with workers in hard hats moving with concentrated purpose up on scaffolding surrounding the recently erected marble columns. First crafted in Italy, the columns were then shipped in crates to the Hermitage in Lake Elmo. Although the columns are load-bearing supports inside this authentic...
It’s worth telling the reader that Edizioni San Paolo is Italy’s most prominent Catholic publishing house. Its Vatican-approved publications are used in graduate and post-graduate Biblical Hebrew and Bible studies courses in Catholic universities and departments. I was just a...
And while the original intention had nothing to do with the persecution of the Jews per se, the Venetian Republic isolated its Jewish community as a way of placating the Roman Catholic Church, which had already spearheaded the expulsion of Jews from Western Europe. About the Venetian Ghetto Ven...
Although this impressive building has been used as a Protestant church (the oldest in Catholic Trier), the name is somewhat misleading. The huge single-room hall was the throne room of Constantine the Great. 27m wide, 67m long and 33m high, the hall was built to express the magnificence ...