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Testimoni del fred. (Montseny - Catalunya).
Testimonio del frio. (Montseny - Cataluña).
Testimony from the cold. (Montseny - Catalonia).
Pacific Ocean paddlers, backdropped by Mount Baker
Mt Baker also known as Koma Kulshan or simply Kulshan, is an active glaciated andesitic stratovolcano in the Cascade Volcanic Arc and the North Cascades of Washington in the United States. (Wikipedia)
A special thanks to all my Flickr friends and visitors, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
I would also, like to extend my thanks, to all those who place my images in their beautiful galleries, or use my images for their covers.
Additionally, I am truly humbled to receive so many thoughtful and generous testimonies. I cannot express how deeply touched and honoured I am, to find such caring and beautifully written words left on my behalf.
~Christie
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When we take a picture during a sunset , usually we are attracted by the bright colors we see in the west and rarely point the camera in the opposite direction, towards the east. Yet, if the condition are favorable (clear and transparent sky ) the show we would see would be just as beautiful. This photo, taken by Acireale, a city of Sicily located on a hill overlooking the Ionian Sea , wants to be a testimony. The color element that dominates and characterizes it is the pink band extended for about 20 degrees above the horizon, known as “ the belt of Venus”.
The belt of Venus is an atmospheric phenomenon due to backscattering of the red sunlight at sunset by the particles of the atmosphere that are on the opposite side of the sun.
Near the horizon, due to the shadow projected by the Earth, the belt progressively decreases in brightness and color until it disappears completely.
The phenomenon lasts a few minutes and is visible even at down, just before sunrise.
Testimony- Robbie Robertson
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Look over yonder,
Apollo at a distance
You can hear his music
if you listen to the wind
I want to be there -
I want to be right there
I want to see it
with my own eyes
Bear witness,
I'm wailing like the wind
Come bear witness,
the half-breed rides again
In these hands,
I've held the broken dream
In my soul,
I'm howling at the moon
Testimony, testimony
Declare yourself - I will testify
Testimony, testimony
Speak the truth, I will testify
I had a revelation
like runaway horses
Took to the road
with a carnival show
Those golden days
on Smokey Mountain
Playing guitar
in a one man band
Bear witness,
I'm howling at the moon
Come bear witness,
I've danced among the ruins
In these shoes,
I've walked a crooked mile
All my life
I been searching for the nightbird
Testimony, testimony
Declare yourself - I will testify
Testimony, testimony
Speak the truth, I will testify
Are you ready to take the heat
Are you ready to blow the steam
Are you ready to bag the street
You got nothing to lose - but your chains
For forty days
and forty nights
I come across the desert
Apollo right by my side
Bear witness,
I'm wailing like the wind
Come bear witness,
the half-breed rides again
In these hands,
I've held the broken dream
In my soul,
I'm howling at the moon
World's first steam powered clock
Historic Gastown
Vancouver, British Columbia
Canada
The insides of this clock is where the magic begins....
Built in 1977. Raymond Saunders' first steam clock was built in 1977 to solve the issue of a steam vent in a popular sidewalk for the renovated Gastown district of Vancouver. Owned by the City of Vancouver, BC Canada
The steam clock's plaque reads:
THE GASTOWN STEAM CLOCK
Designed and built by
Raymond L. Saunders
Horologist
The world's first steam powered clock has been created for the enjoyment of everyone. The live steam winds the weights and blows the whistles. Every 4.5 minutes one steel weight will travel by steam power to the top of the clock. The gravity driven "falling ball" drive was 'engineered' by Douglas L. Smith. Each quarter hour the clock will sound the Westminster Chimes. The large whistle will sound once on the hour. The steam is supplied by the underground system of Central Heat Distributor's Limited. The component parts cost $42,000 and the clock weighs over two tons.
A few years ago the clock was refit and is not entirely steam powered. It also has three small electric motors to help operate two internal fans, one of which blows the steam out the top, and another that controls the valves that play the tunes on the five steam whistles mounted atop the clock case.
The large central whistle, which was taken off the CPR steam tug Naramata, counts off the full hours while the four auxiliary whistles chime the Westminster Quarters every quarter hour. The number of chimes matches the number of quarter hours that have passed.
Wikipedia and various other online sites.
*Please note : Information has not been verified accurate.
A special thanks to all my Flickr friends and visitors, for taking the time to view and acknowledge my photography.
