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Laos is blessed with some of Asia’s nicest rivers, and many of them are mellow. Children spent the day at school, and by the afternoon they were doing the chores required of them…building a fire for the kitchen, sweeping the leaves into a pile, or caring for the young siblings strapped to their back …young boys and girls from the age of seven or eight attentive to the baby’s every need. Amongst this was the laughter of children playing in the river. But sometimes they skip their days at school, going fishing and collecting snails from the river, or using long bamboo poles to knock crickets from the trees. They eat the crickets live or drop them into bottles and take them home for lunch or dinner.

 

Photo taken nearby the Tad Lo waterfall near the little town Kieng Than Lei - Laos. These ragged little urchins spend most of their days not at school, but fishing and collecting snails from the river. School is important for ethnic minority kids, they should attend and complete primary education in order to overcome rural/urban, ethnic in the area of literacy and education. But it isn't that easy. The reason to skip school are the family economic considerations, involvement in family maintenance and subsistence tasks, the lack of perceived benefits from education. While poverty and lack of access are issues. In addition to these, ethnic minority kids have to face further barriers to education, including the distance from school facilities, their extreme poverty, and additional cultural barriers and the lack of fluency in the national language, Lao. The ethnic kids speak their own language. About 32% of all Laotians are related to Ethnic groups. Totally 160 ethnic groups and speak 82 distinct living languages.

 

...an old lady washing her clothes in the river gave us a beautiful smile; the Laos people are so friendly. Kids have a great time running on the rampart, swimming in the Sexet river at the Tad Lo waterfall, taking boat rides along the river and playing. A bit futher south men washing their elephants in the river. Lao seems a bit like heaven, the laughter is often & sincere, the rivers are cool and clean and not a speck of modern civilization in sight. In my perspective it is some of the best Laos can offer.

 

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Aruba, a small island in the Dutch Caribbean off the coast of Venezuela, has a dry climate, sunny beaches and gentle waves. Constant winds produce a cool breeze and tilt trees (like the famous divi-divi) to the southwest. The European influence appears in the architecture, characterized by the Dutch gables painted in tropical pastel tones. This is also evident in the coexistence of the local language, Papiamento, with English, Dutch and Spanish. The country does not have fresh water but it has desalinated water of excellent quality and you can safely drink tap water. The small country is a major producer and exporter of aloe vera (aloe vera) and is strong in the financial and fishing sectors, in addition to logistical services in the oil sector. It is a small island with a lot of sun and wind all the time, which favors the country's main economic activity, tourism. Its area is 179 km2 (69.1 mi2) and is densely populated by approximately 110,000 inhabitants (2020 Census) and has a per capita income of just over US$25,000 p.a. The country's capital is Oranjestad.

 

Aruba, pequena ilha do Caribe holandês ao largo da costa da Venezuela, tem clima seco, praias ensolaradas e ondas suaves. Ventos constantes produzem uma brisa fresca e inclinam as árvores (como a famosa divi-divi) para o sudoeste. A influência europeia aparece na arquitetura, caracterizada pelas empenas holandesas pintadas em tons pastel tropicais. Isso também fica evidente na convivência do idioma local, o papiamento, com o inglês, o holandês e o espanhol. O país não tem água doce mas tem água dessalinizada de ótima qualidade e vc pode tomar agua da torneira com segurança. O pequeno país é um grande produtor e exportador de aloé vera (babosa) e é forte no setor financeiro e de pesca além de serviços logísticos na área petroleira. É uma pequena ilha com muito sol e vento o ando todo o que favorece a principal atividade econômica do país, o turismo. Sua área é de 179 km2 (69.1 mi2) e é densamente povoada por aproximadamente 110.000 habitantes (Censo de 2020) e tem uma renda per capita de pouco mais de US$ 25,000 a.a. A capital do país é Oranjestad.

 

Aruba, een klein eiland in de Nederlandse Caraïben voor de kust van Venezuela, heeft een droog klimaat, zonnige stranden en zachte golven. Constante winden produceren een koel briesje en kantelen bomen (zoals de beroemde divi-divi) naar het zuidwesten. De Europese invloed komt terug in de architectuur, gekenmerkt door de Hollandse gevels geschilderd in tropische pasteltinten. Dit blijkt ook uit het naast elkaar bestaan van de lokale taal, Papiamento, met Engels, Nederlands en Spaans. Het land heeft geen zoet water maar wel ontzilt water van uitstekende kwaliteit en je kunt er veilig kraanwater drinken. Het kleine land is een belangrijke producent en exporteur van aloë vera (aloë vera) en is sterk in de financiële en visserijsector, naast de logistieke dienstverlening in de oliesector. Het is een klein eiland met de hele tijd veel zon en wind, wat de belangrijkste economische activiteit van het land, het toerisme, bevordert. Het gebied is 179 km2 (69,1 mi2) en is dichtbevolkt met ongeveer 110.000 inwoners (telling van 2020) en heeft een inkomen per hoofd van de bevolking van iets meer dan 25.000 dollar per jaar. De hoofdstad van het land is Oranjestad.

 

Aruba, una piccola isola dei Caraibi olandesi al largo della costa del Venezuela, ha un clima secco, spiagge assolate e onde dolci. I venti costanti producono una brezza fresca e inclinano gli alberi (come i famosi divi-divi) a sud-ovest. L'influenza europea appare nell'architettura, caratterizzata dai timpani olandesi dipinti in toni pastello tropicali. Ciò è evidente anche nella coesistenza della lingua locale, il papiamento, con l'inglese, l'olandese e lo spagnolo. Il paese non ha acqua dolce ma ha acqua desalinizzata di ottima qualità e si può bere tranquillamente l'acqua del rubinetto. Il piccolo paese è un importante produttore ed esportatore di aloe vera (aloe vera) ed è forte nei settori finanziario e della pesca, oltre ai servizi logistici nel settore petrolifero. È una piccola isola con tanto sole e vento tutto il tempo, il che favorisce la principale attività economica del paese, il turismo. La sua area è di 179 km2 (69,1 mi2) ed è densamente popolata da circa 110.000 abitanti (censimento 2020) e ha un reddito pro capite di poco superiore a US $ 25.000 all'anno. La capitale del paese è Oranjestad.

 

Aruba, una pequeña isla en el Caribe holandés frente a la costa de Venezuela, tiene un clima seco, playas soleadas y olas suaves. Los vientos constantes producen una brisa fresca e inclinan los árboles (como el famoso divi-divi) hacia el suroeste. La influencia europea aparece en la arquitectura, caracterizada por los frontones holandeses pintados en tonos pastel tropicales. Esto también es evidente en la coexistencia del idioma local, el papiamento, con el inglés, el holandés y el español. El país no tiene agua dulce pero tiene agua desalada de excelente calidad y se puede beber agua del grifo sin peligro. El pequeño país es un importante productor y exportador de aloe vera (sábila) y es fuerte en los sectores financiero y pesquero, además de los servicios logísticos en el sector petrolero. Es una isla pequeña con mucho sol y viento todo el tiempo, lo que favorece la principal actividad económica del país, el turismo. Su área es de 179 km2 (69.1 mi2) y está densamente poblada por aproximadamente 110,000 habitantes (Censo 2020) y tiene un ingreso per cápita de poco más de US$25,000 p.a. La capital del país es Oranjestad.

 

Aruba, eine kleine Insel in der niederländischen Karibik vor der Küste Venezuelas, hat ein trockenes Klima, sonnige Strände und sanfte Wellen. Konstante Winde erzeugen eine kühle Brise und neigen Bäume (wie das berühmte Divi-Divi) nach Südwesten. Der europäische Einfluss zeigt sich in der Architektur, die durch die in tropischen Pastelltönen gestrichenen holländischen Giebel gekennzeichnet ist. Dies zeigt sich auch in der Koexistenz der lokalen Sprache Papiamento mit Englisch, Niederländisch und Spanisch. Das Land hat kein Süßwasser, aber entsalztes Wasser von ausgezeichneter Qualität und Leitungswasser kann bedenkenlos getrunken werden. Das kleine Land ist ein bedeutender Produzent und Exporteur von Aloe Vera (Aloe Vera) und ist neben logistischen Dienstleistungen im Ölsektor stark im Finanz- und Fischereisektor. Es ist eine kleine Insel mit viel Sonne und Wind, was die wichtigste wirtschaftliche Aktivität des Landes, den Tourismus, begünstigt. Seine Fläche beträgt 179 km2 (69,1 mi2) und ist mit etwa 110.000 Einwohnern (Volkszählung 2020) dicht besiedelt und hat ein Pro-Kopf-Einkommen von knapp über 25.000 US-Dollar pro Jahr. Die Hauptstadt des Landes ist Oranjestad.

 

Aruba, une petite île des Caraïbes néerlandaises au large des côtes du Venezuela, a un climat sec, des plages ensoleillées et des vagues douces. Des vents constants produisent une brise fraîche et inclinent les arbres (comme le fameux divi-divi) vers le sud-ouest. L'influence européenne apparaît dans l'architecture, caractérisée par les pignons hollandais peints dans des tons pastel tropicaux. Cela est également évident dans la coexistence de la langue locale, le papiamento, avec l'anglais, le néerlandais et l'espagnol. Le pays ne dispose pas d'eau douce mais il dispose d'une eau dessalée d'excellente qualité et vous pouvez boire l'eau du robinet en toute sécurité. Le petit pays est un important producteur et exportateur d'aloe vera (aloe vera) et est fort dans les secteurs financier et de la pêche, en plus des services logistiques dans le secteur pétrolier. C'est une petite île avec beaucoup de soleil et de vent tout le temps, ce qui favorise la principale activité économique du pays, le tourisme. Sa superficie est de 179 km2 (69,1 mi2) et est densément peuplée d'environ 110 000 habitants (recensement de 2020) et a un revenu par habitant d'un peu plus de 25 000 $ US par an. La capitale du pays est Oranjestad.

 

تتمتع أروبا ، وهي جزيرة صغيرة في منطقة البحر الكاريبي الهولندية قبالة سواحل فنزويلا ، بمناخ جاف وشواطئ مشمسة وأمواج لطيفة. تنتج الرياح المستمرة نسيمًا باردًا وتميل الأشجار (مثل ديفي ديفي الشهير) إلى الجنوب الغربي. يظهر التأثير الأوروبي في العمارة التي تتميز بالجملونات الهولندية المطلية بدرجات ألوان الباستيل الاستوائية. وهذا واضح أيضًا في تعايش اللغة المحلية ، البابيامينتو ، مع الإنجليزية والهولندية والإسبانية. لا يوجد في البلاد مياه عذبة ولكنها تحتوي على مياه محلاة بجودة ممتازة ويمكنك شرب مياه الصنبور بأمان. تعد الدولة الصغيرة منتجًا ومصدرًا رئيسيًا للصبار (الألوة فيرا) وهي قوية في قطاعي المال وصيد الأسماك ، بالإضافة إلى الخدمات اللوجستية في قطاع النفط. إنها جزيرة صغيرة بها الكثير من الشمس والرياح طوال الوقت ، مما يفضل النشاط الاقتصادي الرئيسي للبلاد ، وهو السياحة. تبلغ مساحتها 179 كيلومترًا مربعًا (69.1 ميل 2) وهي مكتظة بالسكان بحوالي 110.000 نسمة (تعداد 2020) ويبلغ دخل الفرد فيها أكثر من 25000 دولار أمريكي بقليل. عاصمة البلاد هي أورانجيستاد.

