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A large and very striking yellow and black leafhopper which is unmistakable. The black patterning is variable and rarely the forewings are entirely yellow. The wings are distinctly shorter than the abdomen in females.
It is fairly common throughout the UK and found widely in grasslands and scrub.
Adult: June to October
Length 5.5-6.5 mm
Santa Elena Augusta
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta
Diocesan Shrine of Our Lady on Thorns (Aranzazu)
Municipality of San Mateo
Province of Rizal
Philippines
SantaCruzang Bayan 2008
May 25, 2008
About SAINT HELENA
Venerated in:
Roman Catholicism
Eastern Orthodoxy
Oriental Orthodoxy
Lutheran
Anglicanism
Canonized:
Her canonization precedes the practice of formal Canonization by the Pope or the relevant Orthodox and Lutheran churches.
Feast:
Roman Catholic: August 18
Lutheran: May 21
Orthodox: May 19
Coptic Orthodox: 9 Pashons
**Finding of the True Cross: May 03
Symbol: Cross
Derivatives: St. Helena of Constantinople, St. Helen, St. Eleanor
Patronage: archeologists, converts, difficult marriages, divorced people, empresses
Flavia Julia Helena Augusta, also known as Saint Helena, Saint Helen, Helena Augusta or Helena of Constantinople (ca. 250 – ca. 330) was consort of Constantius Chlorus, and the mother of Emperor Constantine I. She is traditionally credited with finding the relics of the True Cross.
Family Life: Helena's birthplace is not known with certainty. The sixth-century historian Procopius is the earliest authority for the statement that Helena was a native of Drepanum, in the province of Bithynia in Asia Minor. Her son Constantine renamed the city "Helenopolis" after her death in 328, giving rise to the belief that the city was her birthplace. Although he might have done so in honor of her birthplace, Constantine probably had other reasons for doing so. The Byzantinist Cyril Mango has argued that Helenopolis was refounded to strengthen the communication network around his new capital in Constantinople, and was renamed to honor Helena, not to mark her birthplace. There is another Helenopolis, in Palestine, but its exact location is unknown. This city, and the province of Helenopontus in the Diocese of Pontus, were probably both named after Constantine's mother.
The bishop and historian Eusebius of Caesarea states that she was about 80 on her return from Palestine. Since that journey has been dated to 326–28, Helena was probably born in 248 or 250. Little is known of her early life. Fourth-century sources, following Eutropius' Breviarium, record that she came from a low background. Ambrose was the first to call her a stabularia, a term translated as "stable-maid" or "inn-keeper". He makes this fact a virtue, calling Helena a bona stabularia, a "good stable-maid". Other sources, especially those written after Constantine's proclamation as emperor, gloss over or ignore her background.
It is unknown where she first met her future partner Constantius. The historian Timothy Barnes has suggested that Constantius, while serving under Emperor Aurelian, could have met her while stationed in Asia Minor for the campaign against Zenobia. Barnes calls attention to an epitaph at Nicomedia of one of Aurelian's protectors, which could indicate the emperor's presence in the Bithynian region soon after 270. The precise legal nature of the relationship between Helena and Constantius is unknown: the sources are equivocal on the point, sometimes calling Helena Constantius' "wife", and sometimes calling her his "concubine". Jerome, perhaps confused by the vague terminology of his own sources, manages to do both. Some scholars, such as the historian Jan Drijvers, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in a common-law marriage, a cohabitation recognized in fact but not in law. Others, like Timothy Barnes, assert that Constantius and Helena were joined in an official marriage, on the grounds that the sources claiming an official marriage are more reliable.
Helena gave birth to Constantine I in 272. In 293, Constantius was ordered by emperor Diocletian to divorce her in order to qualify as Caesar of the Western Roman Empire, and he was married to the step-daughter of Maximian, Theodora. Helena never remarried and lived in obscurity, though close to her only son, who had a deep regard and affection for her.
Constantine was proclaimed Augustus of the Roman Empire in 306 by Constantius' troops after the
latter had died, and following his elevation his mother was brought back to the public life and the imperial court, and received the title of Augusta in 325. Helena died in 330 with her son at her side. Her sarcophagus is on display in the Pio-Clementino Vatican Museum. During her life, she gave many presents to the poor, released prisoners and mingled with the ordinary worshippers in modest attire, exhibiting a true Christian spirit.
