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...By the time it arrived at Christ Church in 1765, Jacopo Bassano’s late-16th-century “Entombment of Christ”, a fully coloured, animated oil sketch on paper made in preparation for a church commission in Padua...
...Christ Church has been unique among Oxford’s colleges, in that its dean was also head of the city’s cathedral, located on the same site....
...At the Barbican, MacMillan conducted the first UK performance of his Fiat Lux, following its premiere last year at Costa Mesa, California, where it marked the rededication of Christ cathedral....
...In the last week of February, a large billboard appeared across the street from Mike Johnson’s home church in Benton, Louisiana....
...Coffee-Bike at St Paul’s Cathedral Warwick Lane, London EC4M 8AD Good for: Experiencing a London landmark Not so good for: Quiet contemplation....
...They also have the pulling power to borrow more, including treasures from Belgian private collections and Oxford’s Christ Church Picture Gallery....
...For Christians, the passion of the Christ signifies redemption through divine self-sacrifice....
...Long hours sitting in discomfort on a pew during an interminable church service is a religious experience of a sort....
...Russia’s defence ministry denied one of its missiles or debris hit the Transfiguration Cathedral, insisting that the church had been hit by “the fall of a Ukrainian anti-aircraft guided missile”....
...Asceticism is a way to imitate Christ’s life, to take up the cross with him....
...“I grew up as a Filipino Catholic and I do not identify with the church any more....
...(Corinthians, based on letters written by Christ’s disciple Paul, reads: “If Christ is not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain.”)...
...Three were arrested in Vienna on Christmas Eve over an alleged plot to attack St Stephen’s cathedral, while four Tajiks were arrested in Germany over plans to massacre worshippers at Cologne cathedral on...
...Born in April 1936, Rothschild was educated at Eton College before studying history at Christ Church, Oxford....
...And while Naples, an hour’s fast train ride from Rome, remains the heart of the tradition, Rome has expanded the culture with presepe museums and immersive experiences, bringing it beyond the home and church...
...Kashimada is an established writer of avant-garde fiction in Japan; she has reworked Dostoevsky’s The Idiot as The Kingdom of Zero (2009) and is a member of the Orthodox Church, contexts which turn out to...
...This is the largest church in the world according to the Guinness World Records. This grandiose building was the pet project of the then president, the committed Roman Catholic Félix Houphouët-Boigny....
...Nearby is the muqarnas-eaved Church of San Domenico, on the site of what was once probably a madrassa, outside which is a former Sufi shrine that is now a chapel....
...As the legend goes, Briccius died in an avalanche while bringing a relic of the blood of Christ to the Tauern mountains from the Hagia Sophia in Constantinople....
...At the birth of Christ, two groups are present — shepherds and kings....
...One is drawn to Bamboo Cathedral, with loungers arranged in a broad circle, created out of local sandstone; the Eucalyptus Pavilion, inspired by Oscar Niemeyer’s architecture in Brasilia; and the Concrete...
...On the wall behind him is a blurred image of Christ with a crown of thorns on his head....
...Yet many are already closed or put up for sale, including St Columba’s in Glasgow, known as “the Highland cathedral” church, because of its links to the city’s Gaelic-speaking congregation....
...The order’s approach to hospitality is that “all guests are to be received as Christ”, and today the abbey welcomes some 20,000 visitors each year....
...Or should I try to visit the 14th-century Gothic cathedral? Perhaps later. As far as I’m concerned, the most important site of Kaliningrad is Kant’s modest tomb....
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