Bestattung / Requiem für Erzherzog Otto von Österreich, Dom St. Stephan, Wien Hauptzelebrant: S.E. Kardinal Dr. Christoph Schönborn
Funeral / Requiem for Archduke Otto of Austria, St Stephen Cathedral, Vienna, Austria Celebrated by Cardinal Christoph Schönborn
Requiem in c-moll Missa pro defuncto Archiepiscopo Sigismondo Michael Haydn (1737 -- 1806) Domchor & Domorchester St. Stephan Hans Haselböck, Orgel Leitung: Domkapellmeister Markus Landerer Sopran: Tünde Szabóki Alt: Alice Rath Tenor: Gernot Heinrich Bass: Günter Haumer Orgel beim Requiem: Anne Marie Dragosits
AFTER A requiem at Vienna’s St Stephen’s Cathedral, the funeral party will enter Vienna’s Capuchin Friary (Kapuzinerkirche) after the following “knocking" ceremony.
FIRST KNOCK
Capuchin Friar : “Who desires admission?”
Leader of funeral party: “Otto of Austria, former Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary, Prince Royal of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, of Dalmatia, Croatia, Slavonia, Galicia, Lodomeria and Illyria; Grand Duke of Tuscany and Cracow; Duke of Lorraine, Salzburg, Styria, Carinthia, Carniola and Bukowina; Grand Prince of Transylvania, Margrave of Moravia; Duke of Upper and Lower Silesia, Modena, Parma, Piacenza and Guastalla, of Osweicim and Zator, of Teschen, Friaul, Dubrovnik and Zadar; Princely Count of Habsburg and Tyrol, of Kyburg, Gorizia and Gradisca; Prince of Trento and Brixen; Margrave of Upper and Lower Lusatia and Istria: Count of Hohenems, Feldkirch, Bregenz, Sonnenburg; Lord of Trieste, Kotor and Windic March; Grand Voivod of the Voivodship of Serbia”
Friar : “We do not know him!”
SECOND KNOCK
Friar : “Who desires admission?”
Leader : “Dr Otto von Habsburg; President and Honorary President of the Pan-European Union; Member and Father of the House of the European Parliament; Holder of honorary doctorates from countless universities and freeman of many communities in Central Europe; Member of numerous noble academies and institutes; Bearer of high and highest awards, decorations and honours of church and state made to him in recognition of his decade-long struggle for the freedom of peoples, for right and justice.”
I watched, and found it a wonderful thing. I'm not sure the opinion was held by all Austrians, however. This posted on a Dutch friend's Facebook wall: " Wonderful! After this Otto Habsburg-funeral today I really don't know if we still live in a republic...... Count on you and the revolution!...." Of course, Austria is the home of these poor misguided souls, so anything is possible.
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