Tag: Mythology,
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Flemish painter; Saint Gertrude of Nivelles 04 Works, Today, March 17th, is St. Gertrude of Nivelles’ Day, With Footnotes – #75
Gertrude of Nivelles, Virgin, and Abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Nivelles; born in 626; died 17 March, 659. She was born into a well-connected noble family. But she didn’t stick to the script that most noble women were made to follow in her era. One day, when she was about ten years of old,…
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03 Works, Today, March 16th, is St. Aristobulus’s Day, With Footnotes – #74
Aristobulus of Britannia is a Christian saint named by Hippolytus of Rome (170-235) and Dorotheus of Gaza (505-565) as one of the Seventy Disciples mentioned in Luke 10:1–24 and as the first bishop in Roman Britain. Aristobulus preached and died in Roman Britain. While some orthodox traditions say he “died in peace”, others say he was…
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06 Works, Today, March 13th, is Saint Christina of Tyre’s Day, With Footnotes – #71
Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Bolsena by the fourth century… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Today, March 10th, is Saint Quadratu’s Day, With Footnotes – #68
During a persecution against Christians,in the third century, a woman named Rufina fled from Corinth to a mountain, to escape from her pursuers. There she gave birth to a son Quadratus, and died soon afterward. The infant remained alive and was nourished in miraculous manner: a cloud appeared over him, dropping a sweet dew into…
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Peter Paul Rubens, The Calydonian boar hunt 01 Painting, Olympian deities, by the artists of their time, with footnotes #42
The Calydonian or Aetolian Boar is one of the monsters of Greek mythology that had to be overcome by heroes of the Olympian age. Sent by Artemis to ravage the region of Calydon in Aetolia because its king failed to honour her in his rites to the gods, it was killed in the Calydonian Hunt, in…
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07 Works, Today, March 4th, is Saint Gerasimus’s Day, With Footnotes – #62
Gerasimus of the Jordan was a Christian saint, monk and abbot of the 5th century AD. He was born into a wealthy family in