 

ベネズエラ沖のオランダのカリブ海にある小さな島、アルバは、乾燥した気候、太陽が降り注ぐビーチ、穏やかな波に恵まれています。絶え間ない風が涼しい風を生み出し、木々を（有名なディビディビのように）南西に傾けます。ヨーロッパの影響は、熱帯のパステル トーンで描かれたオランダの切妻を特徴とする建築に現れます。これは、地元の言語であるパピアメント語と、英語、オランダ語、スペイン語が共存していることにも明らかです。この国には真水はありませんが、優れた品質の淡水化された水があり、水道水を安全に飲むことができます。この小さな国は、アロエベラ (アロエベラ) の主要な生産国および輸出国であり、石油部門の物流サービスに加えて、金融および漁業部門に強みを持っています。それは国の主要な経済活動である観光に有利な、常に太陽と風がたくさんある小さな島です。その面積は 179 km2 (69.1 mi2) で、約 110,000 人の住民 (2020 年の国勢調査) が密集しており、1 人あたりの収入は年間 25,000 米ドル強です。国の首都はオラニエスタッドです。

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Ta'er Monastery, Xining, China.

 

As the religious activity center of both monks and followers of the Yellow Hat Sect (also named Gelugpa Sect, a branch of Tibetan Buddhism), the Ta'er Monastery (Kumbum Monastery) is located in Huangzhong County, Qinghai Province, 25 kilometers (about 16 miles) away from the capital city of Qinghai Province - Xining. In order to commemorate Tsong Khapa (1357-1419), founder of the Yellow Hat Sect, the Ta'er Monastery was built in 1577 more than 150 years after his death. Now it is considered a sacred place in China.

In the Tibetan language, Ta'er Monastery is called 'gongben', which means '10,000 figures of Buddha'. During its long 400 years of history, it has gradually become a place of interest for its distinct ethnic color and native style. The whole area covers more than 144 thousand square meters (about 36 acres) with mountains surrounding it. It has 9,300 rooms and 52 halls. Just judging from these figures, you can imagine what a splendid place it is. The Ta'er Monastery is a group of fine buildings in a combination of both the Han and Tibetan styles of architecture on the mountain slopes. It has lofty temples and halls rising one upon another. The palace buildings, Buddhist halls, sleeping quarters, as well as the courtyards echo each other and thus enhance the beauty of the whole area.

 

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Good morning Sunshine. Good morning Soul. Good Morning Earth. Good Morning Mist.

A peaceful morning, woken up by the sounds of the birds chirping and the cold breeze passing above the sleeping bag; the warm body within shudders awakened with a cold kiss of morning due. Taking in the first mountain breath; breathing in fresh air witnessing the rest of the world awakened from a distance.

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An old lady sat right in front of me, by a window side of a train compartment. She wore aristocracy like no other; around 75-80 years old, travelling alone from Kolkata. Her son would receive her from the station. She was communicating with her son over the cell phone. She was on the edge of her mood, at times relaxed and sometimes fidgety, as the train was running late. She was an expressive woman, as her gestures reflected her mood. She was ignorant about everything happening in the compartment, as she was eager to reach the station on time. I took a few shots of her gestures with my cell phone camera, secretly. They turned out to be pretty productive, as natural documentation of one’s body languages.

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Two hiker/photographers witnessed the breathtaking Tre Cime sunset in reverent silence. The only sound exchanged as the drama unfolded was the artificial "click" of camera shutters. Later, after the mountain lost its magical highlights, the two photographers lingered on the limestone shelf to catch the last light to the west. Standing several hundred feet away, I caught them in this distant interaction. Later, Alan explained that their silence was broken by an attempt to converse. Neither understood the other's language. No matter- the understanding was there. Alan's new friend from Germany offered him a brandy and they exchanged a toast beneath the setting sun.

 

Watching this from a distance, I knew I had observed an unusual and powerful moment of human connection.

 

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St. Patrics Cathedral on 2016 Christmas Eve.

 

New York’s First Cathedral: The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral

 

Written by Joyce Mendelsohn, 2001

Edited and updated by James E. Garrity, 2015

 

The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral is the original Cathedral of the Archdiocese of New York. Since its construction 200 years ago on the corner of Mott and Prince, it has stood as the heart of old New York; a beacon for the Catholic faithful and an American symbol of religious freedom. Originally the center of a once impoverished Irish community, St. Patrick’s has expanded to serve a diverse community of Catholics from Italian, Hispanic, Asian, and various other origins. Today, our Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral remains a vital force in the community which proudly unites Catholics through worship, social groups and spiritual guidance.

 

The History of Catholicism in New York

 

The history of our city's Catholicism begins in the 17th century with French-born Fr. Isaac Jogues, a Jesuit who landed in New York State. Fr. Jacques was one of the North American Martyrs sent as missionaries to the Quebec Hurons in the early 1640s. He escaped capture and torture by an Iroquois war party in 1643 with the help of Dutch Calvinists who smuggled him by boat to New Amsterdam (later renamed New York) where he was warmly welcomed as “a martyr of Jesus Christ” by Willem Kieft. Father Jogues sailed back to Europe upon learning that 18 different languages were spoken among the settlement population numbering some 500, described as having “the arrogance of Babel.” He later returned as an Iroquois missionary though he was seized and murdered in 1649 by a member of the Mohawk tribe. His canonization was in 1930 by Pope Pius XI.

Peter Stuyvesant proceeded Kieft with openly hostility to public worship by religions other than the Dutch Reformed Church which remained even after the British gained control in 1664 of what became New York. The small Catholic population only gained esteem in 1674, when King James II (a Roman Catholic convert) granted religious liberty to the province which still lacked a its own place of worship. In 1683, King James II appointed an Irish Catholic Colonel Thomas Dongan to govern New York under his “Charter of Liberties and Privileges” which granted religious freedom to all Christians. However, the fall of the Catholic Stuarts in England due to the Protestant “Glorious Revolution” of 1688 drove Dongan from his post, ending the brief religious liberty in the province and ushering in a law in 1700 that prohibited Catholic priests from entering the city as per the provincial assembly. Despite these restrictions, Jesuit Ferdinand Steenmayer snuck into the city to celebrate Mass in secret on several brave occasions.

 

Upon the anti-Catholic law being repealed (1784) in the now sovereign state of New York, an Irish Capuchin friar Charles Whelan arrived in the city to help organize what would become the first Catholic parish in the independent United States. New York’s Catholic community numbered less than 1,000 of the total 230,000 populating the land from French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, and Irish descent. Nevertheless, the Roman Catholic Church in the City of New York was incorporated in 1785, led by the French consul and largely financed by a donation from King Charles III of Spain. Construction then commenced on the first Catholic house of worship in the city - St. Peter’s Church.

  

Opening Mass was celebrated on November 1, 1786, in the small, Georgian- style building located on the corner of Barclay and Church streets in lower Manhattan. Severely damaged in the Great Fire of 1835 (a conflagration that raged for three days and destroyed 674 buildings), the original wood frame building was replaced in 1840 by the present monumental granite structure, designed in the classicaltradition.

 

Pierre Toussaint And Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton

 

Two extraordinary parishioners are connected with St. Peter’s Church: Pierre Toussaint, who is being considered for canonization, and Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton, the first native-born American saint.

 

Toussaint, born in Haiti in 1766, was brought as a slave to New York in 1787. When his owners fell upon hard times, he became a successful hairdresser, at the same time quietly waiting on and supporting the household. After the death of his owners, the former slave purchased his wife’s freedom and became a leader of the free black community in New York.

 

Pierre Toussaint devoted his life to aiding the poor and the sick—opening his home to black orphans, raising funds to support a Catholic orphanage and school, and entering quarantined zones to nurse victims of epidemics that ravaged the city.

 

Toussaint worshiped at St. Peter’s Church for sixty-six years and was buried in the cemetery of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral in 1853. In 1989, his remains were removed and brought to St. Patrick’s Cathedral uptown as the first step in the cause for his beatification. Within St. Peter’s Church is a life-size marble statue of Elizabeth Ann Seton, who was born in New York in 1774 into a devout Episcopalian family. At age nineteen, Elizabeth Ann Bayley married wealthy businessman William Seton. They raised a family of five children in a gracious home at 7 State Street facing Battery Park, which is now the Shrine of Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton. As a young wife and mother who became deeply involved in assisting the poor, Mrs. Seton was widely known as the “Protestant Sister of Charity.” After her husband’s death, the widow—always deeply spiritual—was drawn to Catholicism and in 1805 was received into the Catholic faith at St. Peter’s Church.

 

Elizabeth Ann Seton turned for guidance to BishopJohnCarroll. He had been appointed as the first Bishop in the United States in 1789 and in Baltimore presided over America’s first diocese— encompassing all of the thirteen original colonies. At Bishop Carroll’s urging, she moved her family to Baltimore in 1808 to open a Catholic girls’ school—marking the beginning of the Catholic system of parochial schools in the United States. Mother Seton founded the Sisters of Charity—the first Catholic religious order in America. Her order was successful in establishing orphanages and hospitals and developing the parochial school system. Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton died at age fifty- two in 1821 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.

 

Father Antony Kohlmann

 

In response to the needs of a growing number of Catholic immigrants, Pope Pius VII established the Diocese of New York in 1808, which included all of New York State and a portion of northern New Jersey. Archbishop Carroll chose Alsatian-born Father Antony Kohlmann, along with several of his fellow Jesuits, to organize the new diocese. When Father Kohlmann arrived in the new diocese, he described the Catholic population as consisting “of Irish, some hundreds of French and as many Germans; in all according to the common estimation of 14,000 souls.” A parcel of land on Mott Street on the comer of Prince Street was chosen for the construction of New York’s first Cathedral. It was to rise on land that had been purchased in 1801 and 1803 by St. Peter’s Church for a burial ground. (The graves were removed to another site.) At the time, Canal Street was the northern boundary of the built-up portion of Manhattan. The Cathedral, erected in the midst of meadows, hills, and woodlands, was referred to as the “new church out of town.” (It was still a rural area in 1820 when a fox was caught in the churchyard!) Funds for construction came from large numbers of poor Irish immigrants—at considerable personal sacrifice—and from several wealthy Catholic laymen, including Andrew Morris (an Irish immigrant) —the first Catholic ever to be elected to public office in New York State to serve on the Common Council—and Cornelius Heeney (another immigrant from Ireland), a business partner of John Jacob Astor. On June 8, 1809, Father Kohlmann officiated before an assembled crowd of 3,000 at the laying of the cornerstone for St. Patrick’s Cathedral—the second Roman Catholic Cathedral in America (Baltimore’s Cathedral was the first) and the second Catholic church in New York (after St. Peter’s).

 

The new Cathedral was the first house of worship in the United States to be dedicated to Ireland’s patron saint, Saint Patrick, who organized the Irish Church in the fifth century. Known as the Apostle of Ireland, Patrick was consecrated as Bishop circa 432. He traveled tirelessly throughout Ireland, preaching, writing, and teaching, converting chiefs and bards, gathering followers, establishing churches and schools, building monasteries, and performing miracles. Since specific rules for canonization were not set down until the tenth century, local veneration of St. Patrick evolved into his sainthood.

