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Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), to span the Tiber from the city centre to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with five arches, three of which are Roman; it was approached by means of a ramp from the river. The bridge is now solely pedestrian and provides a scenic view of Castel Sant'Angelo.
In 1535, Pope Clement VII allocated the toll income of the bridge to erecting the statues of the apostles Saint Peter (holding a book, with the pedestal inscription Rione XIV) by Lorenzetto, and Saint Paul (holding a broken sword and a book, with the pedestal inscription Borgo) by Paolo Romano to which subsequently the four evangelists and the patriarchs were added to other statues representing Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. For centuries after the 16th century, the bridge was used to expose the bodies of those executed in the nearby Piazza di Ponte, at the left bridge head. In 1669 Pope Clement IX commissioned replacements for the aging stucco angels by Raffaello da Montelupo, commissioned by Paul III. Bernini's program, one of his last large projects, called for ten angels holding instruments of the Passion: he personally only finished the two originals of the Angel with the Superscription "I.N.R.I." and the Angel with the Crown of Thorns, but these were kept by Clement IX for his own pleasure. They are now in the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, also in Rome.
The New Jerusalem Monastery was founded in 1656 in the Moscow region by Patriarch Nikon. According to his plan, the monastery was to become the center of the Orthodox world. Topography, place names, church buildings of the monastery and the surrounding area, stretching for several tens of kilometers, created the image of the Holy Land and reproduced the main Christian shrines of Palestine. On the hill located in the center of this territory, called Zion, a monastery was founded - a kind of city-temple. Some buildings of the monastery complex repeat the outlines of the structures of the Holy Land, and the main cathedral of the monastery, consecrated in 1685, was built in the likeness of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The cathedral reproduces the sacred likenesses of Mount Calvary, the cave of the Holy Sepulcher, the place of the three-day burial and the Life-giving Resurrection of the Savior. The towers also have symbolic names: Entry Jerusalem, Gethsemane, etc. The hills surrounding the monastery were called the Olives, Favorsky, etc., the villages - Preobrazhenskoe, Nazareth, Capernaum. The fast winding river Istra, named Jordan, flows through the land of Russian Palestine; the stream flowing around the monastery hill is the Kidron Stream. Nowadays, a significant part of the territory is occupied by the city of Istra, which until 1930 was called Voskresenskoye.
In 1919 the monastery was closed, on its territory the New Jerusalem museum was opened, the holy places were partly destroyed, partly consigned to oblivion and changed beyond recognition.
Having begun to decay even after it was closed, the monastery suffered greatly during the Great Patriotic War. During the three-week German occupation in 1941, the museum was looted. During the retreat of the Nazi troops, the monastery was blown up, the tower and the bell tower of the monastery were destroyed, and the cathedral was significantly damaged.
Restoration work at the monastery began in 1947; they were carried out especially intensively in the 1960s and 1980s.
In 1994, the process of transferring the buildings of the monastery to the Russian Orthodox Church began. Jul 18, 1994
Full-scale restoration activities began in December 2011. The restoration of the Resurrection Cathedral was completed in 2015.
Dayro d-Mor Hananyo (Turkish: Deyrulzafaran Manastırı, Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܡܪܝ ܚܢܢܝܐ; Monastery of Saint Ananias) is an important Syriac Orthodox monastery. The monastery is located in the Syriac cultural region known as Tur Abdin, and is located three kilometers south east of Mardin, Turkey. It is usually better known by its nickname, the "Saffron Monastery" (Syriac: ܕܝܪܐ ܕܟܘܪܟܡܐ, Dairo d-Kurkmo; Arabic: دير الزعفران, Dairu 'l-Za‘farān) which is derived from the warm color of its stone.
Dayro d-Mor Hananyo is located on the site of a temple dedicated to the Mesopotamian sun god Shamash, which was then converted into a citadel by the Romans. After the Romans withdrew from the fortress, Mor Shlemon transformed it into a monastery in 493 AD. In 793 the monastery was renovated after a period of decline by the Bishop of Mardin and Kfartuta, Mor Hananyo, who gave the monastery its current name.
The monastery was later abandoned and re-founded by the bishop of Mardin, John, who carried out important renovations and moved the see of the Syriac Orthodox Church here before his death on the 12th of July 1165. Therefore, From 1160 until 1932 it was the official seat of the patriarch of the Syriac Orthodox Church, after which it was moved first to Homs and in 1959 to Damascus. However, The Patriarchal throne and many relics are still located in the Monastery, as well as the Tombs of various Patriarchs. The monastery has 365 rooms - one for each day of the year.
Ref: Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mor_Hananyo_Monastery)
The wall and the territory of the New Jerusalem Monastery..The Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery is a historically Stavropegic male monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Istra, Moscow region. The monastery was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon, according to which the complex of holy places of Palestine was to be recreated near Moscow..In 1690-1677 a stone wall was erected instead of the old wooden one. The total length of the monastery walls, built in compliance with the requirements of the serf architecture of the era, is about one kilometer, height - nine meters, thickness - up to three meters. The upper part of the walls is a combat move, equipped with two rows of loopholes. Seven towers were erected on the wall breaks, the eighth (Elizavetinskaya) is located above the western gate, and the Gate of Entry Jerusalem Church was built above the eastern (Holy) gate.
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The Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery is a historically stavropegic male monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Istra, Moscow region.
The monastery was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon, according to which the complex of holy places of Palestine was to be recreated near Moscow.
In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, miners of the German fascist SS division "Reich" blew up the Resurrection Cathedral. Many architectural monuments were destroyed.
The restoration of the monastery, which is the only successful attempt to recreate the image of the Holy Land, was completed at the end of 2016.
In the Resurrection Cathedral, as in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, there are three main shrines of Christians:
Golgotha is a small rock where Christ was crucified (in Greek the word “Golgotha” means a frontal place)
Cuvuclia - a small chapel with the Holy Sepulcher, the burial place of Christ
Temple of the Resurrection of the Savior, the place of the life-bearing resurrection of Jesus Christ.
Golgotha, the place of the crucifixion of Christ, is located on the second tier of the temple; a staircase to the right of the main entrance leads to it. In a small room there is a cross, made in Jerusalem and the same size as the Jerusalem Cross of God. A stone with a crack is also installed here, imitating a rock that broke at the time of the Savior's death, when the blood of Christ was shed on it.
The architecture of the New Jerusalem Monastery in the city of Istra, Moscow Region.
The New Jerusalem Monastery was founded in 1656 in the Moscow Region by Patriarch Nikon. According to his plan, the monastery was to become the center of the Orthodox world. The topography, toponymy, church buildings of the monastery and the surrounding territory, stretching for several tens of kilometers, created the image of the Holy Land and reproduced the main Christian shrines of Palestine. On a hill located in the center of this territory, called Zion, a monastery was founded - a kind of temple city. Some buildings of the monastery complex repeat the outlines of the constructions of the Holy Land, and the main cathedral of the monastery, consecrated in 1685, was built in the likeness of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The cathedral reproduces the sacred images of Mount Calvary, the cave of the Holy Sepulcher, the three-day burial place and the Life-Giving Resurrection of the Savior. The towers also have symbolic names: Entrance Jerusalem, Gethsemane, etc. Across the land of Russian Palestine flows the fast winding Istra River, known as Jordan; stream flowing around the monastery hill - Kedronsky stream.
The Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery is a historically stavropegic male monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church in the city of Istra, Moscow region..The monastery was founded in 1656 by Patriarch Nikon, according to which the complex of holy places of Palestine was to be recreated near Moscow..In 1941, during the Great Patriotic War, miners of the German fascist SS division "Reich" blew up the Resurrection Cathedral. Many architectural monuments were destroyed..The restoration of the monastery, which is the only successful attempt to recreate the image of the Holy Land, was completed at the end of 2016..In the Resurrection Cathedral, as in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, there are three main shrines of Christians:.Golgotha is a small rock where Christ was crucified (in Greek the word “Golgotha” means a frontal place).Cuvuclia - a small chapel with the Holy Sepulcher, the burial place of Christ.Temple of the Resurrection of the Savior, the place of the life-bearing resurrection of Jesus Christ..Golgotha, the place of the crucifixion of Christ, is located on the second tier of the temple; a staircase to the right of the main entrance leads to it. In a small room there is a cross, made in Jerusalem and the same size as the Jerusalem Cross of God. A stone with a crack is also installed here, imitating a rock that broke at the time of the Savior's death, when the blood of Christ was shed on it.
