Saturday 6 February 2010

Mitres, part the second.

What should we find on the Blogs today, but a splendid snap by that indefatigable photographer of Catholic Tradition, Tom Kwok. This photograph was taken in the Sacred Heart Cathedral Bendigo during a Pontifical Mass celebrated by the Most Rev'd Peter Elliott, auxiliary bishop of Melbourne, on the Feast of Christ the King, 2008.

Ornamenting His Lordship's head is mitre made by the Saint Bede Studio and presented to him by the Australian Confraternity of Catholic Clergy upon his consecration as a bishop in 2007.

Monday 1 February 2010

Mitres

This is the first of a series of posts illustrating past projects of the Saint Bede Studio.

Adjacent is a collage of three precious mitres made for some noteworthy clients. On the left is a mitre made for the Archbishop of Adelaide, the Most Rev'd Philip Wilson. Ornament on this mitre was based on a design of AWN Pugin. In the middle is the mitre made for HH Pope Benedict for World Youth Day (Sydney) 2008. The ornament on this mitre was based on the famous mitre of S' Thomas Becket, housed at the Sens Cathedral. On the right, a simpler mitre, made for HE Cardinal Pell, Archbishop of Sydney.

The design of mitres is all too often underestimated or ignored in choosing vestments for a bishop. The use of headgear makes such a notable change to the appearance of a man, that sound consideration needs to be given to the design of a mitre. Mitres of the Saint Bede Studio are custom made. Particular attention is paid to the shape, height and decoration of its mitres in order to make them most appropriate for the wearer.

Enquiries: stbede62@gmail.com

2010

Greetings to all our clients and readers of this Blog.

Our other website - a tired old thing - is undergoing a major revamp. In the meantime, however, there are some temporary changes and improvements.

Note that the Studio website can be visited here.

Photographs on the Studio website now link directly to postings on this Blog. This is a new approach so that the two sites will be interconnected and not two distantly-related entities.