Faith · Art · Museums · People
Saint-Paul-de-Mausole near Saint-Rémy-de-Provence is a former monastery turned psychiatric hospital. It was here that Vincent van Gogh admitted himself voluntarily in May 1889, a few months after cutting off part of his ear in Arles, and he spent a year here, until May 1890.
Faith · Art · Museums
The painting was executed in 1886 by Emmanuel Benner. Collection of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
Faith · Art · Museums · Heritage · Rome
This is the first serious cleaning in more than 500 years of the frescoes of the glazed corridor on the second floor of the Apostolic Palace, overlooking the Cortile di San Damaso. The budget for the works is 5.5 million dollars. In addition to restoration, the paintings will be
Faith · Observations · Education · Society
The Texas Board of Education has added biblical texts to the compulsory school reading list. Pupils from the earliest grades through to the 12th will read the stories of Adam and Eve, David and Goliath, and extracts from the New Testament. I consider it a splendid neighbourhood for Dickens'
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Saint Augustine in his cell. Fresco in the church of Ognissanti in Florence, painted by Sandro Botticelli around 1480
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Processional Crucifix painted by an Umbrian artist, 1260–1270. Vatican Pinacoteca
Faith · Reportage · Ethnography
In Tutayev, more than two thousand people walked in a procession of the cross along the right bank of the Volga with an icon that takes thirty men to lift. This is the “Saviour Most Merciful” from the Resurrection Cathedral: a half-length Pantocrator with an open Gospel in his
Archaeology · Faith · Museums
A lead curse tablet, or defixio, written in Ancient Greek and designed in the Egyptian manner, with a group of magical signs meant to carry its request to the powers of the other world. The tablet names two men and two women, who may equally be the cursed or the
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Vandalism in Venice. The damage done to a sacred aedicule with an image of the Virgin Mary, not far from the Papadopoli Hotel, is the thanks of Christian Europe from the hordes of Afro-Arab "doctors and engineers". The Reconquista is inevitable
Architecture · Faith · Heritage
When all religions were formally put on an equal footing after the French invasion and the proclamation of the Batavian Republic, Catholics were officially permitted to build churches. A constitutional reform half a century later guaranteed absolute freedom of worship and of church assembly, and abolished the last remaining restrictions
Architecture · Faith · Society
On 10 June, the centenary of Gaudí's death, Pope Leo XIV consecrated the Tower of Jesus Christ, the central and tallest of the eighteen towers of the Sagrada Família. The basilica has risen to 172.5 metres and has officially become the tallest church in the world. Yet
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The Annunciation is the earliest good news in European culture, a message that came true in the flesh. This week, five exhibitions on a promise and its fate: an image made flesh, sketches for a church that was never built, a colossus shown through the most fragile of materials, and