 

The new Cathedral was designed by Joseph Mangin, a French-born architect and engineer, who arrived in New York in 1745 and soon established a reputation as a skilled architect and builder. In 1802, Mangin, along with native- born architect John McComb Jr., won the competition for the design of New York’s present City Hall (completed in 1812) with their plans for an exquisite French Renaissance exterior and a splendid Federal-style interior.

 

Mangin designed a grand and magnificent structure for St. Patrick’s Cathedral—proclaiming the strength and presence of the Catholic community as a force within the city. At the time of construction, it was the largest church building in the city—over 120 feet long and 80 feet wide and rising to a height of 75 feet with an 85-foot inner vault. The Cathedral—with its massive rough-cut stone facade punctuated by niches for statuary, pointed-arch doorways, and a large tracery-ornamented gable window—was one of the first Gothic Revival churches in America. The interior space was marked by tall, clustered iron columns that divided the body of the church into three naves surmounted by Gothic arches. Painted wall surfaces and natural light streaming through tall windows added to the spiritual quality of the interior. The Cathedral formally opened on Ascension Day, May 4, 1815, with a crowd of 4,000 worshippers and dignitaries, including Mayor DeWitt Clinton, and a greater number overflowing into the streets.

 

The first Bishop appointed to the diocese was Irish-born Richard Luke Concanen.The Napoleonic Wars prevented him from reaching New York and he died in Italy in 1810. The work of governing as administrator of the diocese continued to be carried out by Father Kohlmann, who devoted himself to fund raising and overseeing construction of the Cathedral. He maintained those responsibilities until the arrival in November 1815 of the second Bishop, sixty-five-year-old John Connolly, an Irish Dominican theologian who was held in high repute by both Pius VI and Pius VII. Bishop Connolly directed the construction of several new churches in the diocese and founded an orphanage in a wood-frame building at 32 Prince Street, across from the Cathedral, that was staffed in 1817 by three Sisters of Charity sent to New York by Mother Elizabeth Ann Seton. Pierre Toussaint, a leading financial supporter, generously contributed funds to the orphanage for close to forty years.

 

The Sisters established St. Patrick’s School in 1822. The original orphanage and school building was replaced in 1826 by the present red-brick convent and school designed in the Federal style and distinguished by an exquisite doorway of the period. For more than 180 years, the Sisters of Charity continued their tradition of service— first in the orphanage and then in St. Patrick’s School. The school had educated generations of Irish, Italian, French, Hispanic, Chinese, and German children. St. Patrick’s School boasted a distinguished roster of graduates—leaders in business, film, theater, arts, teaching, and the full spectrum of vocations and professions. The school (which had been New York’s oldest surviving parochial school) was forced to close in 2010 due to insufficient enrollment. In 1823, Bishop Connolly invited Cuban-born Fr. Felix Varela to New York to start a pastoral ministry among poor Irish immigrants, who made up the majority of the 35,000 Catholics living in the city. Father Varela—a social activist and advocate of Cuban independence—served as pastor in several diocese churches and is best remembered for his staunch support for the Irish in the face of growing anti-Catholic sentiment.

 

Bishop Connolly’s entire episcopacy was plagued by a severe shortage of priests. He brought Fr. Michael O’Gorman (who he ordained in Ireland before leaving for New York) with him from Ireland, and in 1820, he ordained Fr. Richard Bulger (another Irishman) to the priesthood. Father Bulger thus was the first priest to be ordained in New York City. Fathers Bulger and O’Gorman regularly traveled to New Jersey, to upstate New York, and to Brooklyn on Long Island to celebrate Masses for the Catholics there, since there were no resident priests in those locations at that time. Both Father Bulger and Father O’Gorman became ill in November of 1824 as a result of tending to the sick and dying of the diocese, and they both passed away within a week of each other at their residence on Broadway. They had been living in the same residence as Bishop Connolly, and when they died, the Bishop, who officiated at both of their burials, caught a bad cold and he died a few months later in February of 1825. Fathers O’Gorman and Bulger (and other early priests of the diocese) were buried in the courtyard in front of the church. A commemorative bronze plaque was placed upon the gravesite in 2010.

 

At the time of Bishop Connolly’s death, the diocese was composed mainly of working class Irish parishioners. The appointment of his successor, Fr. John Dubois—a French educator and missionary—was viewed with disappointment by the Irish community. Forced out of France in 1791 by the French Revolution, Father Dubois arrived in America with letters of introduction from the Marquis de Lafayette to James Monroe and Patrick Henry. Father Dubois settled in Virginia, where he built a church and opened a school in Emmitsburg, Maryland, that became Mount St.Mary’s College. In 1826, when he was consecrated the third Bishop of New York, there were twelve churches in the diocese for a Catholic population of about 150,000, served by only eighteen priests. By 1837, the numbers had grown to thirty-eight churches and forty priests. Plagued by ill health, Bishop Dubois requested a coadjutor. In 1838, the Rev. John Joseph Hughes was elevated to the episcopy as Bishop of Basileopolis at St. Patrick’s Cathedral and was then appointed coadjutor bishop to Dubois. In the following year, he was made administrator-Apostolic of New York. Bishop Dubois died in 1842 at the age of seventy-eight and is buried in front of the Cathedral, as he had personally requested.

 

St. John Neumann

 

Six years before his death, Bishop Dubois had welcomed a twenty- five-year-old theological student named John Neumann to the diocese. Neumann—who was canonized by Pope Paul IV in 1977 as America’s first male saint—was born in Bohemia (now the Czech Republic) and attended seminary in Prague. Since his ordination had been delayed by the government, Neumann came to New York as a missionary. The young man was ordained to priesthood at St. Patrick’s on June 28, 1836, and sent to upstate New York to work among German-speaking Catholics. Renowned for his outstanding mission and pastoral work and for his holiness and charity, Neumann was appointed the fourth Bishop of Philadelphia in 1852, where he died in 1860.

 

The multitudes of Irish Catholics who arrived in New York in the 19th century were mainly uneducated peasants leaving behind an impoverished existence in their native homeland due to harsh British colonial rule. And, after 1845, they were also fleeing from the Great Hunger—the potato famines that killed more than one million Irish and drove some two million more to America. The new immigrants lived in squalor, crowded into rotting structures and wretched tenements, eking out a miserable living, and suffering from disease and extreme poverty. These Famine Irish turned in large numbers to the church for solace.

 

The fourth Bishop of St. Patrick’s, who succeeded Bishop Dubois in 1842, was himself the son of poor Irish farmers and weavers. In 1817, at age twenty, John Joseph Hughes (born in Annaloughan, County Tyrone)emigrated to the United States and briefly settled in Pennsylvania before entering Mount St. Mary’s College, where he was ordained to the priesthood in 1826. Father Hughes spent the next twelve years in Philadelphia serving as pastor of several churches and was widely admired for his skillful management, strong leadership qualities, and outspoken defense of the church. Arriving in New York in 1838, Father Hughes served first as coadjutor and later administrator-Apostolic of New York. He was appointed a bishop in 1842—the first prelate to be consecrated at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Bishop Hughes faced two daunting challenges—presiding over a diocese that was experiencing unprecedented growth and protecting Catholics and their churches from the growing hostility of native-born Protestants.

 

Beginning in the 1830s, the city had experienced several outbreaks of violence led by nativists against Catholics. In 1831, the tiny, wood-frame structure of St. Mary’s Church (the third Catholic church in New York, organized in 1826) on Sheriff Street was burnt to the ground by arsonists. (A substantial stone church, still standing, was built to replace it in 1833 on Grand Street.) The burning of St. Mary’s Church compelled the Trustees of the Cathedral to approve the construction of the brick wall— which surrounds the church—in 1834. Frequent brawls and street riots between Protestants and Catholics led to the founding in 1836 of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (Latin for “Irish”) as a mutual benefit society and self- defense group. In the following years, nativist mobs had advanced on St. Patrick’s several times but were turned back after receiving reports that armed Irish defenders— posted by Bishop Hughes—were stationed along Prince Street and behind those brick walls which had been specifically constructed to protect the Cathedral.

 

In 1844, James Harper (of the famed Harper publishing family) was elected Mayor of New York as the candidate of the anti-immigrant American Republican Party. At the same time, Protestants and Irish Catholics in Philadelphia clashed in rioting that claimed the lives of some thirty Irishmen and resulted in the burning of Catholic churches and convents. Bishop Hughes vigorously defended the rights of Irish Catholics against this rising movement of bigotry and bloodshed. He organized thousands of Irish men to defend the Cathedral. As a massive anti-Catholic torchlight parade gathered in City Hall Park, ready to march up the Bowery to the Cathedral, he stationed sharpshooters on the protective walls surrounding the building. Bishop Hughes sent a letter to Mayor Harper warning that if any harm came to a single Catholic person or Catholic church, the city would be turned into “a second Moscow” (referring to the burning of Moscow during Napoleon’s invasion in 1812). The Bishop’s powerful message and forceful actions are credited with averting the anticipated violent anti-Catholic outbreak in New York.

 

In 1851, young men from the neighborhood around the Cathedral organized a militia regiment, known locally as the Second Regiment of Irish Volunteers. It was officially accepted as part of the New York State Militia and designated as the Sixty-Ninth Regiment. Commonly called the “Fighting Irish,” its green insignia was composed of a decorative shield flanked by two Irish wolfhounds standing on a ribbon inscribed with the Regimental motto, “Gentle When Stroked, Fierce When Provoked.” The Sixty-Ninth Regiment served in every campaign from Bull Run to Appomattox during the Civil War and fought in the Spanish-American War and the Mexican Border Campaign. Legendary hero Colonel William “Wild Bill” Donovan, chaplain Father Francis P. Duffy, and poet Joyce Kilmer were with the Regiment in bitter fighting in France during World War I. The “Fighting Sixty- Ninth” has been a fixture in the United States Army ever since and last saw action in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since 1907, the Regiment has been a unit of the New York Army National Guard.

 

Bishop Hughes was consecrated as Archbishop of New York in 1850 and continued a vigorous mission of building churches, schools, and hospitals. In 1842, when appointed bishop, he presided over a diocese of fifty churches, forty priests, and 200,000 Catholics. At his death in 1864, the numbers had increased to eighty-five churches, 150 priests, and a population of over 400,000 Catholics.

 

In a far-seeing move that many ridiculed at the time as “Hughes’ Folly,” the Archbishop proposed the construction of a new Cathedral in an undeveloped area far uptown on Fifth Avenue between 50th and 51st streets. Andrew Morris and Cornelius Heeney had purchased the rural property in 1810 on behalf of Father Kohlmann for the sum of $11,000 for the use of the Jesuit boys’ school that he had started downtown. In 1812, he established a school for girls near the boys’ school, run by the Ursuline nuns. The schools were no longer in existence when Archbishop Hughes laid the cornerstone for the new Cathedral on August 15, 1858.

