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.
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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.
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The arms of St Louis Abbey.
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They used to have a PDF with a description of their arms on their website, but it seems to have been taken down.
I quite like these arms.
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,