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A friend of mine who was an extra in Testament of Youth.
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Testament | São Paulo | 2015, 21 Novembro
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Real Monasterio de Santa María de Guadalupe
De Wikipedia, la enciclopedia libre
Monasterio situado en la localidad de Guadalupe, en la provincia de Cáceres, España. Fue declarado por la Unesco Patrimonio de la Humanidad en 1993. En su interior se aprecia el estilo gótico, mudéjar, renacentista, barroco y neoclásico, es decir, desde los siglos XIII al XVIII.
Historia
Su historia se remonta a 1389, cuando el rey Juan I de Castilla otorgó un privilegio por el cual entregaba a la Orden de San Jerónimo la iglesia del santuario de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, lugar en el que, según la leyenda, había sido hallada una imagen de la Virgen a finales del siglo XIII o principios del siglo XIV, por un campesino de nombre Gil Cordero. La imagen habría estado siglos atrás junto al cuerpo de San Lucas, expuesta en Roma y en Sevilla, hasta que en 714, en plena invasión musulmana de la Península Ibérica, la imagen fue escondida junto al río Guadalupe, que quiere decir "río escondido", donde permaneció hasta su descubrimiento por Gil Cordero.
En 1464, el rey Enrique IV de Castilla llevó al monasterio de Guadalupe a su hermanastra, la infanta Isabel, con la intención de acordar su boda con Alfonso V de Portugal. La infanta rechazó al pretendiente portugués, pero, en cambio, queda prendada de la belleza del monasterio. A partir de ese momento, ella denominó a este recinto "mi paraíso" y allí acudió siempre que necesitaba ser reconfortada por la Virgen de Guadalupe o para darle gracias por algún triunfo. Desde entonces, Isabel la Católica visitó en varias ocasiones el monasterio:
En 1477, en agradecimiento por haber vencido en la batalla de Toro. Se realizó además un solemne funeral, presidido por Alonso Carrillo de Acuña, arzobispo de Toledo, en memoria del rey fallecido, Enrique IV de Castilla, a quien se le realizó un mausoleo que concluyó en 1485 y que fue labrado por el escultor Enrique Egas.
Cristóbal Colón, durante la Semana Santa de 1486, acudió a este lugar, acompañando a la Corte de los Reyes Católicos, para insistir en que le financiaran el viaje a las Indias, y quedó impresionado por la devoción de la reina.1 En 1492, la reina Isabel la Católica acudió al monasterio para dar las gracias por la rendición de Granada. Desde aquí, se dictaron dos cartas dirigidas al alcaide de Palos de la Frontera, con la orden de hacer entrega de dos carabelas a Colón, quien durante su primera expedición se encomendó a la Virgen de Guadalupe y le dio este nombre a una isla del Caribe. Tras lograr realizar su primera expedición a América, regresó al monasterio en señal de agradecimiento y allí fueron bautizados dos indígenas que él había traído de los territorios recién descubiertos.
El testamento original de Isabel la Católica se conservaba en el monasterio de Guadalupe. Una copia fue enviada al monasterio de Santa Isabel la Real de Granada, y otra fue enviada a la Catedral de Toledo, aunque desde 1575 pasó a pertenecer al Archivo General de Simancas, creado por Carlos V.
Las partes del Monasterio
El Monasterio es una inmensa construcción en la que destacan cinco partes. Podemos ver sobre la plaza mayor (desde el sur): el Templo-Basílica con su atrio; a su derecha el edificio del Auditorium; detrás del Templo, el Claustro Mudejar, y a continuación, más al norte, el Claustro Gótico. La Mayordomía se encuentra junto al Templo en su esquina sudoeste. Ocho torres coronan el conjunto de edificios entre las que destacan la de Santa Ana y la de Portería que enmarcan la fachada del Templo, la de las Campanas domina el conjunto.
El museo de bordados
En el ala de poniente del claustro se encuentra el museo de bordados en una nave de unos 240 m2. Fue inaugurado en 1928 en presencia del rey Alfonso XIII. Allí se exponen ornamentos sagrados y otras telas dedicadas al culto que fueron fabricados en los talleres de bodaduría del monasterio, por monjes y seglares, desde el siglo XIV. Esta colección es en parte procedente de donaciones. Fray Gonzalo, monje muerto en 1425, es el primer bordador cuyo nombre figura en los archivos.
El Monasterio
La construcción del monasterio por parte de los jerónimos se prolongará desde el siglo XIV hasta el XVIII a través de sucesivas ampliaciones, lo que le ha dotado de un trazado irregular con aspecto de fortaleza. En su construcción se utilizó preferentemente la mampostería y el ladrillo.
Destaca su Claustro Mudéjar o de los Milagros, construido entre 1389 y 1405, en torno al cual se sitúan los dormitorios y el refectorio. Tiene forma rectangular con arcos de herradura apuntados o túmidos de pilares cuadrados con aristas en chaflán.
En el centro del patio se encuentra un templete mudéjar construido en 1405 por Fray Juan de Sevilla, y en sus paredes se expone una colección de lienzos relacionados con los milagros de la Virgen.
El sepulcro de Fray Gonzalo de Illescas, prior del monasterio, es obra de Egas Cueman y fue esculpido entre 1458 y 1460.
El antiguo refectorio del monasterio es hoy en día el Museo de Bordados, inaugurado en 1928 por Alfonso XIII, donde se exponen más de doscientas piezas elaboradas en los talleres del monasterio.
En el mismo claustro mudéjar se encuentra el Museo de Miniados, considerado entre los mejores del mundo, donde se exponen libros miniados de grandes dimensiones de los siglos XIV al XVIII provenientes del scriptorium del monasterio. Destaca entre ellos el Libro de las Horas del Prior, del siglo XVI.
El camarín de la virgen, de estilo barroco, contiene pinturas de Luca Giordano. Pero sobresale el conjunto de pinturas de Zurbarán, único de toda su carrera que subsiste actualmente en su emplazamiento original, la Sacristía y una sala anexa.
Miembros de la realeza sepultados en el monasterio
·Enrique IV de Castilla (1425-1474), rey de Castilla y León. Hijo de Juan II de Castilla y de María de Aragón.
·María de Aragón (1403-1445), primera esposa de Juan II de Castilla y madre de Enrique IV
·Dionisio de Portugal (1354-1397), hijo de Pedro I de Portugal y de Inés de Castro.
·Juana Enríquez de Castilla, hija ilegítima de Enrique II de Castilla y de Juana de Cifuentes, y esposa del anterior.
Museos del Monasterio
Por último, entre los museos del monasterio, cabe citar el Museo de Pintura y Escultura, situado en la antigua repostería del mismo, y que cuenta con obras de Juan de Flandes, Zurbarán, Goya, Juan Correa de Vivar, Nicolás Francés, Egas Cueman, Pedro de Mena y El Greco entre otros.
This is the small town of Castelletto di Brenzone, in Veneto, Italy on Lake Garda. This was the first stop of our complete tour of Lake Garda with our tour company.
