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Luckily we had the chance to choose one of three guided tours at the Monastery Klosterneuburg through the wine cellar, the treasury or the church including the cloister. Since I wanted to get into the church anyway I chose the last one and so I had the chance to take a nice wide angle shot of the church’s ceiling. „Unfortunately“ this was a guided tour which means that I didn’t had that much time to take pictures, but especially in such architecture shots you have to position yourself exactly at the right place to get the symmetry in the final picture which takes a little bit of time. Hence, I didn’t really listen to the guide and just took a few pictures hoping that I get a good one.
Monastery and Cave of Saint Andrew the Apostle
Few things are known about the cave of Saint Andrew the Apostle. One of those things that can be said with certainty is that it was discovered in 1918 by Jean Dinu, a lawyer. After dreaming one night, he came in this area to find the cave in an advanced state of degradation. After cleaning it of the vegetation inside, he built a couple of cells and the first monks came in a short time.
It was sanctified in 1943 by the bishop Chesarie Paunescu but during the communist period it was destroyed and turned into a shelter for animals.
Only in 1990, with the blessing of IPS Lucian, father Nicodim Dinca, the monarch of Sihastria Monastery, along with the hieromonarch father Victorin Ghindaoanu, started to restore the cave and to build the monastery.
The cave shelters the icon of Saint Andrew, known as the apostle who christianized the lands at the North of the Danube. There is a bed carved in stone in a niche of the pronaos. It is said that that was used as a resting place by Andrew the Apostle. In the course of time this has been a place to light candles, and now it is used by those in need of comfort from disease. Here, the priests also read prayers for sick people and the Mass of Saint Basil the Great.
Today the monastery has a smaller church built during the years of 1994 – 1995, sanctified with the Holy Virgin’s Protection as its dedication day and the third bigger church was built during the years of 1998 – 2002.
In the small church are kept the relics of Saint Andrew. A cross in the shape of “X” can be found, on the left, in front of the altar of the smaller church. In the center of this cross is placed a part of the finger belonging to Saint Andrew. The finger was brought from the Trifiliei Metropolitan Church of Greece. On the four extremities of the cross there are the relics of the martyr saints of Niculitel from Dobrogea: Zoticos, Attalos, Kamasis and Filippos, Epictet the priest and Astion the monk.
Near the cave there is a spring about which the legend tells that it appeared after Saint Andrew struck the rock with his staff in search of water.
Tens of thousands of pilgrims come each year to the Cave of Saint Andrew and this made this place to be rightfully named the Bethlehem of Romanian people.
To get here, the pilgrims must first reach Cernavoda, afterwards head south to Ostrov. In the locality Ion Corvin, an indicator points them to a side road that takes them to the monastery in a forest, after 3 – 4 km.
Short biography
The Saint Apostle Andrew was the brother of Saint Apostle Petre. At first he and Saint Apostle and Evangelist John were apprentices of Saint John the Baptist. After the Resurrection and the Ascension of Jesus Christ and the Descent of the Holly Spirit, the apostles drew the chances on where to go to preach this faith, and Saint Apostle Andrew reached the area of the Black Sea, including Scythia Minor of the time or today’s Dobrogea. He secluded in that cave with two apprentices and he started to preach. He then went to the region of Kiev, and returned to Dobrogea. Because all went well, he headed to Patras in Greece where he was crucified on a cross in the shape of “X”.
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Cathédrale de Reims • Champagne-Ardennes • France
Built between 1723-6 for Emperor Charles VI this Baroque library contains 200,000 books and many other treasures including globes, statues and frescos. Not sure its the right place to read as there are just too many competing visual pleasures.
I love how they decorate plaster here. Neoclassical House of the Emir of Bukhara (1914) in Saint Petersburg.
"...and on the cliff's edge of these nights
The sea's so tempting to say goodbye
And along with the spirits in my eyes
Vanish into the morning light.
A window opened to the sky
A widow's tale spins through the night
A willow whispered into my ear:
"You've wanted to fall for all this years".
The Morning rose, my thoughts remained
Upon these foggy shore of Clare
Though my mind was willing there to stay
Walked firmly into the dawning of another day..."
"A window to the sky"
Dreams of Sanity
Detail of the roof of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona. Gaudí designed the columns to mirror trees and branches.
Gråsten Slotskirke.
Holiday Denmark, september 2014
Slotskirken
De rijk versierde kapel is het enige deel van het kasteel, dat beschikbaar is voor het publiek.
Gråsten Palace Chapel
Gråsten Palace Chapel in the north wing is all that is left of Count Frederik Ahlefeldt’s large Baroque palace from the seventeenth century. The chapel interior is richly decorated with a grand altarpiece and about 80 paintings. There are public services as well as cultural events in the chapel. The Palace Chapel is open to the public.
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Only after looking at this photo I could fully appreciate the fine details of the painted ceiling. Taken handhold in a corridor full with moving people ;-)
March 8, 2021 - Dale Chihuly's Persian Ceiling at the entrance to the Himalayan Mountains Biome at the Franklin Park Conservatory. Columbus, Ohio
Another from our Italy trip a couple of months back- Looking up at the beautiful, decaying ceiling of this abandoned villa which was last used as a health retreat for those with mental health conditions.
The history of Chichester Cathedral begins in 681 when Saint Wilfrid brought Christianity to Sussex and established a Cathedral in Selsey, a small community south of Chichester.
After 1066 the Norman policy was that cathedrals should be moved from small communities to larger centres of population. In 1075 the Council of London established the See of Chichester and in 1076 the building of the present cathedral in Chichester was begun under Bishop Stigand. It was completed under Bishop Luffa in time for its dedication to the Holy Trinity in 1108.