Faith - The Parnassian (Page 29)

An elderly man in a long coat kneels in prayer at a prie-dieu inside a stone church.

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Charles de Gaulle at prayer in a church in 1960

Europe will be all right when we see its rulers at prayer in church, and not at pop concerts. It would be as well, of course, if they looked like Charles de Gaulle in church in 1960

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Authorities confirm Armenian cathedral in Ani will become a mosque after restoration

It is reported that the Armenian Cathedral of the Holy Virgin in Ani, the capital of medieval Bagratid Armenia, in present-day eastern Turkey on the border with Armenia, is to be turned into a mosque. The cathedral has enormous historical and symbolic significance for Armenians. The thousand-year-old

Gilded carved altar with columns decorated with grapevines beneath the white vaults of the cathedral, photographed from below.

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Carved and gilded altar in the Cathedral of Saint Peter in Malmö

Behind the most sumptuous Baroque carving lie the most ordinary painted boards. The altarpiece of St Peter's Church in Malmö

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When the Day of Pentecost Had Come, They Were All Together in One Place

When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as

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Orthodox Christians in Palestine in 1900

During the ethnic cleansing of the Nakba, a consequence of the creation of the State of Israel, Jewish militias expelled more than 750,000 people from Palestine in 1948, including 90,000 Palestinian Christians, and destroyed or forced the closure of around thirty Christian churches

Cover of Life magazine with a headline about the Hermitage and a photo of a clergyman and several men in suits with a wreath of pink and white flowers.

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The Hermitage Announced on the Cover of Life Magazine, 26 March 1965

Martin Luther King and Archbishop Iakovos, the only clergyman not of African descent to take part in the march against racial discrimination. Cover pull-quote: Russia'a Fabulous Art Museum The Hermitage

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Growing number of conversions to Orthodoxy among Americans and the English

Not only America but England too is turning its gaze to Orthodoxy, which means the programme to destroy the Christian religion in the Anglo-Saxon world has misfired. Remember the episode of "The Simpsons" in which Homer and Bart become Catholics, and Marge frets that they will make

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The Beast of Revelation in Giusto de' Menabuoi's fresco in the Padua Baptistery

I saw a beast rising out of the sea. He has ten horns and seven heads; on his horns are ten crowns, and on his heads blasphemous names. The beast I saw was like a leopard, but his feet are those of a bear, and his mouth a lion'

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Bernini's Project for a Church in the Colosseum and the Memory of Martyrs

One of the creators of Roman Baroque, the great sculptor Gian Lorenzo Bernini (1598-1680), builder of Saint Peter's Square, contemplated the decline of another landmark of Rome: since the fourteenth century the Colosseum had been in a pitiable state, crumbling ever further. Despite its worldwide fame since

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Vatican police escort a blogger out of St Peter's Basilica and attempt to arrest her for dancing inside the church and filming it

Vatican police escorted out of St Peter's Basilica, and attempted to arrest, a blogger who had been dancing inside the church and filming it. The silly girl, naturally, at once raised a howl about it online. Each time I see activities of this sort, I want to ask:

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Of the 80,200 roubles required in 1898-1899 to resettle 7,300 Doukhobor peasants in Canada, Leo Tolstoy contributed 34,200 roubles, taken from the publication of his novel "Resurrection"

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Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin, Rogier van der Weyden, 1440

One of the copies of this work is in the Hermitage