Barbara Nicolosi writing in her blog Church of the Masses: The altarpiece in Capistrano gets its unearthly gleam from the fact that it is plated with 24.5 carat gold. We saw a lot of this kind of thing in Spain, but they were all covered with 500 years of soot and darkened candle wax. This … Continue reading
And there, uplifted, like a passing cloud That pauses on a mountain summit high, Monte Cassino’s convent rears its proud And venerable walls against the sky. – From “Monte Cassino” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow * * * From “The Benedictine Abbey of Monte Cassino” Anthony Parente, italiansrus.com: Rising 1700 feet above sea level is the amazing … Continue reading
Medieval Chartres considered itself the chief sanctuary of the Virgin in Western Europe. The source of this eminence was the “tunic of the Virgin”, a piece of cloth thought to have been worn by the Virgin and given to the Cathedral in the ninth century… Then they took the holy tunic From the Mother of … Continue reading
“Nobody is a true pilgrim unless he is journeying towards the ‘house of St. James’.” – Dante History ExperiencePlus: The History of the Santiago de Compostela – St James in the Field of the Star After Christ’s crucifixion, Saint James, son of Zebadeo and Salome and brother of Saint John the Evangelist, journeyed to Spain … Continue reading
Malta Today Contrasts in Christendom: Red Lights in Amsterdam, Neon In Malta, By Thomas Basil, New Oxford Review Malta is a remnant speck of Christendom off the coast of a post-Christian western Europe. Malta is home to 365 Catholic churches, roughly one for every 1,000 residents. Of her 400,000 citizens, 98 percent profess Catholicism and, … Continue reading
