Western Rite Culture, Part I

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   <-- thumbnail, Boscodon Abbey, south of France

  <-- thumbnail, 12th c. Spanish iconography, San Clemente, Lérida

   <-- thumbnail, a 12th-c. Western rite church, Italy

  <-- thumbnail, the reliquary with the Chains of St. Peter (Aug. 1)

  <-- thumbnail, reliquary of St. Christopher, island of Rab, Croatia. The local festival of St. Christopher celebrates the deliverance by God of the inhabitants from the invading Normans in 1075. Within the reliquary is the skull of St. Christopher of Lydda. 

  <-- thumbnail, picture of a typical pre-Reformation-style Western church's rood-screen (iconostasis). Oddly enough, the centrepiece of the screen, the great rood or cross between the figures atop the screen of St. Mary and St. John, is missing here.

  <-- thumbnail, the same rood screen or iconostasis, seen from the east. Here we see the rood-stair, which allows the clergy and readers to ascend and stand atop the screen, where the epistle and gospel are read, and the alleluya sung, on Sundays and feasts.

  Anglo-Saxon art

  Mosaic of St. Constantine the Emperor, St. Mark's, Venice

  Mosaic of St. Athanasius, 12th c. Western style icon with Latin inscription, Palermo, Italy

  A Western Rite Orthodox altar, furnished for the Sarum liturgy

  Creation of the animals, a mosaic with Latin inscription

  Roodscreen at Yarmington

  A Western style altar cross

  A beehive monk's cell in Ireland

  Interior church decoration, shortly after Schism

  Western iconography with Latin inscriptions

  Sts. Agnes and Cecilia: a rood screen at Uffington

  Western Rite churches on the coast near Amalfi in Italy

  Anglo-Saxon art: Crucifixion of Our Lord

  Western Rite iconography: St. Matthew

  Western Rite vestments: the amice

  Western Rite liturgy: traditional cruets of gold or silver

  Western Rite liturgics: traditional chanter stand

  an Anglo-Saxon church with bell tower

  Western Rite iconography: Noe and the ark, with Latin inscriptions

  Western Rite: a rood screen from the land of Sarum

  Anglo-Saxon art: Crucifixion

  Western Rite liturgics: holy water bucket with aspergil

  Western Rite church in Monreale, Sicily: mosaic of the Pantocrator

  Western Rite iconography: Baptistery of the Orthodox, Ravenna, Italy

  Western Rite church architecture: stave church, Borgund, Norway

  Western Rite church architecture: stave church, Borgund, Norway

  Western Rite church architecture: Anglo-Saxon church, Bradford-on-Avon

  Western Rite church architecture: rood door, Bradford-on-Avon (the curtains which formerly are known to have covered rood screen doors in Britain do not, of course, survive).

  Western Rite liturgics: water container for washing priest's hands at Liturgy

  Western Rite vesments: the alb

  Western Rite church architecture: rood screen at Canterbury Cathedral, England

  Western Rite liturgy: old-style chalice, 12th c. or before

  Western Rite liturgy: old style of chalice

  Western Rite vestments: deacon's dalmatic

  Western Rite vestments: a cope, used by various clergy during Divine Office on feasts

  Western Rite vestments: a stole or orarium

  Western Rite vestments: a tunicle, worn by a subdeacon and certain other altar servers

  Celtic art

  <-- thumbnail, reliquary at Milan of Sts. Cyprian and Justina, martyrs

  <-- thumbnail, the cloister at St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome

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