Cricket for the Queen's birthday! Vatican to play Royal Household

Last year, Queen Elizabeth II was the longest reigning monarch in British history, and on Thursday, it was another milestone yet - be the first monarch, always reach the age of 90th
Queen Elizabeth II celebrated her 90th birthday on April 21 by a special plaque on Windsor Queen walkway unveiling before the first in a series of beacons lighting the special-tagging. Official gun salutes throughout the U. K. could be heard
Numerous events of event marking is to take place in the coming months, with a national service of thanksgiving, a parade and large picnic in front of Buckingham Palace in June its peak, as the Queen "official" birthday is celebrated, monarchical after a long standing Tradition.
The Vatican itself has decided to mark the birthday of the Queen by a cricket match against the royal household at Capannelle ground in Rome this play Saturday April 23.
St. Peter Cricket Club was founded in autumn 2013, and will host the royal household as part of their round of spring games. Composed of 12 priests, deacons and seminarians, the team is two-thirds of Indians hailing with other members from England, Sri Lanka and Pakistan.
Saturday will mark played for the second time the Vatican cricket team against the royal household. The first was September 17, 2014, during her first international tour - the "light of faith Tour" in England.
The players were invited by Vesper in Windsor Chapel of St. George, while the two teams participate prayers offered for Francis and his service.
According to Vatican Radio the royal household team visited on Friday morning Basilica and the Vatican Museums as part of their visit. Later that evening Vespers were prayed at the International Pontifical College "Mater Ecclesiae", while prayers were offered for the Queen in honor of her birthday.
Nigel Baker, British Ambassador to the Holy See, took the two vespers worship and a special dinner at the St. Peter Cricket Club a special gift for the queen presented.
On Sunday, following Saturday's match, Cardinal George Pell, Prefect of the Secretariat of Economy, celebrating Mass in Rome Venerable English College. Hofhaltung cricket team has been invited in the afternoon the exhibition before returning to England.
Other games in the spring season this year for St. Peter Cricket Club have included an April 9 game against the nomads of England in Rome Capannelle floor, they won by 79 runs, and on April 16 they played against the Cross Keys of England, also at Capannelle Ground.
The team is a second "light of faith Tour" in England hold this fall, running September 11 to 20.
Moreover, the Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales ruled that masses at all Sunday June 11 to 12, the official birthday of the Queen, each community for it in honor of her 90th birthday pray the event in the intentions by and by reciting " prayer for the Queen "prayer at the end of the exhibition.
Celebrate the tradition of a monarch birthday twice a year - once she was born on the day and on an "official" birthday in June - goes back to 1748 George II, according to the Telegraph.
Since George was born in November, he thought the weather for his annual birthday parade was too cold, and instead decided to combine the celebration with the annual spring military parade, as the Trooping the Colour known in which various regiments submit their flags to for soldiers familiar with them to make.
All British monarchs have been reports the possibility of "official" with a birthday, the telegraph, and Queen Elizabeth has chosen to stay with the tradition. This year's Trooping the color parade held June 11.