The Apostolic Episcopal Church, organized in 1925 and recognized by the Statutes of the State of New York in 1932, has established a Library as a memorial to the late Prof. Ana María Ortiz Bourge Scotto di Tella de’ Douglas di Castel di Ripa (7 november 1967 – 26 january 2025). Prof. Ortiz Bourge was Academic Projects Administrator at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford, and died of cancer.

The Lifetime Honorary Director and President of the Library is Canon Prince Prof. Dr. Luca Scotto di Tella de’ Douglas di Castel di Ripa, widower of Prof. Ana María Ortiz Bourge. The Library will form a scholarly resource of General Culture with particular interests in Heraldry, Chivalric Orders, Nobility, History, Religion and related areas.

The Library is held privately by the Prince-Abbot of San Luigi but items may be consulted by scholars on application. A catalogue of items in the Library is given below, which will be expanded in time.

>>LIBRARY ANA MARIA ORTIZ list of the books

Prince Luca has written the following tribute to his late wife,

A dreamlike, emotional, and thrilling Scorpio woman, profound and exemplary, of exuberant energy and dynamism, a hard worker, a fervent and passionate scholar of interreligious and multireligious religious, philosophical and spiritual studies, capable of perceiving and touching the Soul, understanding even what cannot be said with words, of an intense, adamantine seriousness, from another time and a unique Teacher (gifted with a pair of eyes unlike any other in the world that I immediately described as not being terrestrial but “Martian”, iridescent greens/greys and golds, with a gaze comparable to X-rays, to an X-ray or, better yet, to a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance) and exceptional, whose lively intelligence and enormous superior culture are equal to Her heart, to Her Inner Light (Sun, Moon, Stars) that is evident from Her Love for Life and for all of Nature. Great things to the great, the abysses to the deep, the subtle to the subtle, and the rare to the rare. She was my greatest admirer, and for Her uniqueness, I enthusiastically married Her. She was my strength, the one who loved me and cared for me sincerely. With Her, we understood each other with a look and there was telepathy. With Her, we listened to 70s and 80s disco but also Classical Music, especially Bach and Vivaldi. She loved nature, animals, and was a vegetarian like me. She loved life. She was a bride filled with love, exceptional.

Curriculum vitæ of the late Prof. Ana María Ortiz Bourge Scotto di Tella de’ Douglas di Castel di Ripa:
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