Not many people visit Castelletto, so they thought they'd take us here.
Was an early start (just before 9am CET), so the sunlight is behind the church buildings.
This is a nunnery in Castelletto, called Istituto Piccole Suore Sacra Famiglia. It translates to "Little Sisters of the Holy Family Institute".
Also known as Institute Small Nuns of the Sacred Family.
Famous historical
Parent company Small of the Institute Nuns Sacred Family. Center of spiritualità, risen from the life and the pastorale action of the blessed soul Giuseppe Nascimbeni (Towers 1851 - Castelletto 1922), parish priest of Castelletto di Brenzone and founder of the Institute “Small Nuns of the Sacred Family”.
Art and architecture
Contiguous to the Institute there is the Parochial Church constructed from Don Giuseppe Nascimbeni in years 1905-1908 with the lignea statue of the B.Nascimbeni - Scultore: Mauro Baldessari of Milan (1988). Near the Institute they can be admired: vetrate of the Church that they reproduce the history of the Salvation through the Ancient one and the New Testament - Artist: Pine Casarini (1967); Fontana with the sculptures in bronze “the conciliari Fathers” of L.Scorzelli (1967); painted “the Sacred Family” realized from the painter Luigi Filocamo; ligneo group “the Sacred Family” of A.Pagnoni (1913); icone of the Sacred Family of Lia Galdiolo (1992); facsimile of the Cove of Lourdes inaugurated in the 1914 from the Founding father; marmorea statue of the Madonna carved from the scultore Marzotto; there is then Nail head (1910) and Mausoleo (1922) on design of the arch. Don Giuseppe Trecca; the bronzea Statue of the Blessed soul Giuseppe Nascimbeni of the scultore Mauro Baldessari (1988). Moreover the Church of Saint Zeno can be admired near the cemetary of Castelletto, in Romanesque style, one of most ancient of the veronese diocese. Activity Formation to the religious life of the young calls to the consecrated life.
From Istituto Piccole Suore della Sacra Famiglia
Bell tower of the Institute
Has a clock face on it.
(Word is a series of designs for books of the Bible. This is Word: Philemon. Find out more about Word.)
Philemon is the second shortest book in the Bible (Obadiah has 4 fewer verses), but it was the topic of debate a few hundred years ago in the United States. People on both sides of the slavery issue used the book of Philemon to prove that they were in the right. Just another example of how you can twist the Bible to pretty much back up anything. In fact I know some moron who thinks there will be promises popcorn trees in heaven based on how he reads the Bible.
Philemon: The CliffsNotes
In case you haven't read Philemon and don't want to take 2 minutes to read all 25 verses, here's the gist of it. Paul is in prison. He has become buds with a guy named Onesimus who used to be a slave under Philemon. It's not clear in the book, but it seems like most people think that Onesimus was a runaway slave, having escaped from Philemon. Paul writes to Philemon and says that he's sending Onesimus back to him.
As I read it, it's weird to me that anyone could arrive at any definitive conclusion about Paul's thoughts on slavery based solely on this book. That just doesn't seem to be the point. If you want to know what the Bible says about slavery (or anything) it seems like the starting point should always be Jesus. He said that the two greatest commandements are to 1) love God and 2) love your neighbor as yourself and then he personified that love by dying for his enemies. With some things, like how to deal with hypocrisy in the church, the gifts of the Holy Spirit or whether or not there are popcorn trees in heaven, we may have to dig around and find more specific teachings and principles from Paul and the other apostles. However, if we're talking about things like slavery or violence, I really don't think we need to dig any deeper than Jesus' life and words.
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Word began over a year and a half ago and we're now on the home stretch. Philemon is book 56 out of 66 total (that's where the 84.84% came from). Thanks to all of you who have followed along, whether you jumped on board in the Old Testament or are a recent Word convert.
I REALLY appreciate all the sharing people have done on Twitter, Facebook, Tumblr, etc. As we close in on the end of this, I'd love to generate some momentum, partly to end this project with some buzz, but also to hopefully generate some interest in a new collaborative design project I'd like to start up this fall/winter. (More on that down the road.)
I don't ask for tweets and shares that often, but if you dig this project, please consider sharing it. Let's finish this thing with a bang!
Testament performing their Soundwave Sideshow at the Oxford Art Factory in Sydney, Australia on the 26th of February, 2014.
Photos taken on behalf of The Music (Drum Media).
© Rohan Anderson Photography.
In the old testament it states that god was making mans and had to take a shit, so he went to the crapper, and the night before he'd eaten grullense tacos and he was crapping violentely. Then he realized he was out of toilet paper, so he grabbed the nearest thing around, which happened to be a human being, and god wiped his ass with the human, and that's how red heads were invented. Or at least that's what it says in the Guttenberg bible, and christians have been known to be wrong time and time again, so maybe it's a fib from god.
Alforja (de l'àrab Alfurg o al-furga "obertura" o "separació", a causa de la seva situació en el coll que uneix Reus i el Camp amb el Priorat) és una vila i municipi de la comarca del Baix Camp. La història del castell i el terme d’Alforja és complexa per la presència de nombrosos senyors que hi tingueren drets. L’esment més reculat del lloc d’Alforja és del 27 de juny de 1158, en què el comte Ramon Berenguer IV va fer donació a Ramon de Ganegot del lloc de Santa Maria d’Alforja, amb la seva vall anomenada Vall d’Alforja, per tal que el fortifiqués i el repoblés. El 1170 Ramon i Bernat de Ganegot i Berenguer de Cambrils atorgaren una carta de població als habitants d’Alforja concedint-los els usos i costums de Siurana. Finalment, el 23 de desembre de 1173 l’arquebisbe Guillem de Torroja confirmà a Ramon de Ganegot la donació d’Alforja que li atorgà el comte Ramon Berenguer IV perquè repoblés i fortifiqués el lloc, reservant-se, però, alguns drets, entre els quals la potestat del castell.
Ramon de Ganegot es va casar amb Saurina, de la qual va tenir tres filles: Romia, Dolça i Gaia. La major de les filles, Romia, es va casar en primeres núpcies amb Bertran de Castellet el 27 d’agost de 1194, i rebé del seu pare, segons el seu testament, la meitat de la dominicatura d’Alforja. Això no devia complir-se, ja que a la mort de Ramon de Ganegot, Romia va restar com a hereva universal.
Durant els primers temps de la senyoria d’Alforja, sembla que els drets sobre el terme no eren gaire clars, ja que Berenguer de Cambrils reclamà diverses vegades els seus drets sobre el castell i el lloc d’Alforja, tal com ho reflecteix una concòrdia signada el 5 de maig de 1198 entre aquest, per una part, i la família Ganegot i Bertran de Castellet, per l’altra. Posteriorment, el 18 de març de 1201 Berenguer de Castellet, cambrer de la seu, donà permís a Berenguer de Cambrils per a poder habitar personalment el castell d’Alforja, però sempre en feu de Romia de Ganegot.
