What you have been waiting for all month, I’m sure, knowing that soon it would be St. Crispin’s.
The 3rd c. martyrs Crispin and Crispinian were killed in Soissons. They converted people as they plied their trade as cobblers and they were generous to the poor. They were persecuted by the local governor and eventually beheaded around on 25 Oct 286 in the time of the Emperor Diocletian. A different version has them in England, in Faversham, which is surely the version Shakespeare worked with. St. Eligius made a reliquary for the head of Crispinian.
Their remains are in the Basilica of San Lorenzo in Panisperna. Their altar and urn in the church.
“This day is called the Feast of Crispian…”, indeed, Sts. Crispin and Crispinian. Here is their altar and urn in the church, San Lorenzo in Panisperna, which is nearly always closed (I suspect due to sheer laziness).
“This day is called the Feast of Crispian…”
Now let get to the famous speech. I’ll bet more than one of you has it memorized.
Other times I posted this roundup there were great comments, especially from our long lost Semper Gumby whose observations we sorely miss and hope to enjoy again very soon. I really miss him. I should send Tracer Bullet out to find him.
Henry V (1944) directed by and starring Lawrence Olivier
Henry V (1989) directed by and starring Kenneth Branagh
Richard Burton’s version:
Tom Hiddleston from the Hollow Crown series. US HERE UK HERE
Renaissance Man with Lillo Brancato, Jr.
Here is another, from the well-reviewed Globe production.
Happy Feast of Sts. Crispin and Crispinian.
And let the revival of our liturgical worship continue.
The numbers of Holy Masses in the Extraordinary Form are growing, though but slowly.
Also, I fear that the number of bishops, priests and laity who accept what the Church teaches about marriage is shrinking.
For now content us saying “the fewer men, the greater share of honour”.
And remember… Latin is tooooo haaaaard for children.
They can’t possibly be expected to put on different clothing and recite something lofty from memory.
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My favorite is certainly Branagh. Do you have a preference?
And also glad to know which day is St Crispin’s.
Saints Crispin and Crispinian!! The patron saints of leather-workers and boot-and-shoe makers! I have a repro ca 1750 image of them in my workshop.
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Dear Father, I miss Semper Gumby also. Since I come from a family of military people, I connected him with the obvious military background his name implies. Confidential to you, Father, there are some people with the same name on X; maybe he’s gone incognito.
Padre, your comment about marriage.
Is it any surprise? The Rainbow Cartel has been pushing hard globally both within and without of the Church. When we have only just had a papacy where the term “pastoral” was constantly used as an excuse to allow sinful behavior… is it any surprise?
Anecdotally I know several people who claim to be Catholic yet chose divorce and remarriage over an annulment… although when you can be married for 20+ years, have several kids, and still get an annulment one wonders if the adjudicators of annulments are really upholding he standard or just “being pastoral”.
When the German Bishops, in flagrant disobedience and disregard, continue to move close and closer to allowing sacrilegious Alphabet Soup marriages with no excommunications coming from the Vatican, when prelates can openly wonder “should the Church change her teaching on the lavender life” and then become a Cardinal…
Is it any surprise?
OKC, you didnt ask me, but no surprise for reasons you gave.
Semper Gumby, God be with him.
I miss supertradmum too.
We happy few….