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“It takes a little to discover Greece,but it takes only an instant to fall in love with Her" Henry Miller
Chora seen from the Church of Panagia
Folegandros' Whitewashed Houses & Small Churches
The traditional residences of the island are small flat-roofed or arched buildings complemented by landings,small courtyards and sills and they are built with respect to the traditional Cycladic architecture.The numerous small white churches,which are scattered all over the island,constitute the symbol of Christianity and the strong religious faith of the locals.
The architecture remains untouched by time and blends perfectly with the island's surroundings.
* The island was named after its first inhabitant,Folegandros, who was one of the sons of the King Minos of Crete.
** And now,from the Greek islands to the Highlands of Scotland and then back again ...
Recently returned from a wonderful, impactful trip to Israel. As we approach Good Friday and Resurrection Sunday (Easter), thought the timing would be good to share this shot. In the foreground is the Church of All Nations on the Mount of Olives by the Garden of Gethsemane. It was built in 1920 on top of two previous churches (Byzantine and Crusader). It is said to enshrine a section of bedrock where Jesus prayed before his arrest. (Mark 14:32–42). In 2020 they discovered Greek inscriptions written on the floor of the 1,500 year old Byzantine church, "for the memory and repose of those who love Christ… accept the offering of your servants and give them remission of sins”. This is the oldest archaeological evidence to verify this site as the Garden of Gethsemane. The Church of Mary Magdalene (up the hill on the right), with seven gilded turrets, is an East Orthodox Church and was built in 1888 by the Czar of Russia.
"It takes a lifetime for someone to discover Greece, but it only takes an instant to fall in love with her."
Santorini, Greece, 2019
"It takes a lifetime for someone to discover Greece, but it only takes an instant to fall in love with her." Henry Miller.
In the heart of the island of Santorini there is a small jewel called Pyrgos, this village of medieval origin is much less known than other towns such as Oia or Fira, but it is also full of charm. So far less visitors arrive here than to the coastal towns, making it an ideal destination to know a less touristy side of this Aegean island. Walking through its quiet streets is a trip to the past that fills the spirit with calm. Its traditional architecture leads us to feel that time seems to have stopped long ago. Without a doubt, in Pyrgos you can enjoy a more rural and authentic Santorini.
Although our visit lasted only a few hours, I had clear that I wanted to take a photograph that reflected the beauty of the place. It was not difficult to find the composition, since this was the view we had from the table of the restaurant "Penelope´s" where we had lunch. After finishing eating, I just had to wait for the wind to move the Greek flag to add an even more interesting touch to the image. I would have liked to photograph Pyrgos at nightfall, but I also wanted to capture a daytime image of Santorini in which blue was the main protagonist, and in this photograph I could get it. A church with a blue dome, a blue sky, a perfect temperature, the Greek flag waving with the gentle sea breeze, all after tasting delicious Mediterranean food, how can someone not fall in love with the essence of Greece?
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"Se necesita toda una vida para descubrir Grecia, pero solo un instante para enamorarse de ella". Henry Miller.
En el corazón de la isla de Santorini se encuentra una pequeña joya llamada Pyrgos, esta aldea de origen medieval es mucho menos conocida que otras localidades como Oia o Fira, pero cuenta también con muchísimo encanto. Hasta aquí llegan muchos menos visitantes que a las localidades de la costa, por lo que es un destino ideal para conocer un lado menos turístico de esta isla del Egeo. Caminar por sus tranquilas calles es un viaje al pasado que llena de calma el espíritu. Su arquitectura tradicional nos lleva a sentir que el tiempo parece haberse parado hace mucho. Sin duda, en Pyrgos se puede disfrutar de un Santorini más rural y auténtico.