The three patriarchs and Virgin River, Zion NP. Captured using extra wide angle of 14 mm, as a result the 3 mountain peaks look relatively small, but you get more of the river and the total scene.
To be as successful as Johnathan Jefferson LaVeaux means to first have your true priorities straight. The priorities that all good citizens should use as their only guide post. THE HOLY TRINITY of PRIORITIES! Say it with me Kids!!! ONE...WORK, your J-O-B. TWO...YOUR CHURCH. And THREE...YOUR FAMILY. That's right. And the world's favorite man about the Planet is a shining example, a real man who holds these priorities faithfully. For that he has earned his success and he deserves our undying respect and admiration.
No man seems to work at his job more. Johnny's involvement with his Church has been the driving factor in taking them from a small local group to a HUGE International Movement...and all you have to do is look at the prosperity, the life style and the smiling faces of every member of Johnny's Family and extended Family to know how loving and attentive of a patriarch the man truly is. Yet somehow after all the time he gives, once in a great while he gets some Johnny time to do something for himself....
I would have liked to photograph the whole of the West front of Rouen cathedral but because of nearby buildings I could not get far enough away to manage it . Instead I have shown the central section that if you zoom in shows the mastery of these Fourteenth century stonemasons . It was this frontage that Monet used when he painted a series of paintings of Rouen Cathedral in various types of light
The west front of the Cathedral, with its three portals, is the traditional entrance to the Cathedral. The portals are aligned with the three aisles of the nave. The west front was first built in the 12th century, entirely redone in the 13th century, and then totally redone again at the end of the 14th century, each time become more lavishly decorated.
The main, or central portal, was originally dedicated to St. Romain in the 12th century, but was rededicated to the Virgin Mary when the facade was remade on a grander scale at the beginning of the 14th century. The central sculptural element of the tympanum, or arch over the portal, is a Tree of Jesse, a traditional depiction of the family tree of Christ. At the top is the Virgin Mary, with a halo of sun and stars. The arches above the tympanum of the portal are filled with sculpture of prophets, sibyls, or fortune-tellers, and patriarchs.
The portals on either side of the central portal followed the same format, with sculpture in the tympanum vividly illustrating Biblical stories. The portal to the of the central portal, facing the building, is dedicated to John the Evangelist, and the sculpture in the tympanum above illustrates the baptism of Christ, the passage of Saint John; the dance of Salome; the feast of Herod; and the beheading of John the Baptist. The portal to the right is devoted to Saint Stephen, and its sculpture illustrates the gathering of souls, Christ in majesty, and the stoning of Stephen.
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Zion National Park: Court of the Patriarchs reflected in a bend of the Virgin River
This shot really needs a wide angle of which I do not have. I had to be creative and shot three portraits and then combined them for this unconventionally sized image.
Hagia Sophia (lit. 'Holy Wisdom'; Turkish: Ayasofya; Ancient Greek: Ἁγία Σοφία, romanized: Hagía Sophía; Latin: Sancta Sapientia), officially the Hagia Sophia Grand Mosque (Turkish: Ayasofya Camii), originally a Christian church, is a mosque and a major cultural and historical site in Istanbul, Turkey. The building was erected three times by the Eastern Roman Empire. The present Hagia Sophia is the third, built in 537 AD. It was an Orthodox church until the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople in 1453, then a mosque until 1935, then a museum and then from 2020 a mosque again, as well as being a Roman Catholic cathedral for some decades after the Fourth Crusade of 1204.
The current structure was built by the Byzantine emperor Justinian I as the Christian cathedral of Constantinople for the Byzantine Empire between 532 and 537, and was designed by the Greek geometers Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles. It was formally called the Church of the Holy Wisdom (Greek: Ναὸς τῆς Ἁγίας τοῦ Θεοῦ Σοφίας, romanized: Naòs tês Hagías toû Theoû Sophías) and upon completion became the world's largest interior space and among the first to employ a fully pendentive dome. It is considered the epitome of Byzantine architecture and is said to have "changed the history of architecture". The present Justinianic building was the third church of the same name to occupy the site, as the prior one had been destroyed in the Nika riots. As the episcopal see of the ecumenical patriarch of Constantinople, it remained the world's largest cathedral for nearly a thousand years, until Seville Cathedral was completed in 1520. Beginning with subsequent Byzantine architecture, Hagia Sophia became the paradigmatic Orthodox church form, and its architectural style was emulated by Ottoman mosques a thousand years later. It has been described as "holding a unique position in the Christian world" and as an architectural and cultural icon of Byzantine and Eastern Orthodox civilization.
Zion National Park / Utah / USA
English:
The Grand Buttes, rising from the Canyon floor, are impressive. The three patriarchs rule the valley. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob look from the west side to Zion Canyon at Birch Creek.
Deutsch:
Die Grand Buttes, die sich vom Canyon Boden erheben, sind beeindruckend. Die drei Patriarchen beherrschen das Tal. Abraham, Isaac und Jacob schauen von der Westseite auf den Zion Canyon am Birch Creek.
The Transfiguration of the Lord is one of the twelve scenes of the Mother of God and Christological cycles, inscribed in a golden arcade and located on both sides of the central composition.
In the lower part of the scene are the figures of the three apostles struck by a miracle - Peter, James and John, who came to Mount Tabor (later called the Mount of Transfiguration) to pray.
Peter is shown on the right. John the Evangelist is traditionally represented in the center. The Apostle James is depicted on the left, turned away and as if fallen. With one hand he holds on to a rock.
At the top of the mountain, Jesus begins to glow with bright rays of light. According to the Old Testament, the figures of the Old Testament prophets Elijah and Moses appear next to him.
In iconographic images, Moses usually holds a book or, in later versions, the tablets of the Testament in his hands. In this image, Moses stands on the right (on the left in the photo) and holds the “tablet of revelation” in his hand. He represents the dead, while Elijah the Prophet, ascended in a fiery chariot, speaks on behalf of the living.
On the right, the sail depicts John the Evangelist, the author of the Gospel of John.
Преображення Господнє - одна із дванадцяти сцен богородичного та христологічного циклів, вписаних у золоту аркаду та розташованих по обидва боки від центральної композиції.
У нижній частині сцени фігури трьох вражених дивом апостолів - Петро, Яків та Іоанн, які прийшли на гору Фавор (пізніше звану Горою Преображення), щоб помолитися.
Петро показаний праворуч. У центрі традиційно представлений Іоанн Богослов. Апостол Яків зображений зліва, що відвернувся і ніби впав. Однією рукою він тримається за камінь.
На вершині гори Ісус починає світитися яскравими променями світла. Згідно з Старим Завітом поруч з ним з'являються постаті старозавітних пророків Іллі та Мойсея.
В іконографічних зображеннях у руках Мойсей зазвичай тримає книгу або, у пізніших випадках, скрижали Завіту. У цьому зображенні Мойсей стоїть праворуч (на фото ліворуч) і тримає в руці скрижаль одкровення. Він представляє померлих, тоді як Ілля Пророк, що піднісся на вогняній колісниці, виступає від імені живих.
Праворуч на вітрилі зображений Іоанн Євангеліст — автора Євангелія від Іоанна.
В 1708 году в Летнем саду начинают высаживать дубовую рощу. Из окрестностей строящегося Петербурга привозят 60 взрослых дубовых деревьев. Диаметр их ствола был от 16 до 20 см, высота до 6 метров. Деревья привозят вместе с родной землей. В посадке дубов принимает участие сам Петр I. Среди посаженных тогда деревьев был и дуб, растущий в Летнем саду в настоящее время. Этот самый дуб-патриарх Летнего сада перенес все природные и социальные катастрофы, которые обрушивались на город за более чем трехвековое существование.
