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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sarum Rite
The Compline Antiphons, hymn, etc., varied with the ecclesiastical seasons; but the introduction of a final Antiphon and Prayer of Our Blessed Lady closing the Divine Office (Divine Service, it was called at Sarum) is posterior to Sarum times.
Like the Dominican and other contemporaneous Uses, that of Sarum supposes the previous preparation of the chalice (put by the Sarum Missal between the Epistle and Gospel) and thereby materially abbreviates the Offertory ceremonial.
Osmund, a Norman nobleman, who came over to England with William the Conqueror, and was by him made Bishop of Sarum or Salisbury (1078), compiled the books corresponding to our Missal, Breviary, and Ritual, which revised and fixed the Anglo-Saxon readings of the Roman Rite.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13479a.htm

  
 Old Sarum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Old Sarum was slowly abandoned and fell into ruin.
Old Sarum was initially a hill fort strategically situated on the conjunction of two trade routes and the River Avon, Hampshire.
The Reform Act of that year deprived Old Sarum of both its seats.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Sarum

  
 AnyBook4Less.com - ISBN: 0804102988 - Sarum: The Novel of England by Edward Rutherford
The stone walls, St. Ann's Gate, Old Sarum, Stonehenge, and even the unique sundial on the side of the house he mentions are actually to be seen today.
"Sarum" (named for the Bronze Age hillfort settlement above modern Salisbury) puts historical dimensions on general knowledge of the people who lived during the various eras in Wiltshire over a span of 10,000 years.
For anyone with English origins who is remotely interested in history, "Sarum" provides a terrific overview with a climax in the 1980's when it is decided to make extensive renovations in the Salisbury Cathedral, built 700 years ago.
www.anybook4less.com /detail/0804102988.html

  
 Welcome to the nation of Sarum.
Sarum is diverse in it's origins, but staunchly unifiedin it's purpose as a Nation in the Realm of Darkon.
Sarum is a countryin the realm of Darkon.
Sarum'spresent order sprung from a bloody civil war in which tyranny was overthrownand replaced with a benign Parliamentary Monarchy.
sarum.angelcities.com

  
 Amazon.ca: Books: Sarum
Sarum carried me through generations of that immediate period and place of the building in a way that caused me to inevitably have more respect and thought for the builders.
Sarum also has the little people of Salisbury bumping into great figures of history.
I like those books, but Sarum was wonderfully true for a change.
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 sarum
They take their texts and music from Sarum sources of the 13th to early 16th centuries, and make their own editions for performance.
They follow the liturgical directions of the Sarum Breviary, Ordinal and Consuetudinary, and adopt the intonations and psalm-tones of the Sarum Tonary.
www.columbia.edu /cu/sarum/sarumBody.html

  
 The Sarum Seminar
Sarum College, which occupies the buildings of the old seminary in Salisbury Cathedral close, and where the Sarum Seminar trips took up residence.
The Sarum Seminar is an ever-evolving program for enthusiasts of Gothic cathedrals and medieval life.
Pointers to other web pages and related information sources that were submitted by the Sarum participants, as well as Dick Jones' Medieval Miracle Cookies recipe.
www.hpl.hp.com /personal/John_Wilkes/Sarum

  
 Old Sarum on Encyclopedia.com
Old Sarum's cathedral was torn down and parts of it were used in the construction of the cathedral at Salisbury.
Old Sarum was an important city until strife between the men of the castle and garrison and the men of the religious institution arose.
The “rotten borough” of Old Sarum continued to be represented in Parliament until the Reform Bill of 1832 was passed.
www.encyclopedia.com /html/O/OldS1arum.asp

  
 GO BRITANNIA! TRAVEL GUIDE: Old Sarum - Britannia's Magical History Tour
The solution to the tension, proposed by Bishop Herbert Poore to Richard I in 1194, was to move the cathedral away from Old Sarum to a virgin site on the banks of the nearby River Avon.
The city of Old Sarum went into a decline and tension developed between the civil and religious authorities, escalating over the next 50 years.
Old Sarum was the site, in 1070, where William I disbanded his conquering army after having finally subdued the country four years after the invasion of 1066.
www.britannia.com /travel/magical/magic13.html

  
 Sarum College Centre for Liturgical Organ Studies,Sarum College,Salisbury, UK
Sarum College Centre for Liturgical Organ Studies,Sarum College,Salisbury, UK Sarum College is an ecumenical theological college created to serve the needs of all Christians.
Send mail to jcw@sarum.ac.uk with questions or comments about this web site.
Website maintained by John Wingfield © Sarum College 2000
www.sarum.ac.uk /organstudies/index.htm

  
 Sarum Rite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
On April 1, 2000, a full Sarum Mass was celebrated by the Most Reverend Mario Joseph Conti, Roman Catholic Archbishop of Glasgow in the University of Aberdeen's King's College Chapel, to commemorate the quincentenary of the pre-Reformation founding of the chapel by William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen.
Many of the practices of the Sarum Use - though not, obviously, the full liturgy itself - were revived in England in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, as part of the Anglo-Catholic movement in the Church of England.
The Sarum Rite, more properly called the Sarum Use, was a variant of the Latin Rite practiced in Great Britain and Ireland from the late 11th Century until the Reformation.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sarum_Rite   (417 words)

