Charities -- Great Britain; Hospitals -- Great Britain; Hospitals, Medieval; Leprosy -- England
THE HOLY SAVIOUR; CHRIST; CORPUS CHRISTI.—The Second Person of the
Godhead is seldom commemorated, but the dedication to the Blessed
Trinity was regarded as synonymous, for the almshouse at Arundel
occurs indifferently as Christ’s or Holy Trinity. The Maison Dieu at
York, commonly called Trinity, was properly that of the Holy Jesus—or
Christ—and the Blessed Virgin, and the chantry certificate is headed
“The Hospital of the Name of Jhesus and Our Blessyd Ladye.” St.
Saviour was the invocation of houses at Norwich and Bury, and the
fair in connection with the latter charity was held at the feast of
the Transfiguration. “Y^e masendew of Chryste” at Kingston-upon-Hull
was originally “Corpus Christi,” but it is remarkable to find that
rarely-preserved dedication-name upon an Elizabethan table of rules.
The seal of the Holloway hospital, near London, shows Christ (with the
orb) and St. Anthony.
THE HOLY GHOST.—This sacred title, closely associated with the mediæval
charities of Germany and famous in Rome, was rarely used in England.
At Sandon (Surrey) was a hospital “commonly called of the Holy
Ghost,”[158] though an alternative name occurs. A hidden dedication
is sometimes revealed, for the houses usually known as St. Thomas’,
Canterbury, St. Margaret’s, Taunton, [p246] St. John’s, Warwick, and
St. John’s, Hereford, are mentioned once in documents as being built
in honour of the Holy Ghost as well as of the saints named; all the
above instances refer to the years 1334–1353. At Lyme there was the
suggestive commemoration of the “Blessed Virgin and Holy Spirit.”
THE ANNUNCIATION; ST. GABRIEL; ST. MICHAEL; THE HOLY ANGELS.—Two
fourteenth-century foundations at Leicester and Nottingham commemorate
the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin. The seal of the former house
depicts St. Gabriel delivering his salutation. A kindred thought
underlies the dedication “to our lady St. Mary the Mother of Christ and
to St. Gabriel the Archangel” at Brough. (It is noteworthy that the
parish church was St. Michael’s.) Another institution, built by Bishop
Bronescombe of Exeter, who had a special devotion to the Archangel,
left its name to Clist Gabriel. The more ancient dedication to St.
Michael occurs at Whitby and elsewhere in Yorkshire. Michael de la Pole
founded an almshouse at Kingston-upon-Hull, partly in honour of “St.
Michael the Archangel and all archangels, angels and holy spirits.” A
fraternity at Brentford commemorated “The Nine Orders of Holy Angels,”
and in the Valor it is termed _hospitalis Angelorum_.
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