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Saint Nicholas Will Come and Set Things in Order
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Painting “Man of Sorrows”, attributed to late Botticelli, at Sotheby’s auction in January 2022
Christ's head in "Man of Sorrows", attributed to the late Botticelli, is encircled by a halo of angels bearing the instruments of the Passion. The Cross is planted right on the crown of his head. This painting, attributed in recent times as a work by Botticelli,
NB! · Architecture · Faith · Monarchies · Moscow
The Convent of Saints Martha and Mary, founded by Grand Duchess Elizaveta Feodorovna, was built to a design by the architect Shchusev, the very man who authored Lenin's Mausoleum and, somewhat earlier, Kazan Station
NB! · Faith · Art · Museums · Rome
A fresco in one of the Raphael Rooms on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican
A fresco in one of the Raphael Rooms on the third floor of the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican. The fresco of the 1580s in the Hall of Constantine, by Tommaso Laureti, is called the Triumph of Christianity and shows the Crucifix rising on a pedestal above a shattered statue
Faith · The East · Art · Museums
Matteo di Giovanni: Saint Bartholomew with his own flayed skin draped over his shoulders
According to legend, one of the apostles, Bartholomew, was flayed alive and then beheaded. Bartholomew preached in Lesser India and in the Caucasus. In the Orthodox tradition he is held to have suffered martyrdom on the site of the modern city of Baku. In the 1480s di Giovanni was the
NB! · Faith · Observations · Rome
Christmas tree installed in Saint Peter's Square in Rome beside the obelisk of Caligula
A Christmas tree has been erected in St Peter's Square. In Rome, with its obelisks, one does not usually chase after the size of Christmas trees, though this one, I would say, is an impressive 25.5 metres, considering the forty-metre Vatican obelisk of Caligula
Architecture · Faith · Moscow · Observations · Heritage
One of Moscow's Most Beautiful Churches: the Church of the Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, in Zamoskvorechye, of 1762
One of Moscow's most beautiful churches is the Church of the Hieromartyr Clement, Pope of Rome, in Zamoskvorechye, built in 1762. It is a great pity that the interior has undergone a reconstruction-style restoration, but this does not diminish the grandeur of the decoration. In Soviet times
Faith · Society · People · Rome
CBS report on a boy with autism and a miracle attributed to Pope Francis
CBS has aired a report on a miracle attributed to Pope Francis. A 10-year-old boy suffering from autism and epilepsy ran up onto the stage to the Pope and began to talk with the pontiff. For his mother, it was already a miracle that her son had climbed
Faith · Mores · Humour
A lady asks a priest whether calling herself beautiful in the mirror is a sin
A woman asks the preacher Abbé Mugnier:. "Father, when I look at myself in the mirror and exclaim, 'How beautiful I am!', is that a sin?" "No, madam, merely a mistake."
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Pope Francis announced that this year the Church has lost 17 cardinals and 191 bishops, some of whom died of coronavirus
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Restored models of the Christ the Saviour Cathedral dome at the Museum of Architecture
Models of the dome of the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour at the Restorer: A Profession exhibition in the Museum of Architecture. The models date from the 1840s and 1850s and were restored in our own time. They look very impressive; I had never looked at the Cathedral of Christ