jdmccafferty11 Sept 1605: d. Sir Thomas Tresham, prominent #Catholic #recusant #otd who caused the construction of the very symbolically laden Rushton Triangular Lodge & Lyveden New Bield (Daderot/ Wehha)
11 Sept 1605: d. Sir Thomas Tresham, prominent #Catholic #recusant #otd who caused the construction of the very symbolically laden Rushton Triangular Lodge & Lyveden New Bield (Daderot/ Wehha)
9 May 1631: Pope Urban VIII's 'Britannia' imposes silence on the warring #recusant Catholic factions in #England #otd
Tamsin Lewis6 January is the feast of the #Epiphany, so here is Vidimus Stellam, an early #17thCentury #motet for the day by William #Byrd, from #Gradualia, 1607.
Eleanor Cramer: #soprano
Christopher Goodwin: #lute
Alison Kinder: bass #viol
Tamsin Lewis: tenor viol
Vidimus stellam in Orientem, et venimus cum muneribus adorare Dominum.
We have seen a star in the East, and have come with gifts to adore the Lord.
Image: Leonardo da Vinci - Adoration of the Magi, c1481 (Uffizi Galleries)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3hLS0w42S4s&ab_channel=Passamezzo
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