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Architecture · Art · London · Museums
New open storage facility displays Picasso's theatre work and a colonnade from Agra
The Victoria and Albert Museum's New Storehouse Opens in London: Exhibits May Be Viewed Up Close and Without Glass, and Almost Any of the Hundreds of Thousands of Objects in Its Holdings Can Be Studied in Detail by Request in a Special Room. Among the notable exhibits are
Faith · Society · Rome
Pope Leo XIV proposed a single Easter date at the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea
Regrettably, the discord between calendars no longer allows Christians to celebrate together the most important feast of the liturgical year, which causes pastoral problems in communities, divides families and weakens trust. Pope Leo XIV, speaking in honour of the 1700th anniversary of the Council of Nicaea, proposed establishing a single
Archaeology · Faith · Books
A hymn in praise of the supreme deity of Ancient Egypt, Ra, contains the following words:
“You shall come to the heavens, you shall traverse the sky, you shall be joined to the star gods. Praises shall be raised to you in your barque, and all the gods shall rejoice when they see you, king of the heavens.”
NB! · Faith · Society · Rome
The First Month of the Pontificate of Leo XIV Has Passed
NB! · Art · Monarchies
Louis XIV by Jean-Jacques Clérion (1672), Bernini (1665) and Jean Warin (1665)
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Archive · Books · Moscow · Museums
The Hexameron Compiled by John the Exarch of Bulgaria, Pierced by a Bullet in the Library of the Historical Museum during the Revolutionary Fighting of October 1917
“The bullet exited through the lower board of the binding and lodged in the book. The bullet was removed and carried off by the piece-rate dusters in 1938.” Held in the Historical Library; the book can currently be seen at the exhibition in the Department of Rare Books
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Art
Vasily Polenov designed the Church of the Holy Trinity in Bekhovo, consecrated in 1907
Church of the Holy Trinity, designed by Vasily Polenov, village of Bekhovo. The church was consecrated in 1907
Faith · Art · Books · Ethnography
Ivan Bunin’s 1893 poem “Trinity” about a village liturgy on the feast of Trinity
A droning bell calls us to prayer, Ringing on sunbeams over the cornfields; The distance of the water-meadows drowns in blue, And the river on the meadows sparkles and burns. And in the village since morning the liturgy goes on in the church: The whole ambo is strewn with
Art · Society · Nature
Boris Rogachevsky's 1986 poster showing the Earth under a drawn roof
There Is No Other Home! Poster by Boris Rogachevsky, 1986