Aunque nuestra visita fue de solo unas horas, tenía claro que quería llevarme una fotografía que reflejara la belleza del lugar. No fue difícil encontrar la composición, ya que esta era la vista que teníamos desde la mesa del restaurante "Penelope´s" donde almorzamos. Tras acabar de comer, solo tuve que esperar a que el viento moviera la bandera griega para añadir un toque aún más interesante a la imagen. Me hubiera gustado fotografiar Pyrgos al caer la noche, pero también quería capturar una imagen diurna de Santorini en la que el azul fuera el protagonista principal, y en esta fotografía lo pude conseguir. Una iglesia con cúpula azul, un cielo azul, una temperatura perfecta, la bandera griega ondeando con la suave brisa del mar, todo ello tras degustar una deliciosa comida mediterránea, ¿cómo no enamorarse de la esencia de Grecia?
Airline: Aegean Airlines
Aircraft: Airbus A321-231
Registration: SX-DVP "Discover Greece"
Route: Athens (ATH) to London (LHR)
Flight Number / Callsign: A3602 / AEE2EG
"It takes a lifetime for someone to discover Greece, but it only takes an instant to fall in love with her."
Santorini, Greece, 2019
The photographer between Manjarín and El Acebo, Camino de Santiago, 2006
(photographer unknown)
I’ve been tagged by Jordi (all-i-oli), so it’s my turn, and here go 16 things about me.
1. I am a Buddhist who doesn’t believe in reincarnation.
2. I have two passions. The first one has always been art, in any form. The second one is mountaineering, which I discovered nine years ago.
3. When I was very little I learned to read on my own. I enjoyed the attention this brought me but when later I started kindergarten I was made to seat on a nun’s lap and read a book while the other children could play barefoot outside in the garden, so I forgot the alphabet overnight and only learned it again in grade school, and then became forever a voracious reader.
4. I lived, studied and worked in New York for 12 years where I got a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. in painting and sculpture. Here in Brazil I make a living as a private English tutor, mostly preparing people to apply for diplomatic studies or for their masters’ and doctorates abroad. Most of my best friends have once been my students; some still are.
5. I absolutely love Brazil, particularly my adopted city, Rio (I’m from a Southern Brazilian state). My second favorite country has always been Italy, mainly because of its art, but last year I discovered Greece and fell in love with it, and I plan to live there some time in the future. I love its food, its people, its simplicity and spareness, the smell of herbs in the countryside, the small scale of everything, and the fullness of human life there with so little.
6. I am Brazilian but I also have Italian citizenship. My ancestry is 40% Italian (Piemontese) and the rest is Catalan, Spanish, German, Azorean, Galician and Guaraní (Brazilian Indian) in roughly equal proportions.
7. Nothing gives me more pleasure than climbing a mountain surrounded by nature in the company of a few good friends. Sleeping on the summit above the clouds and waking up to see the sunrise is more heavenly to me than all the most beautiful cathedrals in the world put together.
8. I am the third of five children. My family is spread all over the world, including my parents, who are old but luckily still quite healthy. My father is 91 and still perfectly lucid. He is a great storyteller and since I was very young he sparked my imagination with stories about his adventures, some real, some exaggerated, and some wholly invented. He was a huntsman and sharpshooter, and sublimated this natural gift by becoming a microsurgeon. When I was little and he was working in the eradication of TB among Brazilian Indians in a faraway state on the border with Paraguay, my favorite toy was an authentic set of bow and arrows he brought me back from the Indian village. I think that besides a love for the outdoors and for wandering, I inherited from him the sharpshooter’s quest for the split second, the elusive detail, the precise point where time and space intersect, which for me has become a love for photography. As soon as I could read he also gave me The Travels of Marco Polo, which I blame for my lifelong fascination with exotic cultures and journeys to distant places.
9. My oldest memory is of climbing onto the rooftop of a chapel across the street from my hill-top home and being awed by an open vista of the sun setting over a green valley with distant blue mountains and a single tiny house with smoke coming out of the chimney. That was the world beyond my home, and it was beautiful, and it beseeched me.
10. That revelation triggered a childhood passion for climbing high trees and onto rooftops (I think there wasn’t a single tree or rooftop in my neighborhood left unclimbed) that got me into constant trouble with my parents, along with setting things on fire, which I did innocently just to see the flames so I couldn’t understand why they got so mad.