I would also, like to extend my thanks, to all those who place my images in their beautiful galleries, or use my images for their covers.
Additionally, I am truly humbled to receive so many thoughtful and generous testimonies. I cannot express how deeply touched and honoured I am, to find such caring and beautifully written words left on my behalf.
Happy Clicks
~Christie
Clearly, Williams doesn’t mind taking a few risks. He doesn’t expect Christian thinking to be safe or easy. Indeed, he once remarked that the best theology is like ‘the noise of someone falling over things in the dark’ 13–an awkward, inelegant testimony to the God who rearranges the furniture of our lives. This is the God who ‘enters into a world of confusion and ambiguity, and works in contradictions.’ 14 After all, even God’s own self-communication in our world was not a unilateral declaration but an appalling, ambiguous zigzag of death and resurrection. Such a God does not console us or fulfil our wishes but strips us of our fantasies and brings our religious expectations under judgement.
-Christ the Stranger: The Theology of Rowan Williams, by Benjamin Myers
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Introduction
God’s words in this video are from the book “Continuation of The Word Appears in the Flesh”.
The content of this video:
1. The Basic Living Environment God Creates for Mankind
1) Air
2) Temperature
Eastern Lightning, The Church of Almighty God was created because of the appearance and work of Almighty God, the second coming of the Lord Jesus, Christ of the last days. It is made up of all those who accept Almighty God's work in the last days and are conquered and saved by His words. It was entirely founded by Almighty God personally and is led by Him as the Shepherd. It was definitely not created by a person. Christ is the truth, the way, and the life. God's sheep hear God's voice. As long as you read the words of Almighty God, you will see God has appeared.
Sucevița Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox convent situated in the Northeastern part of Romania. It is situated near the Suceviţa River, in the village Sucevița, 18 km away from the city of Rădăuţi, Suceava County. It is located in the southern part of the historical region of Bukovina (northwestern Moldavia). It was built in 1585 by Ieremia Movilă, Gheorghe Movilă andSimion Movilă.[1]
The architecture of the church contains both Byzantine and Gothic elements, and some elements typical to other painted churches of northern Moldavia. Both interior and exterior walls are covered by mural paintings, which are of great artistic value and depict biblical episodes from the Old and New Testament. The paintings date from around 1601, which makes Sucevița one of the last monasteries to be decorated in the famous Moldavian style of exterior paintings.
The interior court of the monastic ensemble is almost square (100 by 104 meters) and is surrounded by high (6 m), wide (3 m) walls. There are several other defensive structures within the ensemble, including four towers (one in each corner). Sucevița was a princely residence as well as a fortified monastery. The thick walls today shelter a museum that presents an outstanding collection of historical and art objects. The tomb covers of Ieremia and Simion Movilă – rich portraits embroidered in silver thread – together with ecclesiastical silverware, books and illuminated manuscripts, offer eloquent testimony to Sucevița's importance first as a manuscript workshop, then as a printing center.
In 2010, the monastery has been inscribed by UNESCO on its list of World Heritage Sites, as one of the Painted churches of Moldavia.
Nearly 3 million day tripping coach tourists visit Rüdesheim a year. The picturesque town is an ideal starting point for excursions in the Romantic Rhine Valley where space impressive testimonies of the past Marvel at centuries are. The city center ist is a magnet for visitors and everyone who is searching for a variety of beautiful souveniers shops with colourful fun. The Drosselgasse is probably Rüdesheims most beautiful feature, it´s a tunnel like alley - so loaded with signs that it looks like it could be in China. This place on earth is probably the Rhine from it´s most colourful side. Numerous german pubs, filled with rollicking crowds are placed just a few blocks in any direction around the Drosselgasse and the Oberstrasse in Rüdesheim. This wonderful village on the Rhine is definitely a place to come, beside it´s vibrant inner city is Rüdesheim am Rhein the perfect starting point to explore the breathtaking Rheingau area. Additionally the village offers numerous of delightful vineyard walks.