En morir el seu marit, Romia va maridar-se de nou el 1200 amb Bernat dels Arcs, amb la qual cosa, es van unir les senyories dels Arcs i d’Alforja. Tot seguit va pagar dots a les seves germanes, i va restituir el dot i l’escreix a la seva mare, que també va tornar a maridar-se. Del matrimoni entre Romia i Bernat dels Arcs van néixer tres fills: Pere, Romia i Saurina (abadessa del monestir de Santa Maria de Bonrepòs). L’hereu, Pere dels Arcs, a la mort dels seus progenitors, es negà a reconèixer que tenia Alforja en feu de la mitra de Tarragona, i portà a terme un seguit d’accions bèl·liques per tot el Camp de Tarragona. Greument malalt, el 6 de febrer de 1243 va fer testament; mostrant el seu penediment per les accions realitzades, constituí com a hereu universal dels seus béns el monestir de Santa Maria de Bonrepòs, després de dotar les seves dues filles. En rebre Alforja, l’abadessa del monestir de Bonrepòs procedí a realitzar un inventari de la senyoria, i un cop constatats els seus nombrosos deutes, va decidir vendre’l, juntament amb els Arcs, a l’arquebisbe Pere d’Albalat. Aquest arquebisbe adquirí de Jaume I els drets reials d’Alforja i des de llavors Alforja i el seu castell restaren en mans de la mitra com a centre de la baronia d’Alforja, que incloïa els llocs de les Borges, Riudecols, les Ires, els Banys, els Domenys, Cortiella, els Arcs, les Benes, les Voltes i Tascals.
Detail of a window in the north aisle by Clayton & Bell, c1890 on themes from the Old Testament (I didn't photograph any of the Victorian windows on the south side owing to excess sunlight and temporary displays obscuring parts of them).
Bury St Edmunds Cathedral for most of its existence was simply the parish church of St James until the foundation of the new diocese of St Edmundsbury in 1914 when it was raised to cathedral status, one of the many new dioceses formed in the early 20th century that elevated existing parish churches to diocesan rank rather than purpose building a new cathedral. Many of these 'parish church cathedrals' sit slightly awkwardly with their new status, lacking in the scale and grandeur that befits such a title, but of all of them Bury St Edmunds has been adapted to its new role the most successfully, with in my opinion the most beautiful results.
The medieval church consisted of the present nave, built in 1503-51 under master mason John Wastell, with an earlier chancel that was entirely rebuilt in 1711 and again in 1870. Originally it would have seemed a fairly minor building at the entrance to the monastic precinct, overshadowed by the enormous abbey church that once stood immediately behind it. The absence of this magnificent church since the Dissolution and the scant remains of this vast edifice always sully my visits here with a sense of grievous loss, had history been kinder it would have served as the cathedral here instead and likely be celebrated as one of the grandest in the country.
The church never had a tower of its own since the adjacent Norman tower of the Abbey gateway served the role of a detached campanile perfectly. It is an impressive piece of Romanesque architecture and one of the best preserved 12th century towers in the country.
Upon being raised to cathedral status in 1914 the building underwent no immediate structural changes but plans were made to consider how best to transform a fairly ordinary church into a worthy cathedral. This task was appointed to architect Stephen Dykes Bower and work began in 1959 to extend the building dramatically. Between 1963-1970 the entire Victorian chancel was demolished and replaced with a much grander vision of a lofty new choir and shallow transepts, remarkably all executed in traditional Gothic style in order to harmonize with the medieval nave. It is incredible to think that this was done in the 1960s, a period in which church and cathedral buildings were otherwise constructed in the most self consciously modern forms ever seen, with delicate neo-medieval masonry in place of brick and concrete.
The new crossing of transepts and choir however remained crowned by the stump of a tower for the remainder of the century as funds were not available to finish Dykes Bower's complete vision of a lantern tower over the crossing: this was only realised at the beginning of the 21st century, aided by a legacy left in the architect's will and some subtle design changes under his successor as architect Hugh Matthews. The transformation from church to cathedral was finally completed in 2005 with most satisfactory results. A stunning fan-vault was installed within the new tower in 2010, an exquisite finishing touch.
Whilst it isn't a large building by cathedral standards its newer parts do much to give it the shape and dignity of one. This is especially apparent within, where the cruciform eastern limb draws the eye. The interior is enlivened by much colour, with the ceilings of Dykes Bower's choir and transepts adorned with rich displays of stencilling, whilst the nave ceiling (a Victorian replacement for the medieval one) was redecorated in similarly lively colours in the 1980s which helps to unify the old and new parts of the church.
Few fittings or features remain from the medieval period, most of the furnishings being Victorian or more recent, but one window in the south aisle retains a rich display of early 16th century stained glass, very much Renaissance in style. The remaining glass is nearly all Victorian, some of the windows in the new choir having been transferred from the previous chancel.
St Edmundsbury Cathedral is not filled with the monuments and fittings that make other great churches so rewarding to linger in but it is a real architectural delight and cannot fail to uplift the spirit.
Hildesheim, Dom (cathedral) - Bernwardstür
Left wing of the bronze door of Bernward with scenes from the Genesis (history of creation, Old Testament) from 1015 CE
Panel 3 of 8 – Paradise, fall of Adam and Eve
Photographer Frank Tomio
Copyright Bildarchiv Marburg
Source bildindex.de
(le français suit l'anglais)
New Testament: Byrd Antarctic Expedition
New York Bible Society,
New York, N.Y.
ca. 1926-28
Frank T. Davies Archival Collection
On occasion of the 85th anniversary of the first flight over the South Pole, November 29, 1929
The inscription “carried this with me on the polar flight for my friend Taffy” refers to Richard E. Byrd's November 29, 1929 historic first flight over the South Pole on board a Ford trimotor he named the "Floyd Bennett". Byrd was the navigator, Bernt Balchen the pilot, Harold June the co-pilot and radio operator and Ashley McKinley the aerial photographer.
Frank T. Davies who came to Canada from Wales in 1925, obtained a leave from McGill University when he was selected as a physicist on Byrd’s First Antarctic Expedition of 1928-30. His daughter recollected stories her father had told, including one in which he had been asked by Byrd to calculate weight restrictions and fuel for the aircraft in order to make the return journey to Little America on the Bay of Whales.
To find out more about Frank Davies:
Communications Research Centre Canada
Friends of CRC’s Pioneers: Frank Davies
www.friendsofcrc.ca/Pioneers/Pioneers.html
University of Saskatchewan Archives: The Second International Polar Year
Balfour Currie and Frank Davies
scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/currie/en_intro.shtml
Canada Science and Technology Museums Corporation
www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca
Photo credit: CSTMC
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Nouveau testament : Expédition en antartique de Byrd
New York Bible Society,
(NEW YORK), N.Y.
vers 1926-28
Collection Frank T. Davies
A l'occasion du 85e anniversaire du premier vol au pôle Sud, survenu le 29 novembre 1929.