11. I am a mountaineer who is prone to developing A.M.S. (Acute Mountain Sickness), so I have to be very careful in high altitudes. I also have S.A.D. (Seasonal Affective Disorder) which is caused by lack of natural light, so cannot live in high latitudes. On the other hand I have photophobia (which, btw, is not "fear of photography" [hehe...], but visual intolerance to bright light) so here in Brazil I have to wear sunglasses all the time, even indoors, because of the excess of luminosity…
12. I’m highly allergic to certain insects’ bites. I have claustrophobia. I had two serious panic attacks some years ago, but thank God I never developed the syndrome. In light of the above, I suspect I am also hypochondriac. And I can’t see blood. It makes me faint.
13. Four years ago I had a scooter accident here in Rio and broke my leg. Then last year I had a similar accident (gravel on the road) in Santorini and the scooter fell right on top of the same leg, on the same spot, but since the new bone that had grown to heal the fracture was much stronger than the original, this time it didn't break. So my first accident turned out to be sheer luck...
14. When I was about five I asked my mother what art was. She said it was something that brought you closer to God. Many years of art school and countless hours of heated theoretical discussions and tomes of art theory later, I have never found a better definition, and I am grateful to her for this gift. It has given a direction to my life.
15. I am left-handed, but not a leftist (I’m not a rightist, either). I live alone (actually, with two temperamental cats), but I almost never feel lonely. I love nature and solitude, but what moves me most is other people. I have never had a beer in my life. I want to live to be 100.
16. I talk too much (and write too).
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ISRAELE / VATICANO ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021. Un'iscrizione che riporta “Cristo nato da Maria” ritrovata in un'antica chiesa in Israele; in: Israel Antiquities Authority, Aleteia, The Times of Israel & The Jerusalem Post (20-21/01/2020). [English / Hebrew & Italiano]. wp.me/pbMWvy-12B
1). ISRAEL - Tayiba in the Valley of Jezreel, ISRAEL, "Christos, born of Maria", Israel Antiquities Authority / Facebook (20/01/2021).
Foto: Work on the excavation of an Islamic period building in which a late 5th century CE Greek inscription, ‘Christ born of Mary,’ was found in secondary use, excavated in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taybeh) in the Jezreel Valley. (Einat Ambar-Armon/Israel Antiquities Authority).
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A 1,500-year-old Greek address was revealed in the excavations of the Ancient Authority in Tayiba in the Valley of Jezreel The address used part of a church door from the Byzantine era, and on it a dedication to Jesus - ′′ Christos, born of Maria ". It was found to be reusable, in one of the walls of a luxurious building dated to the ancient Byzantine or Arab period, from which two rooms were revealed with a mosaic floor with decoration. Geometric.
Dr. Leah Di-Sagani, an expert in ancient Greek writings from the Institute of Archaeology at האוניברסיטה h‘vryt in Jerusalem who decoded the address, says it is a dedication address that was captured while casting the foundations of the church. It was written in it: ′′ Christos born of Maria. This factory of [Theodo] Sios the most God-fearing and follower of the [and] the vile, was built from the foundations--. the incoming will pray for them." According to Di-Deputy, the formula ′′ Christos born of Maria ״, is meant to protect the readers from the same eye The bad thing, and it was common at the beginning of writings and documents of the period.. Di-Sagani adds, that ′′ the address invites the following to the gates of the place and welcomes them. This is how you can know that it is a church and not a monastery: while the church is a blessing on the entrance of believers at its gates, the monasteries were avoided from doing so."
Theodosius, mentioned in the address as responsible for the foundation of the structure, was one of the first bishops in Christianity. He served as the Regional Archbishop - the supreme religious authority of the Beit Shean metropolitan metropolitan, which Tayiba in the valley belonged to him.
Dr. Waleed Atrash from the Antiques Authority says that ′′ this is the first testimony to the church from the Byzantine period in Tayiba, which joins further testimonies of the activities of Christian residents in the area. In the past, the remains of a church from the Crusader period were revealed in the place, and recently it was discovered by Nurit Page from the Antiques Authority and Dr. Moti Aviam from the Kinneret College in Kfar Kama, a monastery, from the same series of monasteries subject to the metropolite of Beit.