The Royal Court (Curtea Domnească) monuments ensemble in Târgovişte, Romania, built in the 15th century. Ruler Mircea the Old is the founder of the royal residence, with construction works launched around 1400 and finalized in 1476. The museum includes the Royal Residence, the Great Royal Church, the Small Royal Church and the Chindia Tower. Only the ruins can now be seen of the Royal Residence, its gardens and fountains. The Great Royal Church still boasts its frescoes with portraits of Wallachian rulers, and a cannonball stuck in its walls, in testimony of past wars. In the Small Royal Church, visitors can see interesting pottery work and the oldest church porch in the country, built concurrently with the church in the 16th century. (surprising-romania.blogspot.com/2009/08/royal-court-in-ta...)
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The Bode Museum, formerly called the Kaiser-Friedrich-Museum (Emperor Frederick Museum), is a listed building on the Museum Island in the historic centre of Berlin. It was built from 1898 to 1904 by order of German Emperor William II according to plans by Ernst von Ihne in Baroque Revival style. The building's front square featured a memorial to German Emperor Frederick III, which was destroyed by the East German authorities.Currently, the Bode-Museum is home to the Skulpturensammlung, the Museum für Byzantinische Kunst and the Münzkabinett (sculpture, coins and medals, and Byzantine art).[2] As part of the Museum Island complex, the Bode-Museum was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1999 because of its outstanding architecture and testimony to the development of museums as a cultural phenomenon in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
Salendo da Villa Santina, raggiungiamo il paese di Lauco, abitato già in epoca preromana. Vecchie case in pietra, le caratteristiche tegole carniche sui tetti, una fontana con una foto dell'800, testimonianza del passato. 12 foto.
Going up from Villa Santina, we reach the town of Lauco, already inhabited in pre-Roman times. Old stone houses, the characteristic Carnic tiles on the roofs, a fountain with a photo of the 19th century, testimony of the past. 12 photos.
The Zollverein Coal Mine Industrial Complex (German Zeche Zollverein) is a large former industrial site in the city of Essen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany.
The first coal mine on the premises was founded in 1847, and mining activities took place from 1851 until December 23, 1986. For decades, starting in the late 1950s, the two parts of the site, Zollverein Coal Mine and Zollverein Coking Plant (erected 1957–1961, closed on June 30, 1993), ranked among the largest of their kinds in Europe. Shaft 12, built in the New Objectivity style, was opened in 1932 and is considered an architectural and technical masterpiece, earning it a reputation as the "most beautiful coal mine in the world".
Because of its architecture and testimony to the development of heavy industry in Europe, the industrial complex was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List on December 14, 2001, and is one of the anchor points of the European Route of Industrial Heritage.
Today is the seventh anniversary of the earthquake in L'Aquila.
This picture and the next ones, shot in August 2015, are testimony to that terrible day.
This photo is dedicated to noflickr
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An isolated lifeguard chair stands directly in the breaking surf, with the foaming water wrapping completely around its base. The vivid, oversaturated tones of the red lifebuoys and the dynamic sky cut sharply across the frame, contrasting with the absolute human void on the sea horizon.
In this composition, the safety outpost — stripped of both lifeguard and beachgoers — remains the sole protagonist before the lens. This image is the visual testimony of a profound social disease: a coastline completely emptied by the skyrocketing cost of living, where the sea has been transformed into yet another luxury reserved for a chosen few. It is the portrait of a sick society, where the working class — the people whose sacrifices keep the whole system running and maintain the privileges of a minority of wealthy elites — is progressively stripped even of the basic right to a day of rest and dignity. The oversaturated colors of the beach safety equipment thus become a visual scream against economic injustice, leaving an empty outpost to guard an intolerable social void.
Amalfi - Cenni storici
Il Romanticismo segnò una svolta positiva per Amalfi e le località ad essa vicine, poiché i viaggiatori stranieri, in cerca di posti particolarmente belli in riferimento alle bellezze paesaggistiche ed artistiche, riscoprirono questi luoghi corsi unici ed indimenticabili, segnando l’inizio della nuova vocazione turistica che fino ad oggi e la principale risorsa economica di tutta l’area.
Per visitare Amalfi bene, occorre fermarsi per qualche giorno, tanto e bella e ricca di testimonianze storico-artistiche. Iniziando dalla piazza antistante il porto nella quale troviamo il “monumento di Flavio Gioia”, inventore della bussola. Poco lontano si possono ammirare “gli antichi Arsenali”, nei quali gli Amalfitani costruivano e ricoveravano le proprie imbarcazioni. Acanto agli Arsenali troviamo la “Porta della Marina”, che e uno degli ingressi della città, quindi la “Piazza dei Calzolai”, quindi la “Piazza del Duomo”, nella quale si puo ammirare la “fontana di S.Andrea Apostolo” costruita nel 1760 ed alle sue spalle l’edificio che nel medioevo era il seggio dei nobili e la sede del capo della marineria Amalfitana, dove era custodita una copia della “tabula de Amalpha” (tavole concernenti il diritto della navigazione del periodo compreso tra il XI ed il XVI Secolo).
