Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Royal Actor
- 2 Habeas Corpus: the Foundations of the Cult before 1649
- 3 By the Rivers of Babylon: the Cult in Exile
- 4 In Verbo Tuo Spes Mea: Fashioning the Royal Martyr
- 5 The Return to Zion: the Cult and the Restored Monarchy
- 6 Irreligious Rants and Civil Seditions: the Cult in ‘the Age of Party’
- 7 A Pattern of Religion and Virtue: the Conservative Martyr
- 8 Our Own, Our Royal Saint
- Bibliography
- Index
8 - Our Own, Our Royal Saint
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- List of illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The Royal Actor
- 2 Habeas Corpus: the Foundations of the Cult before 1649
- 3 By the Rivers of Babylon: the Cult in Exile
- 4 In Verbo Tuo Spes Mea: Fashioning the Royal Martyr
- 5 The Return to Zion: the Cult and the Restored Monarchy
- 6 Irreligious Rants and Civil Seditions: the Cult in ‘the Age of Party’
- 7 A Pattern of Religion and Virtue: the Conservative Martyr
- 8 Our Own, Our Royal Saint
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
And there are aching solitary breasts,
Whose widow'd walk with thought of thee is cheer'd,
Our own, our royal saint: thy memory rests
On many a prayer, the more for thee endear'd.
(John Keble. ‘King Charles the Martyr’. The Christian year: thoughts in verse for the Sundays and Holydays throughout the years. 1869)The Church Times for 23 January 1998 included in its classified section five notices for services in honour of King Charles the martyr. Two notices were from the Royal Martyr Church Union and the Society of King Charles the Martyr, the principal Anglican societies dedicated to preserving the memory of the king and his place in the Calendar. Two notices were from churches of the ‘Traditional Anglican Church’, a group which separated from the Church of England over the ordination of women. The other notice, from the church of St Gabriel, Warwick Square, Pimlico, advertised a Solemn Eucharist for 30 January using the rite of 1637. The regicide was commemorated in many more churches than the five which advertised in the church press; this witnesses to the continuity and survival of the cult into the twenty-first century. For many Anglicans this continued observance is regarded either with indifference or as an embarrassment.
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- The Cult of King Charles the Martyr , pp. 236 - 251Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2003