  
 Old Sarum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Among the earliest records, Old Sarum is described as a city of the Belgae, and its historical details have proved a boon for the researches of topographical illustrators.
By 1217, the inhabitants of Old Sarum had removed their residence, and constructed their new habitations with the materials they razeed from their old.As one city increased in population and extent, so the other almost as rapidly decayed.
Old Sarum was initially a hill fort strategically situated on the conjunction of two trade routes and the River Avon, Hampshire.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Old_Sarum   (417 words)

  
 Old Sarum Flying Club - Pilot Training, Trial Flights, Aircraft Hire and Flying Club
Old Sarum Flying Club - Pilot Training, Trial Flights, Aircraft Hire and Flying Club
www.oldsarumflyingclub.co.uk   (417 words)

  
 Salisbury - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name "Sarum", which is often mistakenly taken to be the Roman or Norman name for the old city and castle, came into use when documents were written in contracted Latin and it was easier to write Sar with a stroke over the "r", than write the complete word "Saresberie".
The first cathedral was built at Old Sarum by St Bishop Osmund between 1075 and 1092.
The novel Sarum by Edward Rutherfurd, is an imaginary retelling of the history of Salisbury.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Salisbury   (699 words)

  
 A Guide to Lyneham, Wiltshire & Beyond
Old Sarum was the site, in 1070, where William I disbanded his conquering army after having finally subdued the country four years after the invasion of 1066.
Old Sarum is the site of the earliest settlement of Salisbury, England, with evidence of human habitation as early as 300 BC.
At Old Sarum there is evidence by the fact that the hillfort appears to have served as little more than a garrison.
www.lynehamvillage.com /Html/GeneralInfo/towns/OldSarum.html   (749 words)

  
 Old Sarum
Old Sarum was an important city until strife between the men of the castle and garrison and the men of the religious institution arose.
Old Sarum's cathedral was torn down and parts of it were used in the construction of the cathedral at Salisbury.
The bishopric, moved to Old Sarum from Sherborne in 1075, was transferred to Salisbury in 1220.
www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0836549.html   (346 words)

  
 The Sarum Rite
"Sarum Rite," or "Use of Sarum," refers to the body of liturgical ritual, text, and music used at the Cathedral of Salisbury, in southern England, in the later Middle Ages.
The Sarum Rite supplied the foundation for the post-Reformation liturgy and music of the Church of England after the break with Rome in the 1530s.
To perform the liturgy of the Sarum Rite is thus, among other things, to explore the roots of the Anglican liturgy.
www.columbia.edu /cu/sarum/rite.html   (269 words)

  
 Sarum Rite - OrthodoxWiki
The Sarum Rite, also called the Rite of Salisbury, is a Western Rite liturgical tradition which coalesced in the 11th century West and in the contemporary Orthodox Church.
The Sarum Rite in English and French is also used by the Western Rite Orthodox in the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
The Divine Liturgy of Sarum as used in the Russian Orthodox Church Abroad
www.orthodoxwiki.org /Sarum_Rite   (816 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sarum Rite
The Sarum hymns are in the main those of the Roman Breviary as sung before their revision under Urban VIII and comprise by consequence the famous "Veni Redemptor" of Christmas Vespers and the "O quam glorifica" of the Assumption with one or two others in like manner now obsolete.
A striking peculiarity of the Sarum Use was the appointing of white vestments for Lent, except at the Blessing of Ashes on Ash Wednesday when the celebrant wore a red cope.
The Antiphons of the Sarum Offices differ considerably from those in the actual Roman Breviary, but both from the literary and from the devotional point of view the latter are in most instances preferable to those they have superseded.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13479a.htm   (2085 words)

  
 SALISBURY (MD.) - LoveToKnow Article on SALISBURY (MD.)
Old Sarum was probably one of the chief fortresses of the early Britons and was known to the Romans as Sorbiodunum.
With the building of New Sarum in the i3th century and the transference to it of the see, Old Sarum lapsed to the crown.
About 920 a bishopric had been created at Rams-bury, east of Savernake Forest; to this Sherborne was joined in 1058 and in 1075/6 Old Sarum became the seat of a bishopric, transferred hither from Sherborne.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SA/SALISBURY_MD_.htm   (2085 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Sarum Rite
The Sarum hymns are in the main those of the Roman Breviary as sung before their revision under Urban VIII and comprise by consequence the famous "Veni Redemptor" of Christmas Vespers and the "O quam glorifica" of the Assumption with one or two others in like manner now obsolete.
A striking peculiarity of the Sarum Use was the appointing of white vestments for Lent, except at the Blessing of Ashes on Ash Wednesday when the celebrant wore a red cope.
The Antiphons of the Sarum Offices differ considerably from those in the actual Roman Breviary, but both from the literary and from the devotional point of view the latter are in most instances preferable to those they have superseded.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/13479a.htm   (2085 words)

