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Church of St. John of Dukla and Monastery of Bernadine monks - the church with two towers was built between 1761 and 1764 in the late baroque style. The temple was extended from 1890 to 1902 when a chapel of St. John of Dukla was built and the main nave was enlarged. Also monastery building was added. The interior dates back to the turn of the 19th century. The paintings of Tadeusz Popiel present scenes from life of St. John of Dukla. There is a silver coffin with relics of St. John. Pope John Paul II came to Dukla on 9th of August, a day before the canonization event and he spent a night in the monastery
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A pleasant valley of the meandering Muráň river south of Jelšava has a significant landmark. You cannot overlook the strategically interesting hill above the village of Šivetice, on which a brick Romanesque church dedicated to St. Margaret of Antioch was built in the middle of the 13th century. Šivetice belonged to the Jelšava estate back then and from the 15th century on was administered by the Castle of Muráň. In the past, the village was known for its typical ceramics.
The church has the shape of a rotunda with an internal diameter of 11 m and is one of the largest structures with circular footprint in Central Europe. In addition to the primary sacral significance, it is assumed that the rotunda originally served as a watchtower, taking into consideration its location on a hill and its proximity of a castle (that no longer exists). During the 14th century, the interior of the church was divided into a nave and a chancel by a monumental pointed triumphal arch. Original Romanesque murals depicting scenes from the legend of St. Margaret were covered by gothic paintings with the same theme and complemented with scenes of the Passion Cycle. Like many other Gemer temples, the rotunda of Šivetice belonged in the 17th century to the Evangelical Lutheran church. In the 18th century, the church was partially rebuilt into Baroque style and the bell tower with the entrance gate was inserted into the stone wall. A cemetery is surrounding the church nowadays.
The monastery of the Benedictine Order at Pannonhalma was founded in 996 in Western Hungary and had a major role in the diffusion of Christianity in medieval Central Europe. The monastery shows a stratification of different architectural styles and various buildings.
Among these buildings: a school (the first ever school founded in the country), the monastic complex – home to the monks whose life is still based on St. Benedict’s Rule ‘Ora et labora’ -, the tourist welcome points and hospitality facilities, the Chapel of Our Lady, the Millennium Chapel and the botanical and herbal gardens.
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" Eu desejo amar todos que eu cruzar pelo meu caminho.
Como sou feliz, eu quero ver feliz quem andar comigo." Guilherme Arantes.
1. Sou feliz
2. Quero a felicidade para o mundo, para todos.
3. Amo e quero amar mais.
4. Não me concebo sem a existência do outro, de Deus e das forças da Natureza, do Universo.
5. Me conheço bem; tenho satisfação com o que sou e com o que faço. Sempre faço! Acredito ser muito melhor errar do que não fazer.
6. Sou generosa e quero doar mais: o que tenho, o que sou, o que faço, o que sonho.
7. Sou solidária e sensível às emoções dos outros.
8. Meu maior defeito é não ter paciência com o egoísmo e com o individualismo. É sobre esta impaciência que venho 'conversando' muito comigo mesmo.
9. Os meus outros tantos defeitos estão atualmente num quartinho, de castigo.
10. Durmo o suficiente e trabalho bastante.
11. Bebo água raramente, porque sou viciada em Coca Cola.
12. Tenho 50 anos e sou grata por ter chegado muito bem até aqui.
13. Sou casada há quase 30 anos com o Alexandre e tenho um filho, o Rafael, de 29. A Babi, a nossa gata, é bem conhecida!
14. Morro de vontade de ser avó.
15. Sou antropóloga. Dou muito valor à diversidade entre as pessoas, às culturas e aos povos.
Durante quase a metade de minha vida, estudei e trabalhei para e com os povos indígenas no Brasil.
Com eles, ensinei o que sabia e aprendi sobre a sacralidade da vida, das relações humanas, da Natureza e da Espiritualidade.
16. Sou grata a Deus, à Vida, a todas as pessoas que me querem bem e a todas que caminham comigo.
Meu amor e a minha gratidão às queridas amigas que me enviaram este desafio "You've been tagged!":
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Amor, Paz e Luz! Beijos e muito obrigada!
Mirje, kasnoantički lokalitet, smješten je blizu Postira, na strateški izvrsnom položaju blizu Salone, glavnog grada provincije Dalmacije. Građeno je blizu Dioklecijanove palače u Splitu i carskih kamenoloma pored Škripa, odakle se brao kamen za gradnju veličanstvene palače.
