Men In Black

[Anselm]

I had to post this, though it's a video rather than a picture; it's the Pathe News film of the consecration of the abbey church at Downside Abbey, Somerset, England, by Cardinal Seredi, Prince Primate of Hungary, in 1935.

 

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/downside-abbey/query/abbey

[marigold]

I had to post this, though it's a video rather than a picture; it's the Pathe News film of the consecration of the abbey church at Downside Abbey, Somerset, England, by Cardinal Seredi, Prince Primate of Hungary, in 1935.

 

http://www.britishpathe.com/video/downside-abbey/query/abbey

 

That was amazing! Adding it to my growing list of things I never thought I'd see in this life. I LOVE old footage.

 

Nice last line in the commentary, too...

[Anselm]

Isn't it brilliant? Later on that day there were two Cardinals, three or four Archbishops and lots of Bishops and Abbots consecrating nineteen altars in the one church simultaneously!

[Benedictus]

And Downside is celebrating 200 years of its foundation this year. :winner:

[Anselm]

and that's only 200 years since they moved to their current site; the present community was founded by Englishmen in France in 1606. Even then it was the continuation of the last community at Westminster, founded in the 960s AD!