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Children’s shoes left on Bishop Erkembodo’s tomb in Saint-Omer Cathedral
Parents of crippled children leave children's shoes on the tomb of the medieval bishop Erkembode in the cathedral of Saint-Omer, hoping for the saint's intercession for their little ones' recovery. Erkembode's feast day is 12 April
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If you have listened to too many tales about Gogol and fear being buried alive, this invention of 1843 is for you!
If you have listened to too many tales about Gogol and fear being buried alive, this invention of 1843 is for you! A splendid coffin with air holes and a door that opens from the inside
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An altarpiece group in a small church on the border of Saxony and Bohemia strongly recalled Grant Wood's American Gothic, only with a crucifix in place of the pitchfork
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Monument to the GAZ AA Polutorka Truck for Veteran Motorists in Alma-Ata
A monument to the polutorka in Alma-Ata. Caption: the GAZ-AA lorry, a symbol of the labour and martial glory of veteran motorists. The vehicle was erected by Akan Kamelbekov, Honoured Innovator of Kazakhstan
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The right forearm of Saint Francis Xavier will travel from Rome on a tour of Canada in 2019
It is interesting that in 2019 a particularly venerated relic, the right forearm of Saint Francis Xavier, will set out from Rome on a grand tour of Canada. Servants of the Church explain that the arm, of course, will not fly in the hold or the hand luggage, but will
NB! · Faith · The East · People · Rome
With this hand Francis Xavier baptised between 100,000 and 700,000 people in Asia in the 16th century; at times he was too exhausted to lift a finger
With this hand Francis Xavier baptised between 100,000 and 700,000 people in Asia in the 16th century; at times he was too exhausted to lift a finger. The hand that brought so many souls to Rome has itself found rest here
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On first meeting his future wife, Caroline of Brunswick, the Prince of Wales, George, was so dismayed by her unprepossessing looks that he asked for a glass of brandy to restore himself
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What Was In and Out of Fashion: Furs, Feathered Hats and Muffs versus Aprons and Caps
In fashion: fur capes, feathered hats and muffs. Out of fashion: kitchen aprons, threadbare headscarves and mob caps. Mark this well
Mores · Society
Legal burning for witchcraft in Switzerland in 1787 and an unlawful one in Poland in 1793
The last legal burning of a woman for witchcraft in Europe took place in Switzerland in 1787. A burning of a woman is known to have occurred in Poland in 1793, but that one was already illegal.
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The Council Code of 1649 prescribed burning for blasphemers
In Rus', blasphemers were burnt locked inside a wooden log cabin. In the Law Code (Sobornoye Ulozheniye) of 1649, burning for blasphemy was set down in the following form: “Should any man of another faith, of whatever creed, or even a Russian, utter blasphemy against the Lord God and
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A Monumental Pulpit in “Rubens’s Church”
A monumental pulpit in “Rubens’s church”. The work of Jan Pieter van Baurscheit the Elder. The angel at the base bears a papal tiara of the fifteenth-century pattern, with three crowns.