Faith · Books · Observations
Let the mountains be shaken with fear, Let the greedy abyss devour them, And the world pass away into heaps of dust, I have not the slightest dread. Let the sea be stirred up to storm, And let fearsome winds begin to roar; Calamities of ruin and grief Will not
Faith · Moscow · Observations
A Moscow church invites visitors to recall the Slavonic numeral system. Until the eighteenth century, numbers in Russia were written with letters marked by a stroke, the "titlo", above them, on a scheme similar to the Roman notation. Numbers above 1,000 were written by placing a doubly
Architecture · Faith · The East · Heritage
The ensemble of the Cathedral of Saints Peter and Paul in Kamianets-Podilskyi comprises the Cathedral itself, a bell tower, a triumphal gate and a Turkish minaret. Moreover, the Turkish minaret standing beside the Cathedral is crowned with a statue of the Virgin Mary. In 1672 the vast army of
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In Armenia, a monumental complex with a statue of Jesus Christ, planned to be one of the tallest in the world, is due to rise on the summit of Mount Ates, some 30 km from Yerevan, by the end of 2026. The statue itself will stand 33 metres high, and
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Society · Paris
In Paris, a cornice has collapsed at the Church of Saint-Roch. Thank God, no one was hurt City activists had been raising the alarm about the church's precarious condition, and the town hall's inaction, for more than ten years
Faith · Observations · People
In the photograph: Patriarch Pavle (Stojčević) at the Ravanica Monastery in 1994. Patriarch Pavle (1914-2009) is, perhaps, the most beloved hierarch of recent times among the Serbs. They say of him: that he has not yet been glorified among the saints is not his problem, but ours. A man
Archive · Faith · Books · Ethnography
The treasury did not help our grandfathers. An official brought them to the place. They began to ask him: where are we to live? – he pointed to the mountains... They began to press him: what are we to live on? The official said: “Why, when you start felling timber, the
Archive · Faith · Art · Science · Rome
Every few years, news of yet another newly discovered work by Michelangelo sweeps the world's press. Headlines shriek of sensation, specialists wince, time passes, and nobody remembers what all the fuss was about. William Wallace, the foremost living authority on the great Florentine, has calculated that since 2000
Aristocracy · Faith · Books
Put not your trust in princes: They are born of men, And all by nature in this world are equal in honour. The earth brings forth, the earth devours; Everyone born, being born, shall die, Rich and poor, despised and renowned. Then those flatteries shall vanish That were given to
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The Persians live as good neighbours with all Christians; they even often go to them to drink wine, while they hate the J***s excessively. It is well known that for a Persian there is no greater insult than to be called a Dj*w (J**), and if, in ignorance,