The English Catholic Who Risked Death for Sacred Music and the Faith
It is music written for an intimate, secret setting... which was punishable in many cases with life imprisonment and even the death penalty.
It is music written for an intimate, secret setting... which was punishable in many cases with life imprisonment and even the death penalty.
Unsurprisingly, Palestrina’s Iberian counterpart, Tomás Luis de Victoria, also has a six voice setting of this text.
Against the Gnostic heretics, who sowed errors everywhere by means of song.
But suddenly, after the priest at her bedside showed her the Crucified One, Julian stopped suffering and had sixteen visions.
Today we would need an aesthetic conversion, to truly return to the beauty that speaks to us of God.
The storms, caused by the “crude north wind,” are the threats of Lucifer under the name of Boreas, the icy wind coming the north.
Darius Milhaud described himself as “a Frenchman from Provence, and by religion a Jew."
Not singing Popule meus or Crux fidelis on Good Friday has not contributed to edifying anyone, on the contrary, the faithful have been deprived of a great spiritual treasure.
Thank God that he was able to contribute some beauty to the world despite his sins and struggles.
There is always something new, beautiful and noble that can be said about her and it is up to us, useless servants, to say it through the little or much talent that God has given us.