There is nothing comic about this scene, little in fact to connect it with the fresco in Palermo, save for the central figure of the skeletal horse-riding reaper and the lone musician in the bottom right-hand side corner who won’t stop playing. And perhaps there is something reminiscent of Where’s Wally? in The Fall of Icarus, or The Suicide of Saul.īut to look closely at The Triumph of Death is a different kind of experience altogether. That there might in fact be a shared lineage with the comics I consumed avidly at the time of my visit to Spain may be half-confirmed by Albert Uderzo’s lovely spoof of Bruegel’s Wedding Banquet in Asterix in Belgium. Those tiny, perfectly formed yet at the same time also cartoonish-looking human figures – so common in Flemish art but almost entirely unknown in our own, save for some minor medieval examples – struck me as so much more real than the flawless subjects of Italian Renaissance portraiture by Michelangelo and Leonardo, Piero della Francesca and Mantegna. It is a very good reproduction – its procedimiento oleográfico patentado genuinely giving it something of the texture of the original – and the fidelity of scale means you can really pore over the details, which is what fascinated me about Bruegel when I was a child. I visited Madrid with my family in 1983, and spent so long studying this painting that my sister bought me a print from the gift shop at the Prado. To each his own: that is a simple matter of justice.Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Triumph of Death, c. We have our own share of misfits, God knows well.īut, please, do not impute to us the failings of others, including priests whose whole lives and formation were undertaken in the Novus Ordo, according to the practices of liberal seminaries of a post-Conciliar style. Traditional Catholic priests and laity have caused, and will cause, scandal - they are merely fallen human beings. We have suffered a lot to defend our position, our views, and the way we pray and worship, and we are prepared to do so because we believe it is the best option for Divine worship, and the most surely proven path to a saintly life, as the lives of centuries of saints made clear. We are what we are, we believe and act as Latin Catholics before the Council always believed and acted. Why is this important? Because identity is important. More often than not, he attended a Traditional Catholic seminary, where he was formed, both liturgically and doctrinally, in the Traditions of the Latin Church. Under their leadership, for eleven years, the Catholic Church experienced one of the most fruitful eras in its history, interrupted by another unpredictable event: the assassination of the Archduke of Austria Franz Ferdinand on June 28, 1914.Ī Traditional Catholic in the Roman Rite is a Catholic who attends the Traditional Mass exclusively, or makes every possible effort to do so.Ī Traditional Catholic priest in the Roman Rite is one whose only sources of Divine worship are the Traditional prayer books of the Latin Church: the Roman Breviary, and, for the Mass, the Traditional Roman Missal. Rafael Merry del Val to remain at his side as secretary of state. The new pontiff begged the conclave's secretary Msgr. Rampolla's election foundered, and on the evening of Monday, August 3, on the seventh ballot, Patriarch Giuseppe Sarto of Venice was elected Pope with the name Pius X. The exclusion veto, which was abolished after this conclave, was an ancient privilege granted not only to the Austrian Empire but also to the Catholic kingdoms of France and Spain. Cardinal Mariano Rampolla del Tindaro, the late pontiff's former secretary of state, could count on a majority of the votes and was about to be elected, when Cardinal Ian Puzyna, archbishop of Krakow, asked for the floor and, on behalf of His Apostolic Majesty Franz Joseph, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, declared an exclusionary veto against his candidacy. ![]() On the morning of Sunday, August 2, 1903, the third ballot to elect Pope Leo XIII's successor began in the Vatican's Sistine Chapel.
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