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Friday, July 16, 2021

Summer Solstice 2021 - Part 2 - Midsummer

'100 Years Ago in Photos: A Look Back at 1920'

Original caption, from May 29, 1920: "Bare legs and scanty one piece bathing suits were very much in evidence at the opening of Washington's municipal bathing beach today. Officials have agreed to disregard as precedents the prohibitory orders issued at Coney Island and Atlantic City."

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Quotes

"everybody likes you when you're fake,
Nobody likes you when you're real". Bob Marley
-- Capital H healing : Noel

"Don't let other people's opinions distort your reality.

Be true to yourself.

Be bold in pursuing your dreams.

Be unapologetically you!"

-- Dr. Steve Maraboli

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Occult Hollywood Unveiled / Open Lines

Date Friday - July 16 2021 Host Richard Syrett
Guests Robert W. Sullivan IV, Open Lines

Author and film researcher Robert Sullivan joins Richard Syrett (Twitter) to reveal Tinseltown's esoteric and dark secrets found in films like The Mummy (1932), The Witch (2015), Lolita (1962), Joker (2019), Dark City (1998), The Red Shoes (1948), Midsommar (2019), Eraserhead (1977), Pan's Labyrinth (2006), Suspiria (2018) Chris Nolan's Dark Knight Trilogy (2005-2012), The Shape of Water (2017), and the vast mythology of Twin Peaks (1990-2017). From Gnosticism to Freemasonry, to black magic and Kabbalah, be prepared to have the veil lifted from your eyes. Followed by Open Lines.

Website(s):

robertwsullivaniv.com

Book(s):

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I had wanted to post this days ago. However, it airs tonight. Even if you miss it, it's something to look into; Robert Sullivan's site, books, and just searching YouTube or other sites on the subject. My opinion is that it's very real. As I've written here before, according to legend, a magick wand is made from the wood of a holly tree... or "holly wood." Hollywood ranges from divulging very occultic knowledge of human history all the way to the most base infantile actions, such as actually putting highly sexualized imagery and messages into Disney films for children. In one of them, nude photographs were spliced in for only one frame so only the subconscious mind could see and process them. All-in-all, the Hollywood establishment has secret knowledge of, for example, the history of our solar system.. which I think is very different than the average person can even imagine. Even if I'm not a fan of the political actions of Freemasons or Kabbalists behind the scenes in virtually every choke point in our society, I still seek the knowledge that one can usually only get by joining with them and rising to their highest degrees. Even then it's no guarantee that they will divulge any of it. Apparently there's a spiritual code that they must live by in which they must inform "those who wish to know."

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7-19-21 ADDITION: The Friday Coast program with Robert Sullivan can be found at the following link....

'Occult Hollywood Unveiled' (Coast to Coast AM; 7-16-21; Robert Sullivan)

I was actually trying to call in, as they were discussing Stanley Kubrick a lot. Kubrick's final film was 'Eyes Wide Shut', which he was not able to edit; however considering the film's theme, he died exactly 666 days before January 1, 2001. '2001: A Space Odyssey' was perhaps his biggest film. All of his films were ripe with deep symbolism. Also, I wanted to bring up the 911-symbolism on the cover of Supertramp's 'Breakfast in America' album in 1979; a mind-numbing coincidence if it was a coincidence.

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Pondering 50 years: Early 70s music, films, etc.

It's hard to believe that music or films from the early 70s are already a half century old! 'Patton' (1970) is now over the half-century mark. 'The French Connection' (1971) is now fifty. 'Just An Old Fashioned Love Song' (1970) by Three Dog Night, over fifty. Unlike humans, who are children for their first twenty years, music and film define a certain time period in our own minds... so a full half century is very significant; 5% of the total amount of time "since the birth of Jesus" so to speak.

Much to the dismay of many 60s idealists, everything from the 60s is over fifty years ago. 'Suspicious Minds' (1969) by Elvis is well over fifty. '2001: A Space Odyssey' and the original 'Planet of the Apes are both well over fifty; and of course, the Moon landing was over fifty years ago. While the music and films will live on, the time period tends to slip away. On the other hand, films can bring back time periods! For me, looking at this personally, the death of my mother was absolutely the end of an era!

