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A motor garage in the building of the ancient Bordeaux church of Saint-Jacques
NB! · Faith · Observations · Reportage · Rome
To join the queue for Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican, you must first pass beneath the colonnade and through a body-temperature checkpoint
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · New York
Resurrection, Giovanni della Robbia, 1520-1525, Brooklyn Museum
Archive · Faith · Museums · Heritage
During the brief but most brutal Nazi occupation of the Moscow region, a great many museums and churches came under attack
During the brief but most brutal Nazi occupation of the Moscow region, a great many museums and churches came under attack. People of science and art threw all their strength into saving the treasures of culture: very many collections simply could not be evacuated in time, and their fate had
Archaeology · Architecture · Faith · Rome
Tarquinius Priscus, the Temple of Jupiter and the legend of how the Capitol got its name
According to legend, during the war with the Sabines the Roman king Tarquinius Priscus vowed to build in Rome a temple in honour of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva: by ancient Etruscan tradition, the sanctuary of the principal divine triad was raised on the dominant height of the city. Of course,
Archaeology · Faith · Mores · Ethnography
Dust from the grave of St Chad of Mercia as medicine according to Bede the Venerable
To cure an ailment, take a little water and mix it with plain... ...grave dust. Bede the Venerable writes of Saint Chad, Chad of Mercia, a bishop who lived in the seventh century and was canonised soon after his death, that dust from his grave was held to be miraculous
Faith · Art · People · Humour
Saint Eligius and Saint Godeberta in the 1449 painting by Petrus Christus
When you accidentally get caught in the reflection of someone else's selfie. It is commonly held that the celebrated painting of 1449 by the Netherlandish artist Petrus Christus depicts Saint Eligius, patron saint of goldsmiths, who served as goldsmith to the Frankish king Chlothar II and became Bishop
Faith · Heritage · Paris
Today is Good Friday for Catholics, the day on which the crucifixion of Jesus is recalled, which means that in Paris one of the greatest Christian relics is venerated: the Crown of Thorns of Christ, kept since 1806 in the treasury of Notre-Dame de Paris,
Today is Good Friday for Catholics, the day on which the crucifixion of Jesus is recalled, which means that in Paris one of the greatest Christian relics is venerated: the Crown of Thorns of Christ, kept since 1806 in the treasury of Notre-Dame de Paris, and which reached France
NB! · Faith · Art
The hands of Mary Magdalene in a painting by Carlo Crivelli from 1480
The delicate, slender, tender and sensual hands of Mary Magdalene. Carlo Crivelli, 1480
Aristocracy · Faith · Monarchies · Mores
In the late eighteenth century, marriages to foreigners were all the rage among the Russian nobility, and the foreign partners were at times not representatives of the hereditary aristocracy at all, neither counts nor even barons, but merely French…
In the late eighteenth century, marriages to foreigners, male and female, were all the rage among the Russian nobility, and the partners from abroad were at times not representatives of the hereditary aristocracy at all, neither counts nor even barons, but merely French émigrés or Italian singers. With the marriage
Faith · Books · Ethnography · Humour
Accusation of selling a bewitched pig in an 1888 book on Welsh folklore
A book of Welsh folklore from 1888 tells of a Welsh woman accused of selling a "bewitched pig" at market. Having noticed that something was amiss from certain outward signs and from the piglet's behaviour, the buyer insisted that the seller lift the curse by passing