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| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Tourism |
| Occupation | Retired guide-lecturer |
| Location | United Kingdom |
| Introduction | From an idyllic boyhood on a Warwickshire farm, to a 1552 boys' grammar school, followed by Fitzwilliam College (Cambridge). Thence to a metropolitan career, culminating with twelve years lecturing to French-speaking groups on history, art and culture. Last but not least, undeserving father of a beautiful family, gemens peccator and spiritus contribulatus, contemplating the Four Last Things. |
| Interests | Words,language,poetry,Latin,French,history,civilisation,Faith,eschatology,art,architecture, |
| Favorite movies | The Island (2006),Bernadette, the Passion of Bernadette (1988), |
| Favorite music | The Dream of Gerontius - Elgar,Miserere mei - Allegri,Ave Maria - Gounod,Ave Maria - Michael Lorenc,Panis Angelicus - Aquinas and César Franck,In Paradisum - Fauré,Musikdrama - Wagner,Piano virtuoso pieces - Liszt, Sub tuum præsidium - Mozart |
| Favorite books | La Triple Couronne de la Bienheureuse Vierge Marie,Traité de la vraie dévotion à la Sainte Vierge,Histoire d'une âme,Bread of Life |