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Destruction of Novgorod during the War, Sophia Cathedral and Godunov's Chandelier
During the war Novgorod was almost destroyed: the Nazis wrecked the white-stone monasteries and churches, monuments of the 11th and 12th centuries. One of the first stone structures in Rus', the Cathedral of St Sophia in the Novgorod Kremlin, was disfigured beyond recognition: its interior was reduced to
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Niccolò Machiavelli on religious practices in the interests of the sovereign
Machiavelli wrote that religious practices should be used solely in the interests of the prince. How fortunate that we do not forget his precepts. And happy birthday, Niccolò!
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John the Baptist and Jesus in the Wombs of Their Mothers
John the Baptist and Jesus in the wombs of their mothers. The subject is slightly alarming, isn't it? When, in the fifth form, I drew something similar, an infant in the belly with a cigarette, for a school wall newspaper on the dangers of smoking, I was censured
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This tortoise from the Michael Mahzor (Jewish codex of the early fourteenth century) may, oddly enough, correspond to the astronomical scorpion, Akrav, and relates to the prayer for rain
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15th-century tomb of five priests who look like Voldemort
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The Sufferings of Saint George: One of the Tortures Inflicted on Him by the Emperor Diocletian, Suspension over a Revolving Wheel Studded with Metal Spikes
The sufferings of Saint George: one of the tortures inflicted on him by the Emperor Diocletian, suspension over a revolving wheel studded with metal spikes. He bore it with dignity and brought many to Christianity
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Clovis I (466-511) chose as his emblem a shield with three toads; according to legend, after Clovis's baptism an angel replaced it with a shield bearing golden lilies, which for many centuries would symbolise royal power in France
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Silver reliquary with a fragment of a garment of Saint Anne, grandmother of Jesus, 18th century, wax seal with threads
Silver reliquary with a fragment of a garment of Saint Anne, grandmother of Jesus, 18th century, wax seal with threads. FOR SALE ON EBAY for $399.9. It raises a good many questions, of course
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Whatever Catholics choose to call the banner with the Madonna, oriflamme or gonfalon, I merely wanted to show what a splendid contraption the youth has between his legs: for redistributing the weight of the heavy staff, so to speak
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Banners are found among the Orthodox and the Eastern Catholics
Banners are found among the Orthodox and the Eastern Catholics. In the Papal States there was a special office for the bearer of the standard with the arms of the Holy See and of the Pope: the gonfalonier, who among the Italians also carried the standard at the head of
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