The Tarragona Good Friday Easter tradition dates back to the year 1550 and is inspired by Tarragona's city origins as an Imperial Roman city of Tarraco in the Roman empire. Tarragona has impressive Roman ruins including a Roman amphitheatre and Roman circus and the remains of an aguaduct ...
You can see a modern three-part mosaic on the wall behind the Stone of Anointing. Here is a panorama of the mosaic: The mosaic shows three scenes. The pictures are (in the right to left order): descent from the Cross, anointing of Jesus’ body, and burial of Jesus. Here is a close...
So I thought I’d do the next best thing and fill this space with some “unboxing” in pictures and text. Revolver. The August 1966 album that was the Beatles’ true masterpiece. For a long time, the following year’s Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band was hailed the pinnacle of...
We can’t find a clear precedent in many ways. The canonical structure is based upon the geopolitical reality of the Roman Empire, which is fine if you have that empire. But now we live in nation-states, which is a more modern phenomenon. Look at the Byzantine Empire—it had five or ...
Anyway, a lot of those old pictures of certain royals are fabricated ones. The true royals were negroes/black. For example, Queen Elizabeth the 1st was a black woman with frizzy red hair. The Drake Jewel has a portrait of her that reflects her ...
Prior to the Roman Empire, the Celtic race populated Europe and the British Isles. In the fourth century A. D., Christianity began to dominate the area, as the Catholic Church of Rome forced the issue. The old religions did not die completely. Another form of early Christianity, the ...
The holy vatican is an immensely beautiful place, with relics from history everywhere. The obelisk in front of St. Peter's basilica dates back to the time of the Romans, and even farther, to ancient Egypt, from whence it was transported by the Roman empire. ...