Tag: Edward Armitage
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18 Works, Today, May 20th. is Edward Armitage’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #138
Whether or not the dancer is Salome performing the dance of seven veils in order to secure the beheading of John the Baptist, any image of dancing in the presence of Herod brings to mind the extraordinarily popular fin-de-siecle subject of Salome, the epitome the sexual, destroying woman for the Decadents of the ’90s and…
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05 Works, Today, April 9th, is Holy Martyr Eupsychius’s day, With Footnotes – #96
The Holy Martyr Eupsychius was born in the city of Caesarea in Cappadocia and received a Christian upbringing by his illustrious parents. During the reign of Julian the Apostate (361–363), Saint Eupsychius entered into a Christian marriage. At Caesarea there was a pagan temple to the goddess Fortuna, whom Julian the Apostate revered. As Eupsychius…
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