Весной 2014 года сертификационной комиссией Всероссийской программы «Деревья – памятники живой природы», созданной в 2010 году Советом по сохранению природного наследия нации в Совете Федерации РФ по инициативе НПСА «Здоровый лес» и МГУ Леса, при поддержке Федерального агентства лесного хозяйства было принято решение присвоить петровскому дубу (более 360 лет) в Летнем саду звание: ДЕРЕВО — ПАМЯТНИК ЖИВОЙ ПРИРОДЫ
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In 1708, an oak grove began to be planted in the Summer Garden. 60 adult oak trees are brought from the environs of St. Petersburg under construction. Their trunk diameter was from 16 to 20 cm, height up to 6 meters. Trees are brought along with their native land. Peter I himself takes part in the planting of oaks. Among the trees planted at that time was an oak that grows in the Summer Garden at the present time. This very oak-patriarch of the Summer Garden endured all the natural and social disasters that have befallen the city for more than three centuries of existence.
In the spring of 2014, the certification commission of the All-Russian program "Trees - Monuments of Wildlife", created in 2010 by the Council for the Preservation of the Natural Heritage of the Nation in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation on the initiative of the National Forest Association "Healthy Forest" and Moscow State University of Forests, with the support of the Federal Forestry Agency, decided to assign Petrovsky oak (more than 360 years old) in the Summer Garden title: TREE - MONUMENT OF LIFE NATURE
На світлині погляд з центральної нави на бічну південну наву.
The photo shows a view from the central nave to the side southern nave.
The inner space of the cathedral is divided by eight pylons into three naves, of which the middle one is higher and wider than the side ones. The side naves are two-tiered, and the side altars are located on the upper choirs - Olginsky (from the south) and Borysoglibsky (from the north).
Внутрішній простір собору розділено вісьмома пілонами на три нави, з яких середня вища і ширша за бічні. Бічні нави двоярусні, на верхніх хорах розміщено бічні вівтарі — Ольгинський (з півдня) і Борисоглібський (з півночі).
В центрі світлини, на грані пілону зі сторони центральної нави, святий великомученик князь Михайло Ярославович Тверський, який прийняв мученицьку кончину в Орді. У лівій руці князя прибраний, на знак смирення, у піхви меч, у правій – хрест. Канонізований Російською православною церквою в 1549 в лику благовірних.
Художник Віктор Михайлович Васнєцов.
Михайло Ярославович народився вже після смерті свого батька - великого князя Ярослава Ярославича, рідного брата святого благовірного князя Олександра Невського, у (1271/1272 - 1318). У (1282 або 1286-1318) - князь Тверський, великий князь Володимирський (1305-1318).
Після смерті великого князя Андрія Олександровича (+ 1305) Михайло, по праву старшого, отримав у Орді ярлик на великокнязівський престол, але *Московський князь Юрій Данилович не підкорився йому, сам домагаючись великокнязівської влади і до кінця їхнього протистояння займав яскраво виражену проординську позицію. Михайло двічі ходив на Москву (1305 та 1308), але не зміг її взяти.
Після перемоги над Юрієм Даниловичем і союзними московському князю татарами в Бортенівській битві Узбек-хан розгнівався, погрожуючи розоренням княжої вотчини Михайла, і зажадав його до себе для відповіді. Не бажаючи проливати кров своіх воїнів у нерівній боротьбі з ханом, святий Михайло смиренно вирушив до Орди, розуміючи, що це загрожує йому смертю. В Орді над князем було влаштовано неправедний суд, який визнав його винним у непокорі хану та засудив до смерті. За наказом Узбек-хана його було вбито, після чого велике князювання перейшло до московського князя.
* Московський князь Юрій Данилович - син Данила Олександровича молодшого сина Олександра Невського.
In the side southern nave on the pillars are figures: Princess Efrosinia of Suzdal, Prince Davmont of Pskov, Princess Fevronia of Murom, Prince Peter of Murom.
Artist Pavlo Oleksandrovych Svedomskyi,
Svedomsky also painted six large paintings dedicated to the last days of Christ's earthly life - the frescoes "The Resurrection of Lazarus", "The Lord's Entry into Jerusalem", "The Last Supper", "Prayer for the Chalice", "Judgment of Pilate", he painted the ceilings of the cathedral,
У бічнїй південній наві на стовпах фігури: княгиня Єфросинія Суздальська, князь Давмонт Псковський, княгиня Февронія Муромська, князь Петро Муромський.
Художник Павло Олександрович Свєдомський (Свідомський),
Сведомський (Свідомський) також написав шість великих картин, присвячених останнім дням земного життя Христа - фрески "Воскресіння Лазаря", "В'їзд Господній до Єрусалиму", "Таємна вечеря", "Моління про чашу", "Суд Пілата", розписував плафони собору,
«It is difficult to find even more contradictory descriptions of the same person in various sources than this prince, who was born in 1111 from the “founder” of Moscow, Yuri Dolgoruky, and the daughter of the Polovtsian prince Aepa. Chronicles begin to mention Andrei Yurievich during the bloody struggle of his father with his nephew, Prince Izyaslav, for the throne of Kiev. Outstanding artists V.M.Vasnetsov and I.Ya.Bilibin made it very handsome in their works. The duality of the personality of Andrei Bogolyubsky can be traced even in the “Orthodox Theological Encyclopedic Dictionary”, published at the end of the 19th century in St. Petersburg. There: “..He had such a strong love for his homeland that he devoted his whole life to caring for her. His dislike for the south was also supported by the antipathy of the South Russian population (Kiev, Chernigov ... - V.K.) to his father, a really unpleasant person (Yuri Dolgoruky. - V.K.), and transferred from his father to him. The main concern of Prince Andrei was the devastating constant raids on his people living in the southern lands. He did not fight with the Polovtsy and other enemies of the Russian Land. Andrei Bogolyubsky, as all historians have noted, did not like, but rather hated, "Mother of Cities"! By his order, in March 1169, his son burned Kyiv, which was given over for plunder only once in its entire history for three days. The prince himself did not lag behind his warriors, destroying and stealing everything of value, even in the most revered place - the Kiev-Pechersk Monastery. On many icons and paintings, where the “pious” prince is tenderly depicted, he is with the icon of the Mother of God stolen a little earlier, in 1155, from Vyshgorod, according to one of the legends, written by the Evangelist Luke, according to another, by the icon painter Alipiy.»
Victor Kirkevich, - "Our newspaper", July 17, 1999
В центрі світлини, на грані пілону під аркою, яка веде до третього компартаменту (рахуючи від вівтаря) у західно-північній стороні, фреска - “Святий князь Андрій Боголюбський”.
Художник Віктор Михайлович Васнєцов.
«Важко знайти ще більш суперечливі описи однієї й тієї ж особистості в різних джерелах, ніж цього князя, який народився в 1111 від "засновника" Москви Юрія Довгорукого і дочки половецького князя Аепи.
Літописи починають згадувати Андрія Юрійовича під час кровопролитної боротьби його батька з племінником, князем Ізяславом за київський престол.
Видатні художники В.М.Васнецов та І.Я.Білібін у своїх роботах зробили його вельми благообразним, але ...
Подвійність особистості Андрія Боголюбського простежується навіть у “Православному богословському енциклопедичному словнику”, виданому наприкінці ХІХ століття С.-Петербурзі.
Там: “..Любов до батьківщини в нього була така сильна, що турботами про неї він присвятив усе життя. Нелюбов на південь підтримувала в ньому ще антипатія південноруського населення (Києва, Чернігова… — В.К.) до його батька, справді неприємної за характером людини (Юрій Довгорукий. – В.К.), а з його батька перенесеного на нього. Основною турботою князя Андрія були спустошливі постійні набіги на народ, що живе на південних землях. З половцями та іншими ворогами Землі Руської він не воював.
