Icon of the Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ: Christ in a radiant mandorla stands on broken gates, surrounded by righteous figures.

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Years When Catholic and Orthodox Easter Coincide up to 2048

Catholic and Orthodox Easter fall on the same day in roughly a third of years. We shall be celebrating Easter on the same day in 2028, 2031, 2034, 2037, 2038, 2041, 2045 and 2048

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Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, in retirement, celebrates her 85th birthday

Queen Margrethe II of Denmark, in retirement, has celebrated her 85th birthday. It is touching that the festive table was decorated in the manner of Easter. And it is very sad to think that we are witnesses to the last Christian rulers of Europe; one wants to go on believing

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The Last Supper, Albrecht Dürer, 1510

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Paris, You Are Magnificent

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A Bibliophile's Dream: Cicero's Selected Letters and Speeches, Illustrated!

Church interior with an altar and Chinese-style murals, three figures in red robes on the vault and a meal scene beneath them.

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Catholic church in Taiwan decorated in Chinese style after sketches by Gresnigt

Taiwan has a Catholic church in the Chinese style, inspired by sketches by Gresnigt. The apostles at the Last Supper here eat with chopsticks, and all the saints have faces resembling those of the Chinese

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Sketches for a Catholic church in the Chinese style, created by the Benedictine monk Adelbert Gresnigt and published in the bulletin of the Catholic University of Peking in the 1920s

A tall decorated brick tower rises above a pale yellow building. The arched pediment holds a mosaic of a group of people in work clothes and uniforms. Blue sky, empty street.

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Brick tower and a building with a mosaic panel on its arched pediment

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The Grodno Mona Lisa on the façade of an early twentieth-century fire tower

The Grodno Mona Lisa on the façade of an early twentieth-century fire tower. It is not the uniform that makes the man, but the man the uniform.

A tall white glazed vase-like sculpture with wavy edges and many openings stands on a wooden floor before a grey wall of weathered planks.

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Ceramic sculpture with many openings against wooden panels

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Tsarevich George Alexandrovich, third son of Emperor Alexander III, resting and dozing at a picnic in the spring of 1894

A priest in green vestments holding a book, surrounded by children and adults with palm fronds. Beside them are a low brick wall with rebar, a pile of stones, trees and a green slope.

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