 

During the Civil War, Archbishop Hughes served as the envoy of President Lincoln on a successful overseas mission to dissuade European countries from supporting the Confederacy. In gratitude, Lincoln petitioned Pope Pius IX to name Archbishop Hughes as America’s first Cardinal. But the death of this indomitable leader in January 1864 came before that honor could come to pass. His memory was honored by tributes from President Lincoln and other statesmen and his body viewed by over 200,000 common people who solemnly came to worship in the Cathedral. He was entombed in the crypts below the Cathedral and remained there until the “New” Cathedral was completed uptown—his remains were then removed to a crypt there in 1883. The Cathedral uptown holds the remains of all of the archbishops and cardinals that have served the Archdiocese since the death of Archbishop Hughes.

 

Archbishop Hughes’ successor in 1864 as the second Archbishop of the diocese was Bishop John McCloskey. He was born in Brooklyn in 1810 to Irish immigrant parents (his parents are both interred in the cemetery surrounding the Old Cathedral) and, at age eleven, entered Mount St. Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, distinguishing himself as an outstanding student. After graduation, the fifteen-year-old returned to New York with the intention of pursuing a career in law. But after a near-fatal accident in 1827, the young man decided instead to study for the priesthood. Young McCloskey was under the guardianship of Cornelius Heeney (who dedicated his fortune to the care of poor children at the end of his life), and the young man was taught Latin by Thomas S. Brady (buried in the crypts below the Cathedral). He was taught proper English elocution by Charlotte Melmoth, the first Shakespearean actress to come to America, who opened a school in Brooklyn when her acting career ended. (She was buried in an unmarked grave in the churchyard cemetery surrounding the Cathedral.) McCloskey returned to Emmitsburg as a seminarian and later taught Latin at the college. In 1830, he was ordained to the priesthood at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral and remained until 1834 before taking a leave to study in Rome. Upon his return, Father McCloskey was instrumental in starting a seminary in Nyack under Bishop Dubois. (The seminary was destroyed by fire just prior to its opening in the 1830s. Arson was suspected, but the case was never investigated fully.) Father McCloskey became the first president of St. John’s College (later renamed Fordham University), founded by Archbishop Hughes in 1841.

 

Reverend McCloskey served as coadjutor bishop of New York from 1844–1847 and first Bishop of Albany from 1847 to 1864 before his appointment as Bishop to the New York diocese. Later raised to archbishop, he was highly respected as a pioneer in Catholic education and a clergyman of great spiritual strength and humility. During the tenure of Archbishop McCloskey, a disaster of tragic proportions struck on the night of October 6, 1866, when a catastrophic fire destroyed all but the outer walls of the Old Cathedral.

 

The five-alarm fire began in the packing room (filled with straw and wood shavings) of a porcelain dealer at 44 Crosby Street and quickly spread to nearby buildings. Showers of sparks fell on the lath and plaster roof of St. Patrick’s, which was soon a blazing inferno. As huge fragments of the burning roof crashed down into the sanctuary, filling the building with flames and smoke, a crowd of parishioners, led by Fathers McGeehan and Mullen, rushed inside to remove precious religious articles. They were successful in rescuing the Blessed Sacrament, vestments, several vessels, a number of oil paintings, and silver candlesticks just moments before the entire structure was engulfed by fire.

 

Archbishop McCloskey resolved to rebuild the Cathedral and commissioned architect Henry Engelbert (known for his designs of the College of Mount Saint Vincent in Riverdale) to reconstruct St. Patrick’s. Engelbert designed a severely plain facade of smooth brown stucco, facing Mott Street, lacking the detail and grace of the original exterior. The splendid interior, however, was rebuilt with a ceiling of ribbed vaults and arches carried on clustered piers. An altar screen of carved figures, representing the Apostles, is surmounted by a pointed arch stained-glass window above a painting of the figure of Christ. Completed in less than two years, the Cathedral was rededicated by Archbishop McCloskey on the Feast of St. Patrick—March 17, 1868.

 

The foremost ecclesiastical event in the history of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral took place in the restored structure on April 27, 1875, with the investiture of Archbishop McCloskey as the first American to be named Cardinal. Several Papal emissaries, seven archbishops, twenty bishops, hundreds of priests, and thousands of laymen attended the ceremony of solemnity and celebration. After its construction was completed, His Eminence John Cardinal McCloskey moved his seat uptown to the magnificent new St. Patrick’s Cathedral on Fifth Avenue, which was formally dedicated on May 25, 1879. The historic St. Patrick’s downtown then became a simple parish church.

 

Since that time, the church has remained the heart of an active parish with an ever-changing population. (Parish boundaries run from Wooster Street to the Bowery, between Hester Street and East Fourth Street.) Beginning in the 1880s, Italian immigrants poured into the area centered on Mulberry Street that came to be known as Little Italy. (Earlier in the 1800s, Lorenzo Da Ponte, who had written librettos for several of Mozart’s operas, lived on Spring Street, and his opulent Funeral Mass took place in the Cathedral in August of 1838.) Large numbers of Hispanic and Chinese newcomers to America make up a significant portion of the present population. Recent years have seen the transformation of previously commercial areas, such as SoHo and NoHo, into residential communities largely populated by people in the arts and media. Currently, many young people are making the entire area their home. Their youthful energy has breathed much life into St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral parish.

 

As the 200th anniversary of the laying of the cornerstone of the Old Cathedral approached, Msgr. Donald Sakano, who had been appointed pastor of the venerable church in 2007, began to plan for what would be a six-year Bicentennial Celebration (since it took six years for the church o be completed in the early 1800s). Monsignor Sakano marshaled the assistance of historians familiar with church and city history as well as people in the parish community for the purpose of putting together a celebration that would highlight the great history of the church.

 

A slogan for the Bicentennial Celebration (which we are currently in the midst of) was selected: “Embracing the future as we celebrate our past.”

 

The Bicentennial Celebration of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral began with a Mass celebrated by His Excellency, Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, held in the Old Cathedral on June 7, 2009, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the laying of the church’s cornerstone. Various church and civic leaders attended Mass and the related events. A parade was held in which, among other events, (a) the Ancient Order of Hibernians, or “AOH,” marched to the church and stood shoulder-to-shoulder around its perimeter wall in commemoration of the AOH’s defense of the church against physical attack by the nativist, anti-Catholic “Know-Nothings” at the request of then-Bishop (later Archbishop) “Dagger John” Hughes and (b) the April 1861 parade of the famed “Fighting 69th” regiment—a unit of the Irish Brigade—as it marched off to the Civil War was re-enacted.

 

At that same June 7, 2009, Mass celebrating the laying of the cornerstone of the church, Archbishop Dolan announced from the pulpit that an application would be made to the Holy See requesting that St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral be awarded basilica status. This honor is bestowed upon churches that have historical or other kinds of significance for the Catholic Church and which affords certain ceremonial privileges for a church so honored.

 

It did not take a long time for the application to be honored; His Excellency Archbishop Timothy M. Dolan announced from the altar of the “new” Cathedral at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Mass on March 17, 2010, that His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI had awarded Basilica status to the Old Cathedral, effective (fittingly) on March 17, 2010.

 

All of the people who have had connections over the years with the Old Cathedral are rightfully proud to learn that this wonderful old church has been so honored by His Holiness Pope Benedict. Old St. Patrick’s is the only church within The Archdiocese of New York to have ever attained Basilica status—a fitting honor for such a historically and ecclesiastically significant edifice within the great City of New York.

 

Deeply rooted in the community, The Basilica of St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral continues its tradition of providing for the spiritual needs of Catholics of all ages. In 2013, the Basilica once again became a place where Roman Catholics could be buried on the island of Manhattan. A columbarium was erected early in the year for the purpose of accepting the cremated remains of parishioners and friends of the Basilica, and more columbaria are in the building stages as of this writing. Once again, Old St. Patrick’s Cathedral is an honored burial place for the faithful departed of New York City—the exact purpose that the pioneer Catholic community of New York City had originally intended for the land when it was purchased in 1801.

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German postcard by Kolibri-Verlag, Minden/Westf., no. 2515. Photo: Universal International. Claudia Cardinale in The Hell with Heroes (Joseph Sargent, 1968).

 

Italian actress Claudia Cardinale (1938) is one of Europe's iconic and most versatile film stars. The combination of her beauty, dark, flashing eyes, explosive sexuality and genuine acting talent virtually guaranteed her stardom. Her most notable films include 8½ (Federico Fellini, 1963), Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) and Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968).

 

Claude Joséphine Rose Cardinale was born in La Goulette in Tunisia in 1938 (some sources claim 1939). Her mother, Yolande Greco, was born in Tunisia to Italian (Sicilian) emigrants from Trapani, Italy. Her father was an Italian (Sicilian) railway worker, born in Gela, Italy. Her native languages were Tunisian Arabic and French. She received a French education and she had to learn Italian once she pursued her acting career. She had her break in films after she was voted the most beautiful Italian girl in Tunisia in 1957. The contest of the Italian embassy had as a prize a trip to the Venice Film Festival. She made her film debut in the French-Tunisian coproduction Goha (Jacques Baratier, 1958) starring Omar Sharif. After attending the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome for two months, she signed a 7-year contract with the Vides studios. The contract forbade her to cut her hair, to marry or to gain weight. Later that year she had a role in the heist comedy I soliti ignoti/Big Deal On Madonna Street (Mario Monicelli, 1958) with Vittorio Gassman and Renato Salvatori. The film was an international success, and her film career was off and running. At this point, the press, noting her initials, announced that CC was the natural successor to BB (Brigitte Bardot), and began beating the drum on her behalf. Dozens of alluring photographs of Claudia Cardinale were displayed in newspapers and magazines throughout the world. According to IMDb, she has appeared on more than 900 magazine covers in over 25 countries. The contrast between these pictures and those of Marilyn Monroe or Jayne Mansfield is striking. Cardinale never appeared in a nude or fully topless scene. Her pictures promoted an image of a shy family girl who just happened to have a beautiful face and a sexy body. A photograph of Cardinale was featured in the original gate fold artwork to Bob Dylan's album Blonde on Blonde (1966), but because it was used without Cardinale's permission, the photo was removed from the cover art in later pressings.

 

Claudia Cardinale's early career was largely managed producer Franco Cristaldi. Because of her film contract, she told everyone that her son Patrizio was her baby brother. He was born out of wedlock when she was 17; the father was a mysterious Frenchman. She did not reveal to the child that he was her son until he was 19 years old. In 1966, she married Cristaldi, who adopted Patrizio. In only three years she made a stream of great films. First she made three successful comedies, Un Maledetto imbroglio/The Facts of Murder (Pietro Germi, 1959), Il Bell'Antonio/Bell'Antonio (Mauro Bolognini, 1960) featuring Marcello Mastroianni, and Audace colpo dei soliti ignoti/Fiasco in Milan (Nanni Loy, 1960). Cardinale had a supporting part in the epic drama Rocco e i suoi fratelli/Rocco and His Brothers (Luchino Visconti, 1960) in which she played the sister-in-law of Alain Delon and Renato Salvatori. And then followed leading parts in La Ragazza con la valigia/Girl with a Suitcase (Valerio Zurlini, 1961), La Viaccia/The Lovemakers (Mauro Bolognini, 1961) with Jean-Paul Belmondo, and Senilità/Careless (Mauro Bolognini, 1961). Claudia Cardinale had a deep, sultry voice and spoke Italian with a heavy French accent, so her voice was dubbed in her early films. In Federico Fellini's 8½ (1963), she was finally allowed to dub her own dialogue. In the film, she plays a dream woman - a character named Claudia, who is the object of the fantasies of the director in the film, played by Marcello Mastroianni. With Fellini's surrealistic masterpiece she received her widest exposure to date with this film. That same year, she also appeared in another masterpiece of the Italian cinema, the epic Il Gattopardo/The Leopard (Luchino Visconti, 1963) with Burt Lancaster and Alain Delon. The combined success of these two classic films made her rise to the front ranks of the Italian cinema. And it also piqued Hollywood's interest.