Юрій Довгорукий, як зазначали усі історики, не любив, а скоріше ненавидів “Мати міст”! За його наказом, Андрій у березні 1169 спалив Київ, який лише один раз за всю свою історію на три дні був відданий на розграбування. Сам князь не відставав від своїх вояк, руйнуючи і викрадаючи все, що представляло цінність, навіть у самому шанованому місці – Києво-Печерському монастирі.
На багатьох іконах і картинах, де розчулено зображений “благовірний” князь, він із вкраденою дещо раніше, у 1155 році, з Вишгорода іконою Богоматері, за одним із переказів написаної євангелістом Лукою, за іншим іконописцем Аліпієм.»
Віктор Киркевич, “Наша газета”, 17 липня 1999 року.
Abraham is the father of the multitude, a biblical character: the son of Terah, the father of Ishmael and Isaac. Ancestor of Jews, Arabs and other nations. The first of the three Jewish patriarchs (Abraham, Isaac, Jacob); the first to be called a Jew in the Bible (Gen. 14:13). In Islam, it corresponds to Ibrahim, the son of Azar.
In the New Testament, Abraham, along with Moses, is the most frequently mentioned Old Testament righteous man. The genealogy of Jesus is traced back to Abraham, the progenitor of all Jews: “The genealogy of Jesus Christ, the Son of David, the Son of Abraham” (Matthew 1:1).
In the Christian tradition, the image of Patriarch Abraham serves as a prototype of the highest piety and righteousness in both the Old and New Testaments. According to John Chrysostom, Abraham was the guardian and teacher of the faith and morality of his people among the pagans around him.
Церква преподобного Агапіта Печерського у Києво-Печерській Лаврі. Україна.
Зображення святого патріарха Авраама на світловому барабані, як одного з духовних праотців Церкви.
Згідно з Біблією, і з погляду юдаїзму Авраам — родоначальник старожитніх євреїв, перший в Біблії названий євреєм (а нащадки його онука Якова вже звуться ізраільтянами). З точки зору мусульман — також родоначальник арабів (агарян або ізмаїлтян — нащадків його сина Ізмаїла від Агар). З точки зору християнства (зокрема православ'я та католицизму), так само як усіх вищеназваних віровчень — один з трьох родоначальників маючи на увазі всього людства в духовному розумінні, тобто вчителів і духовних наставників, поряд з його сином Ісааком і онуком Яковом.
The Patriarchs are three neighboring sandstone peaks on the west side of Zion Canyon. Each is named after biblical fathers.
From left to right (south to north) they are Abraham Peak, Isaac Peak, and Jacob Peak. Abraham Peak is the tallest at 6,890 feet.
Last weekend I managed to get an additional day off for a three day photoblitz of 5 locations including the White Mountains, Seirra Nevada, Alabama Hills, Whitney Portal and Trona Pinnacles. First stop was Ancient Bristlecone Forest. When we arrived the weather was quite threatening and I was thrilled. Lightning striking every couple of minutes and thunder rolling through the clouds, and heading in our direction, It was quite thrilling. I was with my cousin and Flickr photographer Juvian Duff, so we jumped in the truck and managed to get out ahead of the storm slightly, when the clouds parted shooting some light down onto this hillside.
I've always wondered what lays at the end of a rainbow and on this day it was a whopper. It came in form of a chance meeting with Dr. Elliot McGucken. Dr "E" is an renowned professor that earned a BA in Theoretical Physics and a PHD in physics, His NSF funded research on an artificial retinal prosthesis is now helping the blind to see.
I have been following The Doc since I first joined Flickr, and I had always thought that the creator of the site was a female shooter having never taken the time to read the profile. Just the sheer beauty and creativity I guess made me automatically think "Female." Sorry Doc, that is intended as a compliment. :)
As I was driving "expeditiously" down the dirt road leading up to Patriarch Grove and rounded a corner while looking down at my GPS I might add, and found a vehicle parked off to one side on the dirt road. I was looking for this location because Wayne and I had marked it on the GPS as a possible MW comp under a glorious lone Bristlecone Tree, I stepped out of the truck and found The Doc shooting towards the same tree I had marked, waiting for a good lightning strike. Previously, I had made a personal pact to introduce myself to every photographer that I meet. Not just to get my name out there but I have met and made friends with several people that I found shooting at field locations. So, I introduced myself and we stood there chatting in a 20 mile per hour wind that was bustling across the ridge. I noticed that he was quite outgoing and well spoken so I ask him if he did any social networking and if he was a Flickr Member. He said he was and then told me his screen name was 45 Surf Oddessy. I immediately recognized the screen name from not only his glorious photos of magnificent landscapes, but an incredible collection of fabulous swimsuit portraits of beautiful ladies on the beach. We then started taking some photos together there but I was shaking so bad I couldn't hold the camera still, being in shorts and a T-Shirt at 10,000 ft in the wind, that was going to require a tripod and long pants. At this point the wind was so bad i think we both decided to head elsewhere and parted ways after exchanging contact info.
For all of those photographers that keep to themselves when on location, you are doing yourself a disservice. Introduce yourself and you will find it not only makes for a better experience on site but could possibly culminate in a great friendship as it has for me on several occasions.
Thanks Doc, It was great to make your acquaintance and I hope to get a chance to shoot with you again soon. :)
Here's a link to Dr. McGuckens awesome Flickr stream. Do yourself a favor and check him out, he writes great descriptions and is very forthcoming about his techniques and processes
www.flickr.com/photos/herosjourneymythology45surf/
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Il fortilizio della Brunelde, sorto su preesistenze preromane (IV-III sec. a.C) è nominato già nel 1208 in un elenco di beni feudali dei conti d’Arcano, marescalchi e confalonieri del patriarca d’Aquileia, ai quali tuttora appartiene. Fin dal ‘200 è documentata una casa-torre di circa 6x7 metri di lato (il cui piano terreno corrisponde all’attuale cucina ‘vecchia’) che già nel secolo successivo venne ampliata diventando una dimora protetta da recinti e da un largo fossato. Le forme attuali risalgono a Giovanni Nicolò d’Arcano che negli anni 1498-1504 e 1512-18 risistemò radicalmente il complesso destinandolo al riposo e alla caccia. Il tutto secondo i suggerimenti del fratello Rizzardo - umanista e diplomatico presso la curia papale - che al pian terreno dell’ala di ponente volle riproporre lo schema distributivo ‘alla romana’ e che scelse dall’Eneide di Virgilio i motti latini inseriti in clipei contornati da racemi che ornano l’atrio d’ingresso, secondo un preciso progetto di esaltazione della mente e dello spirito umani. I grandi lavori rinascimentali furono conclusi nel 1518 con l’edificazione della piccola cappella di San Nicolò, dove al suo interno è ancora conservata la reliquia ‘della vera Croce’, secondo la tradizione portata da Leonardo III d’Arcano nel 1270 di ritorno dall’ottava crociata. Fino al secolo XV la casata era comunemente denominata ‘de Tricano’ per i tre cani alzati come stemma, uniti agli scacchi d’argento e di rosso, e per questo motivo la residenza signorile che crebbe a ovest dell’originale casa-torre fu chiamata domus magna Tricanea, distinguendosi dal settore meramente agricolo che si distribuiva a est, con stalle, scuderie, canipe e granai. La domus magna Tricanea si mostra tuttora con arredi, ritratti e memorie famigliari; fra gli interni si segnalano lo studiolo che fu del poeta Gian Mauro d’Arcano (1498 circa-1536), dove è conservato parte dell’archivio storico della casata, con documenti e pergamene originali dall’XI secolo, la ‘caminata’ con le pareti dipinte a scacchi bianchi e rossi, la cucina cinquecentesca, il saloncino e la camera da letto che ospitarono nel ‘700 il celebre cantante Farinelli. Suggestivi anche i giardini, in particolare il ‘giardino alto’ con i resti dell’antica ‘ragnaia’ per la caccia.
