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THE QUALITY STUDENT NEWSPAPER AT THE UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS THE MI TRE Vol. III, No. 1 OCTOBER 1, 2004 - St. Therese of Lisieux, St. Edmund Campion Forty Pence PARLIAMENT BANS HUNTING UNIVERSITY INTENDS TO WITH HOUNDS SELL HAMILTON HALL BLOOD IN THE Iconic Hall Will Be STREETS OF Hotel Again in 2006 WESTMINSTER Staff of the Mitre THE COMMONS has THE UNIVERSITY has voted to ban hunting with made known that it intends hounds, and the Prime to sell the Hamilton Hall Minister has said that he student residence to a intends to make use of the development group. The Parliament Act to overrule developers would likely any dissent from the House return the Hall to its of Lords and force the bill previous function as a hotel. into law. The plan would A protest of provide for replacement countryside and other pro- accomodation for the 110 hunting people in students housed in Parliament Square turned Hamilton before the Hall is violent, alledgedly in actually sold. However, it is HAMILTON HALL: Built in 1896, Student Residence since 1949 response to heavy-handed not clear where this “new- others, disagree, claiming seminary use, but the police tactics. build accomodation” will be that although the University concept provoked much Only minutes located and there are has only owned Hamilton latent anti-Catholicism in before the bill was read, a significant doubts as to Hall for some fifty-odd the townsfolk, and the Hall handful of protestors whether they will have the years, its iconic presence on was eventually sold to the stormed the Commons same town centre the Scores and approximate University in 1949. chamber from a narrow convenience that Hamilton to the Royal and Ancient A group called the staircase behind the currently enjoys. Golf Club have made it Hamilton Hall Protest Speaker’s chair. The fact Derek Watson, the representative of the Committee has been that a number of people Factor & Quaestor, claims University. founded to oppose the were able to penetrate deep that Hamilton Hall “does The Hall was built administration’s objective of into the heart of the Palace not form part of what the in 1896 as the Grand Hotel, selling the centrally-located of Westminster raised university regards as its and functioned as such until hall of residence. It has so significant security irreducible core of historic the mid-1940’s. The far been led by Students concerns that almost properties.” Archdiocese of St Andrews Association official and overshadowed the ban. However, a number and Edinburgh then ambitious New Englander, EDITORIAL, page X of students, as well as planned on purchasing it for Mr. Preston J. Byrne. inside THE MITRE News I-III BLOOD OF SAN GENNARO LIQUIFIES YET AGAIN The dried blood of an to liquid. the intercession of the saint. Features IV-V Italian saint martyred in 305 The event happened The blood once In The Colleges VI-VII liquified last week – as on the saint’s feast day, unexpectedly liquified in expected. September 19. The same 1978 upon the visit of Leisurely Pursuits VIII Cardinal Michele happens on at least two Terence Cooke, the saintly Social Report IX Giordano, Archbishop of other occasions in the year, Archbishop of New York. Opinion & Comment X Naples, announced to the first weekend in May, The last time the crowds in Naples that the and December 16. The expected liquification did Bejants Guide XI-XII congealed blood of St latter marks the anniversary not occur was when Naples the Mitre of St Andrews, 2004 Januarius, which is kept in a of the 1631 eruption of elected a Communist For God, Country, and St Andrews glass reliquary, had turned Mount Vesuvius, ended by mayor. II THE MITRE OF ST ANDREWS PATRIARCH Bradley Takes the THE MI TRE DEAD IN CRASH PETROS OF ALEXANDRIA, Beeb on Pilgrimage COMPANIONS, LOST IN THE REV. Dr. Ian Bradley has led a pilgrimage FALLEN HELICOPTER to Santiago de Compostela THREE DAYS of organised by BBC Radio 4. mourning have been held in Dr. Bradley Greece after the helicopter preached on Wednesday, carrying the Patriarch of September 22nd, in the Alexandria plunged into daily worship program on the sea, killing all on board. Radio 4, and then is Patriarch Petros scheduled to broadcast the VII, 55, was travelling to Sunday Worship program the monastic republic of from the Cathedral and Mount Athos, a famous Shrine of St. James in the centre of Eastern Spanish city. Dr. Bradley Orthodoxy. The helicopter plans to reflect on the came down 20 miles off spiritual side to pilgrimage the coast and in good and on what has inspired weather conditions. No pilgrimage throughout the cause has been established. centuries. All 17 people on Dr. Bradley is board were