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31 May 1524: d. St Camilla Battista da Varano #otd at Camerino, Macerata, Poor Clare abbess & mystic, extensive writer #otd
Canonized 2010

26 May: feast of Pope St Eleutherius #otd d. 189 - often associated with the supposed letter of King Lucius ‘of the Britons’

(British Museum)

Roger Knight, Mayor of #Reading in 1615 & 1623 (Reading Museum & Town Hall)

26 May 1306: Piers Gaveston, favourite of Edward II, knighted

26 May 1583: Baptism of Susanna, the daughter of William #Shakespeare & Anne Hathaway #otd (BM)

Today is Ascension Thursday, so here is:
The Ascension
By Juan de Flandes, c. 1514-1519
(Museo Nacional del Prado)

Mother Catherine-Agnès Arnauld (1593-1671) & Sr Catherine de Ste Suzanne Champaigne (1636-1686), daughter of the artist, Philippe de Champaigne who was born #otd 26 May 1602.
The image is one of the most famous of the influential Port-Royal des Champs convent

(Musée du Louvre)

26 May 735: d. Bede, writer, historian, monk at Jarrow on Ascension day #otd (a 16thC French view of him, BM)

Dr. Faust in his Study, Adriaen Matham, 1610-1660
(Rijksmuseum)

This 16th century painting by an unidentified artist shows Henry VIII and his fleet setting sail from Dover to Calais on 31 May 1520 on the way to meet Francis I at The Field of Cloth of Gold.

(Royal Collection Trust, HM EII)