Brojni fragmenti crkvenog kamenog namještaja potvrdili su postojanje sakralne građevine iz 6. stoljeća. Sklop nije građen za samostansku zajednicu već je riječ o adaptaciji kasnoantičke vile s termalnim sklopom.
Mirje, a late antique locality, is situated near Postira, on excellent strategic position near Salona, the capital of the province of Dalmatia. It was built near Diocletian palace in Split and imperial quarries near Škrip, from which architectural stone for building of monumental palace was cut.
Numerous fragments of stone furniture confirmed the existence of sacral building from 6th century. The complex was not built for the convent's community, but was the adaptation of the late antique villa with thermal complex.
3 years after the massive church fire, the St. Niklaas church in Westkapelle will be rebuild. There will be a sacral and a multifunctional area.
One of the things I noticed about many croix de chemin is how they blend into the developed landscape - stop signs or electrical poles placed right next to them or they are crowded by electrical wires. A few people from Quebec who follow me have mentioned that they see them on their walks or drives but have not thought much of them. They are unique and fascinating when you notice them, but they blend into the environment in rural Quebec.
Chaudière-Appalaches (Beauce), Québec, Canada.
This image is one in a series of croix de chemin (roadside crosses) taken during my December 2022 photographic trip to Québec. There are between 2,500 and 3,000 croix de chemin scattered all over rural Québec, the historic centre of North American Catholicism. Despite the decrease in influence of the Catholic Church during the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s and the prediction that, as a result, croix de chemin would disappear from the rural landscape, recent surveys have shown that around 80% of the croix that were surveyed in the 70s and 80s are still standing. Croix de chemin are large (15 to 20 feet tall) crosses that where originally “erected to fulfill a vow, to sacralize the land, or to ward off calamities” (Kaell, p. 135). They hark back to the cross that Jacques Cartier erected on the Canadian mainland, in Gaspé, on July 24, 1534 on his first exploration trip of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but also represent their owners’ Catholic devotion and are examples of beautiful rural folk art. Croix de chemin are most often made of wood (though some more modern ones are made of metal) and are decorated with iconography of the Passion. Each year their caretakers try to repaint them and every 40 or 50 years they have to be replaced altogether. There are three main types of croix de chemin: (1) the simple croix de chemin which may have some decorative elements at the end or centre, (2) the croix de chemin featuring instruments of the Passion which are decorated with a lance, nails, hammer, whip, ladder, crown of thorns, and/or rooster and (3) the calvaire, which depicts the crucifixion scene.
The primary reason I wanted to photograph the croix de chemin was that they are wonderful pieces of folk art – made and maintained, sometimes for many decades, by local artisans, and are pretty much unique to Québec in Canada (although emigrants from Québec brought a few to Ontario and Manitoba in the 19th century). I spent many hours of scouting the locations of croix de chemin using the fantastic website Les Croix de Chemin au Québec and searching out and photographing them to create this series was a highlight of my recent trip. In the end, I photographed almost 40 croix de chemin to create this series.
Kaell, H. (2017) Marking memory: Heritage work and devotional labor at Québec’s croix de chemin. In K. Norget (Ed.), The Anthropology of Catholicism (pp. 122-138). University of California Press.
Joly, D. (2007). Wayside crosses. In Encyclopedia of French cultural heritage in North America. www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-296/Wayside_Crosses.html
I wrote a blog post about my December 2022 photographic trip to the rural areas of Chaudière-Appalaches (Beauce) and Bas-Saint-Laurent, south and east of Québec City. If you'd like to see some behind the scene shots, video and read some stories about how I shot these images, take a look.
If you'd like to see the rest of the images from this trip, take a look at my Québec album and if you'd like to see the series within the series - the croix de chemin - there's an album for them, as well.
The St. Stephan monastery church is located in Habsthal, a small district of Ostrach in the Sigmaringen district.
During the Thirty Years' War, the monastery and the church were partially destroyed.
In 1680, Jodok Beer rebuilt the monastery and church, using the existing masonry. The church will be completed this year.
Between 1747 and 1748 the church interior was redesigned in rococo style under the prioress Maria Theresa Schürtin.
For this she recruits Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer for the stucco work and Gottfried Bernhard Göz for the execution of the frescoes.
Feuchtmayer also made two nave altars, which were destroyed in 1867.
DONDE SIEMBRAS, RECOGES
Si pones dulzura en tu manera de cocinar, en tus alimentos… comes amor. Si pones dulzura en tu familia, en tus relaciones, en tu trabajo… estás creando un entorno de sanación para todos. Si pones dulzura en las tareas del hogar, estás haciendo de tu casa un santuario.
