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Jacopo della Quercia
Madonna della Melagrana (1403-1408)
Ferrara, Museo della Cattedrale
Chiamata anche Madonna Silvestri, dal nome del committente dell'opera venne scolpita dallo scultore senese in marmo di Carrara e rappresenta una tra le massime opere scultoree del Rinascimento.
Di essa esiste una vasta informazione che va dalla sua committenza nel 1403 dagli esecutori testamentari di Virgilio Silvestri fino alla sua esecuzione e collocazione sull'altare di famiglia nell'antico Duomo di Ferrara nel settembre di tre anni dopo.
Gli esperti di storia dell'arte sono concordi nel definire questa statua, che oggi è conservata nel Museo della Cattedrale di Ferrara, come uno delle massime opere di Jacopo della Quercia, "un artista di dimensioni internazionali, né soltanto gotico, né già rinascimentale, ancora profondamente medievale ma capace di intuizioni che scavalcano il Quattrocento" (L. Bellosi).
L'impianto volumetrico e la maestosità delle forme rappresentano il più palese omaggio alla cultura figurativa toscana che va da Nicola Pisano a Giotto, passando per Arnolfo di Cambio.
La scultura è stata sempre oggetto di profonda devozione da parte dei ferraresi che fin dal Settecento la chiamavano "Madonna Bianca" o, più affettuosamente, "Madonna del Pane" in quanto la popolazione vedeva nel rotolo della legge tenuto in mano dal Bambino la forma di un pezzo di pane ferrarese.
Indubbiamente una delle massime opere del Rinascimento Italiano da ammirare nel suo restauro eseguito recentemente.
Jacopo della Quercia
Madonna of the Pomegranate (1403-1408)
Ferrara, Cathedral Museum
Also called Madonna Silvestri, from the name of the client of the work, it was sculpted by the Sienese sculptor in Carrara marble and represents one of the greatest sculptural works of the Renaissance.
There is a vast amount of information about it which goes from its commissioning in 1403 by the executors of Virgilio Silvestri up to its execution and placement on the family altar in the ancient Cathedral of Ferrara in September three years later.
Art history experts agree in defining this statue, which today is preserved in the Museum of the Cathedral of Ferrara, as one of the greatest works of Jacopo della Quercia, "an artist of international dimensions, neither just Gothic nor already Renaissance, still profoundly medieval but capable of intuitions that go beyond the fifteenth century" (L. Bellosi).
The volumetric layout and the majesty of the forms represent the most obvious homage to the Tuscan figurative culture that goes from Nicola Pisano to Giotto, passing through Arnolfo di Cambio.
The sculpture has always been the object of profound devotion on the part of the people of Ferrara who since the eighteenth century called it "White Madonna" or, more affectionately, "Madonna del Pane" (Madonna of the Bread) as the population saw in the scroll of the law held in the Child's hand the shape of a piece of Ferrarese bread.
Undoubtedly one of the greatest works of the Italian Renaissance to be admired in its recently restored restoration.
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The Harry F. Sinclair House at E. 79th Street and 5th Avenue, completed in 1899, was successively the residence of businessmen Isaac D. Fletcher and Harry F. Sinclair, and then the descendants of Peter Stuyvesant. The mansion was designed by C. P. H. Gilbert and built by foreman Harvey Murdock. The building largely retains its original design, except for a 1917, [ on the roof. The mansion comprises 27 rooms on 6 floors, for a total floorspace of 20,000 square feet. Fletcher died at the house in 1917 and in his will bequeathed the property to the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The museum sold the house the next year to oil magnate Harry F. Sinclair, who sold the house in 1930 to Augustus Stuyvesant Jr. and Anne van Horne Stuyvesant. The siblings resided in the mansion until their deaths in 1953 and 1938, respectively. The executors of the Stuyvesant estate sold the Sinclair House in 1954 to a group of investors, who sold it in 1955 to the Ukrainian Institute of America, a nonprofit founded by Ukrainian businessman William Dzus in 1948 to promote Ukrainian culture.
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Sidney Sussex College (referred to informally as "Sidney") is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in England. The College was founded in 1596 under the terms of the will of Frances Sidney, Countess of Sussex (1531–1589), wife of Thomas Radclyffe, 3rd Earl of Sussex, and named after its foundress. In her will, Lady Sidney left the sum of £5,000 together with some plate to found a new College at Cambridge University "to be called the Lady Frances Sidney Sussex College". Her executors Sir John Harington and Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent, supervised by Archbishop John Whitgift, founded the Protestant College seven years after her death.
Sidney sits on the site of Cambridge's Franciscan friary, built in the middle of the 13th century and dissolved in the 1530s. Artefacts of the site's past lie beneath the foundations of the college buildings.
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The Eva van Hoogeveen almshouse has the entrance at the Doelensteeg. Eva van Hoogeveen came from a wealthy family. She was unmarried, daughter of Albert (Aelbrecht), Heere van Hoogeveen and a very chaste and praiseworthy virgin. In 1650, she testified that she wanted to use her money to buy Houses in honor of God for Chaste Virgins and Honorable Widows. After her death, in 1652, the executors (her brother and a cousin) bought a number of building plots to build this almshouse.
The houses are currently occupied by one-person households. Given the historical background of the almshouse, the houses are preferably rented to single middle-aged ladies.
The almshouse is a national monument
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Dear friends, i'm still here, but engaged in distracting executor and house improvement tasks after my mother passed away last year.
I hope to be back more regularly in the near future, but in the meantime I do look in at your new posts, even if you haven't heard my thoughts.
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Situado, como es tradicional en estos edificios, volando la muralla del recinto, también en su disposición recuerda al Palacio de Comares, con una gran alberca central presidida por el pórtico, aquí de cinco arcos, tras el que se desarrolla la estancia principal en el interior de una torre conocida con el nombre de las Damas.
La decoración de sus paramentos presenta el habitual zócalo de alicatados, amplios paños de yeserías originalmente policromados hasta el arrocabe y cubierta con armadura de madera. Su tipología decorativa ha atribuido su construcción a la época del sultán Muhammad III (1302-1309) lo que lo presupone como el palacio -al menos parcialmente en pie- más antiguo de la Alhambra.
Junto a la Torre de las Damas, por encima del pórtico sobresale un bello y reducido mirador, muy característico de la arquitectura nazarí, presente en otros palacios como el de Comares o el del Generalife, al que denominaron modernamente por las extraordinarias vistas, el observatorio.
El Partal por su refinamiento es una obra primordial del arte nazarí.
Es una residencia de recreo decorada con abundante lujo. Servirá de modelo para otras construcciones de la Alhambra.
Los mismos artistas que trabajaron en el Partal serán ejecutores de partes del Generalife y de otras obras.
Sus zócalos servirán también de modelos para las producciones más complejas de la Torre del a Cautiva y de Comares.
Situated, as is traditional in these buildings, flying the wall of the enclosure, also available Comares Palace recalls, with a large central pool chaired by the portico of five arches here, after which it takes place in the main room inside a known tower of checkers.
The decoration of its walls has the usual tiled plinth, large panels of plasterwork frieze originalmente polychrome up and covered with wooden frame. Its decorative type construction has been attributed to the time of Sultan Muhammad III (1302-1309) which presupposes as the palace, at least partially standing-oldest in the Alhambra.
Next to the Torre de las Damas, above the portico stands a beautiful small balcony, very characteristic of Moorish architecture, present in other palaces such as Comares or the Generalife, which they called modern by the extraordinary views, the observatory .
The Partal for its refinement is a major work of art Nazari.
This residence hall is decorated with plenty of recreational luxury. Serve as a model for other buildings of the Alhambra.
The same artists who worked on the Partal be executors of parts of the Generalife and other works.
Their sockets will also serve as models for complex productions to Captive Tower and Comares.
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Teylers Museum in Haarlem is genoemd naar Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702- 1778), een vermogende Haarlemse zijdefabrikant en bankier. Levend in de tijd van de Verlichting had hij grote belangstelling voor kunst en wetenschap. Vanuit de gedachte dat kennis de mensheid kon verrijken, legde hij op beide terreinen verzamelingen aan. In zijn testament bepaalde hij dat zijn vermogen moest worden ondergebracht in een stichting die onder meer de bevordering van kunst en wetenschap tot doel had.
De uitvoerders van Teylers testament besloten het eerste museum van Nederland te bouwen waarin voorwerpen van kunst en wetenschap verenigd zouden worden. De boeken dienden voor studie, de natuurkundige instrumenten werden gebruikt voor demonstraties, terwijl over de tekeningen werd gediscussieerd tijdens kunstbeschouwingen. Fossielen en mineralen speelden een rol bij de openbare lessen.
Achter Teylers woning in de Damstraat werd een ‘boek- en konstzael' gebouwd. Deze Ovale Zaal werd in 1784 opengesteld voor bezoekers en is sindsdien vrijwel onveranderd gebleven. Teylers Museum is hiermee het eerste museum van Nederland, dat vanaf 1784 onafgebroken voor het publiek is opengesteld en waar de collecties in hun authentieke samenhang te zien zijn. Het gebouwencomplex van Teylers Museum beslaat meer dan 200 jaar bouwgeschiedenis.
