Once the Saint passed, the crowds opened up. Some were following, some were heading in the direction of the booths. The food was everywhere now. Years ago I would’ve eaten this stuff, but I’m too old for it now. Even the colorful refrigerator magnets were shaped like food. ...
March 7 – For four days her mortal remains were exposed for the veneration of an immense throng of the faithful who went to her house to have a last look at Luisa the Saint, so dear to their hearts. The funeral was a realm triumph; Luisa passed like a queen, borne aloft on shoulder...
, now an established annual event held around the feast day of Cork’s patron saint, St Finnbarr, September 25th. It’s great that Ireland’s special saints – who ‘kept alive civilisation’ during the otherwise Dark Ages in pre-medieval Europe – are still living and celebrated in ...
special prayers for the church calendar, from Advent through special holy days, feast days, and well known seasons such as Lent. (And, yes, in the Advent portion he has theO Antiphons,making it nearly the price of the book for that.) ...
Feast on Some Omaha Steaks Ever heard of Omaha Steaks? Yes you have. The city of Omaha has no shortage of excellent steakhouses. You can try any of the many joints in town, starting with The Drover, all the way to Brother Sebastian’s, Johnny’s Italian Steakhouse, or even Gorat’s...
Did early Christians keep the Feast of Trumpets? Why should any one keep it now? What will happen with the seven trumpets of Revelation? Why do many not understand aspects of it? Did Early Christians Observe the Fall Holy Days? The ‘Fall’ Holy Days come every year in September and/or...
Christ lag in Todes Banden is Bach’s first cantata for Easter – in fact, his only extant original composition for the first day of the feast – and his earliest surviving chorale cantata. It was related to his application for a post at a Lutheran church at Mühlhausen. He later twice ...
sights on the next domain to be conquered. Politics have entered a new stage — the television age — and no man is more beloved than Lonesome Rhodes. “You gotta be a saint for the power the box can give you,” as Mel notes, and in the wrong hands, this immense power is dangerous...
when they invite to a love-feast, they engage a crier. I lately saw the noblest lady in Rome—I suppress her name, for I am no satirist—with a band of eunuchs before her in the basilica of the blessed Peter. She was giving money to the poor, a coin apiece; and this with her ...
he enrolled in the physics and mathematics department at the University of Saint Petersburg in order to study natural science.Pavlov won the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1904, becoming the first Russian Nobel laureate. A survey in the Review of General Psychology, published in 2002,...