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Vol. LIX.
PERTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1933
No. 2,795
Hampton Court and Its Creator The Magnificence of Cardinal Wolsey England, but was Few of the , •.:::ntless visitors who rnense possessions in monastery. Less a constituted fully Hampto ilgrims ' pleas been have ceased to ton Court, shep.• :, !,•1 through the than a dozen years before it of York otntering through be so, Princess Elizabeth stately palace. (lineal ancestress of the Royal child the lovely gar-Itoo:, are ever told, or title tohave ever heard, t.,.•.t they are treading, who bears the same name and literally, on re!a..;, ,us ground, writes day) went to make a retreat,at Hampton Court and pray for a happy "Nestor" in the "Catholic Times." tr0.,z whic'h the Court delivery, iust a month before she died The centurie February, and its surroun T5fl ':!ods w re possess. in childbed. This was in manor was ed and inhabit,' 1. ,••• ',tie oft e great re- 1503: and in June, 1514, thehis brother - Church have pass- leased by the Prior and ligious orders of Knights for nineteen years. at a rent as completely ed from popular •o, n Abbey, now the equivalent to £600 a year, to Thomas ' as the era whet, Thamesside paU r of the ducal house Wolsey, Lord Archbishop .of York (and, incidentally, in those astounding , of Northumberi,w '. . was the peaceful of nuns. But pluralist days. Bishop also of Tournai, abode of a como:• • os are. or should Lincoln, and Durham. and commendatthese forgot tee t ra. : C atholics. What ory Abbot of St. Albans). , be, dear at Wolsey's elevation to the Cardinalate ..•:11 about Hampton does history in 1515. and his subsequent appointCourt? c owries Hampton ment as Papal Legate a latere to Engt For nearly „ . Court rule tk•, ,.ourt•' has nothing land. combined with his other dignities, to do with ,he palaee. but means were the culminating points, as far as that part of t1,- inor reerved by the earthly honour and glory were concernuse 4 eo.is in the pos- ed. of his extraordinary career. It 1 ! owner for his was his red hat, symbol of his Papal Tr. )spitallers of ( session of thk: lc.• ! acquired it from Princerlmn, which ,more than anything St. John. wl • else. seems to have been a veritable lithe St. Alban t".11 '•.- in 1'217. It formim- "red rag to a bull" to his many eneed but a small of tl.•
mies and detractors, some of them his ior to the great Cardinal's) one's mind personal foes, and many others violent- goes back to those fifteen happy yeacs when Hampton was his real and be ly antagonistic to the great Church of which he was so conspicuous an orna- loved home, and when he was still bast> • ing, as he no doubt believed, securely ment and champion. One must think before all of Wol- in the confidence, friendship, and prosey's "magnificence" (surely no one tection of the Royal master whom he e ver better deserved the epithet) when sincerely lolled, and who was still fa;th one stands before that glorious Tudor ful and devoted to his pious and loyal pile which his genius and supreme ar- wife, Queen Catherine. Fifteen years. almos; Tout passe. tistic taste—for he was the personal in spirer of it all—created more, it is sure- to a day, after his acquisition of the ly fair to say, for the fitting adorn- manor and its lands from the Knights ment and dignity of the great offices of St. John, Thomas Wolsey left which he held than for his own per- Hampton Court, sick, impoverished and sonal aggrandisement. The tradition disgraced, never to return. He lived of Oxford. and of Christ Church—once but fiftaen months longer, banished to "Cardinal College"—has always been his not-them diocese, and stripped of one of unstinted admiration and grati- honours, wealth and friends. Yet tude to the Great Prelate. prince and those months of penance and suffering were, we may well believe, months of s tatesman to whom it owes the loveli est tower in England (Magdalen, not grace. 'which the fallen Prlate spent in "Tom.".) and one of the stateliest col- discharging. humbly and sincerely, the duties of his priestly and episcopal leges in Christendom. So. as one wanders through Wol- office, administering- the Sacraments, sey's Hampton Court. abstracting one- relieving the poor, reconciling those at variance, and devout in the celebration self altogether from the immense, costand often incongruous alteratictis of Mass, recitation of the Divine office, made by subsequent owners (kingr, and daily meditation. May the Lord many of them, with taste vastly inter have been merciful to him at the last!