Puedes elegir transformar tu mundo y enseñar a otros cómo transformar el suyo, llevando la paz, la calma y el agradecimiento a tus acciones. Paso a paso, día a día, mes a mes… suma cambios amorosos que se irán estableciendo en tu vida como el “nuevo normal”.
Con tu dulzura y tu consciencia, de-vuelve a tus palabras, a tus relaciones, a tus espacios y entornos… su importancia y su Sacralidad. En amor y por amor a la Tierra, y a todos los seres que la habitamos.
Myriam Aram
This image is one in a series of croix de chemin (roadside crosses) taken during my December 2022 photographic trip to Québec. There are between 2,500 and 3,000 croix de chemin scattered all over rural Québec, the historic centre of North American Catholicism. Despite the decrease in influence of the Catholic Church during the Quiet Revolution of the 1960s and the prediction that, as a result, croix de chemin would disappear from the rural landscape, recent surveys have shown that around 80% of the croix that were surveyed in the 70s and 80s are still standing. Croix de chemin are large (15 to 20 feet tall) crosses that where originally “erected to fulfill a vow, to sacralize the land, or to ward off calamities” (Kaell, p. 135). They hark back to the cross that Jacques Cartier erected on the Canadian mainland, in Gaspé, on July 24, 1534 on his first exploration trip of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, but also represent their owners’ Catholic devotion and are examples of beautiful rural folk art. Croix de chemin are most often made of wood (though some more modern ones are made of metal) and are decorated with iconography of the Passion. Each year their caretakers try to repaint them and every 40 or 50 years they have to be replaced altogether. There are three main types of croix de chemin: (1) the simple croix de chemin which may have some decorative elements at the end or centre, (2) the croix de chemin featuring instruments of the Passion which are decorated with a lance, nails, hammer, whip, ladder, crown of thorns, and/or rooster and (3) the calvaire, which depicts the crucifixion scene.
The primary reason I wanted to photograph the croix de chemin was that they are wonderful pieces of folk art – made and maintained, sometimes for many decades, by local artisans, and are pretty much unique to Québec in Canada (although emigrants from Québec brought a few to Ontario and Manitoba in the 19th century). I spent many hours of scouting the locations of croix de chemin using the fantastic website Les Croix de Chemin au Québec and searching out and photographing them to create this series was a highlight of my recent trip. In the end, I photographed almost 40 croix de chemin to create this series.
Kaell, H. (2017) Marking memory: Heritage work and devotional labor at Québec’s croix de chemin. In K. Norget (Ed.), The Anthropology of Catholicism (pp. 122-138). University of California Press.
Joly, D. (2007). Wayside crosses. In Encyclopedia of French cultural heritage in North America. www.ameriquefrancaise.org/en/article-296/Wayside_Crosses.html
Chaudière-Appalaches (Beauce), Québec, Canada.
I wrote a blog post about my December 2022 photographic trip to the rural areas of Chaudière-Appalaches (Beauce) and Bas-Saint-Laurent, south and east of Québec City. If you'd like to see some behind the scene shots, video and read some stories about how I shot these images, take a look.
If you'd like to see the rest of the images from this trip, take a look at my Québec album and if you'd like to see the series within the series - the croix de chemin - there's an album for them, as well.
Saint Michael’s Cathedral of Alba Iulia was built between 1247 and 1291, which makes it contemporary to the famous Notre Dame of Paris. Furthermore, it appears that a great French architect, Villard de Honnecourt, contributed to its design. In addition to being the oldest and the longest cathedral in Romania (at 89.16 m measured along its axis), it is also considered the most important monument of Romanesque architecture in Transylvania.
The site is registered in the National Archaeological Repertory of Romania.
Over the centuries, the town of Banská Štiavnica was visited by many outstanding engineers and scientists who contributed to its fame. The old medieval mining centre grew into a town with Renaissance palaces, 16th-century churches, elegant squares and castles. The urban centre blends into the surrounding landscape, which contains vital relics of the mining and metallurgical activities of the past.
THE CALVARY
A special highlight of Banská Štiavnica is this complex of sacral buildings set in a beautiful scenery near the lovely town that is inscribed in the UNESCO World Heritage List.
The monastery of the Benedictine Order at Pannonhalma was founded in 996 in Western Hungary and had a major role in the diffusion of Christianity in medieval Central Europe. The monastery shows a stratification of different architectural styles and various buildings.