Sainthood: She is considered by the Orthodox and Catholic churches as a saint, famed for her piety. Her feast day as a saint of the Orthodox Christian Church is celebrated with her son on May 21, the Feast of the Holy Great Sovereigns Constantine and Helen, Equal to the Apostles. Her feast day in the Roman Catholic Church falls on August 18. Her feast day in the Coptic Orthodox Church is on 9 Pashons. Eusebius records the details of her pilgrimage to Palestine and other eastern provinces (though not her discovery of the True Cross). She is the patron saint of archaeologists. The names "Saint Eleanor" and "Saint Eleanora" are usually synonymous for Saint Helen.
Relic Discoveries: In 325, Helena was in charge of a journey to Jerusalem to gather Christian relics, by her son Emperor Constantine I, who had recently declared Rome as a Christian city. Jerusalem was still rebuilding from the destruction of Hadrian, a previous emperor, who had built a temple to Venus over the site of Jesus's tomb, near Calvary.
According to legend, Helena entered the temple with Bishop Macarius, ordered the temple torn down and chose a site to begin excavating, which led to the recovery of three different crosses. Refused to be swayed by anything but solid proof, a woman from Jerusalem, who was already at the point of death from a certain disease, was brought; when the woman touched a cross suddenly recovered and Helena declared the cross with which the woman had been touched to be the True Cross. On the site of discovery, she built the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, while she continued building churches on every Holy site.
She also found the nails of the crucifixion. To use their miraculous power to aid her son, Helena allegedly had one placed in Constantine's helmet, and another in the bridle of his horse. Helena left Jerusalem and the eastern provinces in 327 to return to Rome, bringing with her large parts of the True Cross and other relics, which were then stored in her palace's private chapel, where they can be still seen today. Her palace was later converted into the Santa Croce in Gerusalemme.
The reliquary of Jerusalem was committed to the care of Saint Macarius and kept with singular care and respect in the magnificent church which Saint Helen and her son built there. Saint Paulinus relates that, though chips were almost daily cut off from it and given to devout persons, yet the sacred wood suffered thereby no diminution. It is affirmed by Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, twenty-five years after the discovery, that pieces of the cross were spread all over the earth; he compares this wonder to the miraculous feeding of five thousand men, as recorded in the Gospel. The discovery of the cross would have happened in the spring, after navigation began on the Mediterranean Sea, for Saint Helen went the same year to Constantinople and from there to Rome, where she died in the arms of her son on the 18th of August of the same year, 326.
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This is a re-edit of an old picture from my album Collection of Cars. I have learned new things in the editing process and was able to improve the picture. We grow.
This old timer was on display at one of the local shows in the area. ...-- .----
This is a composite picture. If you like it you may like my album called collection of cars.
Along the Schwarzwaldhochstraße.
All Saints' Abbey was a Premonstratensian monastery near Oppenau in the Black Forest.
According to the tradition, the foundation date was 1192, and the site of the building, at 620 metres above sea level in the upper valley of the Lierbach near Oppenau, was determined by a donkey which threw off a sack of money at this remote and inaccessible spot. In the same year a wooden chapel was built, which was gradually extended to be a Premonstratensian monastery.
In 1196 the foundation charter was issued by Duchess Uta of Schauenburg. In 1200 Philip of Swabia recognised the foundation, and in 1204 Pope Innocent III confirmed it. The monastery grew rapidly and became one of the major religious, cultural and political centres of the region.
In 1657 it was raised to the status of "abbey" by the general chapter of the Premonstratensian Order. In the 18th century it was at the high point of its power. In November 1802 however Margrave Karl Friedrich of Baden dissolved the abbey in the course of secularisation, and took all its possessions.
Large fires, in 1470 and 1555, had already destroyed parts of the premises. In 1804, a last fire, started when a bolt of lightning struck the church tower, finished the job. In 1816 the ruins were sold for demolition.
Source: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_Saints%27_Abbey_(Baden-W%C3%BCrttemberg)
Unfortunately, due to the recent bushfires, this particular view is off limits.
So here is a sunrise from Winter 2019 to remind us all of how amazing our Blue Mountains really are!
This view is of Dogface/Landslide, taken from Narrow Neck Plateau in Katoomba.
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Between 1309 and 1377 during the Avignon Papacy, seven successive popes resided in Avignon. The palace of the Popes can still be visited.
More of the palace at
johanphoto.blogspot.nl/2015/10/avignon-palais-des-papes.html
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In Piazza Navona, commissioned by Pope Innocent X, is the Fountain of the four rivers ( Fontana dei fiumi ). Begun in 1648, Bernini's travertine fountain includes rocks,animals, and four enormous marble figures personifying the four continents.