 

In 1963 Claudia Cardinale played the princess who owned the Pink Panther diamond in The Pink Panther (Blake Edwards, 1963) which was filmed in Italy. It was the first in the series of detective comedies starring Peter Sellers as bumbling French Inspector Jacques Clouseau (the mishap-prone snoop was actually a supporting player in his debut). The film was an enormous success and brought CC to English speaking audiences. In 1964 she co-starred with John Wayne and Rita Hayworth in her first American production, Circus World (Henry Hathaway, 1964). It was another box-office hit. The following year she appeared with Rock Hudson in Blindfold (Philip Dunne, 1966), an offbeat mixture of espionage and slapstick comedy. The Professionals (Richard Brooks, 1966) is her favourite among her Hollywood films. In this Western she is a gutsy Mexican woman married against her will to a rich American. The film received Academy Award nominations for Best Direction (Richard Brooks), Best Screenplay (Brooks again), and Best Cinematography (Conrad L. Hall). Cardinale continued dividing her time between Hollywood and Europe for the remainder of the decade. Throughout the 1960s, Claudia Cardinale also appeared in some of the best European films. In France she appeared in the Swashbuckler Cartouche (Philippe de Broca, 1962) featuring Jean-Paul Belmondo. Back in Italy, she played in I Giorno della civetta/The Day of the Owl (Damiano Damiani, 1968) with Franco Nero, and Nell'anno del Signore/The Conspirators (Luigi Magni, 1969) with Nino Manfredi. Mesmerizing is her performance in Sandra/Vaghe stelle dell'Orsa... (Luchino Visconti, 1965) as a Holocaust survivor with an incestuous relationship with her brother (Jean Sorel). Another highlight in her career is C'era una volta il West/Once Upon a Time in the West (Sergio Leone, 1968), the ultimate Spaghetti Western. Lucia Bozzola writes in her review at AllMovie: "In Sergio Leone's epic Western, shot partly in Monument Valley, a revenge story becomes an epic contemplation of the Western past. (...) As in his 'Dollars' trilogy, Leone transforms the standard Western plot through the visual impact of widescreen landscapes and the figures therein. At its full length, Once Upon a Time in the West is Leone's operatic masterwork, worthy of its legend-making title."

 

In the following decades, Claudia Cardinale remained mainly active in the European cinema. She played a small part for Visconti in Gruppo di famiglia in un interno/Conversation Piece (Luchino Visconti, 1974) starring Burt Lancaster and Silvana Mangano. She worked with other major Italian directors at Goodbye e amen (Damiano Damiani, 1977), the TV mini-series Jesus of Nazareth (Franco Zeffirelli, 1977) as the adulteress, and La Pelle/The Skin (Liliana Cavani, 1981) starring Marcello Mastroianni and based on the bitter novel by Curzio Malaparte concerning the Allied liberation of Naples. An international arthouse hit was Fitzcarraldo (Werner Herzog, 1982), the story of an obsessed impresario (Klaus Kinski) whose foremost desire in life is to bring both Enrico Caruso and an opera house to the deepest jungles of South America. In his diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, Werner Herzog writes: "Claudia Cardinale is great help because she is such a good sport, a real trouper, and has a special radiance before the camera. In her presence, [Klaus Kinski] usually acts like a gentleman." Other interesting films include the Luigi Pirandello adaptation Enrico IV/Henry IV (Marco Bellocchio, 1984) with Marcello Mastroianni, the epic La révolution française/The French Revolution (Robert Enrico, Richard T. Heffron, 1989), the nostalgic drama Mayrig/Mother (Henri Verneuil, 1991), and the romantic thriller And now... Ladies and Gentlemen (Claude Lelouch, 2002) starring Jeremy Irons. On Television she gave another well-received performance in the TV drama La storia/History (Luigi Comencini, 1986), in which she plays a widow raising a son during World War II.

 

Claudia Cardinale is a liberal with strong political convictions. She is involved in many humanitarian causes, and pro-women and pro-gay issues, and she has frequently stated her pride in her Tunisian and Arab roots - as evidenced by her appearance as herself in the Tunisian film Un été à La Goulette/A Summer at La Goulette (Férid Boughedir, 1996). She has managed to combine her acting work with a role of goodwill ambassador for UNICEF, and advocate for the work of Luchino Visconti with whom she made four films. She wrote an autobiography, Moi Claudia, Toi Claudia (Me Claudia, You Claudia). In 2005, she also published a French-language book, Mes Etoiles (My Stars), about her personal and professional relationships with many of her directors and co-stars through her nearly 50 years in show-business. In 2002, she won an honorary Golden Bear award of the Berlin Film Festival, and previously in 1993 she was awarded an honorary Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival. Cardinale works steadily on and in recent years she has also worked in the theatre. In the cinema she appeared recently in the French-Tunisian gay drama Le fil/The String (Mehdi Ben Attia, 2009), the Algerian drama Un balcon sur la mer/A View of Love (Nicole Garcia, 2010) in which she played the mother of Jean Dujardin, and the costume drama Effie Gray (Richard Laxton, 2014) with Dakota Fanning. Claudia Cardinale currently lives in Paris. She has made over 135 films in the past 60 years, and still does two or three a year.

 

Sources: Lucia Bozzola (AllMovie), Steve Rose (The Guardian), IMDb, and Wikipedia.

 

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来迎寺（らいこうじ）RAIKOJI TEMPLE

 

二階堂 NIKAIDO

荏柄天神社 EGARATENJINSHA SHRINE

鎌倉宮 KAMAKURAGU SHRINE

覚園寺（かくおんじ）KAKUONJI

杉本寺（すぎもとでら）SUGIMOTODERA TEMPLE

瑞泉寺（ずいせんじ）ZUISENJI TEMPLE

 

浄明寺

浄妙寺 (じょうみょうじ) JOMYOJI TEMPLE

報国寺（ほうこくじ）HOKOKUJI TEMPLE

 

十二所 JUNISO

五大堂 明王院（ごだいどう みょうおういん）GODAIDO MYO-OIN

 

大町

妙本寺（みょうほんじ）

八雲神社

安養院（あんよういん）

妙法寺（苔寺）

安国論寺（あんこくろんじ）

 

材木座

光明寺（こうみょうじ）

 

長谷

長谷寺（はせでら）

高徳院（鎌倉大仏）

光則寺 (こうそくじ)

甘縄神明神社（あまなわしんめいじんじゃ）

 

坂ノ下

御霊神社

 

極楽寺

極楽寺（ごくらくじ）

成就院（じょうじゅいん）

 

腰越

満福寺（まんぷくじ）

小動神社（こゆるぎじんじゃ）

 

大船

大船観音寺（おおふなかんのんじ）

 

江の島

江ノ島神社

 

片瀬

龍口寺（りゅうこうじ）

常立寺　

 

藤沢

清浄光寺（遊行寺）

 

大宝寺（だいほうじ）材木座に行った帰りにでも

 

虚空蔵堂（こくうぞうどう）星の井寺の　旗がいっぱいの　

 

青蓮寺（しょうれんじ）腰越から山側の道を行くと左側の手広エリアの

 

光触寺（こうそくじ）明石橋交差点からすぐ右側　朝比奈インター方面への

 

薬王寺（やくおうじ）

 

成福寺（じょうふくじ）

 

宝善院（ほうぜんいん）

 

蓮乗院（れんじょういん）

 

千手院（せんじゅいん）

九品寺（くほんじ）材木座に行くなら

 

五所神社（ごしょじんじゃ）

 

　　上行寺（じょうぎょうじ）

延命寺（えんめいじ）

実相寺（じつそうじ）

補陀洛寺（ふだらくじ）

称名寺（しょうみょうじ）

常栄寺（じょうえいじ）

常楽寺（じょうらくじ）

大巧寺（だいぎょうじ）

長勝寺（ちょうしょうじ）

白山神社 （はくさんじんじゃ）

龍宝寺（りゅうほうじ）

  

鎌倉二十四ヶ所地蔵めぐり

鎌倉十三仏霊場めぐり

  

鎌倉、湘南エリア　店舗。

２０２０年から在住中に行った店。

七福神

 

オステリアコマチーナ

ヴイ　浮　長谷

ロンディーノ

 

扉（鳩サブレーがやってる大人のカフェ）オムライスが鎌倉No.１

 

ヨリドコロ（稲村ガ崎、レンバイ）

キャラウェイ（カレー）

江ノ島亭（江ノ島丼）

カフェ・マディ 江の島店

 

カザリス食器店 鎌倉本店 ( 雪ノ下）

 

あしなや（小町）

コバカバ（レンバイ横）

KAN （平塚）

LAINE レネ (御成町）

cafe RONDINO （御成）裏駅　 タバコ可

ベルグフェルド（長谷店）

鎌倉 鉢の木（新館）(北鎌倉）

かまくら 長谷食堂 ( 江ノ電 長谷駅前）

レスポアール（小町）タバコ可

游古洞　ゆうこどう（御成町）

古書 アトリエ くんぷう堂 （佐助） (この時は欲しいものがなくて立ち読み）

松原庵　（由比ヶ浜）（両方とも）

古我邸　（扇ガ谷）

カフェ・ヴィヴモン・ディモンシュ（小町）　カフェヴィヴモンディモンシュ

 

一平（写真はおイヤだそうです）

 

アマルフィイ・デラセーラ ( アマルフィ）

 

アマルフィイ・デラセーラ

 

岩本楼 (江ノ島島内）２０１９年に

GARDEN HOUSE （鎌倉市役所前）

石窯ガーデンテラス（鎌倉五山第五位の 浄妙寺の奥）

SURFERS ( 逗子のサーファーズ ）

以志橋 （長谷）

しまむらストアー すみれ平店（平塚）たまたまデスソースの購入

トラットリア エ ピッツェリア ヤンモ （平塚）

店内にイタリアの喜劇役者トトの珍しいイラストや写真が・・

 

BRANDIN ブランディン ( 茅ヶ崎）

サザンオールスターズの名付け親のカフェ。

１万枚のレコードとともに。

洋書も素晴らしい。

サザン、山下達郎 関連のお店　

 

えぼし本店（茅ヶ崎）

BRANCH茅ヶ崎店（缶コーヒー）

湘南クッキーアウトレット（平塚本店）複数回

湘南クッキー辻堂（辻堂駅側）

湘南クッキー

 

cafe murasaki（カフェ・ムラサキ・茅ヶ崎）

MOKICHI モキチフーズガーデン（茅ヶ崎市 元町）

MOKICHI 熊澤酒造株式会社 モキチ本店 ( 茅ヶ崎市 香川）

妻ビール の酒造元と書けばお分かり？

 