Bron: www.teylersmuseum.nl/nl/collectie/gebouw-en-geschiedenis/...
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Teylers Museum in Haarlem is named after Pieter Teyler van der Hulst (1702-1778), a wealthy Haarlem silk manufacturer and banker. Living during the time of the Enlightenment, he had a great interest in art and science. Based on the idea that knowledge could enrich humanity, he built collections in both areas. In his will he stipulated that his assets should be placed in a foundation whose aim, among other things, was to promote art and science.
The executors of Teyler's will decided to build the first museum in the Netherlands in which objects of art and science would be united. The books were for study, the physics instruments were used for demonstrations, while the drawings were discussed during art appreciation sessions. Fossils and minerals played a role in the public lessons.
A 'book and art hall' was built behind Teyler's house in Damstraat. This Oval Hall was opened to visitors in 1784 and has remained virtually unchanged since then. Teylers Museum is the first museum in the Netherlands that has been open to the public continuously since 1784 and where the collections can be seen in their authentic context. The building complex of Teylers Museum covers more than 200 years of construction history.
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Hughenden Manor, Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, England, is a Victorian mansion, with earlier origins, that served as the country house of the Prime Minister, Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield. It is now owned by the National Trust and open to the public. It sits on the brow of the hill to the west of the main A4128 road that links Hughenden to High Wycombe.
History
The manor of Hughenden is first recorded in 1086, as part of Queen Edith's lands, and held by William, son of Oger the Bishop of Bayeux, and was assessed for tax at 10 hides. After his forfeiture, the lands were held by the Crown, until King Henry I of England gave the lands to his chamberlain and treasurer, Geoffrey de Clinton.[1] Clinton, whose main home was in Kenilworth, Warwickshire, had the lands tenanted by Geoffrey de Sancto Roerio, who resultantly changed his surname to the Anglicised Hughenden.[1] After passing through that family, with successive Kings having to confirm the gift of the lands, the manor returned to the Crown in the 14th century.[1] In 1539, the Crown granted the manor and lands to Sir Robert Dormer, and it passed through his family until 1737 when it was sold by the 4th Earl of Chesterfield to Charles Savage.[1]
After passing through his extended family following a series of deaths and resultant devises by will, by 1816 the manor and lands were owned by John Norris, a distinguished antiquary and scholar.[1] Isaac D'Israeli, the father of Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1868 and 1874–1880, and Earl of Beaconsfield 1876), had for some time rented the nearby Bradenham Manor and, following Norris's death in 1845, bought the manor and lands from his executors in 1847.[1] The purchase was supported with the help of a loan of £25,000 (equivalent to almost £1,500,000 today) from Lord Henry Bentinck and Lord Titchfield. This was because at the time, as Disraeli was the leader of the Conservative Party, "it was essential to represent a county," and county members had to be landowners.[2] Taking ownership of the manor on the death of his father in 1848, Disraeli and his wife Mary Anne, alternated between Hughenden and several homes in London. Wikipedia
Just one wall showing three of the arches of a number of them in it . Looking through you can see numerous other arches .
Where are we ? This is the remains of Netley Abbey on the side of Southampton Water .
Now the abbey looks in on itself, one of the most complete and certainly the most beautiful Cistercian monastery in southern England. It is free to wander into and it captures the heart and mind in an instant. Its more recent history is bound up with artists, poets and others of artistic bent as many have tried to capture its beauty. John Constable painted it, as did Francis Towne, George Keats was moved to write a poem about the ruins and so was William Sotheby who chose to write an ode at midnight, an allusion maybe to the ‘other worldly’aspect of the Abbey’s history. Just to imagine those people here observing and working is enough to send goose pumps.
Netley Abbey was founded by a small group of monks who were following the will of the Bishop of Winchester ,Peter de Roches. He died in 1238 but he had made plans for the foundation of an abbey at Netley that was to be a daughter abbey to the great Beaulieu Abbey in the New Forest.
After the death of Peter de Roches
Peter de Roches may have made plans for Netley Abbey but died before he could complete them or carry them out. It was left to his executors to put the final plans into place. Over the water of the River Itchen from the New Forest, Peter de Roches had found the perfect spot. He purchased lands around about from which they could derive an income and so it was that in June 1239, a colony of monks arrived from Beaulieu and thus began the existence of Netley Abbey.
The house was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin and Saint Edward the Confessor, as a result of this it was known as Edwardstowe. King Henry III, (Henry of Winchester), in whose reign the abbey was built, made several early donations to the house and by 1251 seems to have regarded himself its patron and founder. In fact the inscriptions at the base of the four great piers at the transept crossing, commemorate the construction of the abbey church by King Henry III. It reads; ‘Henry, by the grace of God, King of England’
The church is immense and towers above the viewer, with its roof on it must have been a beautiful structure, with the roof off it still is.
The early grounds of Netley Abbey went right down to the shoreline. Its gatehouse was situated close to the shoreline. It is interesting that King Henry VIII saw merit in its position and converted it into one of his southern shore forts and the house that is now Netley Castle was built in the C19th on these Tudor foundations.
Netley Abbey in the C14th
During the C13th the abbey prospered and the number of monks and lay -brothers increased. The abbey did not seem to raise itself to any great status however and by about 1328 the house was experiencing some financial difficulties and the community was forced to sell much of its property. This financial pressure may have come about because of its proximity to the coast. Mariners passing through could demand hospitality and care. The King himself and his household were also demanding of the abbey’s provisions including their livestock. The abbey site was also large and needed a great deal of upkeep. The Black Death of 1348 added to its woes and Netley Abbey became a poor and undistinguished Cistercian house. It seems that the impoverishment of the abbey can be largely attributed to its position on the south coast.
Netley Abbey and the Dissolution
At the time of Dissolution only seven monks remained at the abbey, incredible when you look at the abbey ruins and the annual net income was valued at £100. The house was dissolved with the smaller monasteries in 1536. Following the Dissolution, the site was granted to Sir William Paulet, he converted the monastery into a Tudor mansion. His work can be seen in the red brick that pokes through the structure here and there. The site was occupied by the Paulet family until the late C17th, when the property was sold to a Southampton builder called Taylor and it is with him that the ‘other worldly’ stories about the abbey seem to have originated. He intended to demolish the entire church but while supervising the demolition of the west end Taylor was crushed to death by the falling tracery of the west window. This was interpreted as a sign that the building should not be demolished and so thankfully, no more demolition took place and the property remained in private ownership until 1922 when it was given over to the Ministry of Works.
The Abbey as a tourist site
A brief walk around the ruins soon alerts you to the fact that Netley Abbey has attracted visitors for hundreds of years. One of them a painter from London who made the journey in 1839, 600 years after its founding, maybe inspired by the other great artists who felt drawn to capture the mood. The incredibly slender tracery of the windows perched so impossibly high and every corner hinting at the possibility of a monk turning it, adds to the feeling that here, in Netley Abbey time has stopped.
Excerpt from histoiresainteducanada.ca/en/le-sanctuaire-du-sacre-coeur...:
Father Joseph-Arthur Laporte was born in Saint-Paul de Joliette on August 15, 1857, the feast of the Assumption. He entered the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on August 25, 1879. The members of this community have a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it is through their contact that Father Laporte developed this devotion.
He left the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on July 28, 1886 and requested his incardination to the Bishop of Sherbrooke. He was admitted to the number of priests of the diocese by Bishop Antoine Racine, and appointed pastor of the parish of Sainte-Praxède de Bromptonville (1891-1902) from where he discovered the “mountain” that he would later call “Beauvoir”.
Eight kilometers north of Sherbrooke, a small mountain of one hundred and fifteen meters, still unnamed, had long attracted the attention of this great lover of nature. After many approaches to Mr. Émile Lessard, a farmer, he bought two hectares of land from him in 1915. He gave the name “Beauvoir” (beautiful to see) to this corner of paradise whose panoramic view enchanted him. He decided to build a small cottage, a house of six meters on a side surrounded by a gallery. In 1916 and 1917, he bought more land to enlarge his small domain.
And in 1920, he founded the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Beauvoir.
For years, Father Laporte has been fascinated by the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He speaks of it tirelessly. So it is not surprising that the only decoration on the bare walls of his cottage is a lithograph, without much artistic pretension, of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.
In 1916, Father Laporte still dreamed of making Beauvoir a place where people would come to pray and celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whose devotion was spreading more and more throughout the country. He therefore decided to erect, not far from his cottage, a statue of the Sacred Heart. Measuring two meters in height, this statue, with its arms wide open, stands on a pedestal of field stones that farmers have faithfully transported on their carts.
The parish priest now invites his parishioners to come and taste the happiness that is his at the Sacred Heart…
As early as 1918, pilgrims began “the ascent of the Rosary”, a devotional practice that would have its heyday in the 1930s. On Sunday afternoons, pilgrims, starting from the main road, climbed to Beauvoir while reciting the rosary.
