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Fire has its own laws. The fire of war instils fear in people. It breathes peace in hearths and bonfires. But there is an invisible fire: the icon's. Oh, how blissfully your rays burn, Burn me, icon, I shall not flinch, I know you will burn away my
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Graffiti on the walls of Canterbury Cathedral, the chief Anglican church of Great Britain, built in 1070. This is the cathedral founded by Saint Augustine himself, and its walls have been disfigured with hideous tags. And do you know what? The graffiti on the walls of the Cathedral and Metropolitical
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The frescoes of the Duomo in the Italian city of Spoleto are the last work of Filippo Lippi. They were executed on the commission of Cosimo de' Medici in 1466, together with Fra Diamante. The fresco of the Dormition of the Virgin is by Lippi; the other scenes in
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It is reported that Mel Gibson will change the cast for the sequel to The Passion of the Christ. Meetings with actors are currently under way in Rome. The project has been in pre-production for several months. The film will be devoted to the events of the three days
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A Romanian national who set fire to the church of Notre-Dame-des-Champs in Paris last July, as Le Parisien reports, has been declared insane by the Paris Criminal Court. He was already known for similar acts in 2021. He set fire to a statue of Christ, which was
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Antonio de Comontes, c. 1540
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Miniatures from the "Visions of Tundale" (The Visions of the Knight Tondal), a fifteenth-century illuminated manuscript created by Simon Marmion around 1470 for Margaret of York, wife of Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy. This twelfth-century Irish text tells of a knight named Tondal (Tundale), who
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Not the most distinguished work of art, but a worthy message
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Schema-Archimandrite Elijah (1932-2025)
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A historic event took place in Great Britain today: for the first time in the 1,400-year history of the Anglican Church, a woman has been appointed Archbishop of Canterbury: Sarah Mullally. Her candidacy was approved by King Charles III, and Prime Minister Keir Starmer officially announced the decision.