I’ve been thinking about Purgatory, at least, with respect to Dante’s ideas of what it might be like. My art history friend claims that, although the Church has always taught that Purgatory exists, Dante was the first to use his poetic imagination to consider exactly how a soul might be purified there. Pictures of his [...]
Brown bread and green vestments – update
Sometime ago I wrote about eating Boston Brown bread as a child, and a recipe I found at a blog called Tasting History. https://www.tastinghistory.com/episodes/bostonbrownbread ** I finally tried making the bread with my own special tweaks. Brown bread is notoriously made in cans, placed in boiling water, for a long time. I wasn’t sure I [...]
More about Notre Dame cathedral …
Header image Wandrille de Préville, CC BY-SA 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0, via Wikimedia Commons I read an article on the internet about the Parisian fire-fighters and their efforts, back in 2019, to save Notre Dame cathedral. https://strangesounds.org/2019/07/notre-dame-fire-collapse-save-paris.html (I found it through this blog https://almatcboykin.wordpress.com/ which I have linked to in the past.) I had not paid full [...]
Happy Feast of Saint Nicholas
I had a different post for today but the pictures for it are stuck in limbo. Have a picture of Saint Nicholas from the National Gallery of Art, instead. This is the Virgin Mary visiting Saint Elizabeth. Saint Nicholas is on the left of the picture, identified by the golden balls spread around him. Saint [...]
Notre Dame and a Marian procession
A Virgin of Paris statue replica is carried during a Marian candlelit procession through the streets of Paris Nov. 15, 2024, as the original, for security reasons, was transported on a truck back to Notre Dame Cathedral. The statue was kept at the Saint-Germain-l'Auxerrois Church near the Louvre for five years since Notre Dame was [...]
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