Image Gallery,
• Orazio Centaro's Art Images on the Web,
• The University of St Michael's College's Research Guide to Christianity and the Visual Arts, and
• the Web Gallery of Art.

These are the major resources. From time to time, I'll post others.

Today the Church commemorates St Luke. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this saint, and some images of paintings showing him painting the Blessed Mother, either sitting for her portrait or appearing to him in a vision. The images are included in chronological order. I also include a link to Trent's decree on sacred images, from the Twenty-Fifth Session.

Today the Church commemorates St Margaret Mary Alacoque. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this saint, canonized less than a century ago.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons vii, viii and ix from the Twenty-Second Sunday after Pentecost, a homily by St. Hilary.

From my ScrapBook grab of the catholichaven.org site, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary.

Today's Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XXII. post Pentecosten.

ANSA reports on the restoration and return of the wooden sculpture at Donatello 'peasant' Christ returns, as well as the clash between Donatello and Filippo Brunelleschi. Regrettably, there are no images yet of the restored work that I can find. The article states that '[d]uring its restoration, art experts found an original polychromic layer which had been painted over.'

It is known as the 'Peasant Christ' because Brunelleschi said to Donatello that he (Donatello) 'had put the body of a peasant on the cross, not the body of Jesus Christ' (quoting Giorgio Vasari) (or a body with the face of a peasant). Whereupon Donatello challenged Brunelleschi to do better.

Images in the rest of the article.

Today the Church commemorates King Edward the Confessor. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this saint, together with some images illustrating the readings.

An Italian friar, Gabriele Maria Berardi exorcised a demon from the Spanish artist Salvador Dalí in 1947, and in gratitude, Dalí sculpted a crucifix as a gift to Berardi. Ansa reports (Dali's gift to exorcist uncovered) that the sculpture has been discovered among Berardi's belongings in Rome. The article has an image of the work, which was examined by two Spanish experts on Dalí, and who state that the style leads them to believe it is authentic.

Today is Columbus Day here in America (and a ferial day in the 1962 kalendar). The wondrous image and some comments are in the rest of this post.

My RSS feed of the Internet Archive's audio this morning included a recording of St Ignatius's Epistle. You can download or listen to the mp3, and you can read along using the Chistian Classics Ethereal Library version.

Why this site should be targeted by spammers is baffling, yet over the past two days, my apache logs have been full of

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and the like, every few seconds. I noticed this when looking at the site statistics.

I took the site offline earlier today, and added rules to my .htaccess files, so now those offending sites get a '403 Forbidden You don't have permission to access /blog/ on this server.' message.

Now the strain on the site should be markedly less.

'referer' is not a typo. That's how it was originally (mis)spelled, and the misspelling became the way it's spelled in these cases.

Nathanael D. Robinson, on his blog, the Rhine River notes that the UC Press has put several hundred of its books online with unrestricted access. (Random Notes.)

Some interesting ones are

• Imaging Aristotle, see the plate section;
• Early Gothic Saint-Denis: Restorations and Survivals, and its plate section; and
• Giambologna: Narrator of the Catholic Reformation, which treats the effect Trent had on scuplture and other art.

The publicly accessible books can be searched by subject here.

Yesterday the Church commemorated St Bridget of Sweden. Because of long work hours on Friday and Saturday, I wasn't able to post the Lessons. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this saint, mother of St Catherine of Sweden, and some images of the saint, the Oratorio Suardi in Bergamo, Italy, and information about some churches in Rome connected with the Saint. At the time of the Black Death she founded the Bridgettines or Bridgettines (Order of the Most Holy Saviour, Ordo Sanctissimi Salvatoris, O.Ss.S), a congregation of women religious. The sisters run a pensione/convent hotel in Rome next to Santa Brigida a Campo de'Fiori.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons vii, viii and ix from the Twenty-First Sunday after Pentecost, a homily by St Jerome.

From my ScrapBook grab of the catholichaven.org site, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary.

Today's Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XXI. post Pentecosten.

Today the Church commemorates the Feast of the Holy Rosary. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this feast, and two images of the battle of Lepanto.

Old Man (via Roger Simon's Daily linklets 7th October), is a description of the journey to and interview of Fr Nicolaus Kao, a Chinese Trappist monk living on an island near Hong Kong. There's not a lot to the interview (you can read it in maybe five minutes), but perhaps this is the first of more posts.

Gillibrand thinks they brought the tabernacle with them to the Beach Mass in Hawaii. If you look closely, though, it's under the 'W'.

That's the title of a new book by Diana Peschier, who writes 'about nineteenth-century anti-Catholic [English?] discourses and how Charlotte Brontë portrayed Roman Catholicism in her novels'.

By the middle of the nineteenth century much clearly gendered, anti-Catholic literature was produced for the Protestant middle classes. Nineteenth Century Anti-Catholic Discourses explores how this writing generated a series of popular Catholic images and looks towards the cultural, social and historical foundation of these representations. Diana Peschier places the novels of Charlotte Brontë within the framework of Victorian social ideologies, in particular the climate created by rise of anti-Catholicism and thus provides an alternative reading of her work.

Source: the Palgrave-MacMillan page on the book, where there is a link to a .pdf sample chapter.

Today the Church commemorates St. Francis of Assisi. From breviary.net, here are Lessons iv v and vi for this saint.

This is quite good: a mixture of wit and delightful commentary, by a gentle Englishman.

He posts about his cat and his garden.

Pope Leo X excommunicated 'the author, readers, and disseminators of the "Epistolae"', according to Ortwin Gratius at the Catholic Encyclopaedia.

When first posting this, I neglected to credit the Albertis Minimus blog at A new UK blog.

Monkeyfilter points to Cambridge in Color, and Sean McHugh has more of his digital images at Cambridge University on PBase. I especially enjoyed

• Chapel interior (King's College Chapel),
• Stone arches,
• Pastel River, and
• Stone curves.

From breviary.net, here are Lessons vii, viii and ix from the Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost, a homily by Pope St Gregory.

From my ScrapBook grab of the catholichaven.org site, here is part of Dom Guéranger's commentary.

Today's Introit, Gradual, Alleluia, Offertory and Communion in mp3 format, chanted, can be downloaded or listened to at Dominica XX. post Pentecosten.