Travel through the Benedictine monastery of Melk in Austria to learn more about Benedictine history, spirituality, and the Church in Austria – including the interesting reusable coffins.
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Photos of Melk and other Austrian photos
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We round up the Christmas and post-Christmas season with humor and song as we look at an interesting French medieval tradition known as the Festum Asinorum and learn not only what it had to do with the Christmas message but also why your not likely to see it celebrated today! Plus, there appears to be a solution to last episode’s tea dilemma.
Links:
Lyrics to Orientis Partibus – It’s in an e-book and you will have to do a search for the title to find it quickly.
English translation
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A return to the history of the papacy with a talk about the first antipopes Natalius and Hippolytus as well as some of the antipopes of today. Evelyn Nicholson provides more information about Boy Bishops and other British traditions of the Christmas season. All this plus cold Austrian churches and striving for tastier tea.
Links:
Evelyn Nicholson’s Mary In Monmouthshire podcast and her comments about Boy Bishops
Music:
We Three Kings by Derek K. Miller’s We Three Kings from Podsafe Music
Picture by David Wilmot
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