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The Brunelde fortress, built on pre-Roman buildings (IV-III century BC), was already mentioned in 1208 in a list of feudal properties of the counts of Arcano, marescalchi and confalonieri of the patriarch of Aquileia, to which it still belongs. A tower house of about 6x7 meters on each side (whose ground floor corresponds to the current 'old' kitchen) has been documented since the 1200s, and was expanded already in the following century, becoming a dwelling protected by fences and a large moat. The current forms date back to Giovanni Nicolò d’Arcano who in the years 1498-1504 and 1512-18 radically rearranged the complex, destining it for rest and hunting. All according to the suggestions of his brother Rizzardo - humanist and diplomat at the papal curia - who on the ground floor of the west wing wanted to re-propose the 'Roman-style' distribution scheme and who chose the Latin mottos inserted in contoured clypei from Virgil's Aeneid. from racemes that decorate the entrance hall, according to a specific project of exaltation of the human mind and spirit. The great Renaissance works were completed in 1518 with the construction of the small chapel of San Nicolò, where the relic 'of the true Cross' is still preserved inside, according to the tradition brought by Leonardo III d'Arcano in 1270 on his return from eighth crusade. Until the 15th century the family was commonly called 'de Tricano' due to the three dogs raised as a coat of arms, combined with silver and red chess pieces, and for this reason the noble residence that grew west of the original tower house was called domus magna Tricanea, distinguishing itself from the purely agricultural sector that was distributed to the east, with stables, stables, canipe and granaries. The domus magna Tricanea still shows itself with furnishings, portraits and family memories; among the interiors there is the study that belonged to the poet Gian Mauro d'Arcano (circa 1498-1536), where part of the historical archive of the family is kept, with original documents and parchments from the 11th century, the 'caminata' with walls painted with red and white checks, the sixteenth-century kitchen, the sitting room and the bedroom that hosted the famous singer Farinelli in the eighteenth century. The gardens are also suggestive, in particular the 'high garden' with the remains of the ancient 'ragnaia' for hunting.
www.google.it/maps/place/La+Brunelde,+casaforte+d'Arcano,...
Two of the disciples went to the village of Emmaus, which is located sixty stadia from Jerusalem, and talked about everything that had happened. And while they were talking and arguing, suddenly Jesus Himself came up and joined them, but they were as if blinded and did not recognize Him. Jesus asked them:
– What are you talking about among yourselves on the way? They stopped with sad faces. One of them, whose name was Cleopas, replied:
“You seem to be the only one who came to Jerusalem who does not know about what happened these days.
- About what? - He asked.
“About what happened to Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered. “He was a prophet, strong before God and before men in word and deed. The high priests and our leaders condemned Him to death and crucified Him. And we hoped that He was the One who should free Israel. But this is the third day since all this happened. However, some of our women surprised us. They went early this morning to the tomb, and not finding His body there, they returned and told us that angels appeared to them and said that He was alive. Then some of our friends went to the tomb and found everything there, as the women said, but they did not see Him.
Jesus told them:
– How stupid you are, how slow-witted you are to believe everything that the prophets foretold! Didn't Christ have to go through all this suffering and then enter into His glory?
And He went into the house and stayed with them. At the table Jesus took the bread, blessed it, broke it and gave it to them. Then their eyes were opened and they recognized Him. But He became invisible to them.
Luke 24:13-35 /free presentation/
The New Jerusalem Monastery was founded in 1656 in the Moscow region by Patriarch Nikon. According to his plan, the monastery was to become the center of the Orthodox world. Topography, place names, church buildings of the monastery and the surrounding area, stretching for several tens of kilometers, created the image of the Holy Land and reproduced the main Christian shrines of Palestine. On the hill located in the center of this territory, called Zion, a monastery was founded - a kind of city-temple. Some buildings of the monastery complex repeat the outlines of the structures of the Holy Land, and the main cathedral of the monastery, consecrated in 1685, was built in the likeness of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. The cathedral reproduces the sacred likenesses of Mount Calvary, the cave of the Holy Sepulcher, the place of the three-day burial and the Life-giving Resurrection of the Savior. The towers also have symbolic names: Entry Jerusalem, Gethsemane, etc. The hills surrounding the monastery were called the Olives, Favorsky, etc., the villages - Preobrazhenskoe, Nazareth, Capernaum. The fast winding river Istra, named Jordan, flows through the land of Russian Palestine; the stream flowing around the monastery hill is the Kidron Stream. Nowadays, a significant part of the territory is occupied by the city of Istra, which until 1930 was called Voskresenskoye.
In 1919 the monastery was closed, on its territory the New Jerusalem museum was opened, the holy places were partly destroyed, partly consigned to oblivion and changed beyond recognition.
Having begun to decay even after it was closed, the monastery suffered greatly during the Great Patriotic War. During the three-week German occupation in 1941, the museum was looted. During the retreat of the Nazi troops, the monastery was blown up, the tower and the bell tower of the monastery were destroyed, and the cathedral was significantly damaged.
Restoration work at the monastery began in 1947; they were carried out especially intensively in the 1960s and 1980s.
In 1994, the process of transferring the buildings of the monastery to the Russian Orthodox Church began. Jul 18, 1994
Full-scale restoration activities began in December 2011. The restoration of the Resurrection Cathedral was completed in 2015.
Three peaks in Zion with clouds rising over them.
Notes on peaks:
Court of the Patriarchs.
Left most prominent peak is Abraham Peak at 2126 meters.
Middle prominent peak is Isaac Peak at 2030 meters.
Right prominent peak is Mount Morini at 1656 meters.
Behind Mount Morini is Jacob Peak at 2066 meters.
L'attuale castello duecentesco è sorto sulle strutture di una precedente costruzione fortificata forse anteriore al X secolo. Durante il Medioevo si chiamò di Tricano per via dei tre cani neri presenti sullo stemma nobiliare dei feudatari. Questi avevano ottenuto dal patriarca l'importante carica ereditaria di marescialli e confalonieri della Chiesa Aquileiese e tale posizione li coinvolse in quasi tutte le lotte feudali da XIV al XV secolo. Nel 1420 passò sotto il dominio della Repubblica di Venezia e nel 1511 dopo le vicende della rivolta contadina del "giovedì grasso" fu ristrutturata la parte centrale. Al castello è legata la misteriosa vicenda di Francesco d'Arcano che nel 1635 aveva sposato Todeschina di Prampero e l'aveva uccisa a pugnalate per gelosia. Todeschina prima di morire scrisse col sangue le sue iniziali TP su un muro del castello, queste erano ancora visibili fino al 1976. Francesco fece murare il cadavere che fu ritrovato agli inizi del Novecento durante lavori di restauro. Le strutture del castello sono ben conservate con la notevole doppia cinta murari, il fossato, la torre porta dove un tempo vi era il ponte levatoio in legno. All'interno vi sono la domus residenziale, con bifore duecentesche e gli edifici rustici annessi.
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FVG - Rive d'Arcano, Tricano castle. Unfortunately closed, we could not enter to photograph some glimpses, only this shot through the gate.
The current thirteenth-century castle was built on the structures of a previous fortified construction perhaps prior to the tenth century. During the Middle Ages it was called di Tricano because of the three black dogs present on the noble coat of arms of the feudal lords. These had obtained from the patriarch the important hereditary office of marshals and confaloniers of the Aquileian Church and this position involved them in almost all feudal struggles from the fourteenth to the fifteenth century. In 1420 it passed under the dominion of the Republic of Venice and in 1511 after the events of the peasant revolt of "Fat Thursday" the central part was restructured. The castle is linked to the mysterious story of Francesco d'Arcano who in 1635 married Todeschina di Prampero and stabbed her out of jealousy. Todeschina before dying wrote her initials TP of her in her blood on a wall of the castle, these were still visible until 1976. Francesco had the corpse walled up and it was found at the beginning of the twentieth century during restoration works. The structures of the castle are well preserved with the remarkable double walls, the moat, the gate tower where once there was the wooden drawbridge. Inside there is the residential domus, with 13th century mullioned windows and the annexed rustic buildings.