L'inscription se réfère au premier vol de Richard E. Byrd au pôle Sud survenu le 29 novembre 1929 à bord d'un avion trimoteur Ford nommé le «Floyd Bennett». Byrd était le navigateur, Bernt Balchen le pilote, Harold June le copilote et radioman, et Ashley McKinley le photographe aérien.
Frank T. Davies, arrivé au Canada du pays de Galles en 1925 était un physicien lors de la première expédition antarctique de Byrd (1928 à 1930). Sa fille se souvient de plusieurs histoires que son père lui avait compté, y compris celle dans laquelle Byrd lui avait demandé de calculer le poids et le carburant pour l’avion afin de faire le voyage de retour à Little America dans la baie des Baleines.
De plus amples renseignements (en anglais seulement) :
Communications Research Centre Canada
Friends of CRC’s Pioneers: Frank Davies
www.friendsofcrc.ca/Pioneers/Pioneers.html
University of Saskatchewan Archives: The Second International Polar Year
Balfour Currie et Frank Davies
scaa.usask.ca/gallery/northern/currie/en_intro.shtml
Société des musées de sciences et technologies du Canada
www.sciencetech.technomuses.ca/francais/index.cfm
Photo : SMSTC
Bürings testaments-houses
Steinstraße 75-79
Donated 1535 by Anna Büring, widow of Burgomaster Henning Büring. Front building rebuilt in 1681, booth in the courtyard date from the first half of the 19th century . Each house for "Old people" had on an area of about 16 m² a hall with a stove and a room. A step staircase leads to the converted attic. Because of the redevelopment of the Old town, the foundation was transferred to the house Greflinger Str. 5 in Winterhude (built in 1914) and the old buildings werde pulled down in 1929.
(Source: Informationstafel am Object)
Time now, ladies and gentlemen, for The Real Story of Thanksgiving---->
On August 1, 1620, the Mayflower set sail. It carried a total of 102 passengers, including forty Pilgrims led by William Bradford. On the journey, Bradford set up an agreement, a contract, that established just and equal laws for all members of the new community, irrespective of their religious beliefs. Where did the revolutionary ideas expressed in the Mayflower Compact come from? From the Bible. The Pilgrims were a people completely steeped in the lessons of the Old and New Testaments. They looked to the ancient Israelites for their example. And, because of the biblical precedents set forth in Scripture, they never doubted that their experiment would work.
Now, you know the usual story of Thanksgiving: They landed. They had no clue where they were, no idea how to feed themselves. The Indians came out, showed 'em how to pop popcorn, fed 'em turkey, saved 'em basically -- and then white European settlers after that basically wiped out the Indian population. It's a horrible example. Not only is that not true, here is the part that's been omitted from what is still today taught as the traditional Thanksgiving story in many schools. "The original contract the Pilgrims had entered into with their merchant-sponsors in London called for everything they produced to go into a common store,' when they got here, 'and each member of the community was entitled to one common share. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belong to the community as well.
"They were going to distribute it equally. All of the land they cleared and the houses they built belonged to the community as well. ... [William] Bradford, who had become the new governor of the colony, recognized that this form of collectivism was as costly and destructive to the Pilgrims as that first harsh winter, which had taken so many lives. He decided to take bold action. Bradford assigned a plot of land to each family to work and manage, thus turning loose the power of the marketplace. ... Long before Karl Marx was even born, the Pilgrims had discovered and experimented with what could only be described as socialism,' and it had failed" miserably because when every put things in the common store, some people didn't have to put things in for there to be, people that didn't produce anything were taking things out, and it caused resentment just as it does today. So Bradford had to change it.
"What Bradford and his community found was that the most creative and industrious people had no incentive to work any harder than anyone else, unless they could utilize the power of personal motivation! But while most of the rest of the world has been experimenting with socialism for well over a hundred years – trying to refine it, perfect it, and re-invent it – the Pilgrims decided early on to scrap it permanently. What Bradford wrote about this social experiment should be in every schoolchild's history lesson. If it were, we might prevent much needless suffering," that happens today and will happen "in the future. 'The experience that we had in this common course and condition, tried sundry years...that by taking away property, and bringing community into a common wealth, would make them happy and flourishing – as if they were wiser than God,' Bradford wrote.
"'For this community (so far as it was) was found to breed much confusion and discontent, and retard much employment that would have been to their benefit and comfort. For young men that were most able and fit for labor and service did repine that they should spend their time and strength to work for other men's wives and children without [being paid] that was thought injustice.' ... The Pilgrims found that people could not be expected to do their best work without incentive. So what did Bradford's community try next? They unharnessed the power of good old free enterprise by invoking the undergirding capitalistic principle of private property. Every family was assigned its own plot of land to work and permitted to market its own crops and products. And what was the result?"
Here's what Bradford wrote, the governor of the Massachusetts colony. "'This had very good success,' wrote Bradford, 'for it made all hands industrious, so as much more corn was planted than otherwise would have been.' Bradford doesn't sound like much of a Clintonite, does he?" or an Obamaite, if I can update it. "Is it possible that supply-side economics could have existed before the 1980s? ... Anyway, the pilgrims found "In no time, the Pilgrims found they had more food than they could eat themselves. ... So they set up trading posts and exchanged goods with the Indians. The profits allowed them to pay off their debts to the merchants in London. And the success and prosperity of the Plymouth settlement attracted more Europeans and began what came to be known as the 'Great Puritan Migration.'"
Very few people have heard this story or have had it taught to them -- and the "thanks" was to God for showing them the way. John Adams and George Washington wrote about their reminisces and their thoughts on the first Thanksgiving and the notion it was thanks to God. It was an entirely different story than is being taught in the schools. It's been muddied down, watered down all these years -- and now it's been hijacked by the multicultural community -- to the point that the story of Thanksgiving is the Pilgrims were a bunch of incompetents and were saved only by the goodness of the Indians, who then were wiped out. And that's what kids are being taught today -- 'cause, of course, you can't mention the Bible in school, and that's fundamental to the real story of Thanksgiving.
Over the centuries, the Tiber River has witnessed the rise and fall of empires, and the Bridge of Sant'Angelo has stood as a testament to the enduring architectural and engineering prowess of ancient Rome. Today, both the river and the bridge are beloved symbols of the eternal city, drawing visitors from around the world to admire their beauty and historical significance.
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It feels like I have been here before, but no shots of it is on my stream, and my notebook says I have not been before either.
So, first time to Meopham.
St John sits on a busy road, but has a spacious car park, and from that I saw the large "church open" sign near the porch.
Great news.
But after slinging my full camera bag on my back and walking to the modern door, I could not budge it. So, I take shots round the outside and the churchyard, then walk back to the car.
A warden arrives, unloads some fresh flowers from her car: are you going to open the church?
Yes I am.
Perfect.
So, I carried her flowers to the door, where she tried to open the door; she couldn't open it.
But she jiggled with the lock, and went at the door with a shoulder charge, and the door opened.
Hoorah!
