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“The Angel of the Chronicles” (The Recording Angel): William Blake's illustration to the Divine Comedy, 1827
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Last Night at the Vatican
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Pope Francis shows signs of improvement, but prognosis remains cautious on the thirteenth day of hospitalisation
This is how Pope Francis looked at the general audience in the Vatican on 12 February 2025, two days before his hospitalisation. Although the Pope's condition is reported to be showing signs of improvement, Vatican officials have stressed that "the prognosis remains guarded", as his hospitalisation
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Pope Francis before his pontificate
Architecture · Faith · The East · Heritage
The Constantinopolitan Church of Hagia Sophia, now Istanbul's principal mosque of Ayasofya, which ceased to be a museum in 2020, is to undergo restoration
The roof of the church, which is inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, will be dismantled. The specialists promise to employ methods and materials appropriate to the era of the Ottoman Empire. Since the ceiling of Hagia Sophia is adorned with priceless Byzantine mosaics (parts of which are covered)
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Pope Francis, 88, reported to be in critical condition in a Rome hospital
Archive · Faith · Art · Books · Paris
Commentary on the Apocalypse by Beatus of Liébana, an eleventh-century book
The rider on the pale horse is Death. Exhibition at the National Library of France
Faith · Books · London · Observations · People
Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us
Thomas Eliot and Virginia Woolf were friends for over twenty years, but when Eliot embraced Christianity, or rather, after a period of open hostility to the Church, gradually became a zealous believer, Woolf said: he is dead to all of us. She called his faith in God and the immortality
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Pope Francis Is 88 and Has Pneumonia
Faith · Mores · Education · People
Talleyrand's childhood injury, which sent him to seminary instead of military service
The Shoes of the Devil upon Two Sticks, and Louis-Philippe Supporting a Barely Upright Talleyrand. As you can see, old Talleyrand, author of the remark "Whole nations would be horrified if they knew what petty men rule over them", is wearing the orthopaedic footwear of his age.
Coming Up · Faith · Art · Museums · Observations
Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads
Near Oryol, at the Turgenev Museum-Reserve Spasskoye-Lutovinovo, the exhibition "Invisible Threads. Christian and Historical Subjects in the Work of Russian Artists" is open until 30 March. A rare opportunity to see masterpieces of Russian art in regional museum halls. The exhibition presents works by Repin, Vasnetsov,