Nel 1583 questo edificio divenne sede del governatore vicereale spagnolo. Il Duomo di Amalfi Il duomo di Amalfi e certamente una testimonianza stupenda di stili diversi che nei secoli si sono fusi fino a portarci allo splendore attuale che tutti possiamo ammirare. Verso la meta dell’ XI Secolo gli Amalfitani decisero di costruire un nuovo Duomo integrando e ampliando la chiesa dell’Assunta già esistente, unendo la parte nuova alla vecchia attraverso un colonnato e creando cossi una chiesa a sei navate. Dopo il Concilio di Trento le due cattedrali furono separate e rivestite di stucchi, per cancellare completamente l’impronta mussulmana esistente ed i restauri effettuai nel 1961 hanno riportato alla vista la bellezza della fusione chiesa-moschea che per seicento anni aveva unito due culture di tutto rispetto del Mediterraneo e che oggi sono tanto lontane visti gli eventi drammatici succedutisi in questi ultimi anni.
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Translation performed by the translator of google. I apologize for the imperfections
Amalfi - History
Romanticism a welcome sign for Amalfi and places it close, as foreign travelers in search of jobs particularly in reference to the beautiful scenic beauty and artistic courses rediscovered these places unique and unforgettable, marking the beginning of the new tourist that far and the main economic resource of the area.
To visit Amalfi well, it should stop for a few days, so beautiful and rich in historical and artistic. Starting from the square facing the harbor in which we find the monument of Flavio Gioia, the inventor of the compass. Nearby you can see "the old Arsenal, in which the Amalfi built and admitted their boats. Acanto Arsenals to find the "Port of Marina, which is one of the entrances of the city, then the" Square of Shoemakers, "and the" Piazza del Duomo, where you can admire the "fountain of St. Andrew the Apostle" built in 1760 and behind the building in the Middle Ages was the seat of the nobles and the seat of the head of the navy Coast, where he kept a copy of the "tabula de Amalphia (tables on the right navigation of the period between the XI and the sixteenth century).
In 1583 this building became the seat of the Spanish viceroy governor. The Cathedral of Amalfi Cathedral of Amalfi and certainly a wonderful testimony of different styles over the centuries that have merged to bring the splendor today that we can all admire. Towards the goal of 'Century XI Amalfitans decided to build a new Cathedral Church of integrating and expanding existing, joining the new part to the former through a colonnade and toast create a church aisle six. After the Council of Trent the two cathedrals were separated and covered with stucco to erase completely the existing footprint Muslim and then made renovations in 1961 have brought to view the beauty of merging church-mosque for six hundred years had combined two cultures throughout over the Mediterranean and today are so far given the dramatic events succeeded in recent years.
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The Cagsawa Ruins (also spelled as Kagsawa or Cagsaua) are the remnants of an 16th-century Franciscan church, the Cagsawa church. It was built in 1587 but was burned down by the marauding Dutch in 1636. However, it was reconstructed again in 1724 by Fr. Francisco Blanco. In February 1, 1814, Mayon Volcano caused its most violent and deadly eruption that engulfed the surrounding houses and killed nearly 2,000 people who took refuge inside the church. Only the belfry of the Cagsawa church remains as a grim and silent testimony of that fateful day. For almost two hundred years, it has withstood the test of time and the elements to become one of the most recognizable landmarks of Albay Province. The ruins are located in Barangay Busay, Cagsawa, in the municipality of Daraga, Albay, Philippines.
When I come to places like this I am struck by the testimony of creation. It brings praise to its Maker and it begs for our gaze to be set heavenward with our eyes fixed on Jesus the One who made it all. What leaves me awestruck is that this is only a mere glimpse of the beauty we will one day see!
Another view from the Clock Tower
Sighisoara - its historical center is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, an outstanding testimony to the culture of the Transylvanian Saxons, a culture that is coming to a close after 850 years and will continue to exist only through its architectural and urban monuments.