Inside I found a heavily victoianised church, with windows that had medieval glass fragments.
The nave has been reordered, with modern chairs and a modern altar in the chancel arch, which gives a great feeling of space inside the church.
Did I mention the tiles? Well, they were fabulous.
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A large fourteenth-century church with a regularity of detail that tells of much nineteenth-century replacement. The tall octagonal piers of the five-bay arcade are capped by a pretty clerestory of small quatrefoils. The wooden pulpit was made for St Margaret's, Westminster, in 1682 and brought here in 1800 by the then vicar who taught at Westminster School. It has charming cherubs' heads, cockle shells and festoons and could go a long way to enlivening a dull sermon! The former chantry chapel of Simon de Mepham (1272-1333), Archbishop of Canterbury, and a fourteenth-century political pawn, is linked to the chancel by an iron-grilled window.
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MEOPHAM.
THE next parish southward from Nutsted is Meopham, vulgarly called Mepham, and antiently written, Meapaham. (fn. 1)
MEOPHAM is situated about twenty-four miles from London, and nine from Dartford. It is rather a bye out of the way place, lying among the hills, and no well frequented thoroughfare through it. It is a large parish, extending near five miles from north to south, and near three miles from east to west; lies for the most part on high ground, though with continued hill and dale; the soils in it are various, much of it is poor and chalky, but in the vallies it is heavy tillage land; the roads are stony, narrow, and bad, but the air, like the neighbouring hilly parishes, is very healthy. The village, having the church and Court-lodge in it, stands in the centre of the parish; in the southern part there are several coppice woods, mostly of beech and birch, intermixed with scrubby oak trees, which in these parts hardly ever grow to any size; there are several small hamlets in different parts of it, as Mellaker, Hook-green, and Camer, in the northern parts; Pitfield-green, Priest-wood, and Culverstone-green, in the southern parts. In the former part of the parish, at Camer, there is a good modern house, which was built by Mr. George Master, whose son, George Master, esq. likewise resided here; he died unmarried, and without issue, leaving his sister, Catherine, his heir, married to Mr. Smith, of Croydon, in Surry, who in her right became possessed of it; after his death she removed to East Malling; her eldest son, George Smith, esq. married Rebecca, daughter of the Rev. Nicholas Brett, of Spring-grove, in Wye. He now possesses this house, and resides here.
This parish, among others in this neighbourhood, was antiently contributary to the repair of the ninth pier of Rochester bridge.
¶ATHELSTANE, king of England, gave the perpetual inheritance of Meopham to duke Eadulf, who, in 940, with the king's consent, gave it to Christ church, in Canterbury, in the presence of archbishop Wlselm, free from all secular service and royal tribute, excepting the trinoda necessitas of repelling invasions, and the repairs of castles and highways. Queen Ediva, mother of king Edmund and king Edred, in 961, gave Meopham to Christ church for the health of her soul, with the like privileges; by which it may be observed, that in the accounts of the donations of the Saxon kings, the same manors and places are frequently mentioned, as having been given by several different kings, which was occasioned by their continual dissensions, and contending with each other with various success; one king taking away the possessions of the church, and another regranting the same. Besides, it has been frequently found, that when one of these kings gave a small parcel of land in a parish or manor, in the Saxon codocils, he has been recorded as having given the whole of it. Soon after this the church's possessions were further increased here; for whilst Ælsstane was bishop of Rochester, who came to the see in 945, and died in 984, one Birtrick, a rich and powerful man, who then resided here, devised, with the consent of Elsswithe his wife, his land at Meopham, by his last testament, a most curious record of the customs of those times, to Christ church, Canterbury, together with sixty marcs of gold, thirty to the bishop and thirty to the convent; and one necklace of twenty marcs and two cups of silver. The original is in the Saxon language, and is inserted, with a Latin interpretation of it, both in Lambarde and in the Registrum Roffense, (fn. 2) and by Dr. Hickes, in his Differtatio Epistolaris, at the end of his Thesaurus, with his notes and remarks on it; by it the antient form and phrases of a testament may be known, and it may be observed by it—that the husband and wife joined in making their testaments; that lands were devisable by testament in old time; and by what words estates of inheritance were wont to be created; that the lord's consent was thought requisite to the testament of the tenant, and that it was procured by the gift of a heriot, which, as Bracton says, was done at first, Magis de gratia quam de jure: and lastly, what weapons, jewels, and ornaments, were then worn and in use.
MEOPHAM remained among the possessions of Christ church, at the consecration of archbishop Lanfranc, in the 4th year of William the Conqueror's reign; who, when he separated the manors and lands belonging to his church, allotted this manor to the monks for their subsistance, cloathing, and other ne cessary uses; and it is accordingly thus entered in the record of Domesday, under the general title of land of the monks of the archbishop.
The archbishop himself holds Mepeham. It was taxed in the time of king Edward the Confessor for ten sulins, now for seven. The arable land is 30 carucates. In demesne there are four, and 25 villeins, with seventy one borderers, having 25 carucates. There is a church, and 17 servants, and 16 acres of meadow. Wood for the pannage of 10 hogs. In the whole value, in the time of king Edward, it was worth 15 pounds and 10 shillings, now 26 pounds. Richard de Tonebridge has in his lowy what is worth 18 shillings and sixpence. Wood for the pannage of 20 hogs.
This manor was De cibo monachorum, that is, to the use of their refectory. (fn. 3) In the year 1306, anno 35 king Edward I. Henry Prior and the chapter of Christ church, Canterbury, released to their homagers and tenants of Mepham certain customs and services for an annual rent, to be paid yearly to them within the manor of Mepham.
¶King Edward II. by his letters patent, in his 10th year, granted to the prior and convent free warren for themselves and their successors, in all their demesne lands in Meopham. King Henry VI. in his 25th year, granted to them a market at Meopham weekly, on a Saturday; and one yearly fair, on the feast of the apostles St. Peter and St. Paul. (fn. 4)
MEOPHAM is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester, and being a peculiar of the archbishop, is within the deanry of Shoreham. The church, which is a large handsome building, with a square tower at the west end, is dedicated to St. John Baptist.
Among other monuments and inscriptions in it are the following: In the chancel, a memorial for Henry Haslin, esq. of Meopham, who married Mary, daughter of Sir George Courthope, of Wileigh, in Sussex, and Elizabeth his wife, and had two sons and one daughter, obt. 1658; a brass plate for John Follham, vicar here, obt. June 13, 1455. In the north side of the chancel is an antient stone, with Saxon letters cut round the edge, but without any reference to shew the person buried under it. In the nave, a stone for Christopher Copland, vicar here thirty-seven years, ob. 12 Cal. June, 1707.
Within the memory of several antient people of this parish, some of the bells of this church being to be new cast, and there being wanting a sufficient quantity of metal to do it, some persons tore off the brass inscriptions from the stones in this church, except that of Follham above mentioned, and threw them into the heating metal, to add to its quantity.
