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Wishes for a happy new year according to all calendars
2022 by the Gregorian calendar, 5782 by the Jewish, 2566 by the Buddhist, 5123 by the Kali Yuga, 7531 by the Byzantine, 1444 by the Islamic, 1739 by the Coptic, 4659 by the Chinese, 111 by the North Korean, 554 by the Sikh, 2775 by the Roman. May the new
Architecture · Faith · Cinema · Moscow
Zhenya Lukashin's house and the Church of the Archangel Michael in Troparyovo, southwest Moscow
Where on Tretya Ulitsa Stroiteley in "The Irony of Fate" is the church, apparently of the eighteenth century? Let us take this in order. Tretya Ulitsa Stroiteley (Third Builders' Street), where Zhenya Lukashin lives, is today called ulitsa Marii Ulyanovoy, lying between Leninsky Prospekt and Prospekt Vernadskogo,
Faith · Monarchies · Observations · Rome
Believers’ doubts about the validity of Pope Benedict XVI’s resignation
In February it would have been 10 years since Pope Benedict XVI stunned the world by resigning. I remember that day very well, and my own state of shock. Yes, this extraordinary situation astonished many, but it has never quite left me in peace. If one looks into it, the
NB! · Faith · Society · People · Rome
Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI died today at 9:34 Rome time in the Mater Ecclesiae Monastery in the Vatican
Faith · Monarchies · People · Rome
While a sixth of the earth's landmass chops its salads, in the first Rome they pray on bended knee for Pope Benedict XVI and keep the windows open, lest the tolling of bells announce the pontiff's death
On 28 December the Vatican spokesman Matteo Bruni announced a rapid deterioration in the condition of the Pope Emeritus, owing to his venerable years, of course. Francis I, who visited Benedict on the morning of the 28th, asked for prayers for him in his hour of great weakness, beseeching God
Faith · Art · People
Iconography of Saint Stephen the protomartyr and his Orthodox and Catholic feast days
Saint Stephen, the Christian protomartyr executed by decision of the Sanhedrin around AD 33-36, is customarily depicted as a beardless youth at the moment of his execution, being stoned. In his hands Stephen often holds the Gospel and a palm branch, or a censer. Stephen was one of the
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Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin at the opening of the Chapelle Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer, restored by Cocteau
Jean Cocteau and Charlie Chaplin at the opening of the Chapelle Saint-Pierre in Villefranche-sur-Mer, restored by Cocteau. July 1957
Archive · Faith · Books · Monarchies
Monks who had access to monastic libraries, like the scribes engaged in copying and compiling manuscripts, sometimes left in the margins of the books they read notes or even entries recording the provenance of the volumes, or idle thoughts…
On the last leaf of a Lenten Triodion of 1462 there is a curious epitaph for the late Grand Duke of Moscow, Vasily II the Blind: "In the year 6970 [1462] on the 28th day of the month of March, on the feast of our holy and venerable father
NB! · Faith · Art · Observations · Rome
What charming sandals the Virgin wears in Carlo Maratti's "Flight into Egypt" in the Irish church of San Isidoro in Rome
Faith · The East · Observations · Rome · Humour
Pope Francis and the Magi
Am I the only one who finds it strange, this joyful meeting of the Bishop of Rome with Chaldean astrologers, Zoroastrian priests and sorcerers?
Faith · Art · Museums
Saint Sebastian of 1490 by the painter of the early Italian Renaissance Andrea Mantegna, and a barely noticeable detail: an inscription on the ribbon wound around the candle, "nil nisi divinum stabile est caetera fumus", which means "only the divine…
The dying flame symbolises the life of the saint himself, departing towards the heavens, to which his last gaze is turned. But the arrows of martyrdom promise eternal life. Mantegna has other Sebastians too, in the Dresden and Louvre collections. This one is from the Franchetti collection in Venice.