Saint Leonard was born in Limoges, France in the early 500's, shortly after King Clovis I converted to Christianity. According to legend he was a Frankish noble who left the king's court and took up the life of a hermit. As sometimes happens to holy hermits, he was discovered and inundated with requests for prayer [...]
The other day I went looking to see what the NGA had online in terms of paintings of books. (Don’t just put ‘books’ in as the prompt. You will get the entire museum since every picture is in someone’s book.) I started looking for this famous picture of Dante, (attributed to Bronzini, 1530) holding his [...]
The cover art for the anthology I am part of has been released, but not the book itself yet! I think that will be in two weeks. In the meantime, ... That's me on the front cover, the fourth author! I have another story deadline in about ten days, and the story is still a [...]
“Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long” From The Hollow Men, T. S. Eliot In my short story struggles, I am at the [...]
Today is the Feast of Saint John of Capistrano. He is famous for helping John Hunyadi break the Siege of Belgrade in 1456. And then dying of the plague spread in the aftermath. This lovely altarpiece from the Walters Art Museum, titled Saint Louis of Toulouse, Saint Francis, and the Blessed John Capistrano, was constructed [...]
