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Left Hand of Christ with the Wound and Left Foot of Christ with the Wound
Willem Vrelant, Bruges, early 1460s. Tempera, gold leaf, ink on parchment. Collection of the Getty Museum, Los Angeles
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Faith · The East · Heritage · Society
It is reported that the South Sinai administration is pursuing a court case for control of two thirds of the lands of Saint Catherine's Monastery, a UNESCO World Heritage Site
The monastery was founded in the 6th century at the supposed site of the burning bush and is considered the oldest continuously inhabited monastery in the world. It holds a unique collection of Byzantine icons and manuscripts, second in importance only to that of the Vatican. Although it stands in
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He who created you without you will not save you without you
Saint Augustine
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Newton identified 2060 as the year of God's judgment from prophetic chronologies
Isaac Newton, according to his manuscripts of 1704, basing himself on his own interpretation of the Bible, above all the Book of Daniel, calculated that the end of the world would come in 2060. Sir Isaac Newton's prediction of the end of the world in 2060 rests on
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The legend of a demon who revealed to Saint Bernard seven verses that lead to paradise
Who could be luckier than those who assure us that they will attain supreme bliss by reading, every day, seven short verses from the sacred psalms? There is a tradition that a rather talkative demon once mentioned to Saint Bernard the existence of seven verses, the daily reading of which
Faith · Observations · Society
Russia will become God's chosen instrument for the chastisement of the whole world
A celebrated quotation from the Portuguese Catholic nun Sister Lúcia (1907-2005), one of the three witnesses of the Fátima apparitions of the Mother of God in 1917. According to the Fátima prophecy, the Virgin Mary asked for Russia to be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart, in order to avert
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Others' Sins Are None of Your Business
Others' sins are none of your business. Sit and weep for your own sins. Venerable Gabriel Urgebadze
Faith · Science · Nature · Rome
The legend of the sacred geese of the Capitol and the Gallic sack of Rome in 390 BC
The Sacred Geese before the Temple of Juno Moneta on the Capitoline Hill. The historical chronicles, including the works of Titus Livius, offer no reliable confirmation that it was the geese who played the decisive part in saving the Capitol. The legend seems rather to have arisen as a symbolic
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The Synaxis of the Holy Innocents of Bethlehem
This icon recalls the 14,000 infant souls slaughtered by order of the tetrarch Herod. The murdered children of Bethlehem are venerated as the first martyrs for Christ. Today this icon is prayed before by parents who, following the example of Herod, have dealt with their own children by destroying
Faith · Education · Society
From 1 September 2025, Russian schools will begin cutting the hours devoted to foreign languages
From 1 September 2025, Russian schools will begin cutting the hours devoted to foreign languages. In Years 5 to 7, the number of lessons will fall from three to two a week, while the total number of hours for the subject in Years 5 to 9 will drop from 510
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Reflection on the origin of adversity and light from darkness, quoting Isaiah
Who can speak of joy without having known pain, or of peace without having seen and known strife? At dawn the day is parted from the night, and each is known in its own nature and strength, for without contrast nothing is revealed. No image appears in a clear mirror
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Illustration “Send-Briefe” from a work by Jacob Boehme, known to Russian Freemasons
In essence, what we have before us is an eighteenth-century depiction of the interaction between non-human intelligence, or superintelligence, and mortal men. An illustration from Jakob Böhme, the German mystical and theosophical symbolist of the seventeenth century, well known to the Russian Freemasons