David Jones, artist and poet (1895-1974) begins his PREFACE TO THE ANATHEMATA :

'I have made a heap of all that I could find.' (1) So wrote Nennius, or whoever composed the introductory matter to Historia Brittonum. He speaks of an 'inward wound' which was caused by the fear that certain things dear to him 'should be like smoke dissipated'. Further, he says, 'not trusting my own learning, which is none at all, but partly from writings and monuments of the ancient inhabitants of Britain, partly from the annals of the Romans and the chronicles of the sacred fathers, Isidore, Hieronymous, Prosper, Eusebius and from the histories of the Scots and Saxons although our enemies . . . I have lispingly put together this . . . about past transactions, that [this material] might not be trodden under foot'. (2)

(1) The actual words are coacervavi omne quod inveni, and occur in Prologue 2 to the Historia.
(2) Quoted from the translation of Prologue 1. See The Works of Gildas and Nennius, J.A.Giles, London 1841.


26 February 2019

regarding : Portraiture


There are four photo portraits by David Roberts 
in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery. 
Three of these can be seen at the NPG website, 
the fourth is represented there thus :
screenshot today      
 
And below is the given text :

George Pell AC
b. 1941

George Pell AC (b. 1941) has been Roman Catholic Archbishop of Sydney since 2001. At Catholic college in Ballarat he was a good footballer, but he felt called to the priesthood and began studies at Corpus Christi in 1960. After further study in Rome, he was ordained in 1966. He received his PhD in church history from Oxford in 1971. Through the 1970s and early 1980s he served in various dioceses in Victoria, adding a master's degree in education to his qualifications. Appointed auxiliary bishop of Melbourne in 1987, he became that city's seventh Catholic archbishop in 1996; in 2001 he moved to take on the role of eighth Archbishop of Sydney. He was created a cardinal in 2003 and was one of the electors of the 2005 papal conclave that selected Pope Benedict XVI. Generally characterised as a conservative as a consequence of his views on the ordination of women, the use of condoms to prevent the spread of AIDs, the celibacy of clergymen, divorce and climate change, Pell has written widely in religious and secular magazines, learned journals and newspapers in Australia and overseas and regularly speaks on television and radio. In late 2018 Cardinal Pell was convicted of child sex charges, the crimes having been perpetrated when he was the archbishop of Melbourne in 1996.
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