A wise man once said to me that technology (or political technocracy) can ruin us. He argued that once we had automobiles, radio, TV, telephones, and airplanes... that this was all we needed while still maintaining being somewhat down-to-earth. I think that's more-or-less true. If everything from just prior to the advent of the internet and cell phones had not occurred, someone who grew up with them wouldn't even know the difference. All I can say is that before my mother got the MRSA staff infection, after which she began a slow decline, she could really get around. We could go into Home Depot and she would just walk the isles fluidly like a much younger person. She had no qualms about speaking to young people, a trait that many her age shy away from a bit. I think that's a good clue on how to live life. Just try to make the most of every day.

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'Scotland: Hunting the Green Men of Rosslyn Chapel'

A Bad Witches Blog - August 9, 2018

I've long been fascinated by the image of the Green Man - a head surrounded by leaves and often with foliage emerging from the mouth. He seems like a spirit of nature or a Pagan god of all things growing, yet he appears most often in Medieval churches.

There are more than 100 Green Men in Rosslyn Chapel, which I visited while on holiday in Scotland last week.

The Green Man's origins are a puzzle. You can find the face of the Green Man in many churches in the UK, including Salisbury Cathedral as well as Rosslyn Chapel.

Why were Christians so keen on a symbol that doesn't seem to have much to do with Christianity? Sure, Medieval churches also have plenty of carvings of ordinary people going about their daily lives. They also have gargoyles and grotesques of demonic creatures. But the Green Man is neither of these.

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Rosslyn Chapel (Wikipedia)

Green Man (Wikipedia)

The Green Man of Rosslyn Chapel

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Rosslyn Chapel - Secrets of the Templars

110,547 views - October 1, 2016

Philip Dean

The legend of Rosslyn Chapel, located about seven miles from the Scottish capital of Edinburgh, helped to inspire a best selling novel and a block buster movie called The Da Vinci Code. The publicity led to a rebirth of sorts and helped pay for a major restoration that's brought the chapel back to what it looked like when it was built in the mid 1400's. Could it be the final resting place of the Holy Grail? What was the connection to the Knights Templar?

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Jacques de Molay

Again, weren't the Knights Templar Christian? Why the interest then in the pagan Green man? Just for decor? To acknowledge regional folklore? Also, why are there griffins and gargoyles on the front and tops of Cathedrals such as Notre Dame? Aren't they sort've devilish-looking? This was a Medieval culture which had no tolerance for anything pagan or any idols, and burned heretics at the stake. Seems so strange if you think about it.

What history has known as the Scottish Sinclair family was actually the powerful Saint-Clair Templar family from France who escaped to Scotland during the persecution of the Knights Templar by King Philip of France and the Catholic Church. The head of the Templars, Jacques de Molay was burned at the stake, and apparently as he was burning he cursed them with revenge, and that may have been the origin of the rift between the Catholic Church and the Knights Templars (later known as the Freemasons).

Back then, as it is now, the Church's business was banking. After the Templars returned from the near east, legend has it that they uncovered ancient knowledge which helped them set up their own banking empire. First they got into shipping, and became incredibly wealthy almost overnight. The King was up to his eyeballs in debt to them, and the Church wanted to get rid of their main banking rival. They got to them before they became too powerful, as they were expanding to other countries. Scottish Rite Freemasonry is the direct heir to the Knights Templars.

De Moley was burned on a "Friday the 13," which is why this day is considered bad luck to many. Since the number 13 was a sacred number to the Templars, I think that King Philip and the Catholic Church had a definite point to make. Basically it was a gangland thing between two powerful factions. Even though the confessions were forced due to torture, and of course what could be a worse way to go than being burned. Still, I know other stunningly evil things that the other side has done as well that I would rather not go into now.

Temple of the Supreme Council

33rd degree Freemasonry

Washington D.C.

Isn't it so strange that with all the strife that there is in this country, these people of staggering power have absolutely nothing to say about it?

De Molay Youth organization

Former U.S. President Bill Clinton was a De Molay Youth. A Freemason once insisted to me that Clinton was not a Freemason, and since there doesn't seem to be any absolute proof that he was, there was nothing further to say. 80% of Masons do not go beyond the first three degrees.

Two men riding on the same horse

A well known Masonic symbol. All I know for certain is that George Washington himself penned letters expressing his concern about the new Illuminated Freemasonry that had taken root in Switzerland and was spreading throughout Europe.

