tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post646956922873716215..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Montini and Modesty in MartyrdomFr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-38953748080643017752018-10-11T09:44:55.760+01:002018-10-11T09:44:55.760+01:00Cistercians didn't wear undergarments, as thos...Cistercians didn't wear undergarments, as those items were thought to press against the privy parts and thus stimulate carnal desires; but this led to an unfortunate incident: the King of England and his retinue was passing along a country road, and all had to make way - in his haste, a Cistercian fell over, exposing his backside, whereupon a prelate in the royal party exclaimed in Latin whatJoshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-67199435299942072972018-10-11T01:47:27.290+01:002018-10-11T01:47:27.290+01:00Anybody who has played sports or done strenuous wo...Anybody who has played sports or done strenuous work in a skirt knows about planning how to fall in an unrevealing manner.<br /><br />Including men who do medieval reenactment, in some cases. (There are a whole series of jokes about men learning the techniques to deal with flowing garments.) Usually a man's concern is more for the garment's safety than for the onlookers' blushes; but Bansheehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12594214770417497135noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-1697840231975367722018-10-10T11:25:53.646+01:002018-10-10T11:25:53.646+01:00There is a story from the formerly Dominican paris...There is a story from the formerly Dominican parish of Holy Name, Wahroonga, about an Irish black friar getting up to preach, beginning with the words "The miniskirt" - he explained that the matrons of the parish had prevailed upon him to 'say something' about it, so he did: "I think it's <b>beautiful</b>". Apparently those ladies of the parish until then inclined Joshuahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17387698013828199070noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-50469240754557549442018-10-10T10:58:05.923+01:002018-10-10T10:58:05.923+01:00S. Ambrose certainly has plenty to say about S. Ag...S. Ambrose certainly has plenty to say about S. Agnes in De Virginibus I, but are you sure that this hymn is by him. Dr. Homes Dudden of Pembroke does not include it in his list of unimpeachably Ambrosian ditties.<br />Oliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.com