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And there appeared a great wonder in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun; under her feet the moon, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars. She was with child, and cried out in the pangs and torments of birth. And there appeared another wonder in heaven: behold,
Faith · The East · Books
The sixth Angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God, saying to the sixth Angel which had the trumpet: Loose the four Angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. And the four Angels were loosed, which were
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And I saw another mighty Angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire, and he had in his hand a little book open. And he set
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Once again I find entries on vaccination in nineteenth-century diaries. Our old acquaintance Willem de Clercq, poet, thinker and memoirist from the Netherlands, was in May 1827 extremely troubled by the subject of the smallpox vaccine. Today we know that the discovery of this vaccine changed the world and
Faith · Observations · Rome · Humour
Three church news items, which you may rank by importance yourself:. public audiences with the Pope have resumed in the Vatican, having been suspended since November 2020 because of the pandemic; the Pope told the three hundred people gathered that he was very glad to meet them face to face;
Faith · Art · Mores · Ethnography
Kustodiev's Easter paintings: The Exchange of Easter Greetings, Bright Resurrection, Easter Day, The Easter Service, Easter Eve. The most famous, of course, is The Exchange of Easter Greetings of 1916, with a merchant and his wife kissing before a rich festive table laid with kulich, paskha, eggs, meat,
Faith · Books · Moscow · Mores · People · Ethnography
“And on the first day of Easter, after that great and joyous night, you go to the Kremlin, and there, in a sheltered spot, in the sun, sit the pilgrim wanderers, resting. They peel crimson-dyed eggs, and the coloured shells lie scattered all around, and somehow this goes so
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How did they prepare for the Easter ball in Georgian England? Mark the caption: Dandies and Dandizettes. An excellent feminine form, and one that ought to be put into circulation; do join in
Faith · Observations · Ethnography
Warmest congratulations to all on the approaching feast of Easter! For those who are only now getting ready to dye their eggs, I remind you of the custom of dyeing Easter eggs red. Violet and blue, however, are for a family that has lost someone in the course of the
Faith · The East · Observations
This year Holy Week for the Orthodox falls from 26 April to 1 May. I offer a set of desktop wallpapers, one for each day of the week before Easter: A close-up of the 2,000-year-old tree from the Garden of Gethsemane. The stone from the Church
Faith · Art · Pop Culture
A very small allegorical portrait of Saint Jerome, 47 x 40 cm, by the young Van Dyck sold at auction in Switzerland for 2.4 million francs (that is, 2.2 million euros) against an estimate of 600,000-800,000 euros. It is one of several Van Dyck depictions