In 1933, at the request of the pilgrims, Father Pierre-Achille Bégin had a cross erected in front of the road leading to the Shrine. It is from this cross, still visible, that the pilgrimages to Beauvoir started. Along the way, wooden boards were set up on which were written the fifteen mysteries of the rosary. For Beauvoir, the erection of this cross gives all its meaning to the ascent of the rosary: it is the beginning of the ascent, it is the cross of the rosary that the lips kiss before murmuring the “Aves”, the first links of this long chain that leads the pilgrims to the very Love that awaits them at the Shrine.
In 1920, during a Holy Hour, he asked for a special favor from the Sacred Heart, with the promise of building a small chapel in Beauvoir if he was granted it. With the help of some local craftsmen, he had the promised little chapel built.
It is an architectural jewel that Abbé Laporte had built on the hill of Beauvoir.
But the Sacred Heart, never defeated in generosity, knows how to reward his servant by giving to vile materials a stamp of rustic elegance, to a humble and poor building, a beauty that escapes no one. And all those who come to pray in this rustic chapel find there a calm, a peace that penetrates deep into their souls and leaves them pacified. One can almost feel the loving presence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which bends down with tenderness over those who come to visit it.
The exterior of this chapel is reminiscent in many ways of some of the country chapels of France. The rustic walls, the rudimentary furnishings and the few decorations are not likely to satisfy the connoisseur of expensive works of art. It is poverty, destitution. The only decoration is a statue, a frame, two statuettes, a few ex-votos testifying to the goodness of the Sacred Heart, lanterns and old images of the Way of the Cross. But, near the tabernacle, how one can taste with love and peace the divine presence of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus!
On October 24, 1920, Bishop Larocque came to bless the little chapel. The next day, Father Laporte celebrated the first mass on Mount Beauvoir.
In the spring of 1921, his health inexorably deteriorated. Even though he was ill, he was taken to Beauvoir four or five more times. Then he had to give up returning to Beauvoir. He was hospitalized at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital at the beginning of August. And on August 20, Father Laporte was finally able to meet face to face with the one who was the great love of his life.
The body of Father Laporte now rests in the crypt of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of which he was parish priest. However, on the west wall of the little chapel in Beauvoir, a commemorative plaque recalls the man who founded the Shrine and who continues to watch over its work from above.
Father Laporte had bequeathed the Beauvoir property to the diocese on the condition that he pay the remaining $3,500 debt. The diocese refused this bequest. Beauvoir thus reverted to the universal legatee, Miss Euphémie Charest, Father Laporte’s former housekeeper. She sold Beauvoir in 1923 to the executor of Father Laporte’s will, the notary Gédéon Bégin, for the price of the debt. This wealthy businessman used Beauvoir Hill as a summer vacation spot for his family.
From 1923 to 1929, Beauvoir fell into almost complete abandonment. Only a few lovers of the Sacred Heart would go up there privately to pray at the foot of the Sacred Heart statue. But at the end of July 1929, Father Pierre Achille Bégin, a retired priest and brother of the owner, accompanied by a few members of the family, came to visit Beauvoir. Although the buildings had been quite damaged by thieves and the weeds had invaded the area, the group was charmed by the landscape and decided to settle there for two weeks.
From then on, the Bégin family would come to spend a few weeks in Beauvoir during the summer vacations.
Without looking for signs, the good abbot knows how to recognize an invitation. First of all, together with his family members, he decided to restore the place and to revive the project of Father Laporte. Every year in June, he invites the people of the area for the triduum in preparation for the feast of the Sacred Heart. This is the highlight of the year.
Throughout the summer months, Father Bégin, surrounded by nephews and nieces, ensures for the pilgrims the mass every morning and the prayer at the Sacred Heart every evening as well as a Holy Hour every Thursday evening. Father Bégin, after Father Laporte, sought to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. It is in the small stone chapel that he spends most of his time in prayer and in welcoming the small groups of pilgrims who continue to climb the mountain. “All my desire is that in Beauvoir the Sacred Heart be particularly honored, praised and prayed to, and that He spread His greatest graces there.”
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The Eva van Hoogeveen almshouse has the entrance at the Doelensteeg. Eva van Hoogeveen came from a wealthy family. She was unmarried, daughter of Albert (Aelbrecht), Heere van Hoogeveen and a very chaste and praiseworthy virgin. In 1650, she testified that she wanted to use her money to buy Houses in honor of God for Chaste Virgins and Honorable Widows. After her death, in 1652, the executors (her brother and a cousin) bought a number of building plots to build this almshouse.
The houses are currently occupied by one-person households. Given the historical background of the almshouse, the houses are preferably rented to single middle-aged ladies.
The almshouse is a national monument
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Giuseppe Vermiglio (c. 1587 - c. 1635) - Jael and Sisara (1621) - oil on canvas 130 × 103 cm - Pinacoteca/Biblioteca Ambrosiana - Milan
L’opera ci mostra Giaele nel momento drammatico in cui trafigge il capo di Sisara con il picchetto della tenda, secondo la narrazione del Libro dei Giudici. Nulla si conosce circa la provenienza di questa tela e nemmeno vi sono documenti che dicano quando fece il suo ingresso in Ambrosiana. L’opera è stata attribuita a Giuseppe Vermiglio; essa mostra elementi caravaggeschi e sembra essere stata ispirata dallo stesso soggetto eseguito da Artemisia Gentileschi conservato a Budapest.
È soprattutto nei secoli XVI e XVII che l'episodio dell'uccisione di Sisara conosce una grande fortuna in campo pittorico. Tra gli esecutori più noti, si ricordano Artemisia Gentileschi, Palma il Giovane, Jacopo Vignali, Gregorio Lazzarini e Mattia Preti.
The work shows us Jael in the dramatic moment in which he pierces the head of Sisara with the picket of the tent, according to the narrative of the Book of Judges. Nothing is known about the origin of this canvas and there are no documents that say when he made his entry into the Ambrosiana. The work has been attributed to Giuseppe Vermiglio; it shows elements of Caravaggio and seems to have been inspired by the same subject executed by Artemisia Gentileschi and kept in Budapest.
It is especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that the episode of the killing of Sisara knows a great fortune in painting. Among the most famous executors, we remember Artemisia Gentileschi, Palma il Giovane, Jacopo Vignali, Gregorio Lazzarini and Mattia Preti.
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Giuseppe Vermiglio (c. 1587 - c. 1635) - Jael and Sisara (1621) - oil on canvas 130 × 103 cm - Pinacoteca/Biblioteca Ambrosiana - Milan
L’opera ci mostra Giaele nel momento drammatico in cui trafigge il capo di Sisara con il picchetto della tenda, secondo la narrazione del Libro dei Giudici. Nulla si conosce circa la provenienza di questa tela e nemmeno vi sono documenti che dicano quando fece il suo ingresso in Ambrosiana. L’opera è stata attribuita a Giuseppe Vermiglio; essa mostra elementi caravaggeschi e sembra essere stata ispirata dallo stesso soggetto eseguito da Artemisia Gentileschi conservato a Budapest.
È soprattutto nei secoli XVI e XVII che l'episodio dell'uccisione di Sisara conosce una grande fortuna in campo pittorico. Tra gli esecutori più noti, si ricordano Artemisia Gentileschi, Palma il Giovane, Jacopo Vignali, Gregorio Lazzarini e Mattia Preti.
The work shows us Jael in the dramatic moment in which he pierces the head of Sisara with the picket of the tent, according to the narrative of the Book of Judges. Nothing is known about the origin of this canvas and there are no documents that say when he made his entry into the Ambrosiana. The work has been attributed to Giuseppe Vermiglio; it shows elements of Caravaggio and seems to have been inspired by the same subject executed by Artemisia Gentileschi and kept in Budapest.
It is especially in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that the episode of the killing of Sisara knows a great fortune in painting. Among the most famous executors, we remember Artemisia Gentileschi, Palma il Giovane, Jacopo Vignali, Gregorio Lazzarini and Mattia Preti.
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The first question in this case is whether or not she left a valid will. A will is valid if it was made and signed appropriately under the laws of the state. (For example, in San Francisco a handwritten will, called a holographic will, can be valid, while it would not be valid in some states.) A valid will is likely to name an executor, the person the deceased selected to shepherd the estate through the probate process.
Excerpt from histoiresainteducanada.ca/en/le-sanctuaire-du-sacre-coeur...:
Father Joseph-Arthur Laporte was born in Saint-Paul de Joliette on August 15, 1857, the feast of the Assumption. He entered the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on August 25, 1879. The members of this community have a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it is through their contact that Father Laporte developed this devotion.
He left the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on July 28, 1886 and requested his incardination to the Bishop of Sherbrooke. He was admitted to the number of priests of the diocese by Bishop Antoine Racine, and appointed pastor of the parish of Sainte-Praxède de Bromptonville (1891-1902) from where he discovered the “mountain” that he would later call “Beauvoir”.