Among these buildings: a school (the first ever school founded in the country), the monastic complex – home to the monks whose life is still based on St. Benedict’s Rule ‘Ora et labora’ -, the tourist welcome points and hospitality facilities, the Chapel of Our Lady, the Millennium Chapel and the botanical and herbal gardens.
www.comece.eu/christian-artworks-benedictine-archabbey-of...
You might recognize this croix from a previous post and you might actually prefer that composition, but I think this one deserved to be shown as well because, to me, it shows the way the croix de chemin are just part of the rural landscape.
Chaudière-Appalaches (Beauce), Québec, Canada.
This image is one in a series of croix de chemin (roadside crosses). There are between 2,500 and 3,000 croix de chemin scattered all over rural Québec, the historic centre of North American Catholicism. Croix de chemin are large (15 to 20 feet tall) and were “erected to fulfill a vow, to sacralize the land, or to ward off calamities” (Kaell, “Marking Memory”, p. 135). Croix de chemin are most often made of wood and are decorated with iconography of the Passion. There are three main types: (1) the simple croix de chemin which may have some decorative elements at the end or centre, (2) the croix de chemin featuring instruments of the Passion which are decorated with a lance, nails, hammer, whip, ladder, crown of thorns, and/or rooster and (3) the calvaire, which depicts the crucifixion scene.
I wrote a blog post about my December 2022 photographic trip to the rural areas of Chaudière-Appalaches (Beauce) and Bas-Saint-Laurent, south and east of Québec City. If you'd like to see some behind the scene shots, video and read some stories about how I shot these images, take a look.
If you'd like to see the rest of the images from this trip, take a look at my Québec album and if you'd like to see the series within the series - the croix de chemin - there's an album for croix, as well.
One of two organs built by Aquilino Amezua in years 1901 - 1903 to replace the previous organs destroyed by an earthquake in 1888.
St. Sebastian, formerly the monastery church in the Upper Bavarian municipality of Ebersberg, is a gem of baroque church architecture.
In 934, the Counts of Ebersberg established an Augustinian canonry in Ebersberg.
Hunfried, the first provost of the canonry, brought the skull of St. Sebastian to Ebersberg from a trip to Rome. This increased the flow of pilgrims and financial donations. In 970, the pre-Romanesque church was completed.
In 1070, Count Ulrich converted the monastery into a Benedictine abbey. The Romanesque church building was built in the 1120s. It forms the core of the current church. Several new buildings and renovations, including a fire, changed the face of the church.
The Benedictine monastery experienced a decline during the Reformation years. Duke Wilhelm V handed the monastery over to the Jesuits in 1595.
After the Thirty Years' War, the monastery buildings were renovated. The upper sacristy was converted into the Sebastian Chapel between 1668 and 1671. The Jesuit order was abolished in 1773.
The interior of the church was redesigned in the Baroque style in 1733/34, the choir received its Rococo decor in 1751/52, and the nave followed in 1764. In 1781, a fire destroyed the vaults of the church. It was rebuilt in the early classicist style. The frescoes were by Franz Seraph Kirzinger.
7DWF, Crazy Tuesday: Upright format
The Deutscher Dom (German Church or New Church) is part of an important architectural ensemble composed of the German Church, the French Church, and the Konzerthaus (Concert Hall). The ensemble is located on the Gendarmenmarkt which is regarded as one of the most beautiful places in Berlin.
Reflected in the windows of the Quartier 205, a shopping mall, commercial and residential house located between the Gendarmenmarkt and Friedrichstrasse, is the domed tower of the German / New Church. The tower of the German Church, which is much bigger than the building of the church itself, never had a sacral function. In fact the name "Dom" refers to the French word dôme / English dome, and not to a cathedral. Complicated? Let's make it a little more so, the German Church is not to be confused with the Berlin Cathedral which in fact is a real cathedral and the Evangelical Supreme Parish and Collegiate Church of Berlin, Germany.
Photowalk with [https://www.flickr.com/photos/kugel-fotos-sabine-r] on Whitsunday 2018 ;-)
Dom reflektiert...
...in den Fenstern des Quartiers 205, einem Wohn- und Geschäftshaus mit edler Einkaufspassage zwischen Gendarmenmarkt und Friedrichstraße in Berlin-Mitte. Der Deutsche Dom, wie auch sein Pendant, der Französische Dom, sind Teil des berühmten Architekturensembles auf dem Gendarmenmarkt, das vom Konzerthaus (ehemals Schauspielhaus) komplettiert wird. Der Gendarmenmarkt gilt als einer der schönsten Plätze Berlins.
Weder der Deutsche noch der Französische Dom sind Kirchen im eigentlichen Sinne, der Name leitet sich vielmehr vom französischen "dôme" ab und bezieht sich auf die kuppelförmigen Türme, die die jeweiligen Kirchengebäude bei Weitem überragen.
Fotospaziergang mit Sabine.R an Pfingstsonntag 2018 ;-)
The Church of St James is the oldest stone church in Kutná Hora, and was intended as the spiritual centre of the entire town since its very establishment. Its location and architectural concept also corresponds to this. The church is located in the very heart of the medieval town: the distance to all other churches is approximately the same, which is an expression of the sacral nature of this area. The tower of the Church of St James is thus visible from afar and serves as an important point of orientation for the wider area.
In Ucraina scorrono fiumi di sangue e di lacrime. Non si tratta solo di un'operazione militare, ma di una guerra, che semina morte, distruzione e miseria. Le vittime sono sempre più numerose, così come le persone in fuga, specialmente mamme e bambini... (Angelus 6 marzo )
.....Non si arresta, purtroppo la violenta aggressione contro l'Ucraina, un massacro insensato, dove ogni giorno si ripetono scempi e atrocità. Non c'è giustificazione per questo.
Supplico tutti gli attori delle comunità internazionali perché si impegnino davvero nel far cessare questa guerra ripugnante.
... Tutto questo è disumano! Anzi è anche sacrilego, perché va contro la sacralità della vita umana, soprattutto contro la vita indifesa che va rispettata e protetta, non eliminata e che viene prima di ogni strategia!
Non dimentichiamo, è una crudeltà disumana e sacrilega!
.... Stiamo vicini a questo popolo, abbracciamolo con l'affetto , con l'impegno e con la preghiera. Per favore, non abitiamoci alla guerra e alla violenza!,.
( Angelus 20 marzo 2022)
Stop this repulsive, senseless and violent war!
'.... The violent aggression against Ukraine doesn't stop, a senseless massacre where every day is a repetition of slaughter and atrocities. There is not a justification for it!
I plead with the international community to truly commit to ending this abhorrent war... '
Pope Francis
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The new construction of the basilica in Weingarten (1715-1724) costs 210,000 guilders (approx. 9 450,000 euros). Begun by Franz Beer II, it will be finished by Christian Thumb. Beer leaves the construction site in a dispute and moves on to nearby Weißenau to build the new monastery church there.
Cosmas Damian Asam, 32 years old, was commissioned to paint the frescoes. For this he receives 7,500 guilders (approx. 337,500 euros). It's his first major order. His frescoes set wonderful color accents in the snow-white church interior. There are four main pictures and 36 secondary pictures, a total of around 1000 square meters. Asam and his assistants needed six months for this. The stucco comes from Franz Schmuzer who decorated the church with stucco from 1719 - 1721. Giacomo Antonio Corbellini made the high altar according to the plans of his brother-in-law Donato Giuseppe Frisoni, Diego Francesco Carlone supplied the figures.
The 24-year-old Joseph Anton Feuchtmayer also received his first major order in 1720, to manufacture and deliver the choir stalls. He fulfilled this mandate in 1724.
In 1762 the current pulpit was purchased. It comes from Fidel Sporer from Altdorf.
One of the largest baroque organs in Germany is located on the west gallery. It is a work by Joseph Gabler from Ochsenhausen. It is only his second organ after Ochsenhausen. But before he can build the main organ, he repairs the two choir organs made by the Swiss organ builder Joseph Bosshard. The choir organs are installed in the still damp new building and are "rotten" after a few years. Gabler was able to convince the convent of his qualities as an organ builder, and, on the recommendation of the abbot from Ochsenhausen, he was then commissioned to build the main organ. The instrument is estimated at 17,619 guilders (approx. 792,855 euros), but it is much more expensive. Gabler also designed the organ brochure.
The Weingarten Monastery can, however, cover the costs of the new building from the current income; it is debt-free.
La construction de cette église (1873-1923), monument à la fois politique et culturel, suit l'après-guerre de 1870. Elle est déclarée d'utilité publique par une loi votée le 24 juillet 1873 par l'Assemblée nationale de 1871 ; le bâtiment est officiellement achevé en 1923. Elle s'inscrit dans le contexte de recharge sacrale et dans le cadre d'un nouvel « ordre moral » faisant suite aux événements de la Commune de Paris, dont Montmartre fut un des hauts lieux. Sa situation à 130 m d'altitude près de l'un des points culminants de Paris, et son dôme qui s'élève à 83 mètres, la rendent visible de très loin.