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Just An Old Fashioned Love Song - Three Dog Night (lyrics) HD

Eric Faw

"An Old Fashioned Love Song" is a 1971 song written by Paul Williams and performed by the American pop-rock band Three Dog Night. Chuck Negron performed the lead vocal on this track. Taken as the lead single from their 1971 album, Harmony, the song peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in December 1971, becoming the band's seventh top-ten hit. It was Three Dog Night's first record to top the U.S. easy listening chart. It reached number two in Canada. Its lyrics suggest the straightforward and melodic nature of the tune: Just an old fashioned love song / Comin' down in three part harmony / Just an old fashioned love song / One I'm sure they wrote for you and me. (Wikipedia)

Just an old fashioned love song
Playing on the radio
And wrapped around the music is the sound
Of someone promising they'll never go

You'll swear you've heard it before
As it slowly rambles on and on
No need in bringing 'em back
'Cause they've never really gone

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'Just An Old Fashioned Love Song'

Just an old fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me
Just an old fashioned love song
Coming down in three part harmony

To weave our dreams upon and listen
To each evening when the lights are low
To underscore our love affair with tenderness
And feeling that we've come to know

You'll swear you've heard it before
As it slowly rambles on and on
No need in bringing 'em back
'Cause they've never really gone

Just an old fashioned love song
Coming down in three part harmony
Just an old fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me

To weave our dreams upon and listen to a song
Just an old song coming down
Just an old song
What I'm sure they wrote for you and me

Just an old fashioned love song
Coming down in three part harmony
Just an old fashioned love song
One I'm sure they wrote for you and me

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Music in this video
Song: An Old Fashioned Love Song (Album Version)
Artist: Three Dog Night
Writer: Paul Williams

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Full Buck Moon

The evening of Friday, July 23rd (or the early morning of Saturday July 24th)

July is normally the month when the new antlers of buck deer push out of their foreheads in coatings of velvety fur. It was also often called the Full Thunder Moon, for the reason that thunderstorms are most frequent during this time. Another name for this month’s Moon was the Full Hay Moon.

Sunday, November 19, 2017

"The Dark Ages" - documentary

The Dark Ages (Full Documentary)

ajvaughan3 Documentary Films

Between the Fall of Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe plunged into a dark night of constant war, splintered sovereignties, marauding pagans, rabid crusaders and devastating plague. That anything of value arose from this chaotic muck - much less the Renaissance - is nothing short of miraculous. The History Channel examines the Dark Ages from the fall of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade.

Between the Fall of Rome and the dawn of the Renaissance, Europe plunged into a dark night of constant war, splintered sovereignties, marauding pagans, rabid crusaders and devastating plague. That anything of value arose from this chaotic muck - much less the Renaissance - is nothing short of miraculous. The History Channel examines the Dark Ages from the fall of the Roman Empire to the First Crusade.

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Saturday, December 24, 2016

Arnold of Brescia: Martyr of the Reformation

Arnold of Brescia

WikiAudio

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Arnold of Brescia

Arnold of Brescia (c. 1090 – June 1155), also known as Arnaldus (Italian: Arnaldo da Brescia), was an Italian canon regular from Lombardy. He called on the Church to renounce property ownership and participated in the failed Commune of Rome.

Exiled at least three times and eventually arrested, Arnold was hanged by the papacy, then was burned posthumously and (his ashes) thrown into the River Tiber. Though he failed as a religious reformer and a political leader, his teachings on apostolic poverty gained currency after his death among "Arnoldists" and more widely among Waldensians and the Spiritual Franciscans, though no written word of his has survived the official condemnation. Protestants rank him among the precursors of the Reformation.

Biography

Born in Brescia, Arnold became an Augustinian canon and then prior of a monastery in Brescia. He criticized the Catholic Church's temporal powers that involved it in a land struggle in Brescia against the Count-Bishop of Brescia. He called on the Church to renounce its claim and return ownership to the city government so as not to be tainted by possession—renunciation of worldliness being one of his primary teachings. He was condemned at the Second Lateran Council in 1139 and forced from Italy.

