Faith - The Parnassian (Page 14)

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She who lives to eat and is mad for sweetmeats, whose only pleasure is her belly and her throat, who stuffs her cheeks and her paunch, a gluttonous queen, grows fat herself and makes her husband's purse lean

The main thing is not to become like the Queen of England of 1625 to 1649, Henrietta Maria of France, as she is portrayed in satirical pamphlets. Deeply unpopular, she became the heroine of such insulting sketches; she was accused of extravagance, foreign influence and sympathy for the Catholic powers.

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Bulgaria Puts Images of Orthodox Saints on the Obverses of Its National Euro Coins

The 2-euro coin depicts Saint Paisius of Hilendar, who lived in the 18th century, a key figure of the Bulgarian National Revival and the author of the Slavonic-Bulgarian History of the Bulgarian peoples and tsars. The 1-euro coin shows Saint John of Rila, who lived in the

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Let us begin the week before Great Lent with Raphael's Transfiguration of Christ

This is the last picture the artist worked on before his death in 1520. It is kept in the Vatican Pinacoteca. A reminder that the beauty of Christ's sacrifice will save the world. This is what Vasari writes about the work on this painting: And for Giulio de&

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According to this genealogical construction, the English royal family, namely Elizabeth II and her descendants, trace their origin to the progenitor of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel

According to this genealogical construction, the English royal family, namely Elizabeth II and her descendants, trace their origin to the progenitor of the 12 Tribes of Israel, the third Old Testament patriarch Jacob, called Israel. What is more, Elizabeth is a descendant of Jacob-Israel and his son Judah not

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The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq

The Guardian once ran a rather strange story about how, in a telephone conversation with French President Jacques Chirac in 2003, George W. Bush appealed to their shared Christian faith as grounds for invading Iraq. Bush is supposed to have said to Chirac something along these lines: “Gog and Magog

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The fresco "Procession of the Righteous into Paradise" by Andrei Rublev and Daniil Chorny, created in 1408 for the Dormition Cathedral in Vladimir

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Exhibition of Old Believer icons to open in the United States

On 27 February, the Icon Museum and Study Center in Clinton, Massachusetts, will open the exhibition “Icons: The Old Believers and Their World”. The exhibition is devoted to the tradition of the Old Believer icon-painting centres of Palekh, Mstyora, Kholuy, Guslitsa and Vetka. The Icon Museum and Study Center

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On Pharaoh's Cart

At the very beginning of the eighteenth century, Metropolitan Stefan Yavorsky, in his sermons, likens the Russian state, "our most glorious monarchy", to the chariot of Ezekiel. The comparison is most interesting, and not only because the chariot, which by design ought to move across the plane of

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The Greatest Robbery of All Time

So wrote the German Benedictine chronicler Otto of St Blasien of the sack of Constantinople by the Latins in 1204. He describes how the sack of Constantinople sent enormous Greek riches, above all the sacred treasures of the Cathedral of Saint Sophia and countless relics of the saints, flowing into

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For Ethical and Moral Reasons, the Archdiocese of Liverpool Will No Longer Post on Twitter

TikTok, however, will do nicely. I would not say that the spiritual life of the people of Liverpool is any concern of mine, and the point is not the abstract ethical and moral grounds, or the assumptions as to why these do not apply to other platforms, no less vile.

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Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven

Jeffrey Epstein wanted to penetrate the Vatican. To that end he began funding Catholic charities through his foundation, sent his people to events at the Vatican, and conspired with Bannon to "overthrow Francis" and "cleanse the Church". He also took a keen interest in Vatican foreign

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The face of the Italian prime minister has been wiped from a fresco in a Roman church a few days after visitors recognised Giorgia Meloni in one of the cherubs

Urgent restoration was carried out on the orders of the church authorities. On Wednesday morning, visitors to the Roman basilica of San Lorenzo in Lucina were greeted by an empty space where the "Meloni angel" had so lately basked in bliss, a decisive end to a saga that