茅ヶ崎珈琲倶楽部　（茅ヶ崎）

湘南珈琲 茅ヶ崎北口店 （茅ヶ崎）

コナズ珈琲（茅ヶ崎店）

カロ（長谷）極楽寺坂下、成就院の坂下

竹扇 ( 鎌倉市役所前）

リゾートショップ ねぎし（小坪）オリジナルTシャツ、缶コーヒー、ガム

ENGAWA CAFE （葉山）

レストラン ラ・マーレ・日影茶屋

冨士見亭（江ノ島）

あぶらや（江ノ島）ポストカード

ロンカフェ（江ノ島）

イワタ珈琲（小町）

ミルクホール（小町）

つるや ( 由比ヶ浜）

浅羽屋 (長谷）

天ぷら ひろみ（小町）

KANNON COFFEE KAMAKURA（長谷）

VUORI ブオリ（長谷）山テーマの喫茶店。書籍も秀逸。

 

納言志るこ店（小町）

AWkitchen GARDEN 鎌倉（御成通り突き当たり）

ダンデライオン・チョコレート（鎌倉駅西口・閉店以前）

WANDER KITCHEN（御成）

なみまちベーグル（長谷）

café recette 鎌倉（ ルセット )（長谷）

小満ち（小町）

KINOKUNIYA 鎌倉店 (コーヒー）

鎌倉市農協連即売所（市場、レンバイ）主に３、４班の時

無心庵

江ノ島電鉄株式会社（乗車と鎌倉駅構内の売店）

ル・ミリュウ鎌倉山（鎌倉山）

らいてい（鎌倉山）

CAFE LUONTO ルオント（長谷）

カフェレストランGEN（報国寺入り口）

藤沢 峰本そば店 (鎌倉峰本 暖簾分け店）

くら寿司（回転寿司）辻堂店・辻堂団地 前店

力餅家　(長谷）

島森書店（バーズアイで俯瞰した鎌倉地図、鎌倉春秋のバックナンバー）

たらば書店　（裏駅、黄色目印）

松林堂書店　（閉店以前、立ち読み）写真なし

現在は　”ブック居酒屋” に

 

大里書店　（小町）（鎌倉春秋の購入）

メッゲンドルファー

YAMAKA 鎌倉店（コーヒー）やまか

もとまちユニオン鎌倉店 ( パスタソース）

DS NEW KAMAMAN 鎌万水産 （せんべい）

鎌倉駅構内　加藤売店　（ガム）

鎌倉市役所（1階,4階の自販機と分庁舎のトイレ）

駄菓子屋 長谷店　大仏飴

   

Wilyakali:

 

Wilyakali lies in the east of the state of South Australia, crossing into New South Wales, including the town of Broken Hill. The Wilyakali people traditionally visited the Paakantji people on the Menindee Lakes in the Darling Riverine Plains Bioregion each year.

 

The three Major language groups for the Broken Hill Region are the Paakantji, Mayyankapa, and Nyiimpaa.

 

Wilyakali and Danggali both lie east of the Ngadjuri language and north of the upper River Murray languages.

 

Wilyakali and Danggali are part of the Darling River Language Group or Paakantyi / Paakantji language group. This is a group of closely related languages in South Australia and New South Wales, which can be subdivided into two groups: the “Northern Dialects” and the “Southern Dialects.” Wilyakali and Danggali are both part of the “Southern Dialects.”

 

Other “Southern Dialects” include Pulaali, Southern Pankantyi, Pantyikali, Wanyuparlku and Marrawarra. Some of these languages have been recorded more than others. Although each language has its own distinguishing features, they are so similar they can be understood by speakers of other languages in this group. Therefore, the following reference list will include Southern Paakantyi references that may be helpful. The language name is noted in square brackets after each reference, when known.

 

Today the Wilyakali people are still the main Aboriginal group in Broken Hill, though there are a number of Aboriginal people that come from other language groups.

 

The Aboriginal people of Broken Hill have established working parties to pursue their vision of a better future. They continue to look after their traditional lands and are joint managers of the Mutawintji National Park which is the first national park handed back to the traditional owners in New South Wales. There are many strong elders who continue to maintain and pass on their traditional knowledge to their young people and, today, share their stories with the wider community.

 

Danggali:

 

The Danggali nation is located across plains southwest of Broken Hill from near Tandou Lake, southwestward to Mount Bryan and Burra Creek, northwest of Morgan, South Australia, chiefly in the more arid country extending generally eastward to within a few miles of the Darling River.

 

For most of the year, Danggali people depended on water from the roots of water mallee trees but came in to the Anabranch of the Darling in dry times. Eyre (1845) gives the general term Paritke for these scrub dwellers west and northwest of the Murray. Their language name was Jakumban and they extended eastward to the Darling. They were known farther east as the Jokajoka or Jakojako, a term based on ['ja:ko] their word for 'no.' Richardson indicated them as extending westward, presumably in the scrub country north of the Murray, as far as North West Bend.

 

Walyakali is to the north of Danggali. Wilyakali and Danggali both lie east of the Ngadjuri language and north of the upper River Murray languages. Wilyakali and Danggali are part of the Darling River Language Group or Paakantyi / Paakantji language group. This is a group of closely related languages in South Australia and New South Wales, which can be subdivided into two groups: the “Northern Dialects” and the “Southern Dialects.” Wilyakali and Danggali are both part of the “Southern Dialects.”

 

Other “Southern Dialects” include Pulaali, Southern Pankantyi, Pantyikali, Wanyuparlku and Marrawarra. Some of these languages have been recorded more than others. Although each language has its own distinguishing features, they are so similar they can be understood by speakers of other languages in this group. Therefore, the following reference list will include Southern Paakantyi references that may be helpful. The language name is noted in square brackets after each reference, when known.

 

Source: Mobile Language Team (mobilelanguageteam.com.au/languages/danggali/), Aboriginal Housing Office, & South Australian Musuem (www.samuseum.sa.gov.au/collection/archives/language_group...).

Some day I will be available to read and write this beautiful language.

مشاركتي فمعرض لغة العيون =)

 

my work in eye language exhibition

 

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no one allowed 2 use the work without asking

Shooting from the hip. Stazione di Montesanto, Napoli.

see more of my photos at www.canonsnapper.com

Acholi – Mot ki Yomcwing Botwo Me Mwaka Manyen

Adhola – Wafayo Chamo Mbaga & Bothi Oro Manyeni

Aeka- Keremisi jai be

Afrikaans – Geseende Kerfees en ‘n gelukkige nuwe jaar

Ahtna – C’ehwggelnen Dzaenh

Aklanon – Malipayon nga Paskwa ag Mahigugmaon nga Bag-ong Dag-on

Albanian – Gëzuar Krishlindjet Vitin e Ri!

Aleut – Kamgan Ukudigaa

Alsatian – E gueti Wïnâchte & E glecklichs Nej Johr!

Alur – Wafoyo Kado Oro & Wafoyo Tundo Oro manyeni

Alutiiq – Spraasnikam & Amlertut Kiaget!

American Sign Language

Amharic – Melkam Yelidet Beaal

Amuesha – Yomprocha’ ya’ nataya

Andalusian – Felíce Pahjcua y Felí Año, or Felí Navidá y Próhjpero Año Nuevo

Angami – U kenei Christmas mu teicie kes a-u sie teicie

kesa-u sie niepete keluo shuzaie we

Apache (Western) – Gozhqq Keshmish

Arabic – I’D Miilad Said ous Sana Saida

Aragonese – Nabidà! & Goyosa Añada benién.

Aramaic – Edo bri’cho o rish d’shato brich’to!

Aranés – Bon Nadau!

Arawak – Aba satho niw jari da’wisida bon

Armenian – Shenoraavor Nor Dari yev Soorp Janunt

Aromanian – Crãciunu hãriosu shi unu anu nãu, bunu!

Araucanian – Wi tripantu in che

Asturian – Bones Navidaes & Gayoleru anu nuevu!

Assamese – Rongaali Bihur xubhessaa lobo

Ata – Maroyan na Pasko woy kaopia-an ng Bag-ong

Tuig kaniyo’t langon mga sulod

Aukan – Wi e winsi i wan bun nyun yali

Aymara – Sooma Nawira-ra

Azeri – Tezze Iliniz Yahsi Olsun

Bafut – Mboni Chrismen & Mboni Alooyefee

Bahasa/Malaysia – Selamat Hari Natal dan Tahun Baru

Bamoun – Poket Kristmet & Poket lum mfe

Banen – Enganda ye hiono mes & Hion Hios Hes

Bandang – Mbung Mbung Krismie & Mbung Mbung Ngouh Suiie

Basque – Zorionak eta Urte Berri On!

Bassa – Ngand Nwi Lam & Mwi Lam

Batak Karo – Mejuah-juah Ketuahen Natal

Bemba – Kristu abe nenu muli ino nshiku nkulu ya Mwezi

Belorussian – Winshuyu sa Svyatkami i z Novym godam!

Bengali – Shuvo Baro Din – Shuvo Nabo Barsho

Bhojpuri – Naya Sal Mubarak Ho

Bicolano – Maugmang Capascuhan asin Masaganang Ba-gong Taon!

Bislama – Mi wisim yufala eerywan one gutfala Krismas

& mo wan hapi New Year long

Blaan – Pye duh di kaut Kristo klu munt ug Felemi Fali!

Blackfoot – I’Taamomohkatoyiiksistsikomi

Bohemian/Czech – Prejeme Vam Vesele Vanoce a Stastny novy rok

Brahui – Arkas caik xuda are

Breton – Nedeleg laouen na bloav ezh mat

Bulgarian – Chestita Koleda i Shtastliva Nova Godina

Bulu – Duma e bo’o

Bura – e be Zambe e Usa ma ka Kirisimassu

Catalan – Bon Nadal i feliç any nou!

Cantonese – Seng Dan Fai Lok, Sang Nian Fai Lok

Carib – Sirito kypoton ra’a

Carrier – Zoo dungwel & Soocho nohdzi doghel

Carolinian – Ameseighil ubwutiiwel Layi Luugh me raagh fee

Cebuano – Malipayong Pasko ug Bulahang Bag-ong Tuig!

Chamorro – Filis Pasgua & Filis Anu Nuebo

Chaha Bogem h n mh m & Boxem as nana-h m

Chamba – Wi na ge nyare Su dome Kirismass

Chavacano – Felices Pascua y Prospero Anyo Nuevo

Cherokee – Danistayohihv & Aliheli’sdi Itse Udetiyvsadisv

Cheyenne – Hoesenestotse & Aa’e Emona’e

Chichewa – Moni Wa Chikondwelero Cha Kristmasi

Chiga – Mwebare khuhika – Ha Noel

Choctaw – Yukpa, Nitak Hollo Chito

Cornish – Nadelik looan na looan blethen noweth

Corsican – Bon Natale e Bon capu d’ annu

Cree – Mitho Makosi Kesikansi

Creek – Afvcke Nettvcakorakko

Creole/Seychelles – Bonn e Erez Ane

Croatian – Sretan Bozic

Dagbani – Ni ti Burunya Chou & Mi ti yuun

Damara/Nama – Khiza

Danish – Glædelig Jul og godt nytår

Dibabawon – Marayaw na Pasko aw Bag-ong Tui g kaniyo tibo na mga soon

Dinka – Miet puou yan dhiedh Banyda tene Yin

Dine/Navajo – Ya’at’eeh Keshmish

Divehi – Ufaaveri aa ahareh

Dschang – Chrismi a lekah Nguo Suieh

Duri – Christmas-e- Shoma Mobarak

Dutch – Vrolijk Kerstfeest en een Gelukkig Nieuwjaar!

