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Faith · Art · Museums · New York
A Painting by Garofalo in the Metropolitan Museum Depicts One of the Most Touching Miracles of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
An ascetic, he refused meat even during a grave illness. When a dish of roast partridges was brought to him, the saint merely made the sign of the cross over them. The birds came to life at once and flew away straight from the plate. In this canvas of 1530
Faith · The East · Books · Society
The Pharisees tried to prevent the Italian cardinal and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, Pierbattista Pizzaballa, from celebrating Palm Sunday at the Holy Sepulchre
Instead of the closed Church of the Holy Sepulchre, the cardinal decided to move the Mass to the Mount of Olives, precisely to the place where Jesus wept over Jerusalem. Tell ye the daughter of Sion, Behold, thy King cometh unto thee, meek, and sitting upon an ass, and a
NB! · Architecture · Faith · The East · Art
The wall painting “Christ Entering Jerusalem” in the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Cross on Akdamar Island, tenth century
Faith · Art · Ethnography
A Lithuanian Girl with a Willow Branch on Palm Sunday
By the Polish-Lithuanian artist Kanuty Rusiecki, 1840s. A reminder that Palm Sunday, the feast of the Lord's Entry into Jerusalem, falls this year on 5 April, and Holy Easter on 12 April. Two weeks of Great Lent remain.
Faith · Cinema · Observations · Society
On the one hand, there are many questions about what is happening in the frame: why consecrate an Oscar statuette in a church, and why turn it into a show?
On the other hand, one recalls every exposé of the Hollywood fraternity and the context of this particular award, and understands that such filth can be cleansed only by divine power. For those who have not recognised him, the photograph shows Alexei Uminsky performing the rite of consecration over an
Faith · Observations · Society
The Serbian football club Crvena Zvezda has been fined €95,000 by UEFA because its supporters unfurled on the stands an image of the Orthodox saint Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-Streaming and the inscription "May our faith lead us to victory" during a Europa
The Serbian football club Crvena Zvezda has been fined €95,000 by UEFA because its supporters unfurled on the stands an image of the Orthodox saint Venerable Simeon the Myrrh-Streaming and the inscription "May our faith lead us to victory" during a Europa League match against Lille.
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage
The Church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnitsa on Pyatnitskaya Street, demolished in 1935
The Church of Saint Paraskeva Pyatnitsa on Pyatnitskaya Street, demolished in 1935. The street took its name from this church. The stone buildings of the church were erected between the 16th and 18th centuries. On this very spot now stands the round vestibule of the Novokuznetskaya metro station.
Faith · London · Monarchies · Observations · Society
Anglican Bishop Cairion Hugh Dewar Publishes an Open Letter to King Charles III, Urging Him to Play More Actively His Traditional Role as Defender of the Christian Faith and to Pay Particular Attention to Preserving Britain's Christian Heritage
In the bishop's view, Christianity in the country is gradually losing its influence in public life, while its symbols and values are ever more often criticised or pushed out of the public sphere. He voiced concern that the country may lose its historical religious foundation and turn into
NB! · Archive · Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage
The Demolition of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, 5 December 1931
Faith · Books · Palaeontology · Nature
On Permian shoals the damp chalk glimmers
On Permian shoals the damp chalk glimmers With the purple mother-of-pearl of an ammonite. It is the gleam of ancient dawns turned to stone, Time has grown horny. Here lie hidden The bones of the beast-like. Their decline Preceded the flowering of the dinosaurs, But it did
Faith · Art · Nature
Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden
Jan Brueghel the Elder, 1615