European Knight, made by a 16thC Japanese student. The Jesuits established a painting school in Nagasaki in the late 16th century. Students were taught to produce these European style oil paintings and engravings. (Tokyo National Museum)
Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. For we know partially and we prophesy partially, but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away.
A lot of the 1930s-40s technicolor movies about medieval times that were aiming for maximizing color on screen end up being more accurate than the mud and blood recent attempts
you would have to simulate the whole world and likely the whole universe in order to simulate a single human brain
Chêne chapelle in Allouville-Bellefosse, France houses two small chapels built into a living oak tree. The tree was hollowed out by a fire started by a lightning strike in the 1600s. A chapel to Our Lady was built into the hollow, and a later hermit chapel at the top.
Today, in the Catholic Kitsch Finds You column: Shroud of Turin nightlight that came home with my husband from book club?!?!
Ps 103,4 qui rédimit de intéritu vitam tuam, qui corónat te in misericórdia et miseratiónibus; él rescata tu vida de la fosa, y te colma de gracia y de ternura; who redeems your life from the grave, who crowns you with mercy and compassion,
Nursing Madonna Defendente Ferrari, c.1505-1511 (The Uffizi)
This manicure set, made c. 1670-80, was among the contents of an embroidered casket used by a young girl, Martha Edlin (1660-1725). It is marked with her initials M. E. Its 4 implements were used as part of her beauty and hygiene routine. (V&A Museum, London)
One trick ponies get a bad rap. Most animals can't even do one trick
Mended Stockings, San Francisco, 1934 by US social documentary photographer Dorothea Lange #WomensArt
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him.
Ps 78,1 Atténdite, pópule meus, doctrínam meam; inclináte aurem vestram in verba oris mei. Escucha, pueblo mío, mi enseñanza; inclina el oído a las palabras de mi boca: Give ear, my people, to my teaching; incline your ear to the words of my mouth.
the week nears its conclusion. darkness falls across the nation. Carrie Underwood emerges
Toddlers would be like “throw off the tyranny of parents who are in the pocket of Big Nap, sleep is overrated, nature designed you to get increasingly manic and full of rage until you fall asleep mid-tantrum and poop your pants”
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Scorigami@nflscorigami.bsky.social · 3d ago🏈 CHI 59 - 37 CAR 3:40 4Q This game has a 99.97% chance of ending in Scorigami. Most likely Scorigami: 59-37 (59.70%)
If one who is but flesh cherishes wrath, who will forgive his sins? Remember your last days, set enmity aside; remember death and decay, and cease from sin!
I made 2,000 years of mustard recipes
I'm trying to eat whole foods but sometimes they're simply too big
I think something that a lot of American liberals and leftists have yet to fully untangle for themselves relate back to two elements: (1) Progress is not automatic [and the good is not self-evident] (2) Prosperity Gospel, even when you’re correct about morals and ideas, is a lie.
