The Knights of Malta have just chosen another Englishman to succeed Fra. Andrew Bertie as Grand Master.
As I’ve said before, Bertie was at Worth when I ws in the prep school there. Used to walk down to breakfast from his lodgings past the dorms, singing th Lord’s Prayer in Arabic: always, but always, five minutes before the bell went. A wake up call if you like.
So that’s two in a row from Ampleforth, one of them also had that connection to Worth.
Hmm, Downside next time around?
4 responses so far ↓
1 Cleanthes // Mar 12, 2008 at 2:49 pm
“singing th Lord’s Prayer in Arabic”
How do you know? Or was that just what he told you he was doing?
Tim adds: Well, that’s what others told me he was doing.
2 johnnybonk // Mar 13, 2008 at 2:34 am
” Downside ” … papist hippies.
3 So Much For Subtlety // Mar 13, 2008 at 11:24 am
Apparently it is all a Zionist Freemason plot! Just ask al-Jazeera.
So clearly Downside is out of the Inner Circle of Illuminati and so will never produce a leader of the Knights of Malta.
4 Adrian de Redman // May 15, 2008 at 8:43 am
English Grand Masters are like busses, you wait 900 years for one and two come along together.
Fra Matthew is a riot! I saw hin in Lourdes during the Order’s annual pilgrimage. His speech was funny and, I am told, pure “Matthew”. He dressed as a brancardier and moved around without fuss and, when I saw him, only one man in attendance.
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