According to the excavation directors, Tzachi Lang and Kojan Khacho from the Antiques Authority, ′′ In the excavation, findings were discovered from a variety of periods, shed light on the long settlement sequence in Taiba in the Valley, and its position among the settlements of the region ".
In the discovery of the discovery, the haunted pre-military preparatory trainees and Hanaton, students from the ′′ Democratic in the Valley ′′ school, volunteers and workers from the local community.
Photo: Tzachi Lang and Einat Amber-Chestnut, Antiques Authority
Fonte / source: Israel Antiquities Authority / Facebook (20/01/2021).
www.facebook.com/AntiquitiesIL/posts/3839335769422690
Foto: A late 5th century CE Greek inscription, ‘Christ born of Mary,’ recently found in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taibe) in the Jezreel Valley. (Tzachi Lang/Israel Antiquities Authority).
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2). Un'iscrizione che riporta “Cristo nato da Maria” ritrovata in un'antica chiesa in Israele / L'Autorità per le Antichità di Israele. Aleteia (21/01/2021).
L'Autorità per le Antichità di Israele ha annunciato mercoledì che l'iscrizione si trova all'entrata di un edificio del periodo bizantino o del primo periodo islamico
Quando Gesù stava per entrare a Gerusalemme, qualche giorno prima della Sua crocifissione, le folle Lo hanno acclamato, gridando “Benedetto il Re che viene nel nome del Signore”. Alcuni farisei non hanno gradito e Gli hanno detto “Maestro, sgrida i tuoi discepoli!”, al che Gesù ha risposto: “Vi dico che se costoro tacciono, le pietre grideranno”.
Iscrizione antichissima - Duemila anni dopo è stata ritrovata una pietra a Taiba, nel nord di Israele, che sembra davvero gridare. Scoperta questa settimana, recita in greco “Cristo, nato da Maria”.
L’Autorità per le Antichità di Israele ha annunciato mercoledì 20 gennaio che l’iscrizione è incisa all’entrata di un edificio del periodo bizantino o del primo periodo islamico. La pietra è stata inserita in un secondo momento in un edificio riccamente decorato.
“L’importanza dell’iscrizione risiede nel fatto che fino a questo momento non sapevamo con certezza che ci fossero chiese di questo periodo in questa zona”, ha affermato l’archeologo dell’Autorità per le Antichità di Israele Walid Atrash al Times of Israel.
“Ci sono molti segni di antica vita cristiana nella regione – la Piana di Esradelon –, ma questa è la prima prova dell’esistenza della chiesa bizantina nel villaggio di Taiba”, ha riferito Atrash al Jerusalem Post.
Taiba era un villaggio cristiano nel periodo bizantino, e in seguito è diventato il sito di una fortezza crociata.
“Il moderno villaggio arabo è cresciuto intorno ad essa, e alcuni resti sono ancora visibili”, ha affermato l’archeologo dell’Autorità per le Antichità di Israele Yardenna Alexandre.
“Pregate per loro”
L’iscrizione completa recita:
“Cristo nato da Maria. Quest’opera del vescovo più pio e timoroso di Dio [Theodo]sius e del miserevole T[ommaso] è stata costruita dalle basi. Chiunque vi entri dovrebbe pregare per loro”.
“L’iscrizione saluta quanti entrano e li benedice. È quindi chiaro che l’edificio è una chiesa, e non un monastero”, ha dichiarato in una conferenza stampa Leah Di Segni, ricercatrice dell’Istituto di Archeologia dell’Università Ebraica di Gerusalemme. Le chiese, a differenza dei monasteri dell’epoca, salutavano i visitatori all’ingresso, ha ricordato.
Trovare il nome di Theodosius, arcivescovo della metropoli di Beit She’an, a cui Taiba apparteneva nel V secolo, ha aiutato gli archeologi a datare la pietra.
