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...St Patrick’s Day celebrations will ring out around the world next Sunday, as well as in the days leading up to the feast day of Ireland’s patron saint....
...There is a droll scene where he tries to camp out on St Herbert’s Island, in the Lake District, a magical “launch pad to heaven” for the saint it is named after, but rodents (“yellow teeth nibbling at the...
...The abbey has run a herb garden since the 16th century....
...“We’re all oddballs really,” announces one of the monks of Pluscarden Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in northern Scotland where an austere regime of pre-dawn prayers and hours Gregorian chanting a day still...
...This sumptuous pair could pass as saints or royalty, but it’s hard to imagine them as lovers. Yet Jakob Fugger and Sybilla Artzt were man and wife....
...The Wren Coffee at St Nicholas Cole Abbey 114 Queen Victoria Street, London EC4V 4BJ Good for: Ambience and a quiet space to work Not so good for: Thursday lunch meetings....
...(It is on the site of the first Saint-Germain abbey, which was destroyed by the Vikings and then rebuilt in the 10th century.)...
...David Hockney designed the Queen’s Window for Westminster Abbey and pop artist Eduardo Paolozzi designed the wonderful Millennium Windows for Edinburgh’s St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral....
...While everyone gathered in the tent, I paid a quick visit to what remains of the 12th-century abbey over the road....
...Voting ends on 27 March UK, a service will be held at Westminster Abbey to mark Commonwealth Day, the annual celebration of the Commonwealth of Nations....
...Both lighthouses rise from small rock islets, their teetering, top-heavy profiles recall the saint in his craft....
...In guarded tones, he warns about the Inquisition — he was later interrogated for allowing heresy into his abbey — and underplays the monastery’s wealth....
...The narrative is rarely less than lively, however, not least when Sister Gytha, instead of painting Saint Lucy on a manuscript as expected, depicts a tree laden with multiple vulvas....
...Those Tuscan trees, again: marrone-growing, biker-attracting and, it seems, saint-protecting....
...centenary of the Royal British Legion US, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin NS-18 spacecraft is set for launch with Star Trek actor William Shatner on board Wednesday UK, general election on Saint...
...Which medieval saint founded the Cistercian abbey of Clairvaux? In 1972, which swimmer became the first person to win seven gold medals at the same Olympics?...
...A few kilometres upriver are the peaceful medieval ruins of the Abbey of Saint-Maurice, hidden in the forest and surrounded by lovely, slightly wild gardens....
...How Islamic Architecture Shaped Europe asserts, the most obvious source for the western facade of Paris’ Notre-Dame is the abbey church of Saint-Denis, with its twin towers and innovative rose window, itself...
...He designed the suits on the cover of Abbey Road – Lennon’s white suit, McCartney’s double-breasted number and Starr’s very long jacket....
...Who’s the only British person to have been canonised as a Catholic saint in the 21st century? Click here for the answers...
...“The innumerable capes of his greatcoat looked so becomingly important,” swoons the impressionable Catherine Morland of Henry Tilney in Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey....
...A light beam passing from Giotto’s flying Christ to the saint animates the golden, vertical “St Francis Receiving the Stigmata”....
...Poulit-Duquesne trawled Saint-Ouen flea market to source antiques to give the place, as she describes it, “a little Downton Abbey”. Likewise, the collection reflects many of the apartment’s motifs....
...“We were working at a country estate in Wiltshire surrounded by beautiful countryside close to the village of Lacock, where they filmed Downton Abbey and Harry Potter....
...The pair still work according to the colour theory they learnt at Central Saint Martins and the Royal College of Art....
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