  
 BBC - Wiltshire - Moonraking
Old Sarum started life as a huge Iron Age hillfort and subsequently saw occupation by the Romans, Saxons and later the Normans.
The original cathedral at Old Sarum is reputedly built on the boundaries of three Anglo-Saxon hundreds (administrative areas), which some say were laid out as a result of energies detected beneath the site.
Also lying on this ley, and to the south of Old Sarum, is the site of the Parliament Tree, under which elections were held for the Rotten Borough of Old Sarum.
www.bbc.co.uk /wiltshire/moonraking/landscape_sarum.shtml   (684 words)

  
 Old Sarum
Old Sarum, with the remains of its ancient buildings, now broods in splendid isolation, except for the steady stream of tourists in the summer who gaze at the hill fort that became a city of national importance and then fell from grace.
Old Sarum is exactly what it appears to be, a rather large and desolate hill fort, yet it has, in its chequered past, played an important part in the shaping of British history, with effects felt as far away as Western Europe.
By 1258 the splendid new cathedral was complete and Old Sarum, for the first time in hundreds of years, returned to its previous solitude, while Salisbury henceforward became known as New Sarum for all municipal purposes.
www.this-is-amesbury.co.uk /sarum.html   (679 words)

  
 Stumbling Along: England's Old Sarum - The Traveler - February 2005
Old Sarum is now under control of the English Heritage, the government body created to care for more than 400 of the country’s historical sites.
Guidebooks tend to describe Old Sarum as being “wind-swept,” “remote,” “bleak” or “parched.” After a while, I began to feel quite wind swept, however I was still enjoying the remoteness.
Stumbling Along: England's Old Sarum - The Traveler - February 2005
www.touristtravel.com /article0205_old_sarum.htm   (964 words)

  
 Log Cabin Chronicles Doing England and Ireland Report Number Seven
The history of Old Sarum echoes over the ages, from neolithic, pre-celtic Britons through Roman occupation, to the creation of the grand cathedral in 1075 - just nine years after William the Conqueror was victorious at Hastings in 1066.
Old Sarum, the original hilltop fort site of Salisbury, is a few miles from Stonehenge.
At first it's difficult to imagine, as you cross the deep protective ditch around Old Sarum, that this hilltop once housed a thriving town of thousands, a mighty castle, and a magnificent cathedral.
www.tomifobia.com /trip/trip7.html   (401 words)

  
 OpinionJournal - Taste
Sarum is a nondenominational group, and its Sunday Compline is sung by the choir alone, so it is not strictly speaking a liturgical celebration.
The Sarum Rite is thus not only the pre-Reformation rite of the English Catholic Church but the foundation of the modern Episcopal liturgy.
Until the Reformation, the Sarum Rite was the standard liturgy in most of England, Scotland and Ireland.
www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=95000422   (811 words)

  
 Anglican Society--President's Corner
Queen Mary restored the Sarum Use throughout her reign from 1553 to 1558; one GTS Sarum Missal dates from this period (1555), and the last Sarum Missal was printed in 1557.
Even upon the eve of the Reformation itself, the Sarum Use, or at least the Divine Office according to it, was enjoined by the Convocation of Canterbury in 1534 or 1542 (sources differ) to be followed exclusively throughout the southern province, although it is doubtful that this injunction was ever fully enforced.
The Use of Sarum, then, was a rather exuberant, elaborate, beautiful, and especially well arranged adaptation of the Western or Roman Rite that was gradually adopted by most of the rest of England as well as much of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and even some places on the continent.
anglicansociety.org /corner/sarum_use.html   (811 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Old Sarum
This was about the year 1217, from which time the inhabitants of Old Sarum removed their residence, and pulled down their dwellings, with the materials of which they constructed their new habitations: and as one city increased in population and extent, so the other almost as rapidly decayed.
Old Sarum was initially a hill fort strategically situated on the conjunction of two trade routes and the River Avon, Hampshire.
From the reign of Edward II Old Sarum elected two members to the House of Commons, despite the fact that from at least the 17th century it had no resident voters at all.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Old-Sarum   (811 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Osmund
His remains were buried at Old Sarum, translated to New Salisbury on 23 July, 1457, and deposited in the Lady Chapel where his sumptuous shrine was destroyed under Henry VIII.
A copy, almost verbatim the same as this, was taken from the older book for the use of St. Patrick's, Dublin, which was erected into a cathedral and modelled on the church at Sarum by Henry de Loundres who was bishop from 1213-28.
In 1228 the Bishop of Sarum and the canons applied to Gregory IX for Osmund's canonization but not until some 200 years afterwards on 1 Jan., 1457, was the Bull issued by Callistus III.
www.newadvent.org /cathen/11340a.htm   (811 words)

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