T J Guile
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T J Guile
@TimGuile
Writer, speaker, Chair English Catholic History Association https://t.co/30GMeNJuL8 AssocFRHistS


Today, St Simon Stock (1165-1265), patron of our Discalced Carmelite province. An Englishman who lived originally as a hermit, he rose to become Prior General of the Order. He was instrumental in the Order’s movement from an eremitical way of life on Mt Carmel to mendicant communities in Europe. He served the Order with great wisdom & left a legacy of holiness which saw his being commemorated liturgically from the 15th century at the latest. A tradition tells us he received a vision of Our Lady in which she conferred the Scapular as the habit of the Order, prior to this it was the white mantle which was considered the distinctive sign of being a Carmelite. Simon died in Bordeaux in 1265, his skull is preserved at his shrine at Aylesford in Kent.



Police say today's 'Unite the Kingdom' rally passed 'largely without any signficant incident'. Probably worth noting that at the 2025 Notting Hill carnival, 528 people were arrested, four people were stabbed, and 55 police officers were assaulted.


The Riddle of the Sands Erskine Childers, writer, sailor, & republican; after a life that moved from imperial service to Irish nationalism, becomes key figure in struggle over independence, opposed the Anglo-Irish Treaty, later executed in Dublin in 1922 during the Civil War.


Fantastic news! I thought the Oxford-Cambridge rail link was still in the consultation stage.





The far right try to claim our flags but in truth hate our country. They despise what makes the rest of us proud & makes us British, from the NHS to our BBC. They peddle anti-British propaganda globally. Thousands may march today but millions more stand against hate & for Britain




















