Murdered 2 kids. Leave him out in the parking lot.
Posted on 03/05/2015 8:05:08 AM PST by NKP_Vet
A Requiem Mass in the traditional Latin form is to be offered at a Catholic church in Lancashire to mark the reinterment of King Richard III, which will take place on the same day at Leicester’s Anglican cathedral.
The mortal remains of Richard III, who died in the Battle of Bosworth in 1485, before the Reformation, will be reinterred in the cathedral on March 26, in the presence of the Archbishop of Canterbury and an invited congregation.
The Requiem Mass for the repose of Richard III’s soul will be held on the same day St Catherine’s Church, in Leyland, Lancashire, at 7.30pm. It will be a Sung High Latin Mass with singers from the Laeta Cantoribus Choir, “in the style and manner of (Richard III’s) day”.
“The idea is that it will be closer to what he might have experienced in his own lifetime, as a pre-reformation Catholic,” said parish priest Fr Simon Henry.
After the service, refreshments will be served, also in keeping with what King Richard might have expected in his lifetime.
“The food afterwards will make at least a nod in the direction of the 15th century, or at least to his Yorkshire connections,” said Fr Henry. “Though wild boar sausages are a little difficult to come by!”
The skeleton of Richard III was found under a car park in Leicester in 2012. In the days before the reinterment service at Leicester Cathedral, the coffin will be taken to Leicester University and Bosworth Field, where the king was was killed in battle.
Following the Leicester Cathedral service, Richard III’s body will lie “in repose” for three days before being reinterred.
Cardinal Vincent Nichols of Westminster will be part of the week-long run of events to mark the reinterment.
The cardinal will preach at a service of compline on the day the king’s remains are received into the cathedral and will celebrate a Requiem Mass the next day at a nearby Catholic parish.
Dominican friars will also sing vespers at the cathedral in the run-up to the reinterment and Fr David Rocks OP, parish priest, will preach at a lunchtime Eucharist.
Too bad he won’t be buried at York. That’s politics for you.
Murdered 2 kids. Leave him out in the parking lot.
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Thanks sneakers. Henry VIIth should be dug up and given the old-school punishment for high treason.
You’re welcome! And I agree!
Interesting how this usurper's foul acts circuitously led to Henry VII and Henry VIII, the Church of England, and gay clerics and gay marriage.
He blamed Richard III.
That's the kicker, isn't it? With all the good intentions of the mass and feast, they should have buried him in the same place as would have happened in the 15th c. In a Yorkish cemetery or catacomb.
Do they have catacombs in the UK? Not the burial plots of royalty under the church but real Romanesque catacombs?
The thing is, we don’t know what happened to the young princes in the tower. I took a college course recently on the Tudors and Stewart Dynasty and after 700yrs since, they still don’t know who made those boys disappear.
He was never charged and it was never proven that Richard III murdered the two children. Speculation yes, proven no.
How did Henry Tudor pull off that trick while in exile gathering his small army in Brittany? I would think the reigning monarch would have better control of things in the Tower and Richard’s nephews, both of whom held better claims to Edward IV’s than him, were ostensibly under his protection as regent and then outright king. Henry certainly had a motive and Shakespeare was certainly a Tudor apologist, but that doesn’t automatically exonerate the bent backed fellow in charge.
Edward the Fourth’s son was declared illegitimate by Parliament - that’s why he could not ascend to the throne. If Edward the Fourth - the Bill Clinton of his day - had ever kept his pants on, none of this would have happened. Bishop Stillington did the right thing in bringing this story forward.
Read Josephine Tey’s book “The Daughter of Time”. It’s an excellent argument for his innocence of this crime.
They may have died at about the same time that Henry VII formally legitimized their elder sister Elizabeth of York by repealing Titulus Regius.
He did that to strengthen his own claim to the throne - but the moment he repealed Titulus Regius he also legitimized the Princes in the tower - who had far better claims than he did. This is why they had to die.
Motive I understand, but the evidence? You seem so sure about this. The bodies were discovered a few years ago but how and when they died / were murdered remains as far as I know a mystery. Are you part of that group of Richard III admirers who were also skeptical about his spinal deformity?
Bodies of young people (sex was undetermined) were found in the 17th century, not recently. The sexes are unknown and it was found in a mix of animal bones. Richard the Third was found with a Roman-era arrow head near him - some two feet below the carpark; some think the youths may be from as early as the Roman era - the Tower was built on top of a Roman fort. I believe they were found 8 feet below.
There’s no real evidence the boys died at all. They may have been smuggled out of England. All the Plantagenet children - including Richard - were often smuggled into Flanders during times of trouble. But it’s all speculation. Perhaps Perkin Warbeck was Richard, Duke of York. Even if the bones in the urn in Westminster Abby were found to be the princes, we still wouldn’t know who killed them or whether they died of illness. And if Richard had them killed - well, as Protector he was coming very close to being murdered himself. Most Protectors were murdered. But it would have been weirdly out of character.
Do you have a link or a hint about Edward’s other children? I’ve never heard of that. Are you thinking of Anne Mowbrey, Richard, Duke of York’s child bride? She was found fairly recently.
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