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Acordar...
...em esplendorosas ilhas no Atlântico plantadas...
...desde a hora azul, em lugar místico, isolado e ao mar conquistado pelas forças telúricas, onde a devoção do homem a Deus, ao Mar e ao Sol tem lugar...
Wakening...
...in splendorous islands i
n the Atlantic planted...
...from the blue hour, in a mystic and isolated place and to the sea conquered by the telluric forces, where the man's devotion to God, to the Sea and to the Sun takes place...
The girls photo is from Kirill Balobanov allt he rest that follows is texturing for everybody a nice sunday.
And now for something completely different... with pain in the heart I added noise to my practically noise-free camera, just to enhance the atmosphere, I hope you like it :-)
A cafe in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands
Please listen to He needs me
Dear old world...
you are very lovely, and I am glad to be alive in you.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery ~
Happy Earth Day!
Roid Week 2021
color sx-70 film
I think Viktorya has a lifelong friend in Silva... that look of devotion in his eyes.... <3
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YouplaDolls Vana wearing KalciaWorkshop. Silver fox by BestariumDolls
Ellora Cave 16: the Kailasanatha Temple. 8th century.
Conceptualizing an idea that would take 200 years to complete, take 7500 people to finish, with buy-in from 10 generations of stake holders, detailing it to the T (a house of god cannot have a wrong cut), excavating 400000 tonnes of rock, all of these could only have been possible because of the sheer brilliance, love and devotion of those involved.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kailasa_temple,_Ellora
Ellora Caves Album:
This little statue is a nice place to leave Derby today. In many ways it sums up the spirit of the town. It stands in the grounds of the old Schoolhouse Museum and as you can see it features a young woman with hands clasped and head bowed. Behind her there is a smaller child with school bag. Devotion and respect. These two words sum up the attitude local residents have to their place.
They've been through boom times and bust (typical of mining communities). They've experienced the flooding disaster and dam break of 1929 that killed 14 townsfolk, endured long decades of economic decline. But their faith has been rewarded in a most unexpected way. Who would have thought that a group of young people mad about bikes would turn this place into the premier mecca of mountain biking in Australia, and a magnet for the world.
Little towns of the world, don't lose hope!
"Einsiedeln Abbey (German: Kloster Einsiedeln) is a Benedictine monastery in the village of Einsiedeln in the canton of Schwyz, Switzerland. The abbey is dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits, the title being derived from the circumstances of its foundation, for the first inhabitant of the region was Saint Meinrad, a hermit. It is a territorial abbey and, therefore, not part of a diocese, subject to a bishop. It has been a major resting point on the Way of St. James for centuries.
Meinrad was educated under his kinsmen, Abbots Hatto and Erlebald, at the abbey school at Reichenau, an island on Lake Constance, where he became a monk and was ordained a priest. After some years at Reichenau, and at a dependent priory on Lake Zurich, he embraced an eremitical life and established his hermitage on the slopes of mount Etzel. He died on January 21, 861, at the hands of two robbers who thought that the hermit had some precious treasures, but during the next 80 years the place was never without one or more hermits emulating Meinrad's example. One of them, named Eberhard, previously Provost of Strassburg, in 934 erected a monastery and church there, of which he became first abbot.
The church is alleged to have been miraculously consecrated, so the legend runs, in 948, by Christ himself assisted by the Four Evangelists, St. Peter, and St. Gregory the Great. This event was investigated and confirmed by Pope Leo VIII and subsequently ratified by many of his successors, the last ratification being by Pope Pius VI in 1793, who confirmed the acts of all his predecessors.
In 965 Gregory, the third Abbot of Einsiedeln, was made a prince of the Holy Roman Empire by Emperor Otto I, and his successors continued to enjoy the same dignity up to the cessation of the empire in the beginning of the 19th century. In 1274 the abbey, with its dependencies, was created an independent principality by Rudolf I of Germany, over which the abbot exercised temporal as well as spiritual jurisdiction. It remained independent until 1798, the year of the French invasion. It is still a territorial abbey, meaning that it is located in a territory that is not part of any diocese which the abbot governs "as its proper pastor" (Canon 370, Codex Juris Canonici) with the same authority as a diocesan bishop.