According to the chronicler Otto of Freising, Arnold had studied in Paris under the tutelage of the reformer and philosopher Pierre Abélard. He took to Abélard's philosophy of reform ways. The issue came before the Synod of Sens in 1141 and both Arnold and Abélard's positions were overruled by Bernard of Clairvaux. Arnold stood alone against the church's decision after Abélard's capitulation; he returned to Paris, where he continued to teach and preach against Bernard. As a consequence he was then commanded to silence and exiled by Pope Innocent II. He took refuge first in Zurich then probably in Bavaria. His writings were also condemned to be burned as a further measure, though the condemnation is the only evidence that he had actually written anything. Arnold continued to preach his radical ideas concerning apostolic poverty.

Arnold, who is known only from the vituperative condemnation of his foes, was declared to be a demagogue; his motives were impugned.Having returned to Italy after 1143, Arnold made his peace in 1145 with Pope Eugene III, who ordered him to submit himself to the mercy of the Church in Rome. When he arrived, he found that Giordano Pierleoni's followers had asserted the ancient rights of the commune of Rome, taken control of the city from papal forces, and founded a republic, the Commune of Rome. Arnold sided with the people immediately and, after Pierleoni's deposition, soon rose to the intellectual leadership of the Commune, calling for liberties and democratic rights. Arnold taught that clergy who owned property had no power to perform the Sacraments. He succeeded in driving Pope Eugene into exile in 1146, for which he was excommunicated on 15 July 1148. When Pope Eugene returned to the city in 1148, Arnold continued to lead the blossoming republic despite his excommunication. In summing up these events, Caesar Baronius called Arnold "the father of political heresies", while Edward Gibbon later expressed his view that "the trumpet of Roman liberty was first sounded by Arnold."

After Pope Eugene's death, Pope Adrian IV swiftly took steps to regain control of Rome. He allied with Frederick Barbarossa, who took Rome by force in 1155 after a Holy Week interdict and forced Arnold again into exile. Arnold was seized by Imperial forces and tried by the Roman Curia as a rebel. Importantly, he was never accused of heresy. Faced with the stake, he refused to recant any of his positions. Convicted of rebellion, Arnold was hanged in June and his body burnt. Because he remained a hero to large sections of the Roman people and the minor clergy, his ashes were cast into the Tiber, to prevent his burial place becoming venerated as the shrine of a martyr.

In 1882, after the collapse of Papal temporal powers, the city of Brescia erected a monument to its native son.

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Tuesday, December 20, 2016

'Te Deum Laudamus' - Ambrosian-Milanese hymn

TE DEUM LAUDAMUS THE AMBROSIAN HYMN

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The Te Deum, also called the Ambrosian Hymn because of the association with St. Ambrose, is the Church's great hymn of joy and thanksgiving; a tribute to the majesty of Almighty God: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. At first thought to have its origin with St. Ambrose and St. Augustine, or St.Hilary it is now accepted as having been written in the fourth century by Nicetas, Bishop of Remesiana (present-day Bela Palanka, Serbia). Although recited or sung by clergy, religious and devout laity in the Liturgy of the Hours, it is most popularly known to be sung on the Church's great Solemnities and Feast Days accompanied by the joyful ringing of bells.

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Ambrosian Rite

The Ambrosian Rite, also called the Milanese Rite, is a Catholic liturgical Western rite. The rite is named after Saint Ambrose, a bishop of Milan in the fourth century. The Ambrosian Rite, which differs from the Roman Rite, is used by some five million Catholics in the greater part of the Archdiocese of Milan, Italy (excluding, notably, the areas of Monza, Treviglio, Trezzo sull'Adda and a few other parishes), in some parishes of the Diocese of Como, Bergamo, Novara, Lodi and in about fifty parishes of the Diocese of Lugano, in the Canton Ticino, Switzerland.

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Monday, June 20, 2016

'Malleus Maleficarum' - "Hammer of the Witch"

Hammer of the witch || Malleus Maleficarum - The Book

Unfolded Mysteries

The above video deals with the detailed study of the medieval book malleus maleficarum commonly known as hammer of the witch.

Malleus Maleficarum

The Malleus Maleficarum (commonly rendered into English as "Hammer of the Witches"; Der Hexenhammer in German) is a treatise on the prosecution of witches, written in 1486 by Heinrich Kramer, a German Catholic clergyman. The book was first published in Speyer, Germany, in 1487. Jacob Sprenger is also often attributed as an author, but some scholars now believe that he became associated with the Malleus Maleficarum largely as a result of Kramer's wish to lend his book as much official authority as possible.

