Archive | November 2016
Christus Vincit: Music for Christ the King

Christ the King was instituted by Pope Pius XI in 1925 as a reminder to the faithful that despite the political upheavals present in that time:
- the dissolution of the Papal States,
- the Italian Unification resulting in large amounts of church property being confiscated,
- the rise of Communism, Fascism and Nazism throughout Europe
- the recent conclusion of World War I
- the materialism that was evident in the United States before the Great Depression in 1929