Eight kilometers north of Sherbrooke, a small mountain of one hundred and fifteen meters, still unnamed, had long attracted the attention of this great lover of nature. After many approaches to Mr. Émile Lessard, a farmer, he bought two hectares of land from him in 1915. He gave the name “Beauvoir” (beautiful to see) to this corner of paradise whose panoramic view enchanted him. He decided to build a small cottage, a house of six meters on a side surrounded by a gallery. In 1916 and 1917, he bought more land to enlarge his small domain.
And in 1920, he founded the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Beauvoir.
For years, Father Laporte has been fascinated by the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He speaks of it tirelessly. So it is not surprising that the only decoration on the bare walls of his cottage is a lithograph, without much artistic pretension, of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.
In 1916, Father Laporte still dreamed of making Beauvoir a place where people would come to pray and celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whose devotion was spreading more and more throughout the country. He therefore decided to erect, not far from his cottage, a statue of the Sacred Heart. Measuring two meters in height, this statue, with its arms wide open, stands on a pedestal of field stones that farmers have faithfully transported on their carts.
The parish priest now invites his parishioners to come and taste the happiness that is his at the Sacred Heart…
As early as 1918, pilgrims began “the ascent of the Rosary”, a devotional practice that would have its heyday in the 1930s. On Sunday afternoons, pilgrims, starting from the main road, climbed to Beauvoir while reciting the rosary.
In 1933, at the request of the pilgrims, Father Pierre-Achille Bégin had a cross erected in front of the road leading to the Shrine. It is from this cross, still visible, that the pilgrimages to Beauvoir started. Along the way, wooden boards were set up on which were written the fifteen mysteries of the rosary. For Beauvoir, the erection of this cross gives all its meaning to the ascent of the rosary: it is the beginning of the ascent, it is the cross of the rosary that the lips kiss before murmuring the “Aves”, the first links of this long chain that leads the pilgrims to the very Love that awaits them at the Shrine.
In 1920, during a Holy Hour, he asked for a special favor from the Sacred Heart, with the promise of building a small chapel in Beauvoir if he was granted it. With the help of some local craftsmen, he had the promised little chapel built.
It is an architectural jewel that Abbé Laporte had built on the hill of Beauvoir.
But the Sacred Heart, never defeated in generosity, knows how to reward his servant by giving to vile materials a stamp of rustic elegance, to a humble and poor building, a beauty that escapes no one. And all those who come to pray in this rustic chapel find there a calm, a peace that penetrates deep into their souls and leaves them pacified. One can almost feel the loving presence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which bends down with tenderness over those who come to visit it.
The exterior of this chapel is reminiscent in many ways of some of the country chapels of France. The rustic walls, the rudimentary furnishings and the few decorations are not likely to satisfy the connoisseur of expensive works of art. It is poverty, destitution. The only decoration is a statue, a frame, two statuettes, a few ex-votos testifying to the goodness of the Sacred Heart, lanterns and old images of the Way of the Cross. But, near the tabernacle, how one can taste with love and peace the divine presence of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus!
On October 24, 1920, Bishop Larocque came to bless the little chapel. The next day, Father Laporte celebrated the first mass on Mount Beauvoir.
In the spring of 1921, his health inexorably deteriorated. Even though he was ill, he was taken to Beauvoir four or five more times. Then he had to give up returning to Beauvoir. He was hospitalized at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital at the beginning of August. And on August 20, Father Laporte was finally able to meet face to face with the one who was the great love of his life.
The body of Father Laporte now rests in the crypt of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of which he was parish priest. However, on the west wall of the little chapel in Beauvoir, a commemorative plaque recalls the man who founded the Shrine and who continues to watch over its work from above.
Father Laporte had bequeathed the Beauvoir property to the diocese on the condition that he pay the remaining $3,500 debt. The diocese refused this bequest. Beauvoir thus reverted to the universal legatee, Miss Euphémie Charest, Father Laporte’s former housekeeper. She sold Beauvoir in 1923 to the executor of Father Laporte’s will, the notary Gédéon Bégin, for the price of the debt. This wealthy businessman used Beauvoir Hill as a summer vacation spot for his family.
From 1923 to 1929, Beauvoir fell into almost complete abandonment. Only a few lovers of the Sacred Heart would go up there privately to pray at the foot of the Sacred Heart statue. But at the end of July 1929, Father Pierre Achille Bégin, a retired priest and brother of the owner, accompanied by a few members of the family, came to visit Beauvoir. Although the buildings had been quite damaged by thieves and the weeds had invaded the area, the group was charmed by the landscape and decided to settle there for two weeks.
From then on, the Bégin family would come to spend a few weeks in Beauvoir during the summer vacations.
Without looking for signs, the good abbot knows how to recognize an invitation. First of all, together with his family members, he decided to restore the place and to revive the project of Father Laporte. Every year in June, he invites the people of the area for the triduum in preparation for the feast of the Sacred Heart. This is the highlight of the year.
Throughout the summer months, Father Bégin, surrounded by nephews and nieces, ensures for the pilgrims the mass every morning and the prayer at the Sacred Heart every evening as well as a Holy Hour every Thursday evening. Father Bégin, after Father Laporte, sought to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. It is in the small stone chapel that he spends most of his time in prayer and in welcoming the small groups of pilgrims who continue to climb the mountain. “All my desire is that in Beauvoir the Sacred Heart be particularly honored, praised and prayed to, and that He spread His greatest graces there.”
Whilst coal mining at Fox Clough, Colne, dates back as far as the 17th century, the Engine Pit was developed in 1832 by the executors of John Hargreaves. A large pumping engine was erected in this stone building and the colliery worked the Lower Mountain and Union seams at a depth of 183 feet. The pit was abandoned in 1872 and the enginehouse has slowly deteriorated since then. It has probably survived due to its hidden and inaccessible location.
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Aquesta església barroca aparentment anodina no tant sols és la catedral ortodoxa de Praga (ja explicaré perquè), sino que és un dels llocs més importants i dramatics de la historia txeca i eslovaca del s. XX, un veritable camp de batalla en miniatura. Es tracta de la catedral de St. Ciril i Metodi de Praga. El 27 de maig de 1942, paracaigudistes txecoslovacs emboscaren i feriren de mort al Reichprotektor de Bohemia i Moravia, el temudissim Reinhard Heydrich, organitzador de la Gestapo, del extermini dels jueus europeus i un dels 4 o 5 homes més importants del III Reich (el seu cotxe portava la matrícula SS-3, essent els altres dos primers per a Hitler i Himmler). Les repercussions mortals foren terribles, amb centenars de represaliats (en especial al poble de Lidice, on foren assassinats unes 340 persones), però no localitzaren els executors fins que un company seu els va trair, l’infame Karel Čurda.
Els paracaigudistes s’amagaven a la cripta de St. Ciril, montant guardia també a dalt del cor de l’església. El 18 de juny de 1942 de matinada, l’església fou encerclada per uns 800 soldats de les SS. Dins l’església hi havia 7 paracaigudistes, 3 dalt el cor i 4 dormint a la cripta. L’arribada sobtada dels alemanys impedí que els de la cripta poguessin sortir a ajudar als seus companys. Durant sis hores aguantaren els assalts de les SS, sobretot Jan Kubis, Adolf Opalka i Josef Bublik des de dalt del cor, on dominaven tot l’interior de l’església. Tots foren morts en combat, tot i que mataren a uns 14 alemans, i en feriren una trentena més. Un cop la nau de l’església estava en mans nazis, aquests localitzaren l’entrada a la cripta, però era massa petita per poder assaltar-la. Així que finalment inundaren el soterrani amb manegues dels bombers per l’única finestra de la cripta, previament ametrallada per a impedir que els paracaigudistes s’hi poguessin acostar. Aquests intentaren fugir excavant un forat fins les clavegueres, però el creixent nivell d’aigua i la voladura d’una segona entrada a la cripta acabà amb les seves opcions. Tots es suicidaren per no caure vius en mans dels nazis: Josef Gabzic, Josef Valcik, Jan Hruby i Jaroslav Sbarc.
Avui en dia, la cripta i tot l’edifici és un santuari molt emotiu, i de nou torna a ser catedral ortodoxa, també (per cert, originariament era una església catolica, però el 1930 fou venguda a l’exglésia ortodoxa, molt minoritaria a Txequia). Diverses pel·licules mostren el setge de St. Ciril i Metodi, notablement Operation Daylight (1975) i Anthropoid (2016).
ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operaci%C3%B3_Antropoide
www.prague.eu/en/object/places/442/cathedral-church-of-st...
www.katedrala.info/index.php/galerie-katedraly
www.army.cz/images/id_7001_8000/7419/assassination-en.pdf
Una escena del combat a Anthropoid (2016):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TLiRxwFCk0
I a Operation Daybreak (1975):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAWgbmluk34&t=194s
I crec que a la txecoslovaca Atentát (1965):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipoGy1XadYw
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This rather mundane baroque church in Prague is in fact a cathedral, an orthodox one, St. Cyril and Methodius. But it is what happened here in WW2 that makes this place one of the most important and dramatic places in czech and slovak XX Century. On May 27th, 1942, czechoslovak paras killed the Reichprotektor of Bohemia and Moravia, Reinhard Heydrich. He was one of the 4 or 5 top nazi leaders, organizer of the Gestapo and of the Holocaust. In fact, his car, where he was mortally wounded, had the SS-3 plate (the 1 was for Hitler and the 2 for Himmler). The nazi repprisal was terrible, with thousands of imprisoned people, hundreds murdered (notably in the razed to the ground Lidice, where 340 were murdered). But the nazis failed to locate the paras. Until a traitor told them a lead that ultimately gave the hidding place: St. Cyril and Methodius cathedral.
The paras were hidding in the cript, but also kept guard up in the choir, which dominated the nave of the church. On the early morning of June 18th, 1942, the building and several streets were surrounded by 800 German soldiers and SS. Seven paras were in the church, four sleeping in the cript and three, Jan Kubis, Adolf Opalka and Josef Bublik, guarding the choir. When the SS entered the nave, the battle began. The siege lasted 6 hours, and all the paras were killed or comited shoot themselves. But they killed at least 14 Germans, according to some sources, and wounded maybe 30. With the nave secured, the nazis located the entrance into the cript but was so small that was impossible to attack. So they put firemen hoses down the only tiny window of the cript and blown up a large stone leading to the cript. The paras tried to dig a hole into the sewers but was too late and finally commited suicide to avoid being captured alive: : Josef Gabzic, Josef Valcik, Jan Hruby and Jaroslav Sbarc.
Nowadays the cript and all the building is a national sanctuary, a quite moving place when you know the dramatic events that happened there. Several movies show in a quite spectacular way the siege and assault, most notably Operation Daylight (1975) and Anthropoid (2016).
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ss._Cyril_and_Methodius_Cathedral
www.prague.eu/en/object/places/442/cathedral-church-of-st...
www.katedrala.info/index.php/galerie-katedraly
www.army.cz/images/id_7001_8000/7419/assassination-en.pdf
Here are the scenes of Anthropoid (2016) and Operation Daybreak (1975):
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TLiRxwFCk0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAWgbmluk34&t=194s
I presume this is the scene in the czechoslovak film Atentát (1965):
Excerpt from histoiresainteducanada.ca/en/le-sanctuaire-du-sacre-coeur...:
Father Joseph-Arthur Laporte was born in Saint-Paul de Joliette on August 15, 1857, the feast of the Assumption. He entered the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on August 25, 1879. The members of this community have a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it is through their contact that Father Laporte developed this devotion.
He left the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on July 28, 1886 and requested his incardination to the Bishop of Sherbrooke. He was admitted to the number of priests of the diocese by Bishop Antoine Racine, and appointed pastor of the parish of Sainte-Praxède de Bromptonville (1891-1902) from where he discovered the “mountain” that he would later call “Beauvoir”.
Eight kilometers north of Sherbrooke, a small mountain of one hundred and fifteen meters, still unnamed, had long attracted the attention of this great lover of nature. After many approaches to Mr. Émile Lessard, a farmer, he bought two hectares of land from him in 1915. He gave the name “Beauvoir” (beautiful to see) to this corner of paradise whose panoramic view enchanted him. He decided to build a small cottage, a house of six meters on a side surrounded by a gallery. In 1916 and 1917, he bought more land to enlarge his small domain.
And in 1920, he founded the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Beauvoir.
For years, Father Laporte has been fascinated by the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He speaks of it tirelessly. So it is not surprising that the only decoration on the bare walls of his cottage is a lithograph, without much artistic pretension, of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.
In 1916, Father Laporte still dreamed of making Beauvoir a place where people would come to pray and celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whose devotion was spreading more and more throughout the country. He therefore decided to erect, not far from his cottage, a statue of the Sacred Heart. Measuring two meters in height, this statue, with its arms wide open, stands on a pedestal of field stones that farmers have faithfully transported on their carts.
The parish priest now invites his parishioners to come and taste the happiness that is his at the Sacred Heart…
As early as 1918, pilgrims began “the ascent of the Rosary”, a devotional practice that would have its heyday in the 1930s. On Sunday afternoons, pilgrims, starting from the main road, climbed to Beauvoir while reciting the rosary.
In 1933, at the request of the pilgrims, Father Pierre-Achille Bégin had a cross erected in front of the road leading to the Shrine. It is from this cross, still visible, that the pilgrimages to Beauvoir started. Along the way, wooden boards were set up on which were written the fifteen mysteries of the rosary. For Beauvoir, the erection of this cross gives all its meaning to the ascent of the rosary: it is the beginning of the ascent, it is the cross of the rosary that the lips kiss before murmuring the “Aves”, the first links of this long chain that leads the pilgrims to the very Love that awaits them at the Shrine.
In 1920, during a Holy Hour, he asked for a special favor from the Sacred Heart, with the promise of building a small chapel in Beauvoir if he was granted it. With the help of some local craftsmen, he had the promised little chapel built.
It is an architectural jewel that Abbé Laporte had built on the hill of Beauvoir.
But the Sacred Heart, never defeated in generosity, knows how to reward his servant by giving to vile materials a stamp of rustic elegance, to a humble and poor building, a beauty that escapes no one. And all those who come to pray in this rustic chapel find there a calm, a peace that penetrates deep into their souls and leaves them pacified. One can almost feel the loving presence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which bends down with tenderness over those who come to visit it.
The exterior of this chapel is reminiscent in many ways of some of the country chapels of France. The rustic walls, the rudimentary furnishings and the few decorations are not likely to satisfy the connoisseur of expensive works of art. It is poverty, destitution. The only decoration is a statue, a frame, two statuettes, a few ex-votos testifying to the goodness of the Sacred Heart, lanterns and old images of the Way of the Cross. But, near the tabernacle, how one can taste with love and peace the divine presence of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus!
On October 24, 1920, Bishop Larocque came to bless the little chapel. The next day, Father Laporte celebrated the first mass on Mount Beauvoir.
In the spring of 1921, his health inexorably deteriorated. Even though he was ill, he was taken to Beauvoir four or five more times. Then he had to give up returning to Beauvoir. He was hospitalized at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital at the beginning of August. And on August 20, Father Laporte was finally able to meet face to face with the one who was the great love of his life.
The body of Father Laporte now rests in the crypt of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of which he was parish priest. However, on the west wall of the little chapel in Beauvoir, a commemorative plaque recalls the man who founded the Shrine and who continues to watch over its work from above.
Father Laporte had bequeathed the Beauvoir property to the diocese on the condition that he pay the remaining $3,500 debt. The diocese refused this bequest. Beauvoir thus reverted to the universal legatee, Miss Euphémie Charest, Father Laporte’s former housekeeper. She sold Beauvoir in 1923 to the executor of Father Laporte’s will, the notary Gédéon Bégin, for the price of the debt. This wealthy businessman used Beauvoir Hill as a summer vacation spot for his family.
From 1923 to 1929, Beauvoir fell into almost complete abandonment. Only a few lovers of the Sacred Heart would go up there privately to pray at the foot of the Sacred Heart statue. But at the end of July 1929, Father Pierre Achille Bégin, a retired priest and brother of the owner, accompanied by a few members of the family, came to visit Beauvoir. Although the buildings had been quite damaged by thieves and the weeds had invaded the area, the group was charmed by the landscape and decided to settle there for two weeks.
From then on, the Bégin family would come to spend a few weeks in Beauvoir during the summer vacations.
Without looking for signs, the good abbot knows how to recognize an invitation. First of all, together with his family members, he decided to restore the place and to revive the project of Father Laporte. Every year in June, he invites the people of the area for the triduum in preparation for the feast of the Sacred Heart. This is the highlight of the year.
Throughout the summer months, Father Bégin, surrounded by nephews and nieces, ensures for the pilgrims the mass every morning and the prayer at the Sacred Heart every evening as well as a Holy Hour every Thursday evening. Father Bégin, after Father Laporte, sought to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. It is in the small stone chapel that he spends most of his time in prayer and in welcoming the small groups of pilgrims who continue to climb the mountain. “All my desire is that in Beauvoir the Sacred Heart be particularly honored, praised and prayed to, and that He spread His greatest graces there.”
Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of realism and the fantastic. It typically features isolated protagonists facing bizarre or surrealistic predicaments and incomprehensible socio-bureaucratic powers. It has been interpreted as exploring themes of alienation, existential anxiety, guilt, and absurdity. His best known works include the short story "The Metamorphosis" and novels The Trial and The Castle. The term Kafkaesque has entered English to describe situations like those found in his writing.