The Times ha aggiunto che sulla pietra c’è un’ampia zona circolare vuota, dove per Atrash una volta era incisa una croce. A suo avviso, venne intenzionalmente distrutta – dai cristiani o dagli ebrei che vivevano nella zona – prima che la pietra venisse “riciclata” per essere inserita nel muro dell’edificio successivo.
“L’iscrizione, ha affermato, faceva parte del rivestimento interno della parete e non sarebbe stata visibile”, ha spiegato il Times. “L’edificio è stato costruito prima dell’avvento dell’islam, ma era ancora usato durante il periodo musulmano”.
“Un’altra spiegazione per la rimozione della croce, ha dichiarato Atrash, è che la chiesa originaria, cadendo in disuso alla fine dell’impero bizantino, sia stata distrutta in uno dei tanti terremoti che hanno colpito la regione in quel periodo. Potrebbe essere stata danneggiata e poi riutilizzata dai cristiani o dagli ebrei che costruirono la successiva struttura a due stanze, ornata da un pavimento a mosaico con motivi geometrici, oggetto di recente di scavi da parte di un gruppo di studenti, volontari e lavoratori della comunità locale”.
The Post ha affermato che le parole “Cristo nato da Maria” erano ampiamento usate all’inizio dei documenti o di altre forme di testo, servendo come benedizione e protezione dal male.
“Come benedizione, l’iscrizione doveva trovarsi originariamente all’ingresso della chiesa, dove la gente poteva vederla”, ha detto Alexandre. “Ad ogni modo, ora è stata trovata inserita nelle pareti, e quindi sappiamo che la pietra è stata riutilizzata come materiale da costruzione. Probabilmente l’edificio ha collassato ed è poi stato ricostruito”.
Fonte / source:
--- Aleteia (21/01/2021).
it.aleteia.org/2021/01/21/iscrizione-riporta-cristo-nato-...
Foto: Work on the excavation of an Islamic period building in which a late 5th century CE Greek inscription, ‘Christ born of Mary,’ was found in secondary use, excavated in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taybeh) in the Jezreel Valley. (Einat Ambar-Armon/Israel Antiquities Authority)
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3). ‘Christ born of Mary’: 1st proof of early Christianity found in Galilee village. THE TIMES OF ISRAEL (20/01/2021).
Greek inscription provides evidence of a hitherto-unknown 5th century Byzantine-era church; the find ‘closes a circle’ on Christian settlement in small Jezreel Valley village Taibe.
With the words, “Christ born of Mary,” archaeologists have discovered the first evidence of an early Christian settlement from 1,500 years ago in what is today the location of a small Arab village near Nazareth.
According to Israel Antiquities Authority researchers, a recently discovered Greek inscription dedicated to the Christian Messiah had originally been laid at the entry way of a previously unknown 5th century church. The inscribed stone was recently discovered in secondary use in a wall of the late-Byzantine era structure during excavations in Taibe, located in the Jezreel Valley in northern Israel. According to the text, the church was founded under the auspices of the well-known late 5th century Beit She’an regional archbishop Theodosius, whose name in the partially destroyed text provided the archaeologists with a secure dating.
“The importance of the inscription is that until now we didn’t know for certain that there were churches from this period in this area,” Israel Antiquities Authority archaeologist Walid Atrash told The Times of Israel. Other remains from this period have been uncovered in nearby Tamra and a monastery was recently discovered by the IAA’s Nurit Feig and Moti Aviam of Kinneret College in neighboring Kfar Kama.
Ruins of a Crusader-period church were previously discovered at Taibe, said Atrash, but until now there has been no evidence of a Christian presence from the earlier Byzantine era. Although the location is not mentioned in the New Testament, the discovery that there was a Byzantine-era church built here is “unsurprising,” said Atrash.
The new inscription has “closed the circle, and now we know there were Christians in this area during this era,” he said.
The inscription was discovered in secondary use as a wall building block in an ornately decorated two-room building that was constructed in the late Byzantine era, when both Christians and Jews resided in the Galilee. The archaeologists believe the building was used well into the early Muslim period. It is unknown, said Atrash, whether Christians or Jews initially constructed it.