Egyptian – Colo sana wintom tiebeen

English – Merry Christmas & Happy New Year

Eritrean – Rehus-Beal-Ledeat

Esperanto – Gajan Kristnaskon & Bonan Novjaron

Estonian – Rõõmsaid Jõulupühi ja Head uut aastat

Ethiopian – enkuan le berhane ledtu adrswo

Éwé – Blunya na wo

Ewondo – Mbemde abog abyali nti! Mbembe Mbu!

Faroese – gleðilig jól og eydnuríkt nýggjár!

Fali – Use d’h Krismass

Farsi – Sal-e no mubarak

Fijian – Me Nomuni na marau ni siga ni sucu dei na yabaki vou

Finnish – Hyvää Joulua or Hauskaa Joulua – 0nnellista uutta vuotta

Flemish – Zalig Kerstfeest en Gelukkig nieuw jaar

French – Joyeux Noël et Bonne Année!

Frisian – Noflike Krystdagen en in protte Lok en Seine yn it Nije Jier!

Friulian – Bon Nadâl e Bon An Gnûf

Fulfulde – Jabbama be salla Kirismati

Gaddang – Mangamgam Bawa a dawun sikua diaw amin

Galician – Bon Nadal e Bo Ani Novo

Gari – !Soalokia God i gotu vasau, mi lao ke ba na

rago vanigira ara dou i matana!

Gciriku – Mfiyawidi yaKrisimisa & Marago ghaMwaka waUpe

Georgian – Gilotsavt Krist’es Shobas & Gilosavt akhal ts’els

German – Fröhliche Weihnachten und ein glückliches Neues Jahr!

Gikuyu – Gia na Thigukuu njega Na MwakaM weru wi Gikeno

Gitskan – Hisgusgitxwsim Ha’niisgats Christ gankl Ama Sii K’uuhl!

Golin – Yesu kule nongwa kaun umaribe ongwa ena mone di mile wai wen milo

Greek – Kala Christougenna Ki’eftihismenos O Kenourios Chronos

Greenlandic – Juullimi Ukiortaassamilu Pilluarit

Guahibo – Pexania Navidadmatacabi piginia pexaniapejanawai paxainaename

Guambiano – Navidadwan Tabig tugagunrrigay & Sru pilawan kasrag utunrrigay

Guarani – Avyaitete ahi ko Tupa ray arape qyrai Yy Kapyryin rira

Guarayu – Imboeteipri tasecoi Tupa i vave! & Ivve ava Tupa

rembiaisu toyuvirecoi turpi oyeaisusa pipe!

Gujarati – Natal ni shub kaamnao & Saal Mubarak

Gwere – Osusuku Omusa & Masuke Omwaka

Gwich’in – Drin tsal zhit shoh ohlii & Drin Choo zhit zhoh ohlii

Han – Drin tsul zhit sho ahlay & Drin Cho zhit sho ahlay

Hausa – Barka da Kirsimatikuma Barka da Sabuwar Shekara!

Hawaiian – Mele Kalikimaka & Hauoli Makahiki Hou

Haya – Waihuka na Noeli & Waihhuka n ‘Omwaka

Hebrew – Mo’adim Lesimkha. Shanah Tova

Heiban – Ati kalo gathje uwa gigih

Herero- Okresmesa ombwa Ombura ombe ombwa

Hiligaynon – Malipayon nga paskua & Malipayon Nga Bag-ong tuig

Hindi – Shubh Naya Baras

Holo – Seng-tan khoai-lok!

Hmong – Nyob Zoo Xyoo Tahiab

Hungarian – Kellemes karácsonyi ünnepeket és Boldog újévet!

Hungduan – Maphon au nitungawan. Apo Dios Kituwen baron di toon

Iban – Selamat Ari Krismas enggau Taun Baru

Ibanag – nga Pascua

Icelandic – Gleðileg Jól og Farsaelt Komandi ár!

Igbo – Ekelere m gi maka Keresimesi na ubochi izizi afo ozo

Ikiribati – Te Mauri, Te Raoi ao Te Tabomoa nakoimi nte Kirimati ao te Ririki ae Bou

Ilocano – Naimbag a Pascua ken Naragsac nga Baro nga Tawen!

Imbongu – Gotenga malo Jisasi Karaist

Indonesian – Selamat Hari Natal & Selamat Tahun Baru

Inuktitut- quviasupvisiutsiarit arraagurmilu nutaami !

Inupiaq – Annaurri Aniruq & Paglaun Ukiutchiaq

Inupiatun – Quvianaq Agaayuniqpak

Iraqi – Idah Saidan Wa Sanah Jadidah

Irish – Nollaig Shona Dhuit

Iroquois – Ojenyunyat Sungwiyadeson homungradon nagwutut & Ojenyunyat osrasay

Italian – Buon Natale e Felice Anno Nuovo

Japanese – Shinnen omedeto. Kurisumasu Omedeto

Javanese – Sugeng Natal lan warsa enggal

Jèrriais – Bouan Noué et Bouanne Année

Kabyle – Assegwas ameggaz

Kadazan – Kotobian Tadau Do Krimas om Toun Vagu

Kahua – Na vagevageha surireua na Kirisimasi ma na harisi naoru

Kala Lagaw Ya – Ngi ngayka Koei trimal Kaz

Kambaata – eman haaro wegga illisholce

Kamba – Ithiwa na Kisimsi Kiseo & Na Mwaka Mweu Museo

 

Kannada – Hosa Varushada Subhasayagalu

Karelian – Rastawanke Sinun, Uvven Vuvenke Sinun

Kaqchiquel – Dios tik’ujie’ avik’in

Kashmiri – Christmas Id Mubarak

Kawalib – Amirnar Krismas Gi

Khasi – Krismas basuk & Snem thymmai basuk

Kimeru – ugie na thigunku ijega na mwaka jumweru

Kinyarwanda – Umunsi Mwiza

Kirundi – Noeli Nziza & Umwaka Mwiza

Kom – Isangle Krismen & Isangle beng i fue

Konkoni – Khushal borit Natalam

Korafe – Keremisi ewewa

Korean Sung Tan Chuk Ha

Kosraean – Tok Tapeng & Engan ya sasu

Koyukon – Denaahto’ Hoolaank Dedzaanh Sodeelts’eeyh

Krio – Appi Krismes en Appi Niu Yaa

Kuanua – A Bona Lukara na Kinakava

Kurdish – Seva piroz sahibe u sersala te piroz be

Kwangali – Kerekemisa zongwa & Erago moMumvho gomupe

Kyrghyz – JangI jIlIngIz guttuu bolsun!

Ladin – Bon Nadel y Bon Ann Nuef

Lakota – Wanikiya tonpi wowiyuskin & Omaka teca oiyokipi

Lamnsó – Kisheri ke Kisimen & Vijung ve kiya kefiyki

Lango – Afoyo Chamo Mwake & Apoyo Mwaka Manyeni

Latin – Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis

Latvian – Prieci’gus Ziemsve’tkus un Laimi’gu Jauno Gadu!+

Lausitzian – Wjesole hody a strowe nowe leto

Lebanese – Milad Saeed wa Sanaa Mubarakah

Limburgisch – ne gooie keersmès en e zaolig nujjaor!

Lithuanian – Linksmu Kaledu ir laimingu Nauju metu

Livonian – Jovi talshpivdi un Vondzist uto aigasto

Lower Tanana – Bet’oxdilt’ayi bedena’ ch’exulanhde dranh ninoxudedhet

Lozi – Kilisimasi ya nyakalalo & Silimo se sinca sa tabo

Luganda – Amazalibwa Agesanyu & N’Omwaka Omujaa Ogwemirembe

Lugbara – Enyaa Krismas moke dika efii eli o’diru ria moke

Luhya – Isuguku Indahi & Nu Muhiga Musha

Luo – Sikuku Mar Higa Kod Mor & Mar Kiga Manyien

Luritja – Wai! Nyuntu Larya?

Luxembourgeois – Schéi Krëschtdeeg an e Schéint Néi Joer

Macedonian – Srekan Bozik I Nova Godina

Madura – Pada salamet sabhala bengko areja

Makassar – Salama’ Natal & Selamat Tahun baru

Arahaba tratry ny Krismasy

Mambwe – Kristu aye namwe umu nsikunkulu ino iya Mwezi

Malayan – Selamat Hari Natal

Malayalam – Christumas Mangalangalangal & Puthuvalsara Aashamsakal

Maltese – Nixtieqlek Milied Tajjeb u Sena Tajba

Mandarin – Kung His Hsin Nien bing Chu Shen Tan

Mandobo – Mepiya Pagasaulog sa pagka-otawni Jesus aw maontong kaling Omay!

Mangyan – Mayad paq Pasko kag

Mansaka – Madyaw na Pasko aw malipayong Bag-ong Tuig kamayo, mga lumon

Manx – Nollick ghennal as blein vie noa

Maori – Kia orana e kia manuia rava i teia Kiritimeti e te Mataiti Ou

Marathi – Shub Naya Varsh

Margi – Use aga Kirismassi

Marshallese – Monono ilo raaneoan Nejin & Jeramman ilo iio in ekaal

Mataco-Mataguayo – Lesilatyaj ihi Dios ta i ppule ye, Letamsek ihi wichi ta Dios ikojejthi ta i honat e

Maya/Yucateco – Utzul mank’inal

Medlpa – Enim Mutuiyo!

Meithei – Krismas Hlomum & Kumthar Lawmum

Mingrelian – k’irses mugoxuamant & axal ts’anas mugoxuamant

Mongolian – Zul saryn bolon shine ony mend devshuulye

Monégasque – Festusu Natale e Bona ana noeva

Moro – Nidli pred naborete nano

Moru – Medu amiri ovuru Yesu opi amaro

Muyu – Lip Ki amun aa Natal Kowe

Naasioi – Tampara Kirisimaasi

Naskapi – miywaaitaakun mikusaanor & kiyaa maamiyupiyaakw minuwaach pipuun

Ndjem – Mbeya mbeya Ebiel & Mbeya mbeya mbu

Ndogo – Esimano olyaKalunga gwokombandambanda! & Nombili kombanda yevi maantu e ya hokwa!