Kafka was born into a middle-class German-speaking Jewish family in Prague, the capital of the Kingdom of Bohemia, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, today the capital of the Czech Republic. He trained as a lawyer and after completing his legal education was employed full-time by an insurance company, forcing him to relegate writing to his spare time. Over the course of his life, Kafka wrote hundreds of letters to family and close friends, including his father, with whom he had a strained and formal relationship. He became engaged to several women but never married. He died in 1924 at the age of 40 from tuberculosis.
Few of Kafka's works were published during his lifetime: the story collections Contemplation and A Country Doctor, and individual stories (such as "The Metamorphosis") were published in literary magazines but received little public attention. In his will, Kafka instructed his executor and friend Max Brod to destroy his unfinished works, including his novels The Trial, The Castle and Amerika, but Brod ignored these instructions. His work has influenced a vast range of writers, critics, artists, and philosophers during the 20th and 21st centuries.
The latest lockdown ends, the sun shines, the Duke of Cumberland re-opens on The Marr. Half of the village works whilst the other half plays. Everyday life slowly creaks back into action!
Castle Carrock is a village and civil parish on the B6413 road, in the City of Carlisle District, in the English county of Cumbria about 3 miles south of Brampton. The population of the Civil Parish was 303 in 2001 and rose to 328 by 2011. It has a pub, The Duke of Cumberland, a primary school and many walks.
More recently Castle Carrock is known for 'Cumbria's Most Friendly Music Festival' Music on the Marr which takes place each year at the end of July. It attracts a diverse crop of music, entertainers, artists and poets from around the world: www.flickr.com/photos/davidambridge/collections/721576277...
Castle Carrock is surrounded on the south by Leath Ward, on the west by Cumrew and Carlatton, on the north by Brampton and Hayton, and on the east by Northumberland.
The first name which appears on the manorial roll of Castle Carrock is Eustace de Vallibus, grantee under his kinsman, Hugh de Vallibus, or Vaux, upon whom Henry II conferred the barony of Gilsland as a recompense for services rendered the young prince in his contest with Stephen.
The family of Eustace adopted the Castle-Carrock as a surname, and probably had their castle here which has given a name to the parish. Robert de Castle Carrock, the fourth in descent, left three daughters, among whom the manor was divided, parts of which passed to the Dacres eventually the whole manor passed to the Earls of Carlisle. The principal landowners in the late 19th century were the executors of the late John Watson, Esq., Gelt House: William Watson, Esq., Holme Eden; Ralph Watson, Garth Foot; James Proctor Watson, Esq., Gelt Hall; and Mrs. Elizabeth Carrick.
On the summit of the fell are two cairns, one of which, called Hespeck Raise, is of considerable magnitude. Near Gelt bridge was another cairn, and when the stones were removed in 1775, by the farmer on whose land it was situated, a cistaven or rude stone coffin was found, in which was a human skeleton. About fifteen years ago another cistaven, containing a human skeleton, was unearthed by two farmers near to Greenwell; accompanying it were an urn and a flint, probably the hatchet of the warrior chief, whose mouldered remains were thus brought to view 2,000 years after his entombment.
St. Peter's Church, built on a medieval site in the ruins of previously built churches and also a castle. The present site of St Peter's Church was rebuilt in 1828 and restored in 1888.
Castle Carrock School, a Primary School that has been in Castle Carrock since 1871.
Castle Carrock reservoir, situated above the village. It was built in 1907 to supply drinking water
Friends…lend me your ears
I come to…, not to praise him
Shakespeare, William (ca. 1599): Julius Caesar, Act III Scene II
Shakespeare might get a bit of a gig here today. It was from the very era when Julius Caesar and Hamlet were written that this piece from the salvage yard was hung at the front of the house of Sir Paul Pindar. And that is where it stayed, surviving the slum clearance of 1666, which you might know as the Great Fire of London and subsequent years of reuse and abuse, until 1890 when his house was demolished in the name of progress. Now, saved from the demolisher's it hangs among the bits and pieces you might have stashed in your shed but is actually the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Pindar's house was unwisely constructed on the Bishopgate Road, formerly the Roman's Ermine St and now the A10. Worse still, he put it right where the Liverpool Street Station was to be built. Such is the wisdom of hindsight! It was a skinny thing, deeper than broad with three jettied floors poking out into the road, each one overhanging the other. On the front was this elaborate glazed and carved oak façade.
No amount of patronage nor protest could save what was reputedly London's last house of its type. Progress and profit would inevitably take it down.
I'm not here to praise Pindar. In a common story, all of his wealth may not have been got fairly. But wealth he had! Reputedly, he invested it in political matters, including to support King Charles I, his wife and son. No amount of any of that could turn the head of the Parliament, nor keep Charles' head on its shoulders. The interregnum could have played out better for Pindar. Before Charles II was reinstated as the regent, Pindar's loans remained unpaid, and he died. Reputedly, his executor, was so overcome by his inability to unpick the web of Pindar's creditors that he killed himself.
To be or not to be: that is the question
Shakespeare, William (ca. 1600): Hamlet, Act III Scene I
There you have it! Pindar certainly didn't get his ROI, nor did his Estate.
Neither a borrower nor a lender be…
Shakespeare, William (ca. 1600): Hamlet, Act I Scene III
The We're Here! gang is visiting the group "Times are hard for dreamers" today. This is Chloe, who has had a few hard times lately. Her human passed away, and wasn't found for several days. Then Chloe spent two weeks in a kennel.
But then my neighbour Irene (Sasha's mom before he adopted me) was notified -- she is the executor -- and she went over to Vancouver Island to take care of affairs. One of those affairs was Chloe, who Irene has now adopted.
When Irene has to physically go in to the office, I go over and give Chloe some lap time so she doesn't feel abandoned (again). She is a sweet girl who loves cuddling up on my (or Fred's) lap or rolling for belly rubs, or coming in close for nose boops.
Excerpt from histoiresainteducanada.ca/en/le-sanctuaire-du-sacre-coeur...:
Father Joseph-Arthur Laporte was born in Saint-Paul de Joliette on August 15, 1857, the feast of the Assumption. He entered the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on August 25, 1879. The members of this community have a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it is through their contact that Father Laporte developed this devotion.
He left the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on July 28, 1886 and requested his incardination to the Bishop of Sherbrooke. He was admitted to the number of priests of the diocese by Bishop Antoine Racine, and appointed pastor of the parish of Sainte-Praxède de Bromptonville (1891-1902) from where he discovered the “mountain” that he would later call “Beauvoir”.
Eight kilometers north of Sherbrooke, a small mountain of one hundred and fifteen meters, still unnamed, had long attracted the attention of this great lover of nature. After many approaches to Mr. Émile Lessard, a farmer, he bought two hectares of land from him in 1915. He gave the name “Beauvoir” (beautiful to see) to this corner of paradise whose panoramic view enchanted him. He decided to build a small cottage, a house of six meters on a side surrounded by a gallery. In 1916 and 1917, he bought more land to enlarge his small domain.
And in 1920, he founded the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Beauvoir.
For years, Father Laporte has been fascinated by the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He speaks of it tirelessly. So it is not surprising that the only decoration on the bare walls of his cottage is a lithograph, without much artistic pretension, of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.
In 1916, Father Laporte still dreamed of making Beauvoir a place where people would come to pray and celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whose devotion was spreading more and more throughout the country. He therefore decided to erect, not far from his cottage, a statue of the Sacred Heart. Measuring two meters in height, this statue, with its arms wide open, stands on a pedestal of field stones that farmers have faithfully transported on their carts.
The parish priest now invites his parishioners to come and taste the happiness that is his at the Sacred Heart…
As early as 1918, pilgrims began “the ascent of the Rosary”, a devotional practice that would have its heyday in the 1930s. On Sunday afternoons, pilgrims, starting from the main road, climbed to Beauvoir while reciting the rosary.
In 1933, at the request of the pilgrims, Father Pierre-Achille Bégin had a cross erected in front of the road leading to the Shrine. It is from this cross, still visible, that the pilgrimages to Beauvoir started. Along the way, wooden boards were set up on which were written the fifteen mysteries of the rosary. For Beauvoir, the erection of this cross gives all its meaning to the ascent of the rosary: it is the beginning of the ascent, it is the cross of the rosary that the lips kiss before murmuring the “Aves”, the first links of this long chain that leads the pilgrims to the very Love that awaits them at the Shrine.
In 1920, during a Holy Hour, he asked for a special favor from the Sacred Heart, with the promise of building a small chapel in Beauvoir if he was granted it. With the help of some local craftsmen, he had the promised little chapel built.
It is an architectural jewel that Abbé Laporte had built on the hill of Beauvoir.
But the Sacred Heart, never defeated in generosity, knows how to reward his servant by giving to vile materials a stamp of rustic elegance, to a humble and poor building, a beauty that escapes no one. And all those who come to pray in this rustic chapel find there a calm, a peace that penetrates deep into their souls and leaves them pacified. One can almost feel the loving presence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which bends down with tenderness over those who come to visit it.