Both purported writers of the work were Dominican clergy, and the work came about as “the result of a peculiarly Dominican encounter between learned and folk traditions, an encounter determined in part by the demands of inquisitorial office, and in part by the requirements of effective preaching and pastoral care.” In 1490, three years after its publication, the Catholic Church condemned the Malleus Maleficarum, although it was later used by royal courts during the Renaissance, and contributed to the increasingly brutal prosecution of witchcraft during the 16th and 17th centuries.

'Malleus Maleficarum' - Free PDF download

Vehmic Court

The Vehmic Court predated the 'Malleus Maleficarum' by as much as two centuries, although it overlapped and no doubt absorbed it in Medieval German speaking socieities. In the same way that there was great irony in that the Vehmic Court actually used ancient German pagan symbols as it's own; I was thinking that the "Hammer of the Witches" reminds me of the Odinic Hammer of Thor. Certainly some of these German magickal traditions were conflated with Odinic tradition, therefore instead of Witches being "hammered"... it could almost be a symbolic protest to these policies of this time period by attaching that to Thor's Hammer in some form. I always say that if someone takes symbols away from you which were yours to begin with.... don't be intimidated.... yank it back from them! "Recapture the flag."

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8-21-16 Addition: "Vehmgericht or Vehmegericht" simply means "Vehmic Court" in German. Also, in the section "Malleus Maleficarum" within the posting in the below link 'Legacies of Charlemagne', the year 400 for the Malleus Maleficarum was incorrect (he forgot the "1" in 1400). Lastly, I cannot find any reference to Charlemagne having founded any forerunner of the Vehmic Court, as it came into existence at least four centuries after his death.

I just wanted to make note of the "Vehmic alphabet" for further study. As covered numerous times before on this blog, the powerful symbolism used by the Vehmic Court was taken from ancient German/European traditions. This, despite the fact that they were killing pagans for the crime of having the wrong religion; right along with thieves, murderers, rapists, etc. The logical next step is to find more reference to this alphabet, and discover its actual origin.

The Vehmic Alphabet

Craig Stanton - Miskatonic Debating Club & Literary Society - excerpt from 'Legacies of Charlemagne' - August 6, 2013

According to tradition, Charlemagne established the Vehmgericht in the German Catholic areas of his kingdom after 772 AD to enforce his will upon the recently suppressed Pagan Saxon tribes. As part of his war of attrition against them, he forcibly moved over 30,000 Saxons across the Rhine and replaced them with an equivalent number of devout “West Gauls” who became known as the Westphalians.

The Vehmgericht was established by five knights who enacted vigilante justice upon any Saxons who railed against the rule imposed upon them. The word “vehm” is said to derive from the German word for tree – baum – and is indicative of the tendency of this cadre to decorate forests with the hanged bodies of their victims. In time, this bloodthirsty unit attracted the attention of another organisation with similar interests, that of quelling non-believers – the Inquisition. It can be no coincidence that the Vehmic Alphabet and that adopted by the Inquisition bear marked similarities.

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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Claudio Monteverdi - Lombard pioneer of the Baroque period

Claudio Monteverdi "Missa in illo tempore : Crucifixus à 4"

Musikkhistoria

Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (15 May 1567 (baptized) -- 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, and singer.

Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the transition from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period. He developed two individual styles of composition: the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Enjoying fame in his lifetime, he wrote one of the earliest operas, L'Orfeo, which is still regularly performed.

"Missa in illo tempore : Crucifixus à 4"
Performed : Bach Collegium Japan
Dir : Masaaki Suzuki

Image : stained glass window - detail of head of Christ, Scopwick Church, Lincolnshire, England

Claudio Monteverdi
Claudio Giovanni Antonio Monteverdi (Italian; 15 May 1567 (baptized) – 29 November 1643) was an Italian composer, gambist, singer and Roman Catholic priest.

Monteverdi's work, often regarded as revolutionary, marked the change from the Renaissance style of music to that of the Baroque period period. He developed two styles of composition – the heritage of Renaissance polyphony and the new basso continuo technique of the Baroque. Monteverdi wrote one of the earliest operas, L'Orfeo, a novel work that is the earliest surviving opera still regularly performed. He is widely recognized as an inventive composer who enjoyed considerable fame in his lifetime.

