Hints and tips:
...Afterwards he felt he was no longer worthy of a career in the church. Instead he found a new vocation in the booming postwar industry of espionage....
...A light beam passing from Giotto’s flying Christ to the saint animates the golden, vertical “St Francis Receiving the Stigmata”....
...Jane Seymour has darting flashes of wit; Anna of Cleves is repulsive only to the king — to everyone else she is a perfectly pleasant young woman lost in a terrible place....
...Church....
...I really believe that in buying this baroque art I have acted out Christ’s true meaning of that verse.”...
...We dined in an upstairs room, with a view of the spire of St Mary’s church bathed in moonlight. The theme was French but the food was Irish....
...Evans attended church up until the age of 12. “I stopped believing in God but I missed church,” she tells me....
...After all, as James Joyce pointed out, the Church of Rome was built on a pun, when Christ chose Peter (Petrus) as the rock (petra) of its foundation....
...Still, Bologna remains one of Italy’s most pleasant cities....
...Or camping out on Mt Deborah, where we talk about death and watch the hard petals of pine-cones flare and glow in the fire....
...Like the “Portinari Triptych”, the painting originally adorned the Church of Sant’Egidio in the Florentine hospital of Santa Maria Nuova....
...This church overlooks the Place du Marché, a perfectly proportioned square disputed at this hour by farmers and little boys playing soccer....
...But to make myself feel better, I visited the Cagsawa ruins, the bell-tower of a Catholic church near the base of Mayon....
...The partridge, on the same interpretation, is Christ....
...Its size – 250 sq ft – and low ceilings hint at its original purpose but it still offers a pleasant view of the street outside....
...Before that, every community kept its own - or rather the sun’s - time: Oxford, for example, being roughly five minutes behind London, a convention still observed at Christ Church cathedral, where evensong...
...The church has a plain exterior, but its interior is full of iconography: Jesus Christ, Mary, the saints....
...In the small Ohio town of Greenville, many voters told me they support Bush because he shares their belief in Christ....
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