Today the Feast of Saint Jane DeChantal is celebrated but only in the US. For most of my life, her feast has bounced around. Many years ago it was celebrated on August 21, which I am very aware of because it was the anniversary of my parents’ wedding. At the time my mother wasn’t a [...]
I took this picture in Iowa a few weeks ago. Forty years ago this entire church was ALL painted white or cream. All of that delicate detail below was obscured and barely noticeable. Obviously the shapes were still present, but when a renovation was done a few years ago, the church was revealed as it [...]
Years ago I saw these windows above the altar in a church which had been stripped of its decoration in the 1970's, as part of a renovation. The church at that time was all one color and the altar space was a soaring emptiness, with beautiful windows. When I realized what the windows portrayed I [...]
My post is quite late today! On my vacation I read a book about Texas history called Adelsverein: The Gathering by Celia Hayes. It’s part one of a trilogy she wrote describing a German immigrant scheme from the 1840’s. The scheme, named the Adelsverein or Mainzer Verein, was arranged by various German nobility to relieve [...]
Last week I traveled for a while and read two and a half new books. I also enjoyed leaving my computer alone for five days. ; ) The first book was The Great Passion by James Runcie. It sounds like some regency love story but, no. It is a historical novel about the writing of [...]
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