Royal Charter of Westminster Monks

 
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21 July 2013 14:41
 

An interesting item appeared on the blog called The New Liturgical Movement. It concerned a Catholic Mass recently celebrated in Westminster Abbey on the altar at the tomb of St. Edward the Confessor. The monks of Westminster were later reconstituted after exile as the community at Ampleforth Abbey from which St. Louis Abbey in the USA was founded. After the Mass the two monks who celebrated the Mass (one from Ealing Abbey in London and the other from St. Louis) were taken to the muniments room and shown Queen Mary’s charter to Abbot Feckenham given in 1556 displaying the arms of Westminster abbey upon which the arms of both Ampleforth and St. Louis abbey’s are based.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Rdvpyu08LWY/UerS8R3e9nI/AAAAAAAAAiY/2OFz0kWJHuQ/s320/photo.jpg

 

There was also a really nice photo of the Mass with a very heraldic frontal on the altar showing the arms of St. Edward, England, Burgundy(ancient) and Castile & Leon.

 

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-V4HBxHJJl7E/UerS7lEkXNI/AAAAAAAAAig/8LUiEkRycvY/s1600/photo+copy+6.jpg

 
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23 July 2013 17:12
 

The arms of St Louis Abbey.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v209/Resine/Heraldry/Corporate Arms/saint_louis_abbey_zps673ea856.png

They used to have a PDF with a description of their arms on their website, but it seems to have been taken down.

 
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23 July 2013 17:50
 

I quite like these arms. smile

 
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23 July 2013 22:50
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24 July 2013 05:24
 

gselvester;99929 wrote:

The arms of Ampleforth Abbey

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3c/St_Benet

An interesting account of how these arms came about can be found on Ampleforth Abbey’s own Monastery Library &  Archives website,

http://www.monlib.org.uk/shield/