5 septembre 1914, rappel à Dieu du Lieutenant Charles Péguy, tué d’une balle au front alors qu’il commandait sa compagnie. « On ne peut s’empêcher d’aimer la terre de ses pères plus que toutes les autres terres, plus que toutes les terres du monde! »

This is the earliest surviving printed advert in English publishing history. Printed by William Caxton in 1477, it advertises his edition of the Sarum Pye, a priest’s book of saint's days. Customers are directed to his shop, the Red Pale in the Almonry, Westminster. Arch. G e.37

Alnmouth Parish Church

I want to be a Commissioner of the Northern Lighthouse Board.

All Souls’ Day. Unbelievable.

The great Flemish workshops of the 15th and early 16th centuries, among which the workshop of Simon Bening played a leading role, produced illuminated Books of Hours in large numbers. The same pictorial ideas were used repeatedly. Here we see the same image of the Celebration of

His Excelleny Archbishop Georg Gänswein, former Secretary to Pope Benedict XVI, has now taken up his new office as Nuncio of Lithuania.

The Ashmolean has been given the rare opportunity to acquire an important early masterpiece by Fra Angelico, one of the most celebrated artists of the Italian Renaissance.

Clemens August (1700 - 1761) of the Wittelsbach line was named Archbishop and Elector of Cologne of the Holy Roman Empire in 1723, Grand Master of the Teutonic Order in 1732. Teutonic Order - 1190 TeutonicOrder.com

The sort of question that emerges deep into a run: is there a bigger single-volume book published in the 20th century than the 2,230-page Concordance to Ovid worked up, well before the computer age, by Roy Defarrari, Martin McGuire and the ever-unassailable Inviolata Barry?

Edward I of England pays hommage to Philip the Fair of France in 1286. Room is intensely decorated to remind you who is powerful here! As painted in 1455 in the Grandes Chroniques de France by Jean Fouquet.

Everything about this is splendid

Southwark auxiliary Bishop Philip Moger is the new Bishop of Plymouth, England. Bollettino: tinyurl.com/43jzvksp

On the anniversary of his death #otd 13 Sept 1598, here is King Philip II of Spain, Pompeo Leoni, 1580 (Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien)

Dateable ‘handsome’ English minuscule in the glorious Salisbury Psalter, probably written by women in around 980AD with a ‘thin’ later Old English gloss #DigitalKer 379

On the one hand all religions lead to God; on the other hand, some of them lead to His wrath.

My Collect for Dame Agatha Christie, born on this date in 1890. Amen. Sir Stanley Wells The Church of England Agatha Christie International Agatha Christie Festival

IRELAND The Dominican Order welcomed two new brothers to the novitiate yesterday Below are all of the brothers currently in formation to become Dominican priests in Ireland, as the order continues to attract men to the priesthood each year

Te igitur, clementissime Pater, per Iesum Christum, Filium tuum... Full-page initial from a 15th century Italian Missal (Bartolommeo Caporali) The Cleveland Museum of Art John L. Severance Fund 2006.154.186.a

17 Sept 1553: Edmund Bonner sings #Mass at a restored altar in St Paul’s London #otd (Trinity College Cambridge)