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[@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/twitter/DrFrancisYoung)
"Its been a long time since a proper No Popery story hit the headlines"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981064723668893867) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-22T18:26Z 47.9K followers, 21.3K engagements


"Very few pre-Reformation statues survive in Lithuania; the late 15th- or early 16th-century Madonna of Veliuona is one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981281124329619702) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T08:46Z 47.9K followers, 5324 engagements


"For example we know the name of one Estonian god. Thats it. But people have confidently reconstructed Estonian mythology on the basis that it must have been derived from a pan-Finnic mythos"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1978842545439257042) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-16T15:16Z 47.9K followers, 1935 engagements


"Very happy wyverns"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1979934442937278844) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-19T15:35Z 47.9K followers, 6154 engagements


"Today I read that many Lithuanians when told they ought to join the Communist Party in the 1940s sent letters of apology saying that they were unworthy of Party membership as they still harboured some religious superstitions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1980204356864745774) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-20T09:28Z 47.9K followers, 11.1K engagements


"Poland and Lithuania's heads of state meet on the new Via Baltica. Polish-Lithuanian partnerships have proven successful in the past and will in the future too 🤝"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1980255362293834125) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-20T12:50Z 47.9K followers, 3481 engagements


"TIL that Prof. Sigitas Narbutas was on Lithuanian breakfast TV this morning talking about his translations of Latin poems for Lithuania's Year of the Baroque. What a country 😯"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1980612662410059882) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-21T12:30Z 47.9K followers, 3704 engagements


"Was hoping this might be a secret protocol to the Treaty of Dover that handed the Isle of Wight to the French or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1980633127866495442) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-21T13:51Z 47.9K followers, 7079 engagements


"The replies to this betray the reason why people who think churches are important in the abstract will never actually go to church; their idea of the Church is formed in the glib bubble of social media where toleration of any imperfection or messy humanity is impossible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1980688703069515819) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-21T17:32Z 47.9K followers, 12.5K engagements


"In what is probably a mistake I am experimenting with Crunchy-flavoured beer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1980713668439691374) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-21T19:11Z 47.9K followers, 5258 engagements


"@jhallwood Lithuania doesn't even bother having separate embassies for Portugal and the UK"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981122848921178219) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-22T22:17Z 47.9K followers, XXX engagements


"The poor rate of survival of older church art in Lithuania is down to a number of factors. It's unlikely much was actively destroyed by Calvinist iconoclasts although the spread of Calvinism in the c16th led to neglect of churches"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981287143788986382) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T09:10Z 47.9K followers, XXX engagements


"Never forget that the Welsh very nearly succeeded in taking over the English College in Rome in the 1570s - we might have had a Venerable Welsh College instead of the VEC"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981352186379432157) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T13:29Z 47.9K followers, 3188 engagements


"And never forget that Wales participated in the Council of Trent while England didn't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981352345653932347) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T13:29Z 47.9K followers, XXX engagements


"I just googled which US state Indianapolis is in before it dawned on me"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981357853303607307) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T13:51Z 47.9K followers, 6464 engagements


"@ksm_wilson @PriceLaurence The Pope can cancel out any requirement to do the King military service by calling a crusade and requiring the King to invade Latvia or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981385485772816768) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T15:41Z 47.9K followers, XX engagements


"Indeed from an ideological point of view Charles Is commitment to a highly theologised conception of Divine Right was wholly incompatible with submitting himself to the Pope"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981390144566415483) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T15:59Z 47.9K followers, 1157 engagements


"@ViljamsMauhuds I dont think there were many Lithuanian Communists in Moscow before 1940 but after 1940 numerous Lithuanian leftists who fled the Nazi advance ended up having accidents falling off roofs in Moscow - Salomja Nris was probably fortunate to die before that could happen to her"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981641513970041119) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T08:38Z 47.9K followers, XX engagements


"@ViljamsMauhuds Yes its a curious phenomenon - and indeed Stalin even deported non-Lithuanians and made the country more ethnically homogenous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981666323047313736) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T10:17Z 47.9K followers, XX engagements


"@memilies Mesoamerican religion does not (according to convention anyway) count as paganism"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1980662821366231448) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-21T15:49Z 47.9K followers, 44.8K engagements


"@anhweol iirc the Papal Nuncio for Ireland deals with NI as well because the island of Ireland is covered by a single Bishops' Conference - I remember passage of the Nuncio from one part of the island to the other being discussed during Brexit"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981324448218190189) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T11:38Z 47.9K followers, 2791 engagements


