24, history student, Catholic convert, northwesterner, nerd. I like: The X-Files, 30 Rock, Spaced, Arrested Development, medieval history, art and iconography, ecclesiastical architecture, children's literature, Catholic novels, and all kinds of books.
St Georg, Hohensalzburg Festung, Austria

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St Georg, Hohensalzburg Festung, Austria

“Salve regina”

Here’s a song written (in Latin) roughly a thousand years ago by a German monk - known to almost any Catholic, speaking any language, on any continent, in any century since the twelfth - sung by the mostly-German-speaking congregation at the Requiem Mass for the last Holy Roman Emperor on July 16, 2011.

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