Founded by German craftsmen and merchants known as the Saxons of Transylvania, Sighişoara is a fine example of a small, fortified medieval town which played an important strategic and commercial role on the fringes of central Europe for several centuries.
www.ukbutterflies.co.uk/species.php?species=icarus
Superfamily: Papilionoidea
Family: Lycaenidae
Subfamily: Lycaeninae
Genus: Polyommatus
Subgenus:
Species: icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)
Subspecies: icarus (Rottemburg, 1775)
mariscolore (Kane, 1893)
Wingspan
29 - 36mm
Introduction
Living up to its name, this butterfly is the commonest blue found in the British Isles. While the male has bright blue uppersides, the female is primarily brown, with a highly variable amount of blue. This is the most widespread Lycaenid found in the British Isles and can be found almost anywhere, including Orkney. It is absent, however, from Shetland and the mountainous areas of Wales and Scotland. This butterfly forms reasonably discrete colonies measured in tens or hundreds, with individuals occasionally wandering some distance.
Subspecies: Polyommatus icarus icarus
The nominate subspecies was first defined in Rottemburg (1775) as shown here (type locality: Germany). In the British Isles it is found throughout England, Scotland, Wales, the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. It may also be found in some parts Ireland, although there is some confusion regarding its status, as discussed under the subspecies mariscolore.
Subspecies: Polyommatus icarus mariscolore
This subspecies was first defined in Kane (1893) as shown here (type locality: Ireland). The distribution of the subspecies mariscolore is a confusing one. Nash (2012) suggests that both mariscolore and icarus are found in Ireland, Riley (2007) suggests that mariscolore is the only subspecies found in Ireland and Thomas & Lewington (2010) suggests that mariscolore is found both in Ireland and in north-western Scotland. It is certainly true that not all Irish Common Blues conform to the description of mariscolore. Specifically, mariscolore is characterised by the amount of blue in the female, but many female Irish Common Blues are brown with a variable amount of blue. The subspecies mariscolore differs from the subspecies icarus as follows:
1. Generally larger in size, especially the female.
2. The upperside of the female has extensive patches of blue, with large and bright orange marginal spots.
Polyommatus icarus mariscolore (Kane, 1893)
The Irish butterfly usually considerably exceeds in size that of England, varying from about 1 inch 2 lines to 1.5 inches in the June emergence; but the individuals of the second emergence are much smaller, and generally conform much more nearly to the usual English type in both sexes. Mr. South notes that the Irish and Scotch icarus are similarly characterised by their large size, and the brilliant blue of the female bordered with bright orange marginal ocelli.
The female offers the most conspicuous divergence from the normal English and Continental type, in which the basal half only is dusted with blue scales, the brown of the upper side being widely replaced by a violet or occasionally wholly by the bright blue of L. bellargus. These forms are not uncommon in Ireland, in Galway, Sligo, Donegal, Antrim, Down, Westmeath, Waterford, &c., and are accompanied by a series (often almost confluent) of very bright orange peacock-eye markings on the outer margins of all wings, so that some specimens (if not too brilliant) would pass muster as the var. ceronus of L. bellargus (fig. 12); another most interesting testimony to the genetic affinities of this species.
It may be that the acquisition of more brilliant colours in the female may be of advantage under less sunny skies, where the sun-loving Rhopalocera have less opportunities of selecting their mates, and cannot afford to indulge in long engagements.
Phenology
This species has 2 broods in the southern counties of England, and 1 brood further north. There may be a 3rd brood in favourable years. Time of emergence is highly variable. In good years, adults may be seen as early as the middle of May on more southerly sites. These peak at the end of May, giving rise to a second generation that emerges in the second half of July, peaking in the middle of August. Colonies in northern England and Scotland typically have a single brood that emerges in June, reaching a peak in July.
Habitat
This species is found in a wide variety of habitats, including unimproved grassland such as roadside verges and waste ground, downland, woodland clearings, heathland and even sand dunes.
Larval Foodplants
The primary larval foodplant is Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus). Black Medick (Medicago lupulina), Common Restharrow (Ononis repens), Greater Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus pedunculatus), Lesser Trefoil (Trifolium dubium) and White Clover (Trifolium repens) are also used.