The Danube adjusts Innocent X's coat of arms, the Rio della Plata holds up his hand to shield himself from the supposedly unstable church of sant' Agnese ( based on a false claim that Bernini did not trust the workmanship of the rival architect, Borromini ), the Nile covers his head beacsue its source was unknown, and the Ganges steers the ship of the Church.
alpski popić (prunella collaris)...my collection of photos of birds you can see in the album birds "album ptice Žumberačkog i Samoborskog goria i okolice" area where they are arranged by type and you can see them from multiple perspectives ... thanks !!!
Fortunate to have an opportunity to tour this lovely "Usonian" home designed by Frank Lloyd Wright.
I was able to take this grab shot during a three-minute hole in the clouds while we were waiting for our tour on an otherwise cloudy day. The sun poking through really lit up the fall foliage and the warm-toned wood and brickwork which Wright really loved to use in his designs.
The tour was really informative and worth the visit, if you ever have a chance:
franklloydwright.org/site/pope-leighey-house/
Believed to have been built in 1909 the Pope general Store Served the small town of Pope. The town never amassed to much and in 1968 the store was forced to close. The White Family who had operated the store since the 50s kept it open as a post office until 1975 when they had to close that too, The building would then only serve as a house for the White’s. Local folklore suggests that a Myrtle White (owner since the 50s) took his own life in the back of the store in 1989. The building would be bought and sold over and over again and no one would live in it for more than a few years at best before selling it to someone else. I talked to a man that used to live a mile and a half from the store, when he told me that I was able to guess the exact house he lived in (now abandoned) the man now lives a few miles south of the old townsite and is quite the believer of this building being haunted. Usually I am relaxed when taking pictures of abandoned buildings at night but my paranoia was peaked this night after learning this story.
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The Spanish Steps are located on the Piazza di Spagna in Rome. The term Spanish Steps is often used as a popular name for this square. Here is also the Fontana della Barcaccia literally: Fountain of the ugly boat . The fountain provides the Piazza di Spagna with a picturesque appearance. The Stairs belong to the church Trinitá dei Monti. The church, with its two towers dominating the Spanish Steps, was originally founded by the French King Louis XII in 1502. Already in the 17th century they wanted to connect this church with the square below where the Spanish embassy was located, hence the name Piazza di Spagna. There is an Obelisk in front of the church. The Obelisk Sallustiano is one of the thirteen old obelisks of Rome. It was built in Roman imperial times in imitation of the Egyptian obelisks. The obelisk was given in 1738 to Pope Clement XII. On 8 December, the Pope traditionally brings a flower tribute to the statue of Mary at the foot of the Spanish Steps.
The Spanish steps, one of Rome's most popular tourist sites. Who can forget the scene in Roman Holiday where Audrey Hepburn stands in her circle skirt with Gregory Peck on the Spanish Steps? YouTube: Movie - Roman Holiday 1953
De Spaanse Trappen bevinden zich op het Piazza di Spagna in Rome. De term Spaanse Trappen wordt vaak gebruikt als populaire naam voor dit plein. Hier staat ook de Fontana della Barcaccia letterlijk: Fontein van de lelijke boot. De fontein verschaft de Piazza di Spagna een pittoresk uiterlijk. Op donderdag 19 februari 2015 werd de recent opgeknapte fontein, voorafgaand aan de UEFA Europa League-wedstrijd AS Roma-Feyenoord, ernstig beschadigd door hooligans van Feyenoord. Het wangedrag van de hooligans leidde tot internationale verontwaardiging. De Trappen behoren bij de kerk Trinitá dei Monti. De kerk, die met zijn twee torens de Spaanse Trappen domineert, is oorspronkelijk gesticht door de Franse koning Lodewijk XII in 1502. Al in de 17de eeuw wilden ze deze kerk verbinden met het plein beneden waar de Spaanse ambassade was gevestigd vandaar ook de naam Piazza di Spagna. Voor de kerk staat een Obelisk. De Obelisk Sallustiano is één van de dertien oude obelisken van Rome. Het werd gebouwd in de Romeinse keizertijd in navolging van de Egyptische obelisken. De obelisk werd in 1738 geschonken aan paus Clemens XII. Op 8 december brengt de paus traditioneel een bloemenhulde aan het Mariabeeld aan de voet van de Spaanse Trappen.