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Filed under Colwall 2016, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays
Gloucester Cathedral
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 27th 2016
Filed under Colwall 2016, Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays
Gloucester Cathedral
Gloucester Cathedral has been a place of Christian worship continuously for over 1,300 years, since Osric, an Anglo-Saxon prince, founded a religious house here in 678-9 AD. Little is known for certain about the communities which worshipped here or the buildings they used over the next 400 years although it is believed that the Benedictine [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Feb 26th 2016
Throughout my whole life, during every minute of it, the world has been gradually lighting up and blazing before my eyes until it has come to surround me, entirely lit from within.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
16 Comments CherryPie on Feb 21st 2016
If a man wishes to be sure of the road he treads on, he must close his eyes and walk in the dark.
St. John of the Cross
8 Comments CherryPie on Feb 7th 2016
The Angel that presided o’er my birth
Said, “Little creature, form’d of Joy and Mirth,
“Go love without the help of any Thing on Earth.”
William Blake
2 Comments CherryPie on Jan 10th 2016
Filed under Faith Foundations, Heritage, Holidays, Piran & Ljubljana 2015
The Serbian-Orthodox Church of Saint Spyridion
The church was inspired by the Byzantine tradition and built on the plan of a Greek cross, surmounted by a light-blue coloured dome and four smaller domes in the corners. The exterior is decorated with mosaics, alternated with marble and coloured stone.
The interior is characterized by frescoes and precious paintings, together with a solid wood [...]
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 4th 2016
Do not you believe that there is in us a depth so profound as to be hidden even to the one in whom it is?
Saint Augustine
16 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2016
