Independent history project by @NicoFassino. Exploring Catholic history through the untold and forgotten experiences of the laity across the centuries.
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A few years ago, I found the Carmelites' execution announcement in the Journal de Paris.
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In 2020, I wrote on the songs we believe the Carmelites sang on the way to their execution. I made a companion playlist on Spotify.
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I grabbed the OCR when I could and when it was clean, to make translating and reading a bit easier.
The descriptions of the beatification, and Pope Pius X's reception of those on pilgrimage, are (unsurprisingly) moving.
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I also have a "Vignettes" section, of remarkable anecdotes of ordinary people. This may be my favorite section of the whole project. I encourage you to skim this section, if nothing else!
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I confess that what might be more interesting than my original research q is the constellation of moving stories I found.
For my conclusion, I transcribed a column from Father Edward Sweeney (1843-1909). He paints a vivid picture of domestic Catholic life in Maryland.
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Would you be surprised to know that within the time range and regions I analyzed, 75% of wedding masses took place on Tuesday or Wednesday, and 65% took place before 9am? Only 14 of 1,324 wedding masses surveyed took place after 11am!
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I've finished my latest newspaper/data project!
"When's the big day?": The days and times of Catholic wedding masses, 1871-1960
I looked at over 3,000 articles across 30 American Catholic newspapers to tabulate what day of the week and time of day people had their wedding masses. Link below!
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I love collecting old photos of wedding masses, to show all the instances of couples kneeling behind the altar rail! Here’s my collection:
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Research into the liturgical reforms introduced before the Novus Ordo reveals that confusion, resistance and division were already apparent long before 1969.
✍️ @LMSChairman
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every time I open Adobe to read a PDF, I get at least SEVEN different things demanding I use their AI tools
leave me alone!!!!
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Happy Friday, friends. It's time to stop this nonsense and get whaling. pillarcatholic.com/p/happy-b…
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This was an extraordinary @PillarCatholic dive into the history of Notre Dame's altars
The current altar in the transept is very ugly, but alternatives to the high altar have been explored/in use for ~300 yrs
characteristically great from @HandMissals
pillarcatholic.com/p/the-alt…
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Notre Dame has both reflected the architectural and liturgical trends of the wider Church and served as a unique exemplar and inspiration to others.
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The first part was published today
pillarcatholic.com/p/the-alt…
The second part (coming soon👀) includes a number of rare archival photographs, some of which -- as far as I know -- have never before been published
So stay tuned!
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This is the article that I've been wanting someone to write for years. Thank you @HandMissals for doing the work. It's well written, well researched, and well received!
Freestanding altars and versus populum Masses were common in Notre Dame long before the Second Vatican Council.
pillarcatholic.com/p/the-alt…
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Freestanding altars and versus populum Masses were common in Notre Dame long before the Second Vatican Council.
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I’ve got a little of everything! Tables, charts, sequences, historical commentaries on wedding sequences, highlighted manuscripts, confusion about gospel readings, medical typos, and - if you make it to the end of the appendices, there’s a bonus research finding!
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Something new I did for this project is incorporating maps. I made a map of the wedding masses on Google MyMaps. Going to be honest, I am not a map person, and imho it's not a particularly nuanced map. But regions matter in this project!
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I read through over 200 wedding masses across Christendom, plunked everything into a spreadsheet, and looked for trends.
Want to know what wedding mass trends I found? Read here - as a blog post, or as a PDF!
sharonkabel.com/survey_weddi…