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"Not all religion is to be found in the church, any more than all knowledge is found in the classroom."
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This photo was taken during the National Geographic Photo Camp trip to Taos, New Mexico.
"National Geographic Photo Camp is a series of photography workshops for youth from underserved communities both in and outside the United States. In partnership with local newspapers and community organizations, Photo Camp inspires young people to explore their communities through the camera's lens, and to share their vision through public presentations and exhibitions across the United States and throughout the world."
I recently purchased a bag of negatives at an estate sale. Most are WW2 era photos taken in Germany. I'll add more information as I'm able to identify locations.
Found 126-format Kodachrome slide dated February 1979, showing three women drinking tea in a garden.
The Darvari Hermitage, founded in 1834 by the abbot Mihail Darvari and his wife Elena, is located in the center of Bucharest, on Darvari Hermitage Street no. 3, sector 2.
The church was originally a wooden church without a steeple and guarded by thick walls, dedicated to the "Resurrection of Saint Lazarus".
Later, 12 nuns were called to take care of the church and to sing at services.
In 1864, the hermitage was closed, but it reopened when Romanian monks from the Prodromu Hermitage on Mount Athos received permission from the founders' family to take shelter in the hermitage in 1869.
In 1933-1934, the Darvari Hermitage was restored by the founder's grandson, and the church was frescoed by Iosif Keber, in the neo-Byzantine style.
In 1959 the hermitage was closed by the communist authorities and the 13 monks living there and their abbot were moved to the Cernica Monastery.
The hermitage was reopened only in 1996, by Patriarch Teoctist Arăpașu, and since February 2020 it has become a Patriarchal Chapel.
The hermitage has been declared a "historical monument"
Saint Matrona of Moscow
Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova is a canonized saint of the Russian Orthodox Church who is said to have had the gifts of prophecy, spiritual vision, and healing from early childhood.
Matrona Dimitrievna Nikonova was born in 1881 in the village of Sebino, Tula province, into a God-fearing peasant family.
This village is located twenty kilometers from Kulikovo field.
During her childhood, Matrona, blind from birth, received from God the gift of spiritual vision, and penetration into mysteries of God's Providence.
The grace which rested upon her was manifested in the gifts of prayer, spiritual reasoning, knowledge, and clairvoyance.
Early on, people started coming to her for advice.
At first, it was just local residents, and then visitors from other regions.
In her seventeenth year, Matrona's legs suddenly became paralyzed, and she permanently lost the ability to walk.
She never complained because of her ailments, but humbly bore the cross God had given to her.
Matrona left for Moscow in 1925, which became the place of her ascetical service, and of her righteous repose.
Persecuted by the atheists, Matrona was constantly forced to change her place of residence, finding refuge in the homes of believers.
An endless stream of people visited Matrona, thirsting for spiritual healing, instruction, and her prayerful help.
By her prayers, the infirm were healed of paralysis, or suffering from mental and physical ailments.
Her prophecies and predictions helped many people to avoid danger and death, and to find the right path in difficult circumstances.
Numerous testimonies of these miraculous events have been preserved.
After her righteous repose, which occurred in 1952, many people came to Matrona's grave in the Danilov cemetery, veneration of the deceased increased, and miracles and healings took place.
In 1999, by the decision of the Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia, Eldress Matrona of Moscow was numbered among the righteous Saints for local Church veneration in Moscow, and in the Moscow diocese.
Her revered relics rest in the Stavropegial Protection Convent in Moscow.
Saint Matrona is commemorated on May 2.
On February 15, 2018, the Holy Synod of the Romanian Patriarchate resolved that the Blessed Matrona of Moscow also be included in the Calendar of the Romanian Orthodox Church for veneration.
Rokuoh-Sha Semi Pearl
with Rokuoh-Sha Hexar Series I f/4.5 F=7.5cm (sn #13221) in Konishiroku Durax shutter
with a roll of Kodacolor II film found exposed in the camera.
The Semi Pearl is a vertical strut folder for 4.5 x 6 negatives on 120 film. The camera has black finish and Rokuoh-Sha Hexar Series I with a black lens bezel, yet a shutter face marked Konishiroku. This seems to suggest that the camera was produced after 1943 (after Rokuoh-Sha was reorganised into Konishiroku). It is possible that this unit is one of the first assembled after the war, drawing on spare parts, it more likely that this is a war-time model, from 1943 (production of the Semi-Pearl seems to have temporarily ceased in 1944-45). My reasoning for a war-time model rests in the fact that the majority of the indicators (body marking, lens marking and lens serial number all indicate Rokuoh-Sha and only the Durax shutter carries the Konishiroku label.
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Found Kodachrome slide dated November 1976 showing a better view of this lady (who features in a lot of the Found Slides in this batch) riding a horse.
Found Kodachrome slide, date not legible, showing a woman stood in a field. Nothing to tell where it was taken, but several other found slides in this batch were taken in the Cotswolds, which this could easily be.
FOUND ITEMS: chair & computer box...the chair actually looks cool...though i was doging cars to take this...and not thinking of dragging it home...