killed, lecturer in theology and PILGRIMAGE: St Andrews was visited by thousands of including Metropolitans church history at St. Mary’s pilgrims, as seen in this illustration by Jurek Putter. Irinaios of Pelusium and College in the University. Andrews – the ‘Jerusalem them to victory. Chrysostomos of Kartha- He is highly-regarded in of the North’ – was second In fact, St. James is gena, Bishop Nektarios of the fields of British and only to Santiago during its honoured every year on his Madagascar, the patriarchal Celtic Christianity, as well own pilgrim days. feast day in a ceremony by vicars of Athens and as worship and hymnody Indeed, Dr. Bradley the Spanish Armed Forces Cyprus, as well as family (having published a very says that “St Andrews is at a statue portraying him HAMILTON HALL: Built in 1896, Student Residence since 1949 and associates of the popular book on and of very much like Santiago in over the severed heads of Patriarch, and crew. hymns). terms of being one of the the defeated Moors. On Petros VII was the Santiago de great medieval pilgrimage one occasion during 129th successor to the Compostela is a Catholic centres of the world.” Franco’s rule, the devout evangelist St. Mark, who shrine dedicated to the St. James is widely caudillo could not make the founded the Patriarchate Apostle James, whose adored in Spain even today, annual ceremony, and so of Alexandria in 42 AD. As relics, so it is told, are kept as the ‘Matamoros’ or actually sent one of his a leader of Christians in within the Cathedral. For Moor-slayer. It is alledged Moorish generals as his countries with Muslim much of the past that during the Christian personal representative. majorities, he was noted millenium, it was reconquest of the Iberian Priests at the shrine for passionately promoting considered the premier peninsula, St. James thought it prudent to place respect between the two shrine in Christendom. It appeared to inspire the a covering on the severed groups. was often said that St Christian forces and lead heads of the Moors. ‘Passion’ Priest Suspended by Cardinal THE PRIEST who daily Masses for the and his supporters in saying the old rite that celebrated the Latin schismatic Society of St. refused to accept the the Society was Tridentine Mass on the Pius X. liturgical changes that excommunicated by set of The Passion has The Society of St. followed the Second Pope John Paul II in been suspended from Pius X is considered not Vatican Council, which 1988. The old rite is now duties. to be in full communion closed in 1965, and said again in some Father Stephen with the Holy See, after continued to say the mainstream Catholic Somerville has been the founder of the traditional rite of Mass in parishes. forbidden from saying Society, Archbishop Latin in accordance with An approved, or Mass by Cardinal Marcel Lefebvre the old liturgical books. ‘indult’ old rite mass is Aloysius Ambrozic, the consecrated bishops It was, however, now active in this Archbishop of Toronto, without Vatican approval for the illicit Archdiocese at St. after it was discovered in 1988. consecration of bishops Andrew’s Church in that he was saying Msgr. Lefebvre rather than for persisting Edinburgh. THE MITRE OF ST ANDREWS III. OBITUARY Rev’d Prof. William McKane Former Principal of St Mary’s College and Dean of Divinity b. 18 February 1921 d. 4 September 2004 The Revd William McKane was Professor of Hebrew and Oriental Languages at St. Mary’s College from 1968 until his retirement in 1990. He was born in Dundee and was brought up in the Original Succession Church (whose eventual reconciliation with the Church of Scotland came about in part due to his efforts). He served in the RAF from 1941 to 1945, then took an honours degree in philosophy and English at the University of St Andrews. He was ordained in the Original College he also served as Introduction and to the publisher. The Succession Church in Principal of the College Commentary (1998). passage he was working 1949 (moving to the and as Dean of the He received many on when the end came Church of Scotland in Faculty of Divinity. He honors, including the seems somehow fitting: 1956), and completed a was also a major presidency of the Society Listen, Job, and attend first-class honours international authority for Old Testament to me; be silent, and let degree in Semitics at and prolific writer on the Study, appointment as a me speak. If you have Glasgow University, prophetic wisdom Fellow of the British anything to say, answer followed by a PhD at the literature of the Hebrew Academy, and a me; speak, for I shall gladly find you proved same institution under Bible. During his career Festschrift on his sixty- right. But if you have Professor Mullo Weir.