The exterior of this chapel is reminiscent in many ways of some of the country chapels of France. The rustic walls, the rudimentary furnishings and the few decorations are not likely to satisfy the connoisseur of expensive works of art. It is poverty, destitution. The only decoration is a statue, a frame, two statuettes, a few ex-votos testifying to the goodness of the Sacred Heart, lanterns and old images of the Way of the Cross. But, near the tabernacle, how one can taste with love and peace the divine presence of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus!
On October 24, 1920, Bishop Larocque came to bless the little chapel. The next day, Father Laporte celebrated the first mass on Mount Beauvoir.
In the spring of 1921, his health inexorably deteriorated. Even though he was ill, he was taken to Beauvoir four or five more times. Then he had to give up returning to Beauvoir. He was hospitalized at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital at the beginning of August. And on August 20, Father Laporte was finally able to meet face to face with the one who was the great love of his life.
The body of Father Laporte now rests in the crypt of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of which he was parish priest. However, on the west wall of the little chapel in Beauvoir, a commemorative plaque recalls the man who founded the Shrine and who continues to watch over its work from above.
Father Laporte had bequeathed the Beauvoir property to the diocese on the condition that he pay the remaining $3,500 debt. The diocese refused this bequest. Beauvoir thus reverted to the universal legatee, Miss Euphémie Charest, Father Laporte’s former housekeeper. She sold Beauvoir in 1923 to the executor of Father Laporte’s will, the notary Gédéon Bégin, for the price of the debt. This wealthy businessman used Beauvoir Hill as a summer vacation spot for his family.
From 1923 to 1929, Beauvoir fell into almost complete abandonment. Only a few lovers of the Sacred Heart would go up there privately to pray at the foot of the Sacred Heart statue. But at the end of July 1929, Father Pierre Achille Bégin, a retired priest and brother of the owner, accompanied by a few members of the family, came to visit Beauvoir. Although the buildings had been quite damaged by thieves and the weeds had invaded the area, the group was charmed by the landscape and decided to settle there for two weeks.
From then on, the Bégin family would come to spend a few weeks in Beauvoir during the summer vacations.
Without looking for signs, the good abbot knows how to recognize an invitation. First of all, together with his family members, he decided to restore the place and to revive the project of Father Laporte. Every year in June, he invites the people of the area for the triduum in preparation for the feast of the Sacred Heart. This is the highlight of the year.
Throughout the summer months, Father Bégin, surrounded by nephews and nieces, ensures for the pilgrims the mass every morning and the prayer at the Sacred Heart every evening as well as a Holy Hour every Thursday evening. Father Bégin, after Father Laporte, sought to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. It is in the small stone chapel that he spends most of his time in prayer and in welcoming the small groups of pilgrims who continue to climb the mountain. “All my desire is that in Beauvoir the Sacred Heart be particularly honored, praised and prayed to, and that He spread His greatest graces there.”
Ucero, Soria, Castilla y León, España.
Ucero es una villa y también un municipio de la provincia de Soria, partido judicial de Burgo de Osma, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León, en España.
Dista 63,2 kilómetros de la capital y se encuentra a una altitud de 964 metros en la carretera que conduce de El Burgo de Osma a San Leonardo.
Junto con Herrera de Soria y Nafría de Ucero regenta un condominio conocido como Comunidad de Herrera de Soria, Nafría de Ucero y Ucero, con una extensión superficial de 384,84 hectáreas.
El señorío de Ucero perteneció en el siglo XIII a Juan García de Ucero, esposo de María de Meneses, y a la muerte de aquel, su esposa lo heredó y se lo entregó a la hija ilegítima que tuvo con el rey Sancho IV de Castilla, Violante Sánchez de Castilla.
Y en un documento emitido el 13 de noviembre de 1325 en Aviñón, el papa Juan XXII encomendó al arzobispo de Toledo, Juan de Aragón, que siguiera la causa o pleito que mantenían Violante Sánchez y el obispo de Osma, Juan Pérez de Ascarón, por la posesión del señorío de Ucero, que pertenecía legalmente a ella por la herencia de su madre y había sido ocupado y retenido ilegalmente por dicho obispo, según ella, desde que aquel lo compró el 23 de mayo de 1302 por 300.000 maravedís, y junto con otras propiedades, a los albaceas de Juan García de Villamayor, según consta en la escritura de venta publicada en el tomo II de las Memorias de Fernando IV de Castilla. Pero a pesar de lo anterior, Violante continuó considerándose propietaria del señorío y en 1327 lo donó, junto con el resto de sus posesiones, a la Orden de Santiago, a pesar de que el señorío de Ucero perteneció desde 1302 definitivamente a los obispos de Osma.
En el Censo de 1879, ordenado por el Conde de Floridablanca, figuraba como villa cabecera del Partido de Ucero en la Intendencia de Soria, con jurisdicción de abadengo y bajo la autoridad del Alcalde Mayor de Señorío, nombrado por el Obispo de Osma. Contaba entonces con 232 habitantes.
A la caída del Antiguo Régimen la localidad de constituye en municipio constitucional en la región de Castilla la Vieja que en el censo de 1842 contaba con 38 hogares y 150 vecinos.
Ucero is a town and also a municipality in the province of Soria, judicial district of Burgo de Osma, autonomous community of Castilla y León, in Spain.
It is 63.2 kilometers from the capital and is located at an altitude of 964 meters on the road that leads from El Burgo de Osma to San Leonardo.
Together with Herrera de Soria and Nafría de Ucero he runs a condominium known as Comunidad de Herrera de Soria, Nafría de Ucero and Ucero, with a surface area of 384.84 hectares.
The lordship of Ucero belonged in the thirteenth century to Juan García de Ucero, husband of María de Meneses, and upon his death, his wife inherited it and gave it to the illegitimate daughter he had with King Sancho IV of Castile, Violante Sánchez of Castilla.
And in a document issued on November 13, 1325 in Avignon, Pope John XXII entrusted the Archbishop of Toledo, Juan de Aragón, to follow the cause or lawsuit maintained by Violante Sánchez and the Bishop of Osma, Juan Pérez de Ascarón, for the possession of the lordship of Ucero, which legally belonged to her by inheritance from her mother and had been illegally occupied and retained by said bishop, according to her, since he bought it on May 23, 1302 for 300,000 maravedís, and together with other properties, to the executors of Juan García de Villamayor, as recorded in the deed of sale published in Volume II of the Memoirs of Fernando IV of Castile. But despite the above, Violante continued to consider herself the owner of the manor and in 1327 He donated it, along with the rest of his possessions, to the Order of Santiago, despite the fact that the dominion of Ucero belonged definitively from 1302 to the bishops of Osma.
In the 1879 Census, ordered by the Count of Floridablanca, it appeared as the head town of the Ucero Party in the Municipality of Soria, with jurisdiction of abadengo and under the authority of the Mayor of Señorío, appointed by the Bishop of Osma. It then had 232 inhabitants.
At the fall of the Old Regime, the town of constitutes a constitutional municipality in the region of Castilla la Vieja, which in the 1842 census had 38 homes and 150 neighbors.
Circular Quay has many interesting street performers putting up shows over the weekend. This guy was juggling everything from apples and knives to chainsaws and fire!
This was taken just before the grand finale where he juggled fire, knives and an apple (that is being thrown to him in this shot) while he was suspended on a cycle 15 feet off the ground! The ropes which held the cycle up were being handled by members of the crowd.
Foolhardy or pure talent?
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Sydney, Australia
2008
♫ Minha alma canta, Vejo o Rio de Janeiro
Estou morrendo de saudades
Rio, seu mar, Praia sem fim
Rio, você foi feito prá mim
Cristo Redentor, Braços abertos sobre a Guanabara...
My soul sings, I see Rio de Janeiro
I’m dying of longing
Rio, your sea, Beach without end
Rio, you were made for me
Christ the Redeemer, Open arms over Guanabara... ♫
No 12 de outubro de 1931 era inaugurado o Cristo Redentor, talvez o simbolo mais conhecido da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e do Brasil no Mundo.
A construção de um monumento religioso no local foi sugerida pela primeira vez em 1859, pelo padre lazarista Pedro Maria Boss, à Princesa Isabel. No entanto, apenas retomou-se efetivamente a ideia em 1921, quando se iniciavam os preparativos para as comemorações do centenário da Independência.
A pedra fundamental do monumento foi lançada em 4 de abril de 1922, mas as obras somente foram iniciadas em 1926. Dentre as pessoas que colaboraram para a realização, podem ser citados o engenheiro Heitor da Silva Costa (autor do projeto escolhido em 1923), o artista plástico Carlos Oswald (autor do desenho final do monumento) e o escultor francês de origem polonesa Paul Landowski (executor das mãos e do rosto da escultura).
