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Vladimir Weisberg Has Depicted My Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner for the Duration of Great Lent

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Details. A tapestry in the Lateran Palace, residence of the Vicar General of Rome

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The Execution of Giordano Bruno at Campo de' Fiori in 1600 in Contemporary Accounts

Before being burned, Giordano Bruno said to his judges: “You pronounce this sentence upon me with greater fear than I receive it”. These words were recorded by Count Ventimiglia, a pupil of Bruno who was present at the burning. Count Ventimiglia reports that before his death Bruno urged him to

Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Heritage

One of Moscow's most striking churches, acknowledged as a masterpiece of world architecture, the Church of the Ascension at Kolomenskoye, is undergoing repair and restoration work until April 2025

The first stone tented church in Russia, built in the 1530s and attributed to the Italian architect Petrus Fransiscus Annibale, was founded by Vasily III as a prayer for an heir. A church of exquisite beauty! In the second half of the twentieth century, specialists viewed the condition of the

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Pope Francis's address to the World Economic Forum makes no mention of God

I have read the address of Pope Francis I to the participants of the 2024 World Economic Forum meeting in Davos. What does Francis mention? International instability, praise for the World Economic Forum, innovative and effective ways of building a better world, the need for social cohesion, an ever more

Faith · Mores · Society · Paris · Ethnography

Mi-Carême in France: the Laundresses' Festival and the Election of Queens until the 1930s

For Catholics, the middle of Lent coincided with the French carnivalesque festival of Mi-Carême, which in Paris and its suburbs was celebrated on a very grand scale, with processions of coal-heavers, water-carriers, washerwomen and students. There were processions, parades, feasts, dances, parties, merry-go-rounds, fireworks and

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Opera: the plural of opus, which in Latin means “work” or “labour”

In the present case we are dealing with an apostolic letter of John Paul II on the transfer of the parishes of the Diocese of Rome to the jurisdiction of the Cardinal Vicar General of Rome, whose residence stands in the Lateran Palace, which is precisely where this document was

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John Paul II, Elizabeth II and Prince Philip

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Christ Leading the Righteous out of Hell, fresco of 1365-1368

Christ Leading the Righteous out of Hell, fresco of 1365-1368 by Andrea Bonaiuti da Firenze in the church of Santa Maria Novella in Florence. Beneath the shattered gates of hell, through which Christ leads out Adam and those who died before the Resurrection, we see evil, hideous and cowering,

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Monica Bellucci as Mary Magdalene in Mel Gibson's The Passion of the Christ

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Easter falls on 31 March for Catholics

Easter falls on 31 March for Catholics. Happy holiday! Our Easter this year is on 6 May. We count the days to Christ's Resurrection and do not forget about Great Lent.

Dead Christ in a crown of thorns, bare to the waist, between the Virgin in a dark veil on the left and John in a blue cloak on the right, before a landscape.

Faith · Art · Museums

Giovanni Bellini’s “Pietà” of 1460 in the Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan

"The grief that Bellini conceived here is divine only in its excess of humanity," the English painter and art critic Roger Fry. The panel "Pietà" or "The Dead Christ Supported by the Madonna and Saint John the Evangelist" by Giovanni Bellini, 1460. Pinacoteca di