Claudio Monteverdi was born in 1567 in Cremona, Lombardy. His father was Baldassare Monteverdi, a doctor, apothecary and amateur surgeon. He was the oldest of five children. During his childhood, he was taught by Marc'Antonio Ingegneri, the maestro di cappella at the Cathedral of Cremona. The Maestro’s job was to conduct important worship services in accordance with the liturgy of the Catholic Church. Monteverdi learned about music as a member of the cathedral choir. He also studied at the University of Cremona.

His first music was written for publication, including some motets and sacred madrigals, in 1582 and 1583. His first five publications were: Sacrae cantiunculae, 1582 (a collection of miniature motets); Madrigali Spirituali, 1583 (a volume of which only the bass partbook is extant); Canzonette a tre voci, 1584 (a collection of three-voice canzonettes); and the five-part madrigals Book I, 1587, and Book II, 1590. He worked at the court of Vincenzo I of Gonzaga in Mantua as a vocalist and viol player, then as music director. In 1602, he was working as the court conductor and Vincenzo appointed him master of music on the death of Benedetto Pallavicino.

In 1599 Monteverdi married the court singer Claudia Cattaneo, who died in September 1607. They had two sons (Francesco and Massimilino) and a daughter (Leonora). Another daughter died shortly after birth. In 1610 he moved to Rome, arriving in secret, hoping to present his music to Pope Paul V. His Vespers were printed the same year, but his planned meeting with the Pope never took place.

In 1612 Vincenzo died and was succeeded by his eldest son Francesco. Heavily in debt, due to the profligacy of his father, Francesco sacked Monteverdi and he spent a year in Mantua without any paid employment. His 1607 opera L'Orfeo was dedicated to Francesco. The title page of the opera bears the dedication "Al serenissimo signor D. Francesco Gonzaga, Prencipe di Mantoua, & di Monferato, &c."

By 1613, he had moved to San Marco in Venice where, as conductor, he quickly restored the musical standard of both the choir and the instrumentalists. The musical standard had declined due to the financial mismanagement of his predecessor, Giulio Cesare Martinengo. The managers of the basilica were relieved to have such a distinguished musician in charge, as the music had been declining since the death of Giovanni Croce in 1609.

In 1632, he became a priest. During the last years of his life, when he was often ill, he composed his two last masterpieces: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses, 1641), and the historic opera L'incoronazione di Poppea (The Coronation of Poppea, 1642), based on the life of the Roman emperor Nero. L'incoronazione especially is considered a culminating point of Monteverdi's work. It contains tragic, romantic, and comic scenes (a new development in opera), a more realistic portrayal of the characters, and warmer melodies than previously heard. It requires a smaller orchestra, and has a less prominent role for the choir. For a long period of time, Monteverdi's operas were merely regarded as a historical or musical interest. Since the 1960s, The Coronation of Poppea has re-entered the repertoire of major opera companies worldwide.

Monteverdi died, aged 76, in Venice on 29 November 1643 and was buried at the church of the Frari.

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Friday, April 3, 2015

Ambrosian Hymn for the Easter Liturgy of Milan - 'Hic Est Dies Verus Dei'

Ambrosian Rite Mass Hymn - Hic Est Dies Verus Dei

From Petrus Josephus YouTube channel

This is the second video I have made from the Ambrosian tradition. It is an Ambrosian Rite (i.e. Milanese) hymn from, I believe, the Easter Mass. It also seemingly Gregorianized. This version seems to use minor lyrical changes, by a different translation, or else it just sounds different because of a accent. The version also ignores the "Gloria Tibi" conclusion. "Michael Vanquishing Satan" by Raphael Sanzio.

Hic Est Dies Virus Dei is an anonymous Ambrosian hymn which is sung at Matins (Office of Readings) throughout the Easter season in the Roman Breviary.

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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Ambrosian Easter 2012 - Duoma Milano

From YouTube user prigionierodizenda

Video description:

Pasqua Easter 2012 Duomo Milano - Ambrosian Exultet Preconio pasquale Ambrosiano in Latin

The Ambrosian Exultet is quite different from the Roman version. Chanted in Latin according to the original Ambrosian melody.

