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The Heavenly Host
The Heavenly Host. Viktor Vasnetsov
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Saint Anthony hurries away from an imposing mountain of gold that has appeared to him from a cave, resisting the temptation of riches
Saint Anthony hurries away from an imposing mountain of gold that has appeared to him from a cave, resisting the temptation of riches. Few manage to overcome this trial
Faith · Observations · Society
In His Christmas Address Pope Francis Unexpectedly Reminded Us That We Are Not a Number but a Face
Yet in reality everything now happening in the world looks rather the other way round. "Amid a world so judgemental and unforgiving", "you are not a number but a face", and the Christ Child "descends into the narrow confines of our lives, not shunning our
Faith · Books · People
Tolkien's words to his son Michael about Holy Communion and talk of canonisation
Pope Francis quoted Tolkien's letter to his son in his Christmas address:. "Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament… There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the
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The Holy Family, Fifteenth Century
Architecture · Faith · Art · New York
Blake's “The Ancient of Days” and a quotation from the Book of Isaiah above an entrance
Sculptural panel over the entrance of the 60-storey General Electric Building at Rockefeller Center, New York. The image alludes to the enigmatic drawing "The Ancient of Days", completed by the artist and poet William Blake only a couple of days before his death, which shows God imprisoned
Faith · Art
Heinrich Aldegrever depicted Adam and Eve at labour in an engraving of 1540
Adam and Eve at work. He grubs up trees; she feeds the baby. The German artist Heinrich Aldegrever, “The Story of Adam and Eve”, 1540
NB! · Faith · Society · Rome
Pope Francis Gives Formal Permission to Bless Same-Sex Unions
Architecture · Faith · Heritage · Paris
A cockerel has been restored to the spire of Notre-Dame de Paris, bearing sacred relics: one of the seventy thorns of the Crown of Thorns, a particle of the relics of Saint Genevieve and a particle of the relics of Saint Denis of Paris
The cathedral's new emblem also has two openings, in which reliquary capsules are placed. The figure has been blessed by the Archbishop of Paris, Monsignor Laurent Ulrich
Archive · Faith · Books
Icon of Saint Avvakum holding a scroll, with figures on a cloud
... Send me some little keepsake: a spoon, or a bowl, or some such thing. Or have you nothing of your own either? My poor dear fathers! Well, bear it, for Christ's sake! So be it! For I am rich: I have fish and milk aplenty, by the grace
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The Empyrean, Gustave Doré
Archive · Faith · Books · Ethnography
In the 1642/3 edition of Symeon Metaphrastes' "Services and Life of Nicholas the Wonderworker", a curious eighteenth-century note appears in the margin of one page:
"If things go completely badly, pray to dear little Nicholas: he will drop to his knees before Christ and beg forgiveness for you." The main thing to know about the veneration of Saint Nicholas the Pleasant in Russia.