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Interestingly, Salkinson was born in that same Shklov which gave the world so many famous Jews
Interestingly, Salkinson was born in that same Shklov which gave the world so many famous Jews. By the age of 29 he was already living in England, had converted to Christianity and had even become a missionary. He is known for his translations of Milton's "Paradise Lost&
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The Majolica Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Eden on the Floor of the Church of San Michele on Capri
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Scene of the burning of the martyr Eustace and his family in the belly of a brazen bull at the will of the Emperor Hadrian, from a thirteenth-century French manuscript of legends of the saints
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Saint Eustace, formerly the Roman soldier Placidus, and his martyrdom with his family
In the frescoes of Catholic cathedrals one can see a man in armour bearing a banner with a stag's head and a crucifix; often the same knight's coat of arms shows a brazen bull, and sometimes he has no heraldic devices at all but carries two
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That Goblet of Fire from Harry Potter looks remarkably like the reliquary of Cosmas and Damian
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Reliquary with the bones of the holy unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian
A reliquary with the bones of the holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian, venerated in both the Catholic and the Orthodox traditions. I do not know to which of the three pairs of saints bearing these names the relics belong
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A touching detail from a fifteenth-century Utrecht Bible: beside the sickbed of an ailing queen hangs a tiny portrait of the king
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Symbols in a Vermeer painting and a video report on a Moscow woman who pinned a snake with a dustpan
In Vermeer's painting, the woman's gaze is turned to a scene of the Crucifixion, with John the Evangelist embodying wisdom. She holds her hand to her heart, which attests to her longing for God. She props up a terrestrial globe with her foot, which shows that
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Vermeer's Allegory of Faith: the serpent stands for Satan, and the stone for Jesus
Vermeer's Allegory of Faith: the serpent stands for Satan, and the stone for Jesus. It put me in mind of a Muscovite lady who pinned a snake that had crept in from the neighbours' flat under a rubbish bin and, in terror, awaited her son's
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Bishop Wulfstan of Worcester, who kept his bishopric after the Norman Conquest of England
Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, having once sworn never to eat meat, kept that vow for the rest of his life. History remembers him as the only bishop who kept his see after the Norman Conquest of England. Church historians explain this by the pastor's immense authority among the
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Feast of Saint Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester, on 19 January, and his entry in an 11th-century cartulary
19 January is the feast day of the patron of all vegetarians and dieters, Saint Wulfstan, Bishop of Worcester. An entry on Wulfstan in one of the cartularies of the eleventh-century manuscript of Worcester Priory