Hymn: "Nearer My God to Thee"
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Thanksgiving 2024
We have much to be grateful for this year.
The Venerable Bede
"Arising from the gloom of a dark age, he is still considered one of the most illustrious of the learned men of England."
Gildas
The underrated chronicler who paints "fully and vividly the thought and feeling of Britain in the fifty years of peace which preceded her final overthrow."
Schools and Universities in the Middle Ages
During the early middle ages teaching was done wholly by the clergy. In some of the towns and villages there were elementary schools taught by the parish priests. In the monasteries and
Richelieu
"He believed in France, he believed in the Monarchy, and he believed in the Church as the support of the Throne. His one ambition was to make France great..."
I love the version that Andre Rieu plays in his concerts sometimes. When he and his orchestra are playing, it evokes the mental image of the Titanic orchestra playing for the people on the doomed ship.