The Holy Emperor and the Most Holy Eucharist

11 Thursday Jun 2020

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom, HRM Archive

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Austria, Blessed Karl of Austria, Charles V, Corpus Christi, Hapsburg, Holy Empire, Holy Eucharist, Sacretemporal

And after Caesar [the Emperor Charles V] and the noble Princes of his house bowed with all ardent humility, the whole city became fervent with piety, and following the Emperor’s example, love of the Divine Sacrament of the Eucharist increased within all the souls of the people.

–Nicolai Vernulaei as quoted in The Last Descendant of Aeneas: The Hapsburgs and the Mythic Image of the Emperor by Marie Tanner. (Translation is my own.)

A blessed Corpus Christi!

The Great Feast: The Hapsburgs And Corpus Christi

07 Sunday Jun 2015

Posted by Matthew Scarince in Christendom

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Austria, Body of Christ, christendom, Corpus Christi, Holy Roman Emperor, Holy Roman Empire, House of Hapsburg, Imperial History, Procession, Rudolf I, Sacred Ages, Vienna

In 1264, Pope Urban IV issued the Papal Bull Transiturus de Hoc Mundo, promulgating to the Latin Rite the Solemn Feast of the Body and Blood of Christ, to be celebrated on the first Thursday after Trinity Sunday. Around this same time, Rudolf the eighth Count of Hapsburg aided and protected a priest bringing the Viaticum to a dying farmer, giving the priest his horse and guiding him across a raging torrent, walking bareheaded. The priest then prophesied that the humble Count and his descendents would receive the Imperium of the Holy Roman Empire.