Simon Meopham, elected archbishop of Canterbury in 1327, was born here. He rebuilt this church, which was repaired by archbishop Courtney about seventy years afterwards, who annexed to it four new alms houses for the use of the poor. (fn. 11)
This church was always esteemed as an appendage to the manor of Meopham, in which state it continued till the dissolution of the priory of Christ church, in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it was, together with the rest of the possessions of the priory, surrendered into the king's hands; who, by his donation charter, in his 33d year, settled this manor, the rectory, and the advowson of the vicarage of this church, among other premises, on his new founded dean and chapter of Christ church, Canterbury, with whom the inheritance of the rectory or parsonage still remains, the present lessee of it being John Market, esq. of this parish. But the advowson of the vicarage was soon afterwards conveyed to the archbishop of Canterbury, and His Grace the archbishop still continues at this time patron of it.
Archbishop Richard, Becket's immediate successor, in the reign of king Henry II. is said to have appro priated this church to the use of the almonry of the priory of Christ church, but this appropriation does not seem to have taken place, for in the 8th year of king Richard II. the portion paid from this church to the almonry was the yearly gross sum of 61. 13s. 4d. at which time it was not appropriated, as appears by the certificate given in to the abbot of St. Augustine's, appointed by the king's letters patent collector of the half tenth, then granted to the king by the clergy, when this church was taxed at 261. 8d.
King Richard II. was a great benefactor to the priory of Christ church; (fn. 12) and among other marks of his favour, in the 9th year of his reign, he gave licence to the monks to appropriate the churches of Meopham and Godmersham to their own use. Accordingly William Courtney, archbishop of Canterbury, appropriated this church to them, and most probably to that of their almonry, in compliance with the intention of his predecessor.
¶In an antient valuation of the churches in this diocese, made in the 15th year of king Edward I. the church of Meopham is valued at forty marcs. (fn. 13) On the sequestration of the possessions of deans and chapters, after the death of king Charles I. the manor and rectory of Meopham were surveyed in 1649, by order of the state, an account of which has already been given above; and in 1650, there was another survey taken, in which it was returned, that Meopham was a vicarage presentative, worth 50l. per annum, Mr. Gibbon then incumbent, in the room of the late Mr. Pigget, then sequestered; that there was a pension of 5l. 6s. 8d. per annum, paid by the late dean and chapter of Canterbury, who had the impropriation, worth 120l. per annum, let on lease to Mr. Henry Haslin. This vicarage is valued in the king's books at 16l. 3s. 4d. and the yearly tenths at 1l. 2s. 4d. (fn. 14)
The vicar of Meopham receives all manner of tithes, except corn, and enjoys an augmentation of thirty pounds per annum, paid by the lessee of the parsonage, and the annual pension of 5l. 6s. 8d. from the dean and chapter.
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These images were taken during the fourth week of June, 2017.
Remains of a former railway bridge on the beach, north of Bray Harbour.
The original 'Harcourt Street Railway Line' ran along here, closer to the edge of the coast.
Over a long period of time, coastal erosion leached away at the soft cliff-face.
The line had to be abandoned, and a newer version built inland.
Across this section of the banks, a massive stone bridge was built to span a culvert that drained the nearby areas (easily identified in the 1845 Ordnance Survey maps as Cork Great / Cork Abbey / Ravenswell.
We see evidence of a modern drainage pipe, serving the same function for the nearby lands -- encompassing the old Bray Golf Club course etc.
However impressive the stone works were at the time, when Mother Nature decides to play, then the well-intentioned efforts of man are set at nought.
Extremely difficult to find actual evidence/drawings of the original structures along this particular stretch of the coast.
For an interesting description of the path, and remains, of the original Harcourt Street Line, I recommend a visit to this site:
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Submerged off the Bray coast in Co. Wicklow, lies the remains of a forest over six millennia old.
"The cliffs between Bray, Co. Wicklow, and Killiney, Co. Dublin, have a long history of erosion.
The cliffs suffer continual erosion at high tides and sudden collapses of the cliff face are a normal occurrence during storm events. The rate of erosion averages over one metre per year, and this has led to the loss of substantial portions of the natural, and the historic built environment in the area.
Over the course of the 19th and early 20th centuries, two martello towers, a number of dwellings, and the Dublin to Wicklow railway line were undermined and collapsed into the sea.
The remains of the granite ashlar railway embankment stretch from Bray to Killiney and are entirely submerged at high tide.
The granite masonry shows clear signs of accelerated weathering, and the recent collapse of sections of the railway bridges at both Bray and Greystones pay testament to the continuing encroachment of the sea on the east coast of Ireland."
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An exposed dump is spilling toxic asbestos on to a beach in Bray, Co Wicklow – and may contain more then twice the volume of waste as thought.
For decades the former Bray Urban Council dumped municipal waste on the site north of the harbour, most of which is actually in Co Dublin, making it now the responsibility of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council.
In September 2005, after the environmental group Coastwatch reported the dump had begun falling into the sea, an assessment carried out by Wicklow County Council estimated the waste could amount to as much as 48,000 cubic metres in volume.
The assessment concluded that the main environmental impact of the former landfill was limited to the visual intrusion of the exposed waste within the cliff face on the coastline, and at the top of the cliff.
However, a report by environmental consultants Fehily Timoney for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council and delivered last December found that the dump contains more then 104,000 cubic metres of waste, including broken asbestos tiles, and features excessive levels of ammoniacal nitrogen, potassium and manganese in the groundwater.
Exposed stretch
The report concluded that the depth of waste in the landfill was 8.7m at the northern end of the site and noted that erosion of the clay walls has exposed a 200m stretch of the former landfill. It said contents are spilling onto the beach and being washed away by the sea.
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Title: Adam and Eve
Artist: Albrecht Dürer
Date: 1504
Medium: Engraving
On view starting Saturday, March 6 in Desire and Deliverance: Drama in the Old Testament and coincides with the Science Museum of Minnesota's exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls
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St. Joseph (Memmingen)
Parish Church of St. Joseph in Memmingen
St. Joseph is a Roman Catholic parish church in Upper Swabia Memmingen and was built in the years 1927-1929. It is the main church of the deanery of Memmingen. Its patronage is the feast of St. Joseph on March 19.
Location
The church with the address Saint Joseph Church Square 5 stands about 100 meters west of the old town of Memmingen. To the north the church is bordered by St. Joseph's Church Square, to the west, the Hopfenstraße is an adjoining street. To the east are the Elsbethen and the Bismarck school, south of the church is the church garden.
