Hildesheim

You know, It seems that Matilda and Henry

almost certainly were the patrons of two really incredible 12th century objects that still exist today, one of which is a head reliquary of Oswald, which is in Hildesheim, the Hildesheimer head reliquary.

It's the Big gold heads.

Relics are bits of saints.

And sometimes they're called what we call speaking reliquaries because they look like what they contain.

Right.

So the Hildesheim reliquary is this head, this big gold head, and it's supposed to have a bit of Oswald's skull in.

I should note here that Oswald's skull seems to be in quite a lot of places.

Yeah, obviously it's his first title, obviously senior title anyway, in the PDC.

Obviously he made the final last year, sorry, in Hildesheim.

That's what I was thinking of.

And then you look at the way that he's been trending this year.

His days are files and seals and candle wax.

By eighteen fifty-three, he is an assistant judge in the old cathedral town of Hildesheim.

He has a robe, a salary, and a future.

He also knows, by now, exactly what his difference is.

And so, by 1849, he is a lawyer in the civil service of the Kingdom of Hanover.

His days are files and seals and candle wax.

By 1853, he is an assistant judge in the old cathedral town of Hildesheim.

He has a robe, a salary, and a future.

The exile designed to cure him of music had turned him into a local hero.

From Seilerfeld, Teileumann moved on in 1697 to the Gymnasium Andreanum in Hildesheim, where the school's rector, Johann Christoph Losius, became the first real institutional supporter of his gifts.

Here for the first time, Tielemann had access to something approaching a musical world beyond his own imagination.

He made trips to the courts at Hanover and Brunswick, where he heard the French and Italian styles that were fashionable in aristocratic musical life.

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chapter two america it is strange that gallitzin's sudden immersion should have effected as sudden a change in his character up to then he was the refined romantic purposeless youth henceforth he is a man of energy and action devoted self-sacrificing ready to do and dare anything in the great cause to which he was about to give his life almost the first news received in germany from our traveller was the very astounding intelligence that he had resolved to leave all things and settle down in america as a poor despised missionary of the cross of christ mitri her own beloved mitri dear and good it is true but somewhat of a softy a purposeless dreamer now a priest and above all a missionary his mother could hardly believe her senses this was the son to whom but a few years before she had written it is a wretched thing that a youth of eighteen should be a child he cannot of course as yet be a man but he must be a youth and no longer a child if he ever means to be a man and now prince amelie had a hard time of it she was a chronic invalid a great sufferer with all her seeming harshness toward mitri she loved him dearly and well yet she had to bear not only his loss but to be blamed by her husband and all her relatives for being in the secret for having known all about it throughout and when able to disprove this assertion she was still accused of having through her exaggerated piety been the means of putting such high-flown ideas into the young man's head the prince was the first to recognize his mistake and to write a generous letter to his wife freeing her from all blame which considering his grievous disappointment was most creditable to him the gallitzins were indeed in a very awkward position as demetrius held an ensign's commission in the russian army and was due in st petersburg at the end of two years at the latest his father now wrote to him entreating him almost commanding him to return for he foresaw clearly enough what a refusal would entail according to russian law he would be disinherited for becoming a catholic priest but besides this he would because of his neglect to take up his commission be looked upon as a quasi deserter and be banished from the empire as a rebel it was now that the full beauty and magnanimity of amalie gallitzin were seen in their true light her absolute unwordliness her reverence for the slightest whisper of the divine voice were so great that never once did she seek to turn mitri from his purpose beyond quietly laying the state of the case before him for his own judgment in spite of worry and opposition and a good deal of secret heartache in the depths of her great soul she rejoiced and gloried in the vocation of her son when the princess had given mitri the bishop of hildesheim's introduction to the bishop of baltimore she no doubt imagined him one of those dignitaries of the church such as they were in germany a temporal lord a man of vast influence who lived in a palace and had a large seminary and other ecclesiastical establishments under his control how different was the reality john carroll had been named bishop in seventeen ninety two years before gallitzin's arrival he belonged to one of those honorable families that had come over to america in lord baltimore's time and settled in maryland his cousin charles was a true-hearted patriot who had signed the declaration of american independence demetrius found bishop carroll living a life of truly evangelical poverty and hardship beyond a small private fortune he possessed no means except such as with some difficulty he derived from europe for no endowment went with the episcopal dignity carroll had received his ecclesiastical education in france where he had formed many friendly relations hence when the revolution broke out several distinguished french priests came to america and offered him their services among these were the abbe dubois who died in extreme old age as the first bishop of new york flagey bishop of louisville brutt afterward bishop of vincennes and negot the president of the famous seminary of st sulpice in paris when first this little band of devoted men came to the new country they had to earn their daily bread by giving french lessons and only after mastering the difficulties of the english language were they able to help bishop carroll in the care of souls the abbe nagot soon founded an establishment for training youths for the priesthood it was on so modest a scale and so humble in its beginnings it could hardly be called a seminary among its candidates for the priesthood stephen bodine was the first and demetrius gallitzin the second At first, of course, Galitzin took up his abode in the quasi-seminary simply for convenience sake, as a visitor, for Brocious, his travelling companion, had been sent off to another mission, so he was alone.

But he had hardly been Abbe Nago's guest for two months ere he wrote a letter to Munster in which he said that he had dedicated himself, soul and body, with all that he had, and all that he was to god's service and the salvation of his neighbor in america and that what had led him to this resolve was the urgent need of workers in the lord's vineyard he saw that priests in this country had often to ride for forty or fifty hours or more to administer the sacraments to the faithful he could scarcely fear that any one would doubt the sincerity of his vocation considering the prospect of very hard work which it entailed This was indeed true.

Mitri had well counted the cost, for was he not living in the heart of the painful but glorious self-immolation which characterized those first Catholic missionaries? There was nothing feverish or spasmodic in his resolve.

And also, as well, it's a good point that there's going to be...

It makes Hildesheim straight after the match play.

Again, who's going to that? Especially if it's some of the big boys.

Who's going there?

Prince Gallitzin was an admirer of Washington and Jefferson, and in his letters to his son bids him try for familiar intercourse with such great men.

His mother, too, furnished him with an introduction from the Bishop of Hildesheim and Paderborn to the celebrated John Carroll, first Bishop of Baltimore.

Indeed, in those days the only Catholic bishop in the whole of the United States.

Demetrius set out on his long journey in August 1792.

Her absolute unworldliness, her reverence for the slightest whisper of the divine voice, were so great that never once did she seek to turn Mitri from his purpose, beyond quietly laying the state of the case before him for his own judgment.

In spite of worry and opposition, and a good deal of secret heartache, in the depths of her great soul she rejoiced and gloried in the vocation of her son.

When the princess had given Mitri the Bishop of Hildesheim's introduction to the Bishop of Baltimore, she no doubt imagined him one of those dignitaries of the church, such as they were in Germany.

A temporal lord, a man of vast influence, who lived in a palace and had a large seminary and other ecclesiastical establishments under his control.