NB! · Architecture · Faith · Art · Heritage
Vandals have defaced a 12th-century sculpture on one of the unique façades of the cathedral of the Galician city of Santiago de Compostela. The church is a local shrine and an architectural monument
Faith · Observations · Mores
The followers of the religious movement "Brethren and Sisters of the Free Spirit" denied the importance of the clergy, rites and divine service, accepting only the spiritual side of Christianity. The Brethren, moreover, held that God is present in equal measure in everything in the world, poured out
NB! · Faith · Art · Humour
Ignatius Loyola plays billiards with Francis Xavier; the loser must obey the winner unconditionally for a month. The cunning Loyola, of course, won
Faith · Art
In religious art there are subjects that depict the physical torments of Christ. Among them are the trial of Christ before Annas, where an attendant struck him, the spitting upon the Son of God, the scourging, the mocking and the crowning with thorns. These storylines appear in depictions of the
NB! · Faith · Art
NB! · Faith · Art
Faith · The East · Monarchies · People · Humour
It is well known that in 1891 Nicholas II travelled in Japan and had a dragon tattooed on his forearm. So what are we to make of it: holy relics with a dragon tattoo?
NB! · Faith · Observations · Society · People
The head of the Catholic bishop Oliver Plunkett, quartered on a charge of high treason. He is regarded as the last Irish martyr, while I would remind you of the growing number of treason cases in Russia today
NB! · Archaeology · Faith · Monarchies · Museums
Diamonds found at the site where the bodies of the Romanovs were desecrated at Ganina Yama are held in the Tsar's Museum in Yekaterinburg. The fate of almost 8 kilograms of family jewels remains a mystery to this day.
Faith · Monarchies · Heritage
The stone erected at the place where the mutilated remains of the imperial family were found bears an Old Testament quotation from the Book of Amos: "I will not spare him, because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime". The reference is to an
Aristocracy · Archaeology · Faith · Monarchies
In 1976 Prince Golitsyn attempted to reconstruct the picture of the murder of the Imperial Family and visited Yekaterinburg. But finding the mines into which the bodies of the Romanovs had been thrown proved far from easy. Local residents refused to say where the iron mines were situated, to which
Faith · Monarchies · Observations · Heritage
In 2002 this golden enkolpion of the House of Romanov, containing particles of the relics of 40 saints, was transferred to the Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord at Uktus in Yekaterinburg. The cross had been kept for decades in a priestly family. The relic was presented to the