My Albion

Created purely from glass the saint stands, Exposing his gifted quite empty hands - Geoffrey Hill, In Piam Memoriam Towards the end...

Ever since writing my MA thesis on Edward the Confessor, I've had a minor obsession with all things related to his posthumous cult...

In the preface to his hagiography of Edward the Confessor, Aelred of Rievaulx comments that no other royal house of Europe can look back...

  The nightingales in Haveringatte-Bower Sang out their loves so loud, that Edward’s prayers Were deafen’d and he pray’d them dumb - A...

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn't there - Antigonish, Hughes Mearns To a young scholar in training, there ...

So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet. And as the ark of th...

Here Edward king, of Angles lord, sent his stedfast soul to Christ. In the kingdom of God a holy spirit! - Entry in the ...