The partially destroyed seven-line Greek text inscribed on the stone was a dedicatory inscription that was originally engraved while casting the foundations of the presumed church, according to Leah DiSegni, a researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. According to DiSegni, it reads: “Christ born of Mary. This work of the most God-fearing and pious bishop [Theodo]sius and the miserable Th[omas] was built from the foundation – -. Whoever enters should pray for them.”
According to DiSegni the wording “Christ born of Mary” serves as a good luck charm to ward off the evil eye.
There is a large blank circular area interrupting the text, which Atrash said once held a large cross. Atrash believes that one explanation for the removal of the crucifix is that the cross was intentionally destroyed — by Christians or Jews who lived in the area — prior to the stone’s recycled use in the wall of the later building. The inscription, he said, faced inside the wall and would not have been visible. The building was constructed prior to the advent of Islam, but was still in use during the Muslim period.
Another explanation for the removal of the cross, said Atrash, is that the original church, falling into disuse at the end of the Byzantine empire, was destroyed in one of the several earthquakes that hit the region during this time. The stone may have been damaged and then reused by the Christians or Jews who constructed the subsequent two-room structure, adorned by geometric mosaic flooring, that was recently excavated by a mix of students, volunteers and workers from the local community.
The mention of Theodosius in the inscription, said Atrash, and its presumed location at the entryway provides clues that it was used in a church, rather than a monastery, in that it is clearly welcoming parishioners into the church doors, rather than serving a closed monastic community. Noted DiSegni in the IAA press release, “The inscription greets those who enter and blesses them. It is therefore clear that the building is a church, and not a monastery: Churches greeted believers at their entrance, while monasteries tended not to do this.”
Atrash further explained that Theodosius encouraged the construction of churches in his region and the mention of his name here points to a financial donation from his seat in Beit She’an, the center of the religious life and the capital of Palaestina Secunda, a Byzantine province from 390 CE until the Muslim invasion of circa 636 CE.
The inscription and two-room building were discovered during salvage excavations directed by the IAA’s Tzachi Lang and Kojan Haku prior to the construction of a road inside the modern-day small village of Taibe.
Fonte / source:
--- THE TIMES OF ISRAEL (20/01/2021).
www.timesofisrael.com/christ-born-of-mary-1st-proof-of-ea...
Foto: A Islamic period building in which a late 5th century CE Greek inscription, ‘Christ born of Mary,’ was found in secondary use, excavated in the village of et-Taiyiba (Taybeh) in the Jezreel Valley. (Tzachi Lang/Israel Antiquities Authority)
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4). Ancient ‘Christ, born of Mary’ inscription unearthed in northern Israel - The region of the Jezreel Valley bears many testimonies of ancient Christian life. The Jerusalem Post (20/01/2020).
A 1,500-year-old Greek inscription bearing the name “Christ, born of Mary” was unearthed in northern Israel, the Antiquities Authority announced on Wednesday.
The archaeologists discovered the inscription engraved at the entrance of an impressive building from the Byzantine or early Islamic period, featuring mosaic pavements decorated with a geometric design.
The finding was unveiled in a salvage excavation directed by Tzachi Lang and Kojan Haku ahead of the construction of a road inside the village of Taiba in the Jezreel Valley.
“We did not know what to expect ahead of the work, but we knew that this was an area where archaeological remains had been found. When we came across the inscription, we knew we had a church,” Antiquities Authority (IAA) archaeologist Yardenna Alexandre told The Jerusalem Post.
According to the law in Israel, a salvage excavation must be conducted prior to any construction project. People from local communities are usually invited to take part in the projects, according to a consolidated policy by the IAA to foster interest in archaeology and the country’s heritage.
“Christ born of Mary. This work of the most God-fearing and pious bishop [Theodo]sius and the miserable Th[omas] was built from the foundation. Whoever enters should pray for them,” reads the full inscription, according to Dr. Leah Di Segni, researcher at the Institute of Archaeology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
Fonte / source:
--- The Jerusalem Post (20/01/2020).
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