History
After the Reformation in the 16th century lived with the exception of the monks and nuns almost no more catholics in the imperial city of Memmingen. This changed with the Bayerischwerdung (when the city became a Bavarian one) of the city in 1803 by influx from outside. About 500 Catholics lived in 1803 in the city. Until 1871, the number increased to 1487 and about 19 years later the number had nearly doubled to 2800. In 1900, lived 4200 Catholics in the city and 1910 5500. As a consequence the parish church of St. John the Baptist had become too small and a larger new church building was taken into consideration. 25 men founded in 1907 a team to build a new Catholic church in Memmingen, whose chairmanship the then parish priest Max Rippler took over. Yet two years later they tendered a competition for the new building. 1916 the community possessed over 4.5 Tagwerk (Bavarian square measure, 3408 m²) building ground and 100,000 gold marks. The number of Catholics in the city also increased during this period, which is why the design of architect Heinrich Hauberrisser from Regensburg, which had been shortlisted was rejected because his proposed new construction would have been too small. During the inflationary period only the building ground could be maintained. Josef Schmid, since 1921 parish priest, resurrected the plans for a new church in 1925. The Court of Arbitration for new architectural competition consisted of Professor Dr. Baron von Schmidt, Privy Councillor Dr. Theodor Fischer, Privy Councillor Dr. Grässl and Monsignor Richard Hoffmann. The first two places took architect Wiederanders from Munich and the native of Augsburg architects Professor Michael Kurz and Thomas Wechs. On 14 April 1926, was settled for the plans of the latter two. The first cut of the spade of the new building was carried out by canon Deller on August 9, 1927. Memminger construction company Josef Hebel took over the construction works, construction management had Konrad Mayer from Augsburg. The church was executed in concrete with a brick cladding.
On May 7, 1928 the topping-out-ceremony could be celebrated. 1929, the floor of Solnhofer panels was laid and set up the choir stalls. The consecration of the five new bells took place on 12 October 1929. On 20 October, the church of suffragan bishop Karl Reth was consecrated. As celebration preacher was Monsignor Dr. Hartmann present. The organ was consecrated at Christmas 1929 before the Midnight Mass. Despite its size, St. Joseph is the largest church building in Germany between the First and Second World War, remained St. Johann in the old town the parish church. Only as at 1 December 1956, the previous daughter church of St. Joseph was raised to the status of a parish church and a city parish church. The confessionals and the high altar were set up in 1930. Two years later, the pulpit was installed. In the memorial chapel for soldiers in 1960 was erected a monument. The on May 7, 1970 opened parish hall was created in 1969 from the around the choir on the north and east side vacant rooms. The crypt of the church was rebuilt in 1975 as a parish center and connected by a staircase with the parish hall. The sculptor John Dumanski from Tannberg took over the design of the crypt. Reinhold Grübl planned the equipment for the Josefstüble (very small room). Government master builder Karlheinz Pasman was an architect for those measures. The Church Foundation and the City of Memmingen concluded in 1973 a contract by which the City of Memmingen committed itself to open up the spaces on the east, north and west side of the church for public transport and to shoulder design, care and maintenance of green areas. Simultaneously, a sculpture of mother and child by Diether Kunerth was erected in the west in front of the church. Between 1978 and 1980, the church was restored, an altar-island with a main altar in the nave integrated and installed a new organ. The heating system and the electrical systems were renewed. The latter were improved in 1987. In the same year, a new loudspeaker system was put into operation. The Lady chapel in the west of the church was rebuilt by Reinhold Grübl into a prayer and meditation room.
Specifications
The church consists of an enclosed, long rectangular room that has twelve yokes. The nave is flanked by each a side aisle. The openings from the nave to aisles are trapezoidal. Overall, the 73-meter-long nave has seven entrances. Each entrance a triangular porch is built onto the outside. The nave is 16 meters, the aisles are each 3.8 meters wide. The adjacent to the east, indented choir is 24 meters long and 11 meters wide. In front of it are built the parish hall and the sacristy. The choir is flanked by two in floor plan star-shaped steeples. In the west a transept in the same height as the nave is added. It serves as an abutment. In it, the entrance hall and laterally each a chapel is installed. On the upper floor there are side rooms. In front of the transept is the west gallery and this one serves as organ loft. The circular baptistery is left, the spiral staircase leading to the loft and the adjoining rooms of the transept, is located to the right.
The facade of the church consists of exposed brick, inside the concrete walls evoke a sober impression. The ceilings are covered with wood.
Organ
In 1980, the organ was built by Georg Jann as Opus 47. It has 53 stops, spread over four manuals and pedal. The various mechanisms stand in plain, open to the front boxes. The key action is mechanical, the key action electric. Josef Maier (Hergensweiler) changed the disposition in 2000.
Several sound recording media, recored by Gerhard Weinberger, Winfried Bönig and Christian Weiherer, document the sound of the organ.
Disposition
I Rückpositiv C-a3
Praestant 8'
Reed pipe 8'
Octave 4'
Spitzgedackt 4'
Field pipe 2'
Quinte 11/3'
Sesquialtera II 22/3' + 13/5'
Scharff V 1'
Dulcian 16'
Schalmey 8'
Vox Humana 8'
Tremulant
II principal work C-a3
Praestant 16'
Octave 8'
Copula 8'
Salizional 8'
Octave 4'
Recorder 4'
Quinte 22/3'
Octave 2'
11/3 mixture VI'
Trumpet 8'
III Swell C-a3
Bourdon 16'
HolzprinzipalFlauto 8'
Gamba 8'
Beat 8'
Principal 4'
Coupling Flute 4'
Viola 4'
Nasat 22/3'
Nachthorn 2'
Third 13/5'
None 8/9'
Fourniture VI 2'
Bassoon 16'
Harmonique Trompette 8'
Oboe 8'
Sill
Tremulant
IV. Chamadewerk C-a3
Cornet V (from g0)
Chamade 16'
Chamade 8'
Chamade 4'
Pedal C-f1
Subbass 32'
Principal 16'
Subbass 16'
Quinte 102/3'
Octavbass 8'
Bass tube 8'
Octave 4'
Bauer Flute 4'
Hintersatz V 22/3'
Bombard 16'
Trumpet 8'
Field Trumpet 4'
Cornett 2'
Pairing: I / II, III / I, III / II, IV / II, IV / P, I / P II / P III / P.
Game Aids: 16 coasters combinations crescendo roll tutti passage.
Minor remodeling by Josef Maier in 2000
Community
The parish of St. Joseph to 1975 consisted of the entire West town of Memmingen. The area encompassed the city center to the city limits, including the communities in the districts of Dickenreishausen and Ferthofen. In 1975, the parish of Christ Resurreciton was founded, whereby about 4000 believers switched to this one. From 1986, when the branch parish of St. Anton was incorporated into Ferthofen, the territory comprises the western city, with the exception of the western part of Berlin's freedom (Berliner Freiheit), as well as the districts Hart, Dickenreishausen, Ferthofen and Volkratshofen. In 2012, the parish of St. Joseph became a member of the parish community of St. Joseph-Christ's Resurrection.
Fragment uit glasraam van Brusselaar Leopold Lecomte in de ontwijde kerk Onze-Lieve-Vrouw van Smarten, Berlaarbaan
A visual reflection honoring the esteemed Morgan State University alumnus, Earl G. Graves, Sr. Accomplished businessman, entrepreneur and founding publisher of Black Enterprise magazine, Earl G. Graves (Class of 1957) has long-championed Morgan State excellence through his many endeavors and business enterprises. The Earl G. Graves School of Business and Management at Morgan bears his name as testament to his business acumen, support of the advancement of business education and his endearing legacy as a generational icon.
