Monday 23 November 2020
felicitas of rome
your daily demon: crocel
catagories: ♏, ๐ , ๐, myth and monsters
Sunday 22 November 2020
cecilia, you’re breaking my heart
Venerated as an early Roman martyr by the Catholic, Orthodox and Anglican confessions, Sancta Caecilia (previously) is considered the patron of music and musicians from the account that as the hired band played for her coerced wedding to a pagan noble called Valarian, she sat apart and sang to the true God in her heart. In turn, for her piety, Cecilia was promised a guardian angel who would punish her husband if he failed to respect her sexual autonomy and would love him otherwise. Intrigued, Valarian asked to see this angel, to which Cecilia replied he could on the condition of being baptised a Christian by Pope Urban. Valarian humoured his bride but saw the angel of God and professed his conversion, earning them all a torturous death sentence. Pope Sixtus V declared Cecilia—along with Gregory the Great (the chant one, not the calendar one)—co-patrons of sacred music in 1585 with the first recorded music festival held in her honour taking place at รvreux in the Eure in 1570.
ident and interlude
Via the always captivating Nag on the Lake (a lot more to discover there), we are referred to the motion graphics archive (see also) of the BBC as maintained by the Ravensbourne media centre of the University of London with specimens from across the network’s programming of open titles, promotional trailers and various interstitial pieces. There’s quite a number of iconic shorted animated sequences to resonate with almost every viewer.