The riots in the Paris suburbs in late fall 2005 seemed to tear the veneer off of a French façade: the city and country of liberty, equality, and fraternity had failed to integrate its African, Algerian, and Muslim population, had in fact exiled them in ghettoes. When two boys, Bouna...
The events of Holy Week, the last week of Jesus' life, are central to the Christian message. The makers of the Irish High Crosses included some of these Holy Week events on some of the scripture crosses, while completely ignoring others. Featured here are images from eight events that took...
As you can see from where the great schools of icon writing arose, two-dimensional highly stylized icons are a more important phenomenon in the East than in the West, where statues, mosaics, illuminated manuscripts, stained glass, etc., also had their place, and the means of the veneration ...