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A group of 90 Catholic priests, scholars and writers asks bishops and cardinals to reject the Vatican declaration approving the blessing of same-sex couples and to refuse to implement it in their dioceses

A group of 90 Catholic priests, scholars and writers asks bishops and cardinals to reject the Vatican declaration approving the blessing of same-sex couples and to refuse to implement it in their dioceses. Odd that only 90 of them could be found

Engraving of a woman seen from behind in a long cloak and wide headdress, standing in a vaulted Gothic church nave.

NB! · Aristocracy · Faith · Art

Abraham Bosse depicts a French aristocratic woman in church in an engraving of 1628

A French aristocrat in church. Abraham Bosse, 1628

NB! · Archive · Faith · Monarchies · People

Prince Charles at the Solovetsky Monastery in 2003

Fragment of an old printed book page set in old type, with words about Elizabeth and Russia.

Faith · Books · Monarchies · Observations

An old printed text on Elizabeth, who healed Russia with a word

Elizabeth, it is said, healed the ailing fatherland with a single word filled with divine power, saying: Arise and walk, arise and walk, Russia. Shake off thy doubts and fears, and, filled with joy and hope, adorn thyself, rejoice, be exalted. What is there to add? Amen

NB! · Faith · Observations · Rome

Snowballs in Saint Peter's Square in Rome, 2018

NB! · Archive · Faith · Books · Observations

In a book of 1765 I came across an interesting supposition about the stature of Our Saviour Jesus Christ: three cubits, that is, about 183 cm

Faith · Museums · People

The Chains of Patriarch Nikon

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Faith · The East · Art · Books

"A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter"

"A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter." And the camels galled, sore-footed, refractory, Lying down in the melting snow. There

Painted wooden statue of a barefoot standing woman with long wavy hair in a torn yellow garment, on a plinth in a dark gallery.

Coming Up · Faith · Art · Moscow · Museums

Sculpture of Mary Magdalene attributed to Pedro de Mena at the Pushkin Museum exhibition

Saint Mary Magdalene, a wooden sculpture of the 17th century, attributed to the Spaniard Pedro de Mena. Collection of the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. The exhibition at the Pushkin Museum, “The Spanish Collection. From the Holdings of Russian Museums”, is open until 4 February

Faith · The East · Monarchies · Nature · Ethnography

When a giraffe was presented to Zhu Di (1360-1424), the third emperor of the Ming dynasty, during the voyages of his subject Zheng He around the world, the court was delighted, for everyone took the animal for a qilin or kirin, the mythical beast, one of…

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At his trial, Patriarch Nikon explained why he wore a black klobuk with a cherub and two panagias

A six-winged seraph on the klobuk of Patriarch Nikon. Collection of the New Jerusalem Museum. When Patriarch Nikon was asked at his trial why he wore a black klobuk with a cherub and two panagias, Nikon replied thus: "Black klobuks are worn by the Greek patriarchs, and I

Almaty · Faith · Cinema · Museums

Authentic 17th-century sakkos from the New Jerusalem Museum in a film shot in Alma-Ata

In Filming "Ivan the Terrible", Sergei Eisenstein Used Authentic Historical Costumes. The film was shot while Mosfilm was evacuated to Alma-Ata. At the same time the city was also sheltering, in evacuation, the collection of church textiles of the New Jerusalem Museum, the foremost assemblage of Russian