17 июня 2012 года, в неделю 2-ю по Пятидесятнице, Всех святых, в земле Российской просиявших, Святейший Патриарх Московский и всея Руси Кирилл совершил чин великого освящения соборного храма святого благоверного князя Игоря Черниговского в подмосковном Переделкине и первую Божественную литургию в новоосвященном храме. Идею создать церковь с яркими куполами необычной формы и фактуры питерские умельцы из "Гильдии мастеров" позаимствовали у московского Храма Василия Блаженного, что на Красной площади.Авторы нынешнего проекта фарфоровых куполов более полугода бились над, казалось бы, неразрешимой задачей - как создать необычные праздничные маковки церкви, которые бы не только не были похожи на другие, но и были долговечны.
Главный купол храма высотой примерно с трехэтажный дом и почти десятиметрового диаметра. Основной его цвет ярко-синий. Однако, гамма не будет однотонной - предусмотрены и другие краски."Купол слагается из 24 округлых долек кобальтового цвета, а каждая из них разделена между собой фарфоровыми валиками, которые покрыты специальным керамическим золотом. Это 12-процентный раствор золота в растительных маслах. Он наносится, как краска, кисточкой, а потом его обжигают до 850 градусов. После этого золото как бы прикипает к фарфоровой поверхности и становится не подверженным никаким погодным воздействиям".
................................................................................................On June 17, 2012, in the 2nd week of Pentecost, All Saints who have shone forth in the land of Russia, His Holiness Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia performed the rite of the great consecration of the cathedral church of the Holy Prince Igor of Chernigov in Peredelkin near Moscow and the first Divine Liturgy in the newly consecrated church.
St. Petersburg craftsmen from the Guild of Masters borrowed the idea to create a church with bright domes of unusual shape and texture from the Moscow St. Basil's Cathedral on Red Square.The authors of the current project of porcelain domes have been struggling for more than six months over a seemingly unsolvable task - how to create unusual festive church tops that would not only be unlike others, but also be durable.
The main dome of the temple is about the height of a three-story house and almost ten meters in diameter. Its main color is bright blue. However, the range will not be monotonous - other colors are provided."The dome consists of 24 rounded lobules of cobalt color, and each of them is divided among themselves by porcelain rollers, which are covered with special ceramic gold. This is a 12% solution of gold in vegetable oils. It is applied like paint with a brush, and then it is burned to 850 degrees. After that, the gold seems to stick to the porcelain surface and becomes unaffected by any weather influences."
Het Nationaal park Zion is een natuurreservaat in de Verenigde Staten. Het werd in 1909 een National Monument, en in 1919 een National Park, in 1937 werd het park uitgebreid met Kolob.
De naam ‘Zion’ kreeg dit park van mormoonse pioniers in 1860. De mormonen of "Heiligen van Jezus Christus van de laatste dagen" zijn een religie die vooral in Utah gevestigd is. Afgeleid van het Bijbelse ‘Zion’, kreeg dit voor hen de betekenis van een plek van rust en veiligheid. Ook de naam Kolob komt uit hun geschriften,[1] het betekent: de eerste schepping, een plek dichtbij God. Rond 2000 jaar geleden leefden hier "Anasazi" of oude Pueblo-volkeren, tot ongeveer 800 jaar geleden. Toen leefde de stam van de Paiute hier tot de mormoonse pioniers aankwamen.
Het park heeft 800 soorten planten, 75 soorten zoogdieren, 271 vogels, 32 reptielen en amfibieën en 8 soorten vis. Voorbeelden hiervan zijn herten, hagedissen en bedreigde diersoorten zoals de slechtvalk, de gevlekte bosuil en de wilgenfeetiran.
Enkele natuurlijke verschijnselen in het park zijn Zion Narrows, Emerald Pools, Hidden Canyon, Angels Landing, The Great White Throne, Checkerboard Mesa, The Three Patriarchs, Kolob Canyons en Kolob Arch.
It wasn’t the first time I’d heard him say it, but there was no time at which those words seemed more relevant. I’d just arrived back at the campsite after a testing adventure that had taken me to the summit of Britain’s highest mountain and back, Ben Nevis. Five and a bit hours earlier I’d set off, part of a group of five on a grey July Saturday morning. Soft rain and mist wove a dampening conspiracy around us, and long before we were halfway up, the land below had vanished entirely. But it had been today or never for me on this middle instalment of three mountains in three days in the Scottish Highlands. Two of us were much faster than the other three and our brief stops to wait for them were rapidly abandoned so that we could keep on moving and stay warm. At the summit, a huge cornice of grainy snow covered the edge of the deadly north face. We didn’t stay at the top for long, huddling among the stone ruins of an abandoned shelter and taking the obligatory summit selfies. On the way down, the zip on my coat broke, and for the rest of the descent I was dogged by sixty mile per hour rain charged gusts that turned me into a sail and quickly soaked me to the core.
“The only thing that’s waterproof is skin!” said James as he peered grimly into the rain out of what I can only describe as a one man teepee. “Tea? Sausage sandwich?” I gratefully accepted, before trudging off squelchily to the campsite laundry where just about everything I had worn was poured into an industrial sized tumble dryer. Even my rucksack and ahem, yes my passport that had inexplicably been with me on the hike went in as I sat in a chair and gradually felt my senses return. It might have been July, but nobody had remembered to tell the Scottish Highlands.
James was always resourceful on these hiking adventures. The much loved patriarch of a Clydebank family, we first met him on the West Highland Way ten years ago as we hiked the hundred odd miles from Milngavie, just north of Glasgow, to Fort William. A man who seemed bigger in stature than he actually stood, he was one of those people who emanated warmth and humour behind which you could sense was a quiet layer of hidden steel. A man who earned our respect without trying to. He was accompanied by several members of his family, including his daughter Karen, who’d taken it upon herself to watch over us like a guardian angel as we made our way north through some of the most beautiful scenery imaginable. Each day we all finished at the same hostel or campsite where we would share stories of our adventures over a pint or three, and by the time we arrived in the streets of Fort William during a torrential downpour, the three of us that had started a week earlier had somehow snowballed into a group of twenty.
There were no beds at Fort William that night. We’d intended to sleep in our tents, but the campsite was flooded. A different year, but it was still July. After a lot of frantic searching, Karen appeared with the rescue plan. Alder and Anna, the young teachers from North Carolina we’d befriended and walked every step of the last two and a half days with, would be smuggled into the long since booked hotel room she and Louise were sharing, while Dave, Tom and I would sneak in with James. If James was at all disgruntled by the fact that he was about to share his long awaited hotel room with three people he’d only met a few days ago, he certainly didn’t show it. Instead, he just grinned and poured the whisky. Such effortless kindness is a rare and special thing. James had it in abundance. And since that first adventure, he’s featured in each of the ones we’ve had in Scotland.
Three years later we did the hike again, this time in a Mediterranean style heatwave. But not in July - this time we were in Scotland in May. And somehow I persuaded Ali to come with me, on what was her first ever trip to Scotland. Once again, there was James, now almost in his seventieth year, always magically producing a hip flask full of single malt at the moment it was most needed. I wondered whether there was a lorry following us - or a boat during the very long section of the trail on the remote east bank of Loch Lomond - topping up his hip flask when the rest of us weren’t watching.
Last summer we were back in Scotland for the first time in five years, invited by Alder and Anna to join them on a long overdue reunion hike along the Great Glen. Afterwards, Ali and I trekked the Rannoch Moor section of the West Highland Way alone. Back in 2018 she’d decided to skip the testing haul across the huge open wilderness and regretted it ever since, while I was more than happy to follow that path for a third time. But it turned into yet another July afternoon in the Highlands when the heavens opened and obliterated the landscape. From start to end we were soaked by bullets from the sky, although at least this time the coats kept out the worst of it as we trod the boggy twelve miles across mountain and moor. On a fine day it’s a stunning walk, but in heavy rain it’s sheer purgatory with nowhere to throw in the towel and wait to be rescued by the bus or a taxi.