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Saturday, June 15, 2013

Edict of Milan

The Edict of Milan is considered one of the top 100 most significant events in world history. It was supposed to have paved the way for "religious freedom" within the Roman Empire. The defacto end result was really that it set the stage for a Christian Europe in the centuries that followed.

Edict of Milan (Wikipedia)

The document known as the Edict of Milan (Edictum Mediolanense) is found in Lactantius' De Mortibus Persecutorum and Eusebius of Caesarea's History of the Church with marked divergences between the two. In February 313, Emperor Constantine I, who controlled the western part of the Roman Empire, and Licinius, who controlled the Balkans, met in Milan and, among other things, agreed to treat the Christians benevolently. Whether or not there was a formal 'Edict of Milan' is debatable. The version found in Lactantius is not in the form of an edict; it is a letter from Licinius to the governors of the provinces in the Eastern Empire he had just conquered by defeating Maximin later in the same year and issued in Nicomedia.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Mother Cabrini Shrine (Wikipedia)

Mother Cabrini Shrine (Wikipedia)

Mother Cabrini Shrine is a shrine to Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, known as Mother Cabrini, located in Golden, Colorado, United States.

The shrine site includes the Stone House, listed on the National Register of Historic Places as the Queen of Heaven Orphanage Summer Camp, a 22 feet (6.7 m) statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus designed by Maurice Loriaux, and a convent of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the order founded by Mother Cabrini.

History

Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini found the property, which had two barns and a springhouse but no reliable source of water, on the side of Lookout Mountain in 1902. She negotiated the purchase of the property in 1910 to use as a summer camp for Queen of Heaven Orphanage. A small farming operation was established and operated by Sisters of the Sacred Heart and during the summer, the camp saw groups of girls from the orphanage to enjoy the outdoors and perform farm chores.

Water was hauled up to the camp from the stream in Mount Vernon Canyon until 1912, when Mother Cabrini discovered a spring on the property. A replica of the grotto of Lourdes was built over the spring in 1929, then demolished and replaced by the current sandstone grotto in 1959. The Stone House, designed as a dormitory for the summer camp, began construction in 1912 and was completed in 1914.

The property became a pilgrimage site in 1938 following Mother Cabrini's beatification. The property was established as a shrine in 1946, the year she was canonized. In 1954, a 22 feet (6.7 m) statue of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, designed by Maurice Loriaux and mounted on an 11 feet (3.4 m) base was erected at the highest point of the site. A 373-step stairway was placed, following the path Mother Cabrini took to the top of the mountain, and is taken by pilgrims today.

The summer camp closed in 1967 and the Stone House was used as a convent until a permanent convent building was completed in 1970. Today, the convent contains a chapel, meeting rooms, a gift shop, housing for the resident Sisters, and overnight accommodations for visitors.

Location

Mother Cabrini Shrine
20189 Cabrini Boulevard
Golden, Colorado 80401

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Monday, October 22, 2012

Mother Cabrini Shrine Golden Colorado

Mother Cabrini Shrine Golden Colorado

Uploaded by DYNORECORDINGS

A walk up the 400+ steps at the Mother Cabrini Shrine in Golden Colorado on a beautiful Summer day. I have made the climb many time and its is not as easy as it looks....but well worth it

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I wanted to add here that this is an impressive monument. Not a large gaudy structure, but an interesting outdoor assent up towards the sky. Also, just the location, in the middle of North America, and apparently at a higher elevation than Denver. Perfect. Good video. I would really like to visit this shrine; and much more so than Mother Cabrini's displayed remains. Actually, the main stature is of Jesus, but there's a relatively large Mother Cabrini statue there as well.

MotherCabriniShrine.org

Mother Cabrini Shrine Colorado view at entrance (views from a distance)

MOTHER CABRINI SHRINE (more complete video on a more crowded day)

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Tuesday, December 6, 2011

Milanese Rite chant from the Middle Ages

Ambrosian chant - Ecce apertum est Templum tabernaculi

Uploaded by Callixtinus

Medieval Ambrosian chant of the church of Mediolanum (Milan).

Title: "Offertorium: Ecce apertum est Templum tabernaculi".

Performers: Ensemble Organum, Director: Marcel Peres

Album: "Chants de l'Église Milanaise"

This is a truncated version (last 2 minutes of the chant missing due to time restrictions).