"@cyril_a Yes the Lithuanians were deemed Saracens (Saracen simply meaning 'pagan') because they were the objects of crusade. I wrote a whole article about English perceptions of Lithuania in early print:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981602086635655493) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T06:02Z 47.9K followers, XX engagements


"@TimGuile @jembloomfield The Synodical Government Act delegates the debate and drafting of legislation to General Synod but yes - any amendments to canon are still given legal force only by being approved by Parliament. I was in Parliament when the change on women bishops went through"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981645825131286748) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T08:55Z 47.9K followers, XXX engagements


"@rchitectopteryx Thank you this is brilliant I'm always looking for commentary linking the New World to the pagan Baltic and I think this may be exactly the sort of thing I was after"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981358658865733956) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T13:54Z 47.9K followers, XXX engagements


"There's absolutely no shortage of opportunities to produce 'new knowledge' in the humanities; vast swathes of medieval early modern and modern texts remain untranscribed unedited untranslated. The failure to take these opportunities is partly a skills issue; (cont.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1977677267074679272) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-13T10:06Z 47.9K followers, 395.5K engagements


"This notice has appeared in The Hastings Observer every XX October since 1067"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1978151098687922491) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-14T17:29Z 47.9K followers, 484.1K engagements


"Does this mean you won't be allowed to live in the UK unless you can write fatuous guff about some awful novel by Ian McEwan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1978379408336412748) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-15T08:36Z 47.9K followers, 18.6K engagements


"TIL that before WWII (when it was destroyed along with the rest of the city) Warsaw's St John's Cathedral had an English Gothic Revival frontage - the most notable instance of English Neo-Gothic in Eastern Europe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1978882949614338221) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-16T17:57Z 47.9K followers, 6330 engagements


"Remembering the time a Philosophy society in Cambridge served spinach samosas so they could call them spinosas"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981060594384925107) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-22T18:10Z 47.9K followers, 45K engagements


"The Vatican bulletin appears to only recognise Charles III as King of England. Is this some sort of Jacobite hangover"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981306316967858491) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T10:26Z 47.9K followers, 35.9K engagements


"@wmarybeard Elizabeth II attended Vespers with John Paul II at Westminster Cathedral in 1982. The media has a tendency to exaggerate these chronological gaps"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981331015504113753) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T12:05Z 47.9K followers, 7154 engagements


"Latvian Aztecs has to be the weirdest early modern Baltic ethnographical theory I've yet come across and I assure you the bar is HIGH"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981358499054436597) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T13:54Z 47.9K followers, 11.7K engagements


"Probably deliberate; it makes the point very effectively that the department cares so much about keeping expenditure under control that they didnt spend money on a proofreader"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981633548139606360) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T08:07Z 47.9K followers, 3289 engagements


"@Arnold_Platon Fascinating - I knew nothing about this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981646490352357462) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T08:58Z 47.9K followers, XX engagements


"Oh wow. This is stunning. Congratulations to @aidanharticons1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981673061905731762) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T10:44Z 47.9K followers, 15.9K engagements


"The one aspect of the Baltic region that gets studied at (some) UK universities is its geopolitics and security but there are scant opportunities for anyone to study its deeper history culture or literature"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981760630454665491) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T16:32Z 47.9K followers, XXX engagements


"This seems paradoxical in a country where there are at least 300k Lithuanian Latvian and Estonian residents and even more second-generation British citizens of Baltic parentage who are now of student age"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981760633897988317) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T16:32Z 47.9K followers, 1365 engagements


"@Valen10Francois And thats supposed to be a reason he shouldnt be put in charge of the case"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981398879074426925) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-23T16:34Z 47.9K followers, 82.9K engagements


"@jembloomfield Whats remarkable about the CofE is the extent to which it *wasnt* a creation of royal absolutism. Parliament did most of the work and English monarchs had less control over the Church than e.g. Philip II in Spain let alone the Scandinavian monarchs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981635635120140497) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T08:15Z 47.9K followers, 2355 engagements


"@Psephizo @JoshuaPenduck LLF has been the CofEs version of GenAI - trailed relentlessly everywhere as the next big thing its just made peoples lives a misery and turned into an enormous disappointment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DrFrancisYoung/status/1981769730290856222) [@DrFrancisYoung](/creator/x/DrFrancisYoung) 2025-10-24T17:08Z 47.9K followers, XXX engagements