Although the chapel itself is not open to the public, people can still catch a glimpse of it through the doorways. Constructed by Peter Parler between 1356 and 1364, it houses the saint’s relics. The walls of the chapel are decorated with over 1300 semi-precious stones and paintings show...
The first “major” example of eight occurs in Chapter V when Sproule and the kid stumble across a tree hung with dead babies in a mountain pass after the destruction of Captain White’s war party at the hands of The Comanches. “The way narrowed through the rocks and by and by they ...
I particularly payed attention to two items. One was a stained glass candle holder. It was an upright box. The edges were made of thin sticks of wood. The walls of the box on the lower sides were opaque greyish white glass and on the top were various triangles of blue green, red and...
In this way the city was supposedly protected from ill fortune for another year. During the Roman feast of Lupercalia, priests (Luperci) cut thongs from the sacrificial animals (goats and a dog), then raced around the walls of the old Palatine city, striking women (especially) as they ...
One was killed for aekmagi and the other for sangdangsugim, which is carried out to send back the gods who the simbang invited to the yard, the main arena of the gut, for a specific segment of the gut, to their assigned seats in dangkeul, door leaves hung on the living room walls...
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, church built on the traditional site of Jesus’ Crucifixion and burial in the Old City area of Jerusalem. According to the Bible, the tomb was close to the place of the Crucifixion, and so the church was planned to enclose t
In Joshua 6, God tells Joshua to march with the Israelites around Jericho for 7 days. On the seventh day, He told them to get 7 priests to blow their trumpets. This crumbles the walls of Jericho and lets the Israelites enter the Promised Land.[6] This passage signifies God’s promise...
The defense of the Taiping capital was entrusted to GeneralLi Xiucheng. By March 1864 Zeng had sealed off the city with a line of forts and breastworks. Zeng’s soldiers dug dozens of tunnels toward the city, intending to pack them withgunpowderand blow up the walls. The Taiping dug coun...