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The view over to the two islands ( St. Ivan Island and St. Peter
off the coast of Sozopol, Bulgaria
St. Ivan Island (Bulgarian: остров св. Иван, ostrov Sveti Ivan) is the largest Bulgarian island in the Black Sea, with an area of 0.66 square kilometres (0.25 square miles).[1] It lies off the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast near Sozopol, a town with rich history and a popular tourist place, and is separated by a strait several hundred metres long from the small neighbouring St. Peter Island. Standing at 33 metres (108 feet) above sea level, it is also the highest of the Bulgarian sea islands. It lies 920 metres (0.57 miles) from the Stolets peninsula, the location of Sozopol's Old Town.
Around the 7th-4th century BC, the island was populated by Thracians. After Sozopol (Apollonia) was conquered by the Romans in 72 BC, a lighthouse was built on the island. Next to the Thracian sanctuary, the locals built a temple of Apollo featuring a bronze statue by Calamis standing 13.2 metres (43 ft) in height, making it easy to see from the city. A complex of buildings was constructed around the temple in the southeastern part of the island, including health stations, inns, etc.
After the conversion to Christianity, a monastical complex was built in the 5th-6th century on top of the ruins of the old Roman temple, including the Basilica of the Mother of God. Towards the 7th-9th century, the basilica was abandoned only to be reconstructed in the 10th century. The Monastery of John the Forerunner and the Baptist grew into an important centre of Christianity in the region; the buildings of the monastery and the church were reconstructed in 1262-1310. Archaeological research was carried out after 1985 for a couple of years, so today the remains of two churches, a royal residence, a library, part of the fortified wall with the gate and several monastic cells can be seen. The monastery was a stauropegic monastery of the Patriarchate of Constantinople, and two former patriarchs may have been buried there after being sent into exile.
Sozopol was conquered by the Ottomans together with Constantinople, in 1453, and the monastery was completely destroyed, but later reconstructed in 1467-1471. In the 1620s it was a refuge for Cossack pirates raiding the western Black Sea coast. Archaeologists have even discovered the remains of a Cossack feast in the church. The Ottomans destroyed the remaining buildings on St. Ivan Island in July 1629 in order not to be used by the pirates. It also played a part in the Russo-Turkish War of 1828-1829, when it was used as a field hospital for Russian soldiers suffering from cholera and also had a Russian graveyard.
Until the mid-19th century, when a natural phenomenon most likely separated them, the small St. Peter Island to the east of St. Ivan was most likely adjoined to it. Two small islets or large rocks also existed to the east of St. Peter, known by the names of Milos and Gata; they were last described by Russian war correspondents in the 1820s.
There is also a lighthouse constructed by French engineers in 1884 and pointing to the Burgas Bay still standing on the island. In the 1970s and early 1980s, there was a project to build a large Balkantourist hotel on St. Ivan, but Todor Zhivkov's intervention prevented that.
In August 2010 the BBC reported that remains of John the Baptist had been found on the island.[2] Radiocarbon dating confirmed that the bones belonged to a man who had lived and died in the Middle East in the middle of the first century
Thanks to Wikipedia
St Michael's Mount, is the jewel in Cornwall's crown. This, the most famous of Cornwall's landmarks, has a fascinating history, is steeped in both legend and folklore, has stunning panoramic views across Mounts Bay to Lands End and The Lizard, boasts a picturesque harbour and has a spectacular castle, complete with magestic gardens. Originally the site of a Benedictine Chapel, the spectacular castle on the rock dates from the 14th Century.
Well, i'm sorry i haven't been uploading much, but this school is really "hard" and today i didn't have any homework, and i had finished all of my projects! :D
I honestly wasn't thinking of building today, BUT, I saw my AT-ST, and thought i would make a tiny endor scene. The picture looks ugly, because the trees are thin, and tomorrw im going to try and make them thicker, and upload a better picture with this!
St Margaret Pattens, Great Tower Street, London
I have a fondness for this little church, which sits pleasingly on the north side of Great Tower Street. The paved area in front gives it rather a provincial air, as if we were in the main shopping street of Norwich or York, and the building itself similarly has no airs and graces. Here, where London bends towards the grim old tower, Wren turned disciplinarian and built one of the simplest, starkest patterns of his career opined Wayland Young in an uncharacteristically purple passage. Yes, it is plain, and the interior is plain too, a simple box-like nave with a north aisle beyond. Plain glass, plain benches, a plain wooded sanctuary - even the reredos is understated. And yet there is a pleasing harmony here. I thought the church well-chosen by the tramp snoring away on one of the back benches - there were no discordant excitements here to keep him awake!