Ainda hoje, algumas pessoas dizem que o monumento foi um presente da França para o Brasil , quando, na verdade, a obra foi erigida a partir de doações de fiéis de arquidioceses e paróquias por todo o país. mas principalmente da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, com o projeto de autoria e chefia do engenheiro Heitor da Silva Costa. Da França, vieram, apenas uma réplica de quatro metros feita de pequenos moldes, assim como modelos das mãos feitos pelo Landowski, conforme o desenho de Heitor e Carlos Oswald (Wikipedia)
Foto tirada do Amanhecer no Corcovado durante a JMJ Rio 2013, onde tive a oportunidade de estar com esses talentosos jovens peregrinos que faziam parte do wilenszczyzna zespol piesni i tanca, um coral folclórico de dança e canto do Leste Europeu; Para ve-los e ouvi-los basta clicar AQUI
* Todas as fotos da sequencia estão ABERTAS, pois já foram publicadas anteriormente
Foto: Cristo Redentor - Amanhecer no Corcovado - Jornada Mundial da Juventude 2013 - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil
Video: ♪ Samba do Avião ♪ - Tom Jobim
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Coit Tower is a 210-foot (64 m) tower in the Telegraph Hill neighborhood of San Francisco, California, offering panoramic views over the city and the bay. The tower, in the city's Pioneer Park, was built between 1932 and 1933 using Lillie Hitchcock Coit's bequest to beautify the city of San Francisco. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 29, 2008.
The art deco tower, built of unpainted reinforced concrete, was designed by architects Arthur Brown, Jr. and Henry Howard. The interior features fresco murals in the American fresco mural painting style, painted by 25 different onsite artists and their numerous assistants, plus two additional paintings installed after creation offsite.
Also known as the Coit Memorial Tower, it was dedicated to the volunteer firemen who had died in San Francisco's five major fires. Although an apocryphal story claims that the tower was designed to resemble a fire hose nozzle due to Coit's affinity with the San Francisco firefighters of the day, the resemblance is coincidental.
Telegraph Hill, the tower's location, has been described as "the most optimal 360 degree viewing point to the San Francisco Bay and five surrounding counties." In 1849, it became the site of a two-story observation deck, from which information about incoming ships was broadcast to city residents using an optical semaphore system, replaced in 1853 by an electrical telegraph that was destroyed by a storm in 1870.
Coit Tower was paid for with money left by Lillie Hitchcock Coit (1843–1929), a wealthy socialite who loved to chase fires in the early days of the city's history. Before December 1866, there was no city fire department, and fires in the city, which broke out regularly in the wooden buildings, were extinguished by several volunteer fire companies. Coit was one of the more eccentric characters in the history of North Beach and Telegraph Hill, smoking cigars and wearing trousers long before it was socially acceptable for women to do so. She was an avid gambler and often dressed like a man in order to gamble in the males-only establishments that dotted North Beach.
Coit's fortune funded the monument four years following her death in 1929. She had a special relationship with the city's firefighters. At the age of fifteen she witnessed the Knickerbocker Engine Co. No. 5 in response to a fire call up on Telegraph Hill when they were shorthanded; she threw her school books to the ground and pitched in to help, calling out to other bystanders to help get the engine up the hill to the fire, to get the first water onto the blaze. After that Coit became the Engine Co. mascot and could barely be constrained by her parents from jumping into action at the sound of every fire bell. She frequently rode with the Knickerbocker Engine Co. 5, especially in street parades and celebrations in which the Engine Co. participated. Through her youth and adulthood Coit was recognized as an honorary firefighter.
In her will she specified that one third of her fortune, amounting to $118,000, "be expended in an appropriate manner for the purpose of adding to the beauty of the city which I have always loved." Two memorials were built in her name. One was Coit Tower, and the other was a sculpture depicting three firemen, one of them carrying a woman in his arms.
The San Francisco County Board of Supervisors proposed that Coit's bequest be used for a road at Lake Merced. This proposal brought disapproval from the estate's executors, who expressed a desire that the county find "ways and means of expending this money on a memorial that in itself would be an entity and not a unit of public development". Art Commission president Herbert Fleishhacker suggested a memorial on Telegraph Hill, which was approved by the estate executors. An additional $7,000 in city funds was appropriated, and a design competition was initiated. The winner was architect Arthur Brown, Jr, whose design was completed and dedicated on October 8, 1933.
Coit Tower was listed as a San Francisco Designated Landmark in 1984 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008. Although Coit Tower is not technically a California Historical Landmark, the state historical plaque for Telegraph Hill is located in the tower's lobby, marking the site of the original signal station.
The San Francisco Arts Commission ordered the removal of the Statue of Christopher Columbus that had stood outside the entrance of the tower since 1957, following numerous other removals of controversial statues during the George Floyd protests that began in May 2020, and it was removed on June 18, 2020.
HENRY BRASSEY MONUMENT, 1891
"The Lord Watch Between Me and Thee,
When We are Absent One from Another"
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF
HENRY ARTHUR BRASSEY
OF PRESTON HALL
1840 – 1891
AND OF HIS WIFE ANNA HARRIET
1844 – 1898
Henry Brassey, died 1891. "The Good Squire of Aylesford." Lived at Preston Hall, the 2nd son of Thomas Brassey, a leading Railway Contractor. Educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford. J.P. for Kent. Liberal Unionist M. P. for Sandwich 1868 – 1885. High Sheriff of Kent 1890 – 91. Captain of West Kent (Queen's Own) Yeomanry Cavalry.
Prize winning Cattle Breeder. He died of pneumonia, following the influenza epidemic of 1891. His Pall Bearers were some of his oldest workmen; Guard of Honour from the R. W. K. Y. C. Very large number of mourners attended funeral, a special train was laid on from Charing Cross.
The monument is rather disappointing and commonplace, it is a pity that the Brassys' taste did not match their wealth!
The Times published his will:
"MR. H. A. BRASSEY'S WILL. Probate duty has been paid on £1,042,611 0s 8d as the net value (thegross being £1, 075,913 15s 7d) of the personal estate of Mr HENRY ARTHUR BRASSEY, of Preston Hall, Ashford (sic), Kent, and Bath-house, Piccadilly, who died on the 13th of May last, aged 51 years, and of whose will, dated the 10th of August, 1883, with a codicil made the 20th of July 1887, the executors are his brothers, Thomas first Lord Brassey, of Bulkely, Chester, Mr Albert Brassey, of Heythrop, Oxford, and Mr Robert Mitchell Campbell, of Glaisnock, Old Cumnock. The testator bequeaths to his wife during her widow-hood an annuity (including the income provided for by her marriage settlement) of £8,000 and the use and enjoyment of the testator's town house and its furniture and of plate to the value of £1,000. In the event of Mrs Brassey's remarriage her annuity is to be reduced to £2,000 for the remainder of her life.
Mr. Brassey leaves in trust for each of his daughters £50,000. He bequeaths to the Bishop's of London's Fund and the Fever Hospital, Liverpool road, Islington, £1,000 each; to the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children, St. George's Hospital, the Royal Hospital for Incurables, the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell street, the Lock Hospital, the Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, and the Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead, £500 each.
To the West Kent General Hospital the testator bequeaths £1,000 and to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital, the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum, Bagshot, the Academy for the Blind, the Central London Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Ear. The Metropolitan Convalescent Institution , Walton on Thames, and the Orphan Working School, Haverstock hill, £500 each.
Mr Brassey bequeaths also £500 to the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, Great Queen Street to be primarily applied in aid of maintaining the boys in and upon and in keeping up the training ships Chichester and Arethusa. He devises the Preston hall estate to the use of his first son in priority, and all the contents of the hall to the use of the tenant for life of that estate."
The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Barnovschi is a Christian-Orthodox church in Iasi, whose construction began in 1627 at the request of the ruler of Moldova, Miron Barnovschi-Movila (1626-1629, April-July 1633).
In July 1629, Prince Miron Barnovschi-Movila had to leave the country, fleeing to Poland, so that construction work on the monastery of Iasi was slowed down or even stopped. He was summoned to Istanbul on April 27, 1633 on the pretext that he would receive the reign of Moldova, but was arrested there in June 1633, sent to prison and beheaded on July 2, 1633.
In his will of June 22, 1633, drawn up in Constantinople, the former sovereign of Moldova ordered his executors (the factor Iancu Costin, father of the chronicler Miron Costin, and the great logician Matei Gavrilaș) to sell his properties in Poland for , with the money obtained, complete the construction of the Church of the Assumption of Iași, of the church "Sf. Ioan Botezătorul” of Iași and of the churches of Toporăuți and Liov.
The Barnovschi Monastery, administered by Greek monks until the secularization of the monastery property (1863) during the reign of Alexander Ioan Cuza, became the official residence of the patriarchs of the Orthodox East who crossed Moldova. By the law of secularization of goods of December 1863, the monastery of Barnovschi was abolished, it lost its properties and the Greek monks left it. It became a parish church, having as branch the church of Saint-Lazare.
Over time, the buildings of its premises deteriorated, the annex buildings being demolished by the systemization plan of the Civic Center Iași of 1983. The church, the bell tower and a cellar which were attached to it escaped the bulldozers of the Communist regime.
Between 1994 and 2004, the Barnovschi church was strengthened and restored inside and outside, with funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, but also with the help of UNESCO.