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Alexey Bogolyubov, Easter in Yaroslavl, 1863

Framed table “Slavonic Numerals” on a church wall showing letters with a titlo for units, tens and hundreds.

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Slavonic Alphabetic Numerals in Russia before the 18th Century

Stepped into church, and was invited to recall Slavonic numeration. Until the eighteenth century, numbers in Russia were written with letters bearing a small stroke, the "titlo", above them, and on a scheme similar to that of Roman notation

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Public Servants at the Palm Sunday Celebrations, Moscow, 1654

Public Servants at the Palm Sunday Celebrations, Moscow, 1654. Unknown artist

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Palm Sunday from the prayer book of Mary of Guelders, Queen of Scotland, who tormented King James II all her life, until he was killed by a fragment of a cannon that burst during a salute in honour of the ill-starred Mary

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Fra Angelico's Annunciation from Cortona, with Golden Words Flying from the Archangel's Mouth

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Fra Angelico's Annunciation from San Domenico di Fiesole, with a Bashful Adam and Eve

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Fra Angelico and his altarpiece Annunciations, the first now kept in the Prado

The Early Renaissance Italian painter Guido di Pietro, known as the "blessed angelic brother" Fra Angelico, has been canonised and is regarded as the patron saint of artists. He made his name through his altar paintings. Fra Angelico's most famous subject is the Annunciation to the

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The Holy Infant in Colour

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Statue of the Infant Jesus from Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome, stolen in 1984

One of the shrines of Rome is the miraculous statue of the Infant Jesus in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli, which tradition holds to have been carved 600 years ago from the trunk of an olive tree from the Garden of Gethsemane, and which was said to be

A crowned figure in blue and gold robes stands under an arch inscribed Ecclesia, with a group of people under a smaller arch on each side.

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Ecclesia with the clergy and the laity in a miniature beneath the image of Mother Nature

Right beneath the image of Mother Nature is Mother Church, Ecclesia, with the clergy on her right hand and the laity on her left. What more is there to say? Mother Nature and Mother Church are always side by side.

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Image of the goddess Tellus Mater in an 11th-century scroll of Easter chants

An eleventh-century scroll of Easter chants contains an image of the ancient Italic earth goddess Tellus Mater. In the Exultet manuscript she appears as Mother Nature, suckling a calf and a serpent at her breasts. The goddess was regarded not only as the creator of all that exists but

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