A couple of days later we met up with James and his wife Joanne who’d joined Karen to visit us at our waterfront pitch on the campsite beside the east bank of Loch Lomond, not far from their home. At least the rain mostly stayed at bay for once. We spent the time drinking tea and reminiscing about those wonderful shared adventures on the trail, and the day Karen and I hiked up to the summit of Buachaille Etive Mor, only to be surrounded by yet another thick veil of suffocating fog. Also in July. Catching up with friends like these was among the highlights of a road trip that we’ll never forget. It was a surprise though to hear that James no longer touched the whisky. Even a beer was politely refused when I dug a couple of cans out of the fridge.
Three weeks ago we learned that James had died suddenly while overseas on holiday with Joanne. A heart attack we were told. He was seventy-five. It doesn’t seem that old, and nor did James. Such a generous and unassuming man. The sad news took me back to the memory of that soaking wet hike across Rannoch Moor, when I smiled through the mist as I heard his well worn mantra speaking across the hills to me in that unmistakable Clydeside accent - “The only thing that’s waterproof is skin!” He’d have loved an afternoon like this. Slàinte James. This one’s for you.
My brother Dave made a video of the 2015 hike: youtu.be/LUjhj2ojeX0?si=1cOJLsAv2Qln-O8a
And despite the fact that his was so much better, I made one of the 2018 hike: youtu.be/Qjq47Wiyko8
Ponte Sant'Angelo, originally the Aelian Bridge or Pons Aelius, is a Roman bridge in Rome, Italy, completed in 134 AD by Roman Emperor Hadrian (Publius Aelius Hadrianus), to span the Tiber from the city centre to his newly constructed mausoleum, now the towering Castel Sant'Angelo. The bridge is faced with travertine marble and spans the Tiber with five arches, three of which are Roman; it was approached by means of a ramp from the river. The bridge is now solely pedestrian and provides a scenic view of Castel Sant'Angelo. It links the rioni of Ponte (which was named after the bridge itself), and Borgo, to whom the bridge administratively belongs
Starting with the early Middle Ages, the original name was forgotten: after the ruin of Nero's Bridge, pilgrims were forced to use this bridge to reach St Peter's Basilica, hence it was known also with the name of "bridge of Saint Peter" (pons Sancti Petri). In the sixth century, under Pope Gregory I, both the castle and the bridge took on the name Sant'Angelo, explained by a legend that an angel appeared on the roof of the castle to announce the end of the plague. Dante writes in his Divine Comedy that during the jubilee of 1300, due to the large number of pilgrims going and coming from Saint Peter, two separate lanes were arranged on the bridge. During the 1450 jubilee, balustrades of the bridge collapsed, due to the great crowds of the pilgrims, and many drowned in the river. In response, some houses at the head of the bridge as well as a Roman triumphal arch were pulled down in order to widen the route for pilgrims.
In 1535, Pope Clement VII allocated the toll income of the bridge to erecting the statues of the apostles Saint Peter (holding a book, with the pedestal inscription Rione XIV) by Lorenzetto, and Saint Paul (holding a broken sword and a book, with the pedestal inscription Borgo) by Paolo Romano to which subsequently the four evangelists and the patriarchs were added to other statues representing Adam, Noah, Abraham, and Moses. For centuries after the 16th century, the bridge was used to expose the bodies of those executed in the nearby Piazza di Ponte, at the left bridge head. In 1669 Pope Clement IX commissioned replacements for the aging stucco angels by Raffaello da Montelupo, commissioned by Paul III. Bernini's program, one of his last large projects, called for ten angels holding instruments of the Passion: he personally only finished the two originals of the Angel with the Superscription "I.N.R.I." and the Angel with the Crown of Thorns, but these were kept by Clement IX for his own pleasure. They are now in the church of Sant'Andrea delle Fratte, also in Rome.
At the end of the 19th century, due to the works for the construction of the Lungotevere, the two Roman ramps which linked the bridge with the two banks were destroyed, and in their place two arches similar to the Roman ones were built.
For the Great Jubilee in 2000, the Lungotevere on the right bank between the bridge and the castle became a pedestrian area.
On 21 October 2019 Austrian activist Alexander Tschugguel threw five Pachamama statues, which he had stolen from a display at Santa Maria in Traspontina as part of the Amazon Synod, and threw them off of the bridge into the Tiber.
The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral of Tallinn is an Eastern Orthodox cathedral in central Tallinn, Estonia. It was built in 1894–1900, when the country was part of the former Russian Empire. The cathedral is the city's largest cupola church. The late Patriarch Alexy II of Moscow (1929–2008) started his priestly ministry in the cathedral. It is the primary cathedral of the semi-autonomous Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate.
The cathedral was built onto the Toompea hill in central Tallinn to a design by architect Mikhail Preobrazhensky in a typical Russian Revival style in 1894–1900.The church is dedicated to the grand prince of Kiev, and later Russian orthodox saint, Alexander Nevsky.
The cathedral is richly decorated and has eleven bells cast in Saint Petersburg, the largest of which weighs about 16 tons, more than the other ten combined. It has three altars, with the northern altar dedicated to Vladimir I and the southern to St. Sergius of Radonezh.
The base of the building is Finnish granite. In the five onion domes, gilded iron crosses are seen. Inside are three gilded, carved wooden iconostases, along with four icon boxes. The icons of the iconostasis and icon boxes were painted in Saint Petersburg on copper and zinc plates. The windows are decorated with stained glass.
The cathedral was built during the period of late 19th century Russification and has been disliked by many Estonians as a symbol of former Russian oppression.
During the 1944–1991 Soviet occupation of Estonia, as the Soviet regime was officially non-religious, many churches including the cathedral were left to fall into disrepair. The building and its interior have been meticulously restored since Estonia regained full independence in 1991.
The Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, known in the East as The Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the Temple, is a liturgical feast celebrated on November 21 by the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, and some Anglo-Catholic Churches.
Righteous Joachim and Anna (left) fulfilled their desire for a child with a vow to dedicate their child to the service of God. As soon as Mary was three years old, she was presented to the Temple.
The head priest at the temple at that time was Zacharias, the husband of the niece of Mary’s mother Anna, Elizabeth. He is the future father of Saint John the Baptist.
The Eastern Orthodox Church celebrates it on November 21 as one of its twelve Great Feasts. For those churches which follow the Julian Calendar, November 21 falls on December 4 of the modern Gregorian Calendar. In the Orthodox Church the feast always falls during the Nativity Fast, and on the day of the feast the fasting rules are lessened somewhat so that fish, wine, and oil may be eaten.
St. Cyril's Monastery was founded in 1140 by Vsevolod Olgovich, the Kniaz (prince) of Chernigov, in the Dorohozhychi neighbourhood of Kyiv and named after his heavenly protector, Cyril of Alexandria. In the second half of the 12th century, Princess Maria, Vsevolod's widow, built the stone church of St. Cyril, which served as an ancestral burial place of the Olgovichi family.
The three feasts of the Birthday of Our Lady, the Holy Name of Mary, and her Presentation in the Temple correspond in the Marian cycle with the first three feasts of the cycle of feasts of Jesus: namely, Christmas, the Holy Name of Jesus, and His Presentation at the Temple.
Композиція "Введення Богородиці до храму" на південній частині західної стіни центральної нави, 4-й ярус. Олія ХІХ ст. Загальний вигляд.
Робота художника Михайла Кліманова (1853-1909), яка повторює ктиторський сюжет, цілком відповідає старовинному канонічному стилю XII століття, справді цікава й справляє гарне враження на тлі фресок XII століття. Серед відновленої фрески залишено фрагмент ктиторськоі фрески ХІІ ст.
Праведні Йоаким і Анна (ліворуч) виконали своє бажання про дитину з обітницею присвятити дитину на служіння Богові. Як тільки Марії виповнилося три роки, її представили до Храму.
Головним священиком у храмі в той час був Захарія, чоловік Єлизавети, племінниці матері Марії Анни. Це майбутній батько святого Івана Хрестителя.