Einsiedeln has been famous for a thousand years, for the learning and piety of its monks, and many saints and scholars have lived within its walls. The study of letters, printing, and music have greatly flourished there, and the abbey has contributed largely to the celebrity of the Benedictine Order. It is true that discipline declined somewhat in the fifteenth century and the rule became relaxed, but Ludovicus II, a monk of St. Gall who was Abbot of Einsiedeln 1526-44, succeeded in restoring a stricter observance.
In the 16th century the religious disturbances caused by the spread of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland were a source of trouble for some time. Zwingli himself was at Einsiedeln for a while, and used the opportunity for protesting against the famous pilgrimages, but the storm passed over and the abbey was left in peace. Abbot Augustine I (1600–29) was the leader of the movement which resulted in the erection of the Swiss Congregation of the Order of St. Benedict in 1602, and he also did much for the establishment of unrelaxed observance in the abbey and for the promotion of a high standard of scholarship and learning amongst his monks.
The pilgrimages which have never ceased since the days of St Meinrad, have tended to make Einsiedeln on a par with the Holy House of Loreto and Santiago de Compostela, serving as a major stopping point on the Way of St. James leading there. Pilgrimages constitute one of the features for which the abbey is chiefly celebrated. The pilgrims number around one million, from all parts of Catholic Europe or even further. The statue of Our Lady from the 15th century, enthroned in the little chapel erected by Eberhard, is the object of their devotion. It is the subject of the earliest preserved print of pilgrimage, by the Master E.S. in 1466. The chapel stands within the great abbey church, in much the same way as the Holy House at Loreto is encased in a marble shrine and is elaborately decorated.
September 14 and October 13 are the chief pilgrimage days, the former being the anniversary of the miraculous consecration of Eberhard's basilica and the latter that of the translation of St Meinrad's relics from Reichenau Island to Einsiedeln in 1039. The millennium of St Meinrad was kept there with great splendour in 1861 as well as that of the Benedictine monastery in 1934. The great church has been many times rebuilt, the last time by Abbot Maurus between the years 1704 and 1719. The last big renovation ended after more than twenty years in 1997. The library contains nearly 250,000 volumes and many priceless manuscripts. The work of the monks is divided chiefly between prayer, work and study. At pilgrimage times the number of confessions heard is very large.
In 2013 the community numbered 60 monks. Attached to the abbey are a seminary and a college for about 360 pupils who are partially taught by the monks, who also provide spiritual direction for six convents of Religious Sisters." - info from Wikipedia.
During the summer of 2018 I went on my first ever cycling tour. On my own I cycled from Strasbourg, France to Geneva, Switzerland passing through the major cities of Switzerland. In total I cycled 1,185 km over the course of 16 days and took more than 8,000 photos.
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Alice with Jack, the Eurasian goshawk (Accipiter gentilis), during flight display. Goshawks were extinct as breeding pairs in Brittain at the end of 19th century due to loss of woodland and prosecution from gamekeepers, but due to reintroduction and repopulation the number of breeding pairs is slowly increases in the UK. So, understanding behaviour of these beautiful birds is important for their conservation as well as public education, both are the aims of the Project.
It is a magnificent bird you wouldn’t have many chances to see in the wild. In the centre many diurnal birds of prey have their own free hours of flight where they want and catch what they like, but then they come back to the centre. The species scientific name ‘Accipiter gentilis’ that translates from the Latin as ‘Hawk of nobles’ as only noble people were allowed to use goshawks for falconry in the Middle Ages. Birds of Prey Project. Newton near Bath. BANES, Somerset, England, UK
Explored 15.08.2024
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It really doesn't get much better than when the last Polaroid of the day is also the best. That being said, the rest of the bunch weren't too shabby, either. Man, seasons are wonderful. So is Polaroid.
Happy Valentine's day from Amamak <3
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Polaroid SLR 680 + Polaroid 600 Film.
October 26, 2012.
A stained glass window in St Mary The Virgin Church, Welwyn.
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Straight out of the camera.
Much better on black or large please xx
A young Hindu devotee has his hair shaved during Thaipusam, as a sign of either thanksgiving or sacrifice to the God.