"OUR Lady of Peace" and "Queen of Peace" are among the many names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in the Roman Catholic Church. Her image is presented in art as holding the peace symbols of a dov
to the tale that no scientist would believe, the story of Our Lady of the Flowering Thorn. If you wish to check on the details, you might go yourself to the forgotten valley near the highest peak of the Jura and walk among the ruins there. As you ...
Roman Monuments, Cathedral of St Peter, and Church of Our Lady in Trier (cultural) Frontiers of the Roman Empire * (cultural) Hanseatic City of Lübeck (cultural) Palaces and Parks of Potsdam and Berlin (cultural) Abbey and Altenmünster of Lorsch (cultural) Mines of Rammelsberg, Historic ...
Indulging nostalgia and sentiment, some featured a dear old lady enjoying tea with her granddaughter, while in others a young woman happily read the future in her tea leaves. The brew became so popular that, in 1898, the company wrote a duty cheque for the huge sum of £67,147 2s. 10...
A loud American lady took our guide to task for only giving us twenty minutes to see the dramatic lava film location sites while we were parked in by two other buses. What was the rush? She was quite right, we could have had more free time to galumph in the bumpy laval terrain but ...
The Sheepskin of the Jewish Kabbalah, the Sophia of the Book of Wisdom and the Gnostic Gospels, Mary with her wonderful names drawn from the beauty of the planet: Mystical Rose, Star of the Sea, Our Lady of the Pines, of the Lakes, of the Mountains, Madonna of the Rocks… would find...
The distinctively Spanish iconography and representation of our Lady as “el Soledad” can be traced to the commission for a new statue of the Sorrowing Virgin given to the Spanish artist Gaspar de Beccera (+1570) by Queen Isabel de Valois (+1568). There had already been a longstanding...
Yet, the state of things in our times is such that, as Michael Matt pointed out in a video for the Remnant Newspaper, the convent where the statue of our Lady of Akita still stands provides very little information about the significant events that took place there over 40 years ago. ...
Our Lady of Guadalupe welcomes pilgrims at the gate The Assumption of Mary The Crucifixion of Jesus St. Louis Marie de Montfort We had the place almost to ourselves. The kids loved the long walk into the woods and the discovery of each new treasure along the way, including the pool of sp...
The chapel was later rebuilt into a majestic church, as we see today. A statue of theLady of Navigators, which has interesting legends attached to it, was then placed in the Mount Mary church. TheSanctum Sanctorum, has a marble altar with seven steps. ...