Ndonga – Okrismesa iwa & Omude Mupe wa Punikwa

Nepali – krist Yesu Ko Shuva Janma Utsav Ko Upalaxhma Hardik Shuva & Naya Barsa Ko harkik Shuvakamana

Newari – Nhu Da Ya Vintuna

Nii – Nim Ono

Niuean – Monuina a Aho Kilisimasi mo e Tau Foou

Norweigan/Nynorsk – eg ynskjer hermed dykk alle ein god jul og godt nyttår

Norweigan/Bokmål – God Jul og Godt Nyttår

Notu/Ewage – Keremisi dave be

Nyanja – Kristu akhale ndi inu munyengo ino ya Christmas

Nyankore Mukhulukhe Omwaka

Occitan – Polit nadal e bona annada

Ojibwe (Chippewa) – Niibaa’ anami’egiizhigad & Aabita Biboon

Oneida – Wanto’wan amp; Hoyan

Oriya – Sukhamaya christmass ebang khusibhara naba barsa

Orokaiva – Keremisi javotoho

Oromo – baga wagaa hara isinin gaye

Palauan – Ungil Kurismas

Pompangan – Malugud Pascu at saca Masayang Bayung Banua!

Pangasinan – Maabig ya pasko & Maliket ya balon taon

Papiamento – Bon Pasco i Feliz Aña Nobo

Pashto – De Christmas akhtar de bakhtawar au newai kal de mubarak sha.

Pennsylvania German – En frehlicher Grischtdaag unen hallich Nei Yaahr!

Pohnpeian – Peren en Krismas & Peren en Parakapw

Polish – Wesolych Swiat i Szczesliwego Nowego Roku.

Portuguese – Boas Festas e um feliz Ano Novo

Punjabi – Nave sal di mubaraka

Pashto – Christmas Aao Ne-way Kaal Mo Mobarak Sha

Q’anjob’al – chi woche swatx’ilal hak’ul yet yalji Komami’

Quechua – Sumaj kausay kachun Navidad ch’sisipi & Mosoi Watapi sumaj kausay kachun

Quiche’ – Dioa kkje’ awuk’

Rapa-Nui – Mata-Ki-Te-Rangi & Te-Pito-O-Te-Henua

Rarotongan – Kia akakakaia te Atua i runga i te rangi Teitei,

e ei au to to teianei ao, e kia aroaia mai te tangata nei.

Rengma – Anu keghi Christmas nu amapi kethighi wa salam pi nthu chupenle

Rheto-Romance – Bella Festas daz Nadal ed in Ventiravel Onn Nov

Romani – Bachtalo krecunu Thaj Bachtalo Nevo Bers

Romanian – Craciun fericit si un An Nou fericit!

Rongmei – Mei kathui nata neila mei Khrisrmas akhatni gai mei tingkum kathan tu-na arew we

Roviana – Mami tataru Kirisimasi koa gamu doduru meke qetu qetu vuaheni vaqura ia

 

Russian – Pozdrevlyayu s prazdnikom Rozhdestva i s Novim Godom

Salar – YangI yilingiz gotlI bulsIn!

Sambal – Maligayang Pasko at Masayang Ba-yon Taon!

Sámi – Buorit Juovllat ja Buorre Oddajahki

Saamia – Muwule Omwaka Enjaya

Samoan – Ia manuia le Kilisimasi ma le tausaga fou

Sango -Gloire na Nzapa na ndouzou aho kouè, Na siriri na ndo sessé na popo ti ajo so amou nguia na Lo.

Santali – Raska nawa Serma

Saramaccan – Nuan wan suti jai o!

Sardinian – Bonu nadale e prosperu annu nou

Scots Gaelic – Nollaig chridheil agus Bliadhna mhath ur!

Secoya -Sihuanu’u Ejaerepa aide’ose’ere & Sihuana’u huaje ametecahue

Semandang – Selemat gawai Natal

Seneca – a:o’-e:sad yos-ha:-se:’

Serbian – Sretan Bozic. Vesela Nova Godine

Sicilian – Bon Natali e Prosperu Annu Novu !

Sinhala – Subha nath thalak Vewa. Subha Aluth Awrudhak Vewa

Slavey – Teyatie Gonezu

Soga – Mwisuka Sekukulu

Songe – Kutandika kua Yesu kuibuwa! & Kipua kipia kibuwa!

Sorani – Newroz le to Piroz be

Sorbian – Wjesole hody a strowe Nowe leto.

Somali – ciid wanaagsan iyo sanad cusub oo fiican.

Sotho/North – Mahlatsi a Matswalo a Morena le Ngwaga o Moswa

Sotho/South – Litakalerso Tse Monate Tsa Kere Semese Le Mahlohonolo a Selemo Se Secha

Slovakian – Vesele Vianoce a stastny novy rok

Slovene – Vesele bozicne praznike in srecno novo leto

Sorbian – Wjesole hody a strowe Nowe leto

Spanish – Feliz Navidad y Próspero Año Nuevo

Sranan – Wan switi kresneti nanga wan bun nyun yari!

Subanen – Piak Pasko Pu Piag Bago Tawn

Sudanese – Wilujeng Natal Sareng Warsa Enggal

Suena – Kerisimsi kokopai

Surigaonon – Malipayon na pasko sanan bag-on tuig!

Swahili – ºKrismas Njema Na Heri Za Mwaka Mpyaº

Swazi – sinifisela khisimusi lomuhle nemnyaka lomusha lomuhle

Swedish – God Jul och Gott Nytt År

Tagalog – Maligayang Pasko at Manigong Bagong Taon

Tahitian – Ia ora i te Noere e ia ora na i te matahiti ‘api

Tagakaulu – Madyaw Pagsalog sa Pagka-otaw ni Jesus & Aw mauntong na bago Umay!

Tala Andig – Maayad ha pasko daw bag-ong tuig

Tamazight – Asseggwas Ameggaz

Tarifit – Asuggas Asa’di

Tamil – Nathar Puthu Varuda Valthukkal

Tanaina – Natukda Nuuphaa

Tasmanian – munto ag lag unti frinto ling dum ach tak

Tayal – Pqaquasta ta. Pquasta hentang na Jesu

Telugu – Christmas Shubhakaankshalu & Nootana Samvatchara Subhakanshalu

Thai – Suksan Wan Christmas lae Sawadee Pee Mai

Tlingit – Xristos Khuwdziti kax sh kaxtoolxetl

Tok Pisin – Meri Krismas & Hepi Nu Yia

Tokelau – Ke whakamanuia te Kirihimahi & Tauhaga Fou fiafia

Tonga – Kristo abe anduwe muciindo ca Christmas

Tongan – Kilisimasi Fiefia & Ta’u fo’ou monu ia

Toraja – Salama’ Natal & Selama’ taun baru

Trukese – Neekirissimas annim oo iyer seefe feyiyeech!

Tshiluba – Diledibua dilenga dia Mfumu – Tshidimu tshipia – tshipia th silenga

Tswana – Keresemose o monate le masego a ngwaga o montsha

Tubetube – Yayaliyaya Yesu sikabi kaiwena

Tumbuka – Kristu wabe namwe munyengo ya Christmas

Turkish – Noeliniz Ve Yeni Yiliniz Kutlu Olsun

Tutchone/Northern – Ut’ohudinch’i Hulin Dzenu & Eyum nan ek’an nenatth’at danji te yesohuthin ch’e hadaatle sh’o

Ukrainian – Veseloho Vam Rizdva i Shchastlyvoho Novoho Roku!

Umbundu – Natale, Natale, Oyo O Natale & Eteke Lio Bowano, Illimo Ciwa

Urdu – Naya Saal Mubarak Ho

Uvean – Italo fa ide tau fou nei eseke

Uyghur – YanghI yiling ahlqIs bolgey!

Valencian – Bon Nadal i millor any nou

Vespi – Rastvoidenke i Udenke Vodenke

Vietnamese – Chuc Mung Giang Sinh – Chuc Mung Tan Nien

Votian – Yvaa rashtagoa! & Yvaa uutta vootta!

Waray-Waray – Maupay nga Pasko ngan Mainuswagon nga Bag-o nga Tuig!

Warlpiri – Miri Kirijimiji & Nyuntunpa Ngurrju nyayirni yapa

Welsh – Nadolig LLawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda

Yup’ik/Central – Alussistuaqegcikici

Yupik/Siberian – Quyanalghii Kuusma & Quyangalleq Nutaghamun Aymiqulleq

Xhosa – Siniqwenelela Ikrisimesi EmnandI Nonyaka Omtsha Ozele Iintsikelelo Namathamsanqa

Yiddish – Gute Vaynakhtn un a Gut Nay Yor

Yoruba – E ku odun, e ku iye’ dun!

Zarma – Barka da Issa hay-yan hann & Barka da djiri barey-yan

Zaza – Newroz’a tu Piroz be

Zia – Kerisimasi wosewa

Zime – El ma ka bar vra aso vei Lu & El ma ka kim na mireu

Zulu – Sinifesela Ukhisimusi Omuhle Nonyaka Omusha Onempumelelo

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Modernisme (in Catalan language) is an international style of art, architecture and applied art that was most popular between 1890 and 1910.

English uses the French name Art Nouveau (new art), in Austria it is known as Secessionsstil; in Spanish Modernismo; in Czech Secese; in Danish Skønvirke or Jugendstil; in German Jugendstil, Art Nouveau or Reformstil; in Hungarian Szecesszió; in Italian Art Nouveau, Stile Liberty or Stile floreale; in Norwegian Jugendstil; in Polish Secesja; in Slovak Secesia; in Ukrainian and Russian Модерн (Modern); in Swedish and Finnish Jugend.

 

CROSSVIEW

To view 3D pics cross your eyes focusing between at the pictures until both images overlap one another in the middle.

Per vedere le foto in 3D incrociare (strabuzzare leggermente) gli occhi fino a che le due immagini si sovrappongono formandone una sola centrale.

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The poetical language of flowers, or, The pilgrimage of love /

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The language of flowers.

London :Ernest Nister ;[between 1890 and 1910]

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The Fool or The Jester is titled Le Mat in the Tarot of Marseilles, and Il Matto in most Italian language tarot decks. These archaic words mean "the madman" or "the beggar", and may be related to the word for 'checkmate' in relation to the original use of tarot cards for gaming purposes.

 

In the earliest Tarot decks, the Fool is usually depicted as a beggar or a vagabond.

The Tarot of Marseilles and related decks similarly depict a bearded person wearing what may be a jester's hat; he always carries a bundle of his belongings on a stick slung over his back. He appears to be getting chased away by an animal, either a dog or a cat. The animal has torn his pants. In the Rider-Waite Tarot deck and other esoteric decks made for cartomancy, the Fool is shown as a young man, standing on the brink of a precipice. In the Rider-Waite deck, he is also portrayed as having with him a small dog.

 

In many esoteric systems of interpretation, the Fool is usually interpreted as the protagonist of a story, and the Major Arcana is the path the Fool takes through the great mysteries of life and the main human archetypes. This path is known traditionally in Tarot as the Fool´s Journey, and is frequently used to introduce the meaning of Major Arcana cards to beginners. The Fool is the spirit in search of experience. He represents the mystical cleverness bereft of reason within us, the childlike ability to tune into the inner workings of the world. He is seemingly unconcerned that he is standing on a precipice, apparently about to step off.

 

The number 0 is a perfect significator for the Fool, as it can become anything when he reaches his destination. Zero plus anything equals the same thing. Zero times anything equals zero. Zero is nothing, a lack of hard substance, and as such it may reflect a non-issue or lack of cohesiveness for the subject at hand.

 

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