Nectar Sources
Adults feed primarily on Bird's-foot Trefoil (Lotus corniculatus), Bugle (Ajuga reptans), Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris), Fleabane (Pulicaria dysenterica), Kidney Vetch (Anthyllis vulneraria), Knapweeds (Centaurea spp.), Marjoram (Origanum vulgare), Ragwort (Senecio jacobaea), Thistles (Cirsium spp. and Carduus spp.), Thyme (Thymus polytrichus), Vetches (Vicia spp.) and White Clover (Trifolium repens).
Imago
This species is most active in sunshine and is a frequent visitor to flowers. Males are the more active of the two sexes and set up territories which they patrol in search of females. The female is less conspicuous, spending most of her time nectaring, resting and egg-laying. When egg-laying, the female makes slow flights, low over the ground, searching out suitable foodplants on which to lay. When a suitable plant is located, a single egg is laid on the upperside of a young leaf.
In dull weather this species roosts head down on a grass stem. As for similar species, such as the Brown Argus, this species roosts communally at night, with several individuals occasionally found roosting on the same grass stem.
Larva
The larva emerges after a week or two. On emerging from the egg the larva moves to the underside of the leaf, where it feeds, by day, on the lower surface without breaking through the upper leaf surface. This leaves characteristic blotches on the foodplant that can give away the presence of a larva. More mature larvae feed more extensively on the leaves. Those larvae that overwinter do so in leaf litter at the base of the foodplant, changing from green to olive, resuming their green colouring in the spring.
Like many other species of blue, the larva is attractive to ants, although only in its last instar. There are 4 moults in total. If the larva does not overwinter, then this stage lasts around 6 weeks.
Pupa
The pupa is formed on the ground or, occasionally, at the base of the foodplant, under a few silk strands. The pupa is attractive to ants which may bury it in earth. This stage lasts around 2 weeks.
Clonmacnoise is a ruined monastery situated in County Offaly in Ireland on the River Shannon south of Athlone, founded in 544 by Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon. Until the 9th century it had close associations with the kings of Connacht.
Saint Ciarán founded the monastery in the ancient territory of Uí Maine at a point where the major east–west land route meets the River Shannon after crossing the bogs of Central Ireland known as the Esker Riada. The strategic location of the monastery helped it become a major center of religion, learning, craftsmanship and trade by the 9th century; and together with Clonard it was one of the most famous places in Ireland, visited by scholars from all over Europe. From the ninth until the eleventh century it was allied with the kings of Meath. Many of the high kings of Tara (ardrí) and of Connacht were buried here.
Clonmacnoise was largely abandoned by the end of the 13th century. Today the site includes nine ruined churches, a castle, two round towers and a large number of carved stone crosses and cross-slabs. The Irish government's Office of Public Works manages the preserved ruin. An Interpretive Centre is open to the public, the graveyard is in use and religious services take place in a modern chapel.
In 544 Saint Ciarán, a young man from Rathcroghan, County Roscommon, arrived at this location with seven companions. (Saint Ciarán is not to be confused or conflated with St. Ciarán of Saigir, patron of Osraige). Here he met Diarmait mac Cerbaill, who later became the first Christian crowned High King of Ireland. Together they built the first church at the site. This was a small wooden structure and the first of many small churches to be clustered on the site. In September 549, not yet thirty-three years of age, Ciarán died of a plague, and was reportedly buried under the original wooden church, now the site of the 9th-century stone oratory, Temple Ciarán. This location was particularly important because here the major east–west land route through the bogs of central Ireland along the Eiscir Riada (an esker left by the receding glaciers of the last ice age) crossed the River Shannon.
According to Adomnán of Iona, who referenced the testimony of earlier abbots of Iona who had known Columba, St Columba visited the monastery at Clonmacnoise during the time when he was founding the monastery at Durrow. While he was there he prophesied about the future debates in the churches of Ireland about the dating of Easter and claimed that angels had visited the monastery at Clonmacnoise. While he was there, a young monk named Ernéne mac Craséni (who would later be famous in Ireland) tried to touch Columba's clothes while Columba was not looking. However, the saint immediately noticed and grabbed the boy by the neck, told him to open his mouth, and then blessed him, saying that he would teach the doctrine of salvation.