But there is plenty to interest, too. At the back are the churchwardens pews for St Margaret Pattens and St Gabriel Fenchurch, and these are the only surviving examples in the City. The beadle's pew survives too, and there are hat pegs for gentlemen, and perhaps all in all no other City church still has the calm and simplicity of 18th Century London life before the Victorian storm began. Mind you, those 18th Century gentlemen might have raised an eyebrow at the succession of young women carrying large exercise balls up the north aisle on their way to a pilates class in the north gallery, now a conference room.
A patten is a kind of wooden shoe, and a window of 2000 commemorates the Worshipful Company of Pattenmakers. But in fact the dedication was probably not a reference to pattenmakers at all, but to Ranulf Peyton, a Canon of St Pauls who owned the land in this parish.
Simon Knott, December 2015
"Whenever some act of wondrous power must be performed, Michael is sent, so that his action and his name may make it clear that no one can do what God does by his superior power. So also our ancient foe desired in his pride to be like God, saying: I will ascend into heaven; I will exalt my throne above the stars of heaven; I will be like the Most High. He will be allowed to remain in power until the end of the world when he will be destroyed in the final punishment. Then, he will fight with the archangel Michael, as we are told by John: A battle was fought with Michael the archangel."
- from a sermon by Pope St Gregory the Great.
Today, 29 September is the feast of the Archangels, and this window is in Great St Mary's church in Cambridge.
7000 Romaine st. housed a movie theater, offices, and walk in vaults, the fascinating contents of which are described in the excellent book Citizen Hughes.
St Anne Line was born in Dunmow, in Essex. In her teens she became a Catholic and was disinherited by her family, and in 1585 she married another disinherited convert, Roger Line. Her husband was imprisoned for his faith and then sent into exile, leaving her destitute. She taught and embroidered and also kept house for priests. One day a large number of people were seen congregating at her house for Mass. She was arrested, tried, condemned to death, and hanged at Tyburn in London on 27 February 1601.
My sermon for today can be read here.
Statue from St Etheldreda's church in London.
211/365:27th January,2011
The Church of St.Edmund,King & Martyr,Mansfield Woodhouse,Nottinghamshire,UK
Although to all present appearances a modern place Mansfield Woodhouse has a history going back to the Roman period. At nearby Whinny Hill are the remains of a Roman double-ditched camp and here excavations have revealed pavements, tiles, urns and coins of the Roman period. The camp formed a part of the territory of Ceritanis and this was, in turn, within the province of Flavia Caesarienis.
In 1786 one Hayrnan Rooke discovered important Roman villas with valuable pavements. In the 19th century another and more important villa was excavated of the "corridor" type, it had five rooms with two extra in each wing. The central room had a fine mosaic pavement and evidence of hypercaust heating also was to be seen.
After the Romans, came the Saxons and Normans, but of their respective stays little evidence survives. It is, however, certain that a wooden church existed here in the 11th century. Of crude design it was naturally built of abundant local timber (Mansfield Woodhouse was then but a clearing in Sherwood Forest) and probably consisted of only a nave.
Following the wooden church came a building of stone. This was almost certainly the one mentioned by William Rufus in his charter giving the churches of Woodhouse, Oarston. Chesterfield, Ashbourne and Mansfield to the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary at Lincoln.
In 1304 a disastrous fire swept the entire village and destroyed much of the church. It was rebuilt and of this particular building the tower still survives—the oldest part of the church. Until the fire the church had three aisles hut only two were reconstructed. A contemporary account of the time tells us "Mansfield Woodhouse was burned the Saturdaye next afore the Fest of Exaltation of the Holy Crosse, the yere of our Lord MCCCLIIII. And the Kirk stepull. with the belles of the same, for the slepull was afore of tyrnber werke and part of the Kyrk was burned". The tower was, of course, rebuilt of stone as was the spire. Mansfield Woodhouse recovered from the fire’s ravages and by the 16th century had become quite an important town.
In 1797 we hear that Mansfield Woodhouse was a very large respectable village and in it are several good houses, it is the residence of many respectable families". We are also told that the "Chapel of St. Edmund" was in charge of the Rev. John Wright who was licensed to the curacies of both Woodhouse and Skegby. The patron was the Dean of Lincoln and the living of St. Edmunds was valued at £40 13s. 4d. worth of bacon! According to the church registers of that period baptisms and deaths varied but little. The live years beginning in 1753 saw 122 baptisms and 93 burials and the five years ending saw 152 baptisms and 93 burials.
