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Saint Matthew writing his Gospel in a drawing from the late 9th or early 10th century
Mood: Saint Matthew writing his Gospel. Drawing, late 9th to early 10th century
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Three Rises in the Level of Lake Pleshcheyevo in 1557 and a Religious Procession
On 16 May 1557 the level of Lake Pleshcheyevo rose three times, causing great alarm, and it was decided to hold a religious procession. And, you know, it helped
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Saints John and Paul on the ceiling of the Roman basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo
Good day to you from the holy Roman martyrs John and Paul, with their palm branches, on the coffered ceiling of the Roman basilica of Santi Giovanni e Paolo al Celio, built in 398 over the house of the saintly brothers. The church was plundered and rebuilt more than once.
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Hans Memling’s painting “Saint Jerome Penitent”, 1485
Saint Jerome Penitent. 1485. The fifteenth-century Flemish painter Hans Memling
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And which theological school do you incline to?
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The Syracusan moneylender Timon and the finances of the Delian sanctuary in the 2nd century BC
Met an interesting character. Timon of Syracuse lived on Delos in the 2nd century BC and was a moneylender. The very sacred island on which Apollo was born proved quite conducive to the growth of commerce and the financial sector. Among Timon's borrowers, we know, was the federation
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A 3D model of the best-preserved Byzantine church in Istanbul: the Church of the Holy Saviour in Chora
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Saint Praxedes Collecting the Blood of Executed Martyrs with a Sponge
The painting is by the seventeenth-century Italian Baroque painter Felice Ficherelli. It made such an impression on Vermeer that he copied it
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St Matthew's cat has become so replete with knowledge that she seems to have been living for a hundred trillion billion years on trillions upon trillions of planets just like this one, you understand?
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The Cathedral of Saint Sophia
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The Panagia Chozoviotissa Monastery on Amorgos, Founded in 1017
Panagia Hozoviotissa is an Orthodox monastery for men, perched on a rock on the island of Amorgos in the Aegean Sea, where Luc Besson filmed "The Big Blue". The monastery was founded in 1017 and remains active; today it is home to three Orthodox monks. The monks produce
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Stone floor of the Palace of the Popes in Avignon, papal residence in 1309–1377
The floor of the Papal Palace in Avignon. This palace was the papal residence during the years of the Avignon Captivity of the popes, in 1309 to 1377, and in the years that followed, when popes and antipopes resided in Avignon