P APAL NUNCIO WHO TRIED
THE MARRIAGE OF JOHN
Death of Cardinal Raffaele Scapinelli di Leguigno
Striking Devotion at Wedding
TO AVERT THE WORLD WAR
The death is announced from Rome of Cardinal Raffaele Scapinelli di Le. guigno at the age of 75. Ite y:as Ix.)rn i on April 25, MS. at Modena, then capi: tal of an independent Duchy. and belonged to one of its noblest and most ancient families. , His parents sent him to Rome, and, after being educated at the Academy of the Noble Ecclesiastics, he entered upon a diplomatic career, and remain: ed for a long time in Holland and in I Portugal. He returned to Rome towards the close of the Papacy of Pope Leo XIII.. under whom he was a Carneriere Segreto Partecipante. With i the election of entered the Curia, and was Pius X., heSecretary to appointed the Congregation of Extraordinary Ecclesiastical Affairs, in succession to , Cardinal Gasparri, when the latter was created a Cardinal. I
In January, 1912, Pius X. appointed him Nuncio -at Vierra and raised him 1 to the Titular Archbishopric of Heraclea. He kept his post as Nuncio dur"ng a period of extreme difficulty, and we find him there at the outbreak of the European War. It was to him I. that Pope Pius X. gave the instructions to means to avert the attempt by every catastrophe. It was said at I ,the time that Scapinelli, not knowing now to inform the Holy See of the irrevocable decision to declare war, sent a telegram with the words jcinus i Ptaltet, which did not catch the eye of e censor. however, v questioned in The Cardinal, this. connection many Years after, declared that even up to
the last moment that preceded the declaration of war he was able .to use f reely' hic code to communicate with the At the beginning of the Holy Sec. Pontificate of Pope Benedict XV., he did useful work in alleviating the sufferings of the prisoners and in furthering the various useful schemes initiatHe resigned his ed by that Pope. post as Nuncio when he was created C ardinal Priest of the Title of San Girolmo degli Schiavoni at the Consistory of December 6, 1915. He was Prefect of ,the Congregation of Religious Orders, was a member of several other Congregations, and in 1930 was appointed the Pope Datary. in succession to Cardinal Vincenzo Vanutelli. who died in July of that year.
McCORMACK'S DAUGHTER
An echo of the Eucharistic Congress in Dublin came to the great crowd which attended the London Oratory last month at the marriage of Miss Gwendolyn McCormack, daughter of Count and Countess McCormack. to Mr. Edward Pvke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cuthbert Pyke. of Thistleton Lodge. Kirkham. Happily (writes a "Universe" correspondent) there was no sign of the irreverent element which has so often marred "Society- functions, in spite of the fact that thousands found it impossible to get into the already crowded church. The deep reverence of the wedding party communicated itself to all those who watched the ceremony and the Nuptial Mass.
The Archbishop of Liverpool officiated at the ceremony, assisted by Father Sharkey, ST. who celebrated the Ma Count McCormack. gave his datightaway, and later sang Cesar Franck "Tanis Angelicus." His voice carried through the church into the open air. and so affected were many of those outside by its devotion that they knelt down where they stood: it came to them as it came to the multitude during the Dublin Congress—as a hymn, not as a song to applaud. There were five bridesmaids—Miss Christabel Burton. Miss Kathleen Oakman, Miss Marie Scott, Miss Dorothea Annesley, and the Hon. Lorraine Berry --and two pages—Michael Poole and The best man Desmond Norman. was Mr. R. A. Black. Vie bride's veil was the veil her mother wore at her marriage 27 years MECCA AND LOURDES ago. The death of King Feisal of Iraq, on the Year 1831, twenty-seven epidemics A t the reception given by the CounSeptember 8. removes from the world of this terrible scourge have broken McCormack at 26. Belgrave-square, tess anthe during Places Holy the in out knights Moslem one of those brilliant included Mr. and Mrs. Cuthguests the facts appalling The pilgrimages. nual who have always appealed to the imMr Cyril McCormack, the agination of the West and veil Islam have forced the Governments of the bert Pyke. Misses Pyke. Mr,. and Mrs, John with a cloud of glory. Colonel Law- Mediterranean nations to recognise Poole, Miss R. Pyke. Mr. T. P. Pvke. rence. "of Arabia," was fascinated by the close connection between the spread Lady Winefride Elwes. Miss Clare his dignity, by the impetuousness and of cholera and the devotions of MoElwes. the Earl and Countess of Drogcourage united in a slender physical hammedanism. All the circumstances heda. Lord and Lady Inverforth and further to concur pilgrimages these of two the Mecca Together at frame. the Hon. Nita Weir, Lady Connolly planned their immortal exploits of the the disease. Tha aged and sick must and the Misses Connolly, Sir John and World War. Yet the same passionate participate. The pilgrims are exposed Lady Lavery, Mr. Kennerly Rumford, zeal for an inaccessible, wholb- trans- to violent changes of heat and cold, Sir Landon and Lady Ronald, Mrs. cendent God, that gives Islam its force, with insufficient clothing to protect More O'Ferrail, Col. and Mrs. Elwes, renders the religion of Arabia helpless tern. Sanitary and medical provisions Baroness Ravensdale, Count Tarnov. in the face of Ft:omen misery. For are either totally absent or hopelessly ski, Mr. and Mrs. Stourton, Mrs. Nigel Nevertheless, considerIslam has no belief in the Incarnation, inadequate. Norman, Sir Gorlon and Lady Craig. whereby to reconcile body and spirit. able progress has been made of late: and Or. and Mrs. Vincent O'Brien. In the Paris 'Etudes." for August 5. and for the time being the microbe Among the "unknown.' guests in the 1933. Jacques Pignal points out that seems at rest. Souls infatuated with Oratory were two girls who had tray the _holy land of the Hedjaz has been the glory of the East may yrofitably the principal hotbed for Asiatic chol- contrast Mecca's threat with the heal- riled day and nig1-.t from Kerry, in tilt South-West of Ireland. era for the last hundred years. Since ing message of Lntirdes.—"America -•4•-••-
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