At that period too, a medicinal spring was discovered locally and a building erected over it. but, although the baths were said to be of great beauty the water was not good and the spa soon declined.
In the mid 19th century. according to a gazetteer of 1866, Mansfield Woodhouse parish comprised 2.800 acres and had 2,263 inhabitants and 192 houses. The property was divided among a few", the manor and much of the land belonging to the Duke of Portland. The living of the church was then valued at £300. the Patron was the Bishop of Lincoln in whose diocese it was a papal curacy. The church, we are told, was in the early English style and in "good condition"
The church nave and aisles were virtually rebuilt in 1804-10 and further restorations took place in 1850 and 1878, these latter being by that eminent Victorian architect Sir Gilbert Giles Scott. At these restorations the aisles were extended to the length of the chancel, thus forming chapels on either side.
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homepage.ntlworld.com/mark.a-guy/scouts/mdsc/4thwoodhouse...
Today, 16 April, is the memorial of St Bernadette, visionary of Our Lady of Lourdes. This statue is in the town of Bartres where she worked as a shepherdess.
St Bartholomew's Church, Kirby Muxloe, Leicesterhire.
The Church of Saint Bartholomew, Kirby Muxloe is a small medieval church which was restored in Victorian times. It is around 70 foot long with a simple nave, chancel and sanctuary. Much of the building is of white sandstone and gravel with some granite and stone rubble, but the north wall of the nave was rebuilt in 1848-50 in blue Derbyshire stone. Most of the furnishings and internal decoration date from after the restoration of 1848-50.
Details courtesy of "a church near you".
"Due to the city's unique geology, the Saint Petersburg Metro is one of the deepest metro systems in the world and the deepest by the average depth of all the stations. The system's deepest station, Admiralteyskaya, is 86 metres below ground"
Wikipedia
St Louis is the largest city in the state of Missouri. It was founded in 1764 and named for King Louis IX of France. It was part of the French Empire until the end of the French & Indian war when Spain took claim to the territory. They would sell it back to France in 1800 who would sell it to the United States in 1803 as part of the Louisiana Purchase. In 1804, Lewis and Clar started their westward exploration here that took them to the Pacific Ocean and back. They arrived back at the end of their journey inj 1806. The Arch in the middle is a memorial to that exploration. In 1904, the Worlds Fair and Olympic Games were held here, the first time both came to the states.
One of Dublin's more unusual attractions has to be St. Michan's Church. Named after a Danish Bishop, it was for five hundred years the only parish church in Dublin north of the River Liffey. Founded around 1095 by the Danish colony in Oxmanstown and located near the Four Courts, the present building dates from about 1685 when it was rebuilt to serve a more prosperous congregation in an area created by Sir Humphrey Jervis.
The main attraction, however, lies in the vaults underneath the church proper, its access reached by a narrow stone stairway. On either side of a tunnel lined with limestone and mortar extend long narrow galleries for the placing of coffins. Some are private and fastened with wooden or iron doors, while others are open. Through the iron bars in some, the coffins can be seen lying in a helter skelter fashion, some apparently bursting at the seams with an arm or leg sticking up. In one of these open chambers lie the grisly contents sought by numerous visitors: the Big Four. Here the casket lids are off, exposing bodies partly covered with taut, leathery skin, covered in a thick layer of dust. Three of the coffins lie in a row across the front, a woman on the right, a man with a hand and both feet cut off in the center--some say because he was a thief, others say so the body could fit into the coffin. On the left is a nun. The coffin along the rear wall is that of the Crusader, the mummy believed to have been a soldier returned from the Crusades. His body has been cut in half, in order for it to fit the coffin. One of his hands is lifted slightly in the air.
The last room holds the coffins of the Sheare brothers who were executed by the British following the Rising of 1798. When their old coffins were replaced with new ones at the bicentennial commemoration in 1998, it was discovered that the standard British punishment for traitors had been enacted: the bodies had been hanged, drawn and quartered.
A serendipitous moment. A glance out the window to see a condensation trail left behind by some airplane perfectly placed as if there were some message being transmitted between the Cathedral and the Heavens above.
The upper winds kept pushing the contrail to the south and I had to run from one window to the next to try to line it up.
Suffice to say I was getting some strange looks from the other guests trying to enjoy their breakfast as I "excuse me"'d and pushed chairs out of the way in order to get the shot.
My breakfast companion just rolled his eyes. He's used to this sort of behaviour from me.
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