Dundalk overwhelm Bangor in All Ireland Final
by Roger Corbett
Bangor’s amazing run in the All Ireland Junior Cup came to an abrupt end when they were comprehensively beaten by Dundalk, eventually losing by 55-5.
Where do you start when trying to relate and absorb the events of Saturday’s final at Chambers Park? Firstly, congratulations to worthy winners Dundalk who nullified the Bangor attack, then went on to produce some stunning plays which racked up no less than 8 tries, each by a different player. For Bangor’s part, they were unable to respond to the intensity of Dundalk’s game, and lacked the cutting edge which their opponents used to great effect.
The day started full of promise, as the strong support from North Down made their way to Chambers Park in Portadown, knowing Bangor would be fielding their best team. Once again, the pundits had Bangor as the underdogs – just as they had done so in the previous three rounds! In confounding the experts earlier, Bangor produced some awesome performances against top quality opposition to get to the final. Dundalk had produced some convincing wins in the early rounds of the competition, but had struggled to get past CIYMS in the semi-final, just managing to squeeze ahead at the second time of asking. However, with a number of key players returning to the side in time for this game, they were now back at full strength and would be a formidable force to contend with.
Having won the toss, captain Jamie Clegg elected to play into the stiff wind in the first half. For the first 5 minutes, Bangor doggedly retained possession and tried to play their way into Dundalk’s half through a series of determined forward moves. However, little ground was made and, when possession was finally lost, the Dundalk back line produced a burst that simply cut through the Bangor defence resulting in an easy touch down under Bangor’s posts for a 7-0 lead.
Bangor stuck to their plan and slowly, but patiently, got their attack moving forward, eventually winning a penalty to the left of Dundalk’s posts, but Mark Widdowson’s kick into the wind drifted just wide of the mark.
The contrast in play between the two teams was becoming clear, with Bangor trying to keep the ball close while Dundalk were throwing it wide. The latter strategy was proving to be the more effective as, with 20 minutes gone, a quick back line move with players looping around resulted in an overlap on the right wing which gave a clear run in to again, score under the posts. A further 9 minutes later, they did it again and, although the Bangor defence had sensed the danger and moved across to cover it, their tackling let them down allowing Dundalk to get over in the right hand corner, taking their lead to 19-0.
By now, Bangor were trying to hang on until half time when they could regroup and come out with the wind at their backs. Dundalk, on the other hand were anxious to press home their advantage and give them a more comfortable lead. To Bangor’s credit, although camped on their own line for lengthy spells, they dug in and managed to hold on until the referee’s half time whistle.
As the teams reappeared from the dressing rooms, it was obvious Bangor were ringing the changes, particularly in the backs. With the wind advantage having lessened considerably, Bangor got the second half underway. It was now Dundalk’s turn to adopt the slow, steady approach, just as Bangor had done earlier. However, their more confident off-loading and support play was, once again, taking play deep into Bangor’s territory. Frustration at not being able to gain possession and take play out of their danger area eventually resulted in a yellow card for Clegg after a succession of penalties. Dundalk kicked the penalty to touch, won their lineout and drove for the line. Although initially held up by the Bangor defence, Dundalk’s repeated drives were eventually rewarded with another converted score, extending their lead to 26-0.
From the touchline, the Bangor faithful had felt that if their players had managed to score first in the second half, they may have been able to mount a fight-back and close the gap to their opponents. As it was, this Dundalk score simply bolstered their confidence and pushed Bangor deeper into trouble. With Bangor still a man down, Dundalk added to the score with a penalty and then another score in the corner. Everything was now working for the Leinster men, as even the difficult touchline conversion into the biting wind successfully split the posts, bringing the score to 36-0.
As the game entered the final quarter, and with Dundalk all but holding the cup, Bangor were now on the ropes. By contrast, the Dundalk players were in almost total control, and were not going to slow down now. In a 10 minute spell, they ran in a further 3 tries, making the scoreline 55-0. By now, any sense of dejection the Bangor supporters may have been feeling was now moved to feelings of sympathy for their players. However, pride was at stake and once again Bangor rallied as the game entered its final minutes. At last, the forwards got within striking distance of the Dundalk line and, although their repeated attacks were repelled, they finally managed to do what their opponents had done so effectively, and quickly passed the ball wide to Davy Charles. Even though they were 55 points ahead, the Dundalk defence made Charles work hard to drive through the tackles and score Bangor’s consolation try, bringing the final score to 55-5.
From Bangor’s point of view, the final score doesn’t tell the whole story of this competition. While the final may have resulted in a sad anti-climax for Bangor, the remarkable journey to get there will be remembered for some time. On the day, Dundalk were by far the better side, and Bangor would have to concede that their game was not up to the usual standard. However, there is no doubt the experience of competing at this level is something to relish and the goal now will be to secure a top four place in the league and try again next year.
Everybody at the club has nothing but the highest respect and praise for what has been achieved this year by not just the 1sts, but all the senior teams, and one poor result isn’t going to change that – the welcome at Upritchard Park for the returning players is testament to that. With that in mind, the players now need to put this disappointment behind them and provide the best possible response against a struggling Portadown side at home in the league next Saturday.
Bangor side: J Leary, A Jackson, P Whyte, F Black, G Irvine, R Latimer, J Clegg, C Stewart, R Armstrong, K Rosson, D Charles, M Aspley, M Weir, M Widdowson, C Morgan
Subs: S Irvine, O McIlmurray, D Kelly, M Rodgers, C Harper, D Fusco, M Thompson
Bangor scores: D Charles (1T)
Dundalk Storm To Title Dundalk 55 v Bangor 5 from KnockOn.ie
Dundalk Scorers: Christopher Scully, Owen McNally, Jonathan Williams, John Smyth, Ultan Murphy, Tiernan Gonnelly, James McConnon and Stephen Murphy 1 try each. Ultan Murphy 6 cons, 1 pen.
Bangor Scorers: David Charles 1 try.
In front of a big crowd at Chambers Park on Saturday afternoon Dundalk delivered a stunning and ruthless display to see off the challenge of Bangor and capture the All Ireland Junior Cup title for the very first time.
Three first half tries had them firmly in control at 19-0 ahead having played with the elements at the Portadown venue during the first half and while the wind dropped somewhat after half time the Dundalk intensity most certainly didn’t as they cut loose scoring five more tries.
Dundalk returned to a heroes welcome at their Mill Road clubhouse on Saturday night after a display of pure brilliance throughout the afternoon.
Precision, pace and skill from the Louth men from start to finish left Bangor playing second fiddle for long periods
Armenian Orthodox Christmas mass and procession inside the Church of the Nativity in the West Bank town of Bethlehem January 18, 2011. Church services and ceremonies are conducted in the Cathedral of Nativity all night long and until the next day.
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