This C9th enamelled copper crosier-head, found at Helgö, Sweden, in 1954, is thought to have been looted from the shrine of St Columba on Iona.📸Swedish History Museum

Jean Fouquet, David kneeling in penitence, from the Hours of Etienne Chevalier, ca.1455

Happy 100th birthday to Mother Mary of the Resurrection, who is based at Dysart Carmel in Fife. She received an apostolic blessing from Pope Leo and Archbishop Leo travelled to Dysart to celebrate Mass. Her fellow sisters said: “We thank God for her spirit of prayer, her fidelity

Today's complete Mass readings in Scots: cumlazaro.blogspot.com/2019/10/mass-r… Weekly Scots Bible

"I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle." Russell Kirk #Kirktober

Another archive article from the Coracle - Eileen Clare Grant reminds us what November is all about. stmoluagscoracle.com/p/the-last-thi…

stmoluagscoracle.com/p/the-dies-irae The late Canon Foley Coatbridge wrote a long meditation on the Dies Irae, here we split into 3 parts. Click the link above for part 1.

The ኵርዓተ፡ ርእሱ፡, the "Beating of His Head", one of the most beloved motifs in post-medieval Ethiopian-Eritrean art Ethiopia, 17th c. #JesusChrist #kweratareesu #icon #africanart

Metrical Psalm 68:5 – Because the Lord a father is #purityofworship #MetricalPsalms

2 Nov 1616: Thomas Dempster gives his inaugural lecture as Professor of the Pandects [Roman Law] at #Pisa #otd He claimed that the #Irish saints (Scoti) were, in fact, #Scots #otd #hagioclept #saintstealer He upset a lot of people, but James VI liked him.

In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice … antigonejournal.com/2025/11/in-def…

310 years ago today. History can be made in lonely places. The Battle of Sheriffmuir was fought on 13 November 1715. The battle was inconclusive, but it effectively marked the start of the end of the 1715 Jacobite rising. More pics and info: undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/dunblane/sheri…

Nov 16: Feast of Margaret of Scotland (†1093). English noble who married Máel Coluim III, king of Alba. Church reformer and friend to the poor who founded a free ferry across the Firth of Forth for pilgrims heading to Cennrígmonaid (St Andrews). Her pocket gospel-book survives.

Today we publish one of the most visionary lectures ever given. In Edinburgh, 1853, the celebrated Professor of Greek, J.S. Blackie, set out why and how Classicists must not just take Modern Greek and contemporary Greece seriously but speak Ancient Greek: antigonejournal.com/2025/11/living…

Today's Mass readings in Scots: cumlazaro.blogspot.com/2019/11/mass-r… Weekly Scots Bible

"I have noticed again and again since I have been in the church that lay interest in ecclesiastical matters is often a prelude to insanity" -- Evelyn Waugh

Widespread acceptance of the absurd idea that producing 'cutting edge research' is the touchstone of academic success inevitably leads to anxiety, deception (including, importantly, self-deception), and the proliferation of medicore publications. Meanwhile, other important

Nov 18: Feast of Fergus (C8th) ‘the Pict’, bishop. He founded churches across the north and east of Scotland, and may be the Fergustus episcopus Scotiae Pictus present at the Council of Rome in 721. He was buried at Glamis, Angus, his head later translated to Scone, Perthshire.