“У сцені «Введення Марії до храму» зображені Анна і Іоаким – батьки маленької трирічної Марії, які ведуть в храм свою дочку. У правому верхньому куті композиції, відповідно до хронології подій, виконано сюжет Благовіщення. Особливість сцени полягає у тому, що в одній композиції об’єднано два сюжети, а також у тому, що Марію у сцені Благовіщення, на відміну від чисельних аналогічних сюжетів, зображено зовсім маленькою дівчинкою.”
Слід зазначити, що у монументальних розписах сюжет “Введення Богородиці до храму” зустрічається з ІХ століття. У системі храмового розпису композиції “Введення у храм” і “Стрітення Господнє” нерідко зіставляються.
В XII ст. стіни Кирилівської церкви були розписані фресками, відповідно до іконографічних канонів. У XVII ст. фресковий живопис храму був частково поновлений темперними фарбами. У XVIII ст., під час ремонту, стіни храму не розписали, а лише потинькували та побілили.
У 1880-х у церкві відбувались реставраційні роботи під керівництвом професора Петербурзького університету, відомого мистецтвознавця Адріяна Прахова (1846-1916). Тоді з-під багатовікових нашарувань тиньку та живопису було відкрито унікальний давньоруський стінопис. Але згодом фрески поновили олійними фарбами.
* A little later, I will take pictures of the entire temple.
Churches with tent-like domes.
One of the most picturesque churches in Moscow and the last major tent-like church in the history of Russian architecture. The church was commissioned by Tsar Alexis Mikhailovich in 1649 in order to grace a highway leading from Moscow to the Trinity Monastery. Construction works were completed within three years. As the story goes, Patriarch Nikon, when passing the church on his way to the Trinity Monastery, was so scandalized by its unorthodox design that he prohibited the construction of tent-like churches altogether.
The Soviet authorities closed the church in 1938 but they also funded repair works in 1957.
Divine services in the church have been resumed since August 1991.
The Three Patriarchs is a set of three sandstone monoliths in Zion National Park. The cliff in front is known as the Court of the Three Patriarchs.
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The fort, built on pre-existing pre-Roman (IV-III century BC) is already mentioned in 1208 in a list of feudal property of the Counts of Arcano, marshals and confalonieri of the Patriarch of Aquileia, until the fifteenth century called 'de Tricano' for the three blacks dogs present in the emblem.
The original thirteenth-century tower-house (the ground floor corresponds to the current old kitchen) already in the fourteenth century expanded into a mansion protected by walled enclosures, wooden palisades and to the west by a wide moat, with a large courtyard with well and cistern. Between 1498 and 1518 the complex was expanded by Giovanni Nicolò d'Arcano. The Magna domus tricanea - so since the fourteenth century is called the manor house - is still inhabited by the original family that, after a period of neglect, following a restoration began in the early 80s, has elected it as its principal residenc: eight hundred years of history that allow the visitor a real 'dip' back in time.
Zion ist nicht nur eine Schlucht, durch die der Virgin-River im Sommer leise plaudernd dahin gluckert sondern ein ausgedehntes Gebiet besonderen Gesteins. Denn anders als der Bryce Canyon liegt Zion nicht auf dem Colorado Plateau sondern auf dem Markagunt Plateau. Der Virgin River hat in den 13 Millionen Jahren, seitdem diese Region angehoben wurde, tiefe Schluchten in den Felsen gefräst. So sind Bryce und Zion, obwohl sie nah beieinander liegen, komplett verschieden in ihrem Aussehen. Da die obersten Schichten des Sandsteins wasserdurchlässig sind, wäscht sich der "Zement", der das Sandgestein zusammen hält, langsam aus. Infolge dessen wird der Stein brüchig. Die Erosion verändert durch das einsickernde Wasser aber nicht nur die Gestalt der Felsen, sondern auch dessen Farbe. Die Eisenoxide, die den Stein charakteristisch rot färben, werden ausgewaschen.
Dieses junge Horsegirl kam unverhofft des Weges. Ich musste sie einfach fotografisch mitnehmen. Im Hintergrund ist die Gesteinsformation "The three patriarchs" zu sehen.
2019 Zion
We spent two nights at Kiwi Saddle Hut to do a day walk up to Luna Tops. I only went as far as a gorgeous little tarn below the tops.
This is a three vertical images stitch panorama of the tarn with Mt Patriarch in the distance.
Kahurangi National Park, New Zealand
Detail of the slope of Isaac in the Court of the Three Patriarchs in Zion National Park, Utah
Others from this trip are in the Album www.flickr.com/photos/thadz/albums/72157660032324601
- Robert Frost.
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The first time I visited Zion Park and hiked the Virgin Narrows, the most challenging thing was to stay focused on the hike. I was tempted to stop at every rapid we passed and take long exposure images. Over time, I've become more patient and calmer in seizing opportunities. It took me a few visits to find this viewpoint of the three Patriarchs of Zion. The park was in the middle of a particularly cold spell, and the morning was brutal. Once I found the spot, I only wanted to spend a little time finding the image I had in my mind. After capturing a few initial images, I wanted to leave due to the cold, but the small waterfall caught my interest. So, I decided to stay a bit longer, even though I could no longer feel my toes. I experimented with a couple of shutter speeds before settling on the one that gave me beautiful cascading water over the rock ledge. This viewpoint and the images I captured there were my favorites from the trip.
The Resurrection New Jerusalem Monastery of the Stauropegic (Воскресе́нский Новоиерусали́мский ставропигиальный мужской монастырь, г. Истра Московской области)
Camera: Olympus OM-1n
Lens: Zuiko Auto-W 28mm f/ 2.8
Film: Agfa Vista Plus 400
Filter: No filter
Scanned by Minolta Dimage ScanElite 5400 by VueScan
The New Jerusalem Monastery was founded in 1656 in Moscow by Patriarch Nikon. According to his plan, the monastery was to become the center of the Orthodox world. Topography, toponymy, church buildings of the monastery and the surrounding territory, stretching for several tens of kilometers, created the image of the Holy Land and reproduced the main Christian shrines of Palestine. On a hill in the center of this territory, which was called Zion, a monastery was founded - a peculiar city-temple. Some buildings of the monastery complex repeat the outlines of the buildings of the Holy Land, and the main cathedral of the monastery, consecrated in 1685, is built in the likeness of the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem. In the cathedral, the sacred similarities of Mount Golgotha, the caves of the Holy Sepulcher, the place of the three-day burial and the Life-giving Resurrection of the Savior are reproduced. The towers also have symbolic names: the Wojido Jerusalem, Gethsemane, etc. The hills surrounding the monastery were called the Mount of Olives, Favorsky, etc., villages - Preobrazhensky, Nazareth, Capernaum. On the land of Russian Palestine, a fast, tortuous river flows Istria, which received the name of the Jordan; The creek that flows around the monastery hill is the Kidron stream. Now a significant part of the territory is occupied by the city of Istra, which until 1930 was called Voskresensk.
Beginning to deteriorate even after the closure, the monastery suffered greatly during the Great Patriotic War. During the three-week German occupation in 1941, the museum was looted. When the fascist troops retreated, the monastery was blown up, the tower and bell tower of the monastery were destroyed, and the cathedral was significantly damaged.
Restoration and restoration work in the monastery began in 1947; especially intensively they were conducted in 1960-80s.
On March 6, 2009, the President of the Russian Federation D.A. Medvedev signed a decree "On measures to recreate the historical appearance of the Resurrection New Jerusalem Jerusalem Stauropegic Monastery of the Russian Orthodox Church."
Full-scale restoration activities were started in December 2011. The restoration of the Resurrection Cathedral was completed in 2015.
By 2014, near Voskresensky Cathedral, the bell tower destroyed in 1941 by German troops was restored and new bells were installed.
Restoration of the monastery, which represents the only successful attempt to recreate the image of the Holy Land, cost 10 billion rubles, of which almost 1 billion 300 million were national donations. By the end of 2016, the restoration work in the monastery was completed.