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Architecture · Faith · London · Observations · Heritage
New Coventry Cathedral of the 1960s beside the ruins of the bombed Cathedral of St Michael
In the 1960s the English decided to build a new cathedral beside St Michael's in Coventry, bombed in 1940, right next to the ruins, so that neither the tragedy nor the grandeur of the former building should be forgotten. The old Coventry cathedral was once the largest and
Archive · Faith · People · Ethnography
Theodor Herzl on a 1902 Warsaw Simchat Torah flag and the end of the Torah reading cycle
The founder of the World Zionist Organization, Theodor Herzl, is shown alongside the biblical figures of Moses and Aaron on a flag printed in Warsaw for the celebration of Simchat Torah in 1902. Imagine Herzl's glory at that moment, when his face found itself between a biblical prophet
Faith · Museums · Observations · Rome
In the cramped corridor of the Church of the Sacred Heart, exhibits testifying to the apparitions of souls in Purgatory are hung right on the walls
In the cramped corridor of the Church of the Sacred Heart, exhibits testifying to the apparitions of souls in Purgatory are hung right on the walls. These are pages from the prayer books of nuns, bearing the fiery fingerprints of their sisters who appeared to those at prayer after death;
Faith · Museums · Observations · Rome
One of the Most Mysterious and Frightening Museums in the World: Rome's Museum of the Souls in Purgatory
This tiny museum holds artefacts that point to the existence of a life after death: the traces of souls that have found their way into Purgatory. In the nineteenth century a chapel for prayers for the dead stood on this spot. After a fire there in 1897, a mark appeared
Faith · Observations · Heritage · Rome
Pilgrims at the copy of the Holy Child in Santa Maria in Aracoeli, original stolen in 1984
Paid a visit to the Holy Infant in Santa Maria in Aracoeli. Touching pilgrims go on bringing their notes, petitions for wishes granted and for healing, to the copy of the original stolen in 1984, while the genuine Infant, carved from Gethsemane wood, is kept in a secret room in
Faith · Observations · Society
Is Pope Francis Preparing to Abolish the Vow of Celibacy for Priests?
Is Pope Francis preparing to abolish the vow of celibacy for priests? Can a norm that took hold in the Church after the twelfth century really be done away with? On Sunday Francis I declared that he was prepared to permit the ordination of married men. He explains his decision
Faith · Monarchies · Mores · People
Catherine de’ Medici, the predictions of Nostradamus and the circumstances of her death
In the Year When in France One Eye Shall Rule, Great Turmoil Shall Come upon the Court, the Grandee of Blois Shall Slay His Friend, and Misfortune and Doubt Shall Beset the King. By the end of the sixteenth century, the obsession with the predictions of Nostradamus had reached such
Faith · Art · Nature
The goldfinch in depictions of the Holy Family and the legend of the crown of thorns
In depictions of the Holy Family, the infant Jesus often holds a little bird, or receives one from the hands of the infant John the Baptist. The bird is a goldfinch, the very one from the legend of Christ's ascent to Golgotha, which alighted on the crown of
NB! · Archive · Faith · Cinema · Paris
Archive footage from the filming of the Chambord stag in the Parisian church of Saint-Eustache
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Humour
Yorkshire Museum buys 13th-century Limoges crucifix from St Mary's Abbey at auction
When You've Already Been Crucified, but Your Supervisor Still Asks About Your VAK Publications. Some good news: a remarkable medieval crucifix of copper alloy, the work of Limoges craftsmen, has returned to York, where it was long kept at St Mary's Abbey, now no more. The
Archaeology · Faith · Observations · Palaeontology
A sanctuary with mammoth bones and theories about the spiritual world of Palaeolithic people
Though statements about the spiritual world of Palaeolithic people are pure fantasy, of course, given the complete absence of material. For the most part I take such theories as fantasy, but a SANCTUARY with mammoth bones is really something and fits my subject, so I could not help sharing it.