Towards the close of the seventh century a plague carried off a large number of its students and professors. Clonmacnoise's period of greatest growth came between the 8th and 12th centuries. It was attacked frequently during these four centuries, most often by the Irish, the Vikings and the Normans. The early wooden buildings began to be replaced by more durable stone structures in the 9th century, and the original population of fewer than ten men grew to perhaps 1,500 to 2,000 by the 11th century. Although the site was based around a core of churches, crosses, graves and ecclesiastical dwellings and workshops, it would have been surrounded by the houses and streets of a larger secular community, the metalworkers, craftsmen and farmers who supported the monastic clergy and their students. Artisans associated with the site created some of the most beautiful and enduring artworks in metal and stone ever seen in Ireland, with the Clonmacnoise Crozier (on display in the National Museum of Ireland) and the Cross of the Scriptures representing the apex of their efforts. The Book of the Dun Cow, a vellum manuscript dating to the 12th century, was written here and its main compiler, Máel Muire mac Céilechair meic Cuinn na mBocht was reputedly murdered in a Viking raid in 1106.
By the 12th century Clonmacnoise began to decline. The reasons were varied, although attacks by the Vikings (under Turgesius) and the Normans contributed. Without doubt the most debilitating factor was the growth of the town of Athlone to the north of the site from the late-12th century.[citation needed] Athlone became the main trading town for the midlands of Ireland, and the most popular route for crossing the Shannon, as well as the best-defended settlement in the region. People migrated north from Clonmacnoise to Athlone, and along with the population decrease went much of the support that the site needed to survive, and former allies began to recognise the decline in the site's influence. The influx of continental religious orders such as the Cistercians, Franciscans, Augustinians, Benedictines, Cluniacs, etc. around the same time fed into this decline as numerous competing sites began to crop up. Ireland's move from a monastic framework to a diocesan one in the twelfth century similarly diminished the site's religious standing, as it was designated the seat of a small and impoverished diocese.
In 1552 the English garrison at Athlone destroyed and looted Clonmacnoise for the final time, leaving it in ruins.
The monastery ruins were one of the stops on the itinerary of Pope John Paul II during his visit to Ireland in 1979.
It was during a hike on the customs path at Cap Fréhel that I was struck by this explosion of colors. The heather blooms were at their peak, transforming the coastal moors into a purple carpet undulating in the sea breeze. I was specifically looking for this time of year when Breton nature reveals this particular palette.
In composing this panoramic image, I wanted to create a dialogue between three elements: the heather in the foreground, whose vibrant hues seem almost unreal; the blue immensity of the sea stretching in the middle; and the iconic Fort la Latte outlined in the distance, a discrete testimony to human history in this landscape dominated by natural forces.
The light was perfect that day, with clouds filtering the sun intermittently, creating variations of luminosity on the water and cliffs. I deliberately framed wide to capture the magnitude of this landscape and that sensation of space that overwhelms you when facing the sea from these vertiginous heights.
What particularly touches me about this place is the perfect harmony between the harshness of the elements - the steep cliffs, the constant marine winds - and the delicacy of these small flowers that manage to transform the entire landscape through their collective presence. It's this wild and flowering Brittany, between land and sea, that I wanted to immortalize.
Won local testimony 2020 religious series category. www.edutmekomit.co.il
The Speicherstadt (German pronunciation: literally: 'City of Warehouses', meaning warehouse district) in Hamburg, Germany, is the largest warehouse district in the world where the buildings stand on timber-pile foundations—oak logs, in this particular case. It is located in the port of Hamburg, in the HafenCity quarter, and was built from 1883 to 1927.
The district was built as a free zone to transfer goods without paying customs. The district and the surrounding area have been under redevelopment for many years as the port industry has evolved. As an exceptional example of Neo-Gothic and modernist architecture, and for its testimony to the development of international maritime trade, the Speicherstadt was awarded the status of UNESCO World Heritage Site on 5 July 2015, along with the Kontorhaus District.
Dolní oblast Vítkovice (Lower Vítkovice), Ostrava. Former iron and steel works have been preserved in half ruined state as an open air museum.
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DDR Reise
Testimony 16.04.1987
Saxony Bautzen
Analogue Slide scan
Kodak Film EN 100 5039
Camera Canon A1
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Was passing this place on my way to the next destination..
The Michel de Gentilly mill, built in 1774 and designated an historic monument, is a testimony to the French seigneurial regime. Buckwheat flour is ground on the millstone. Several theme exhibitions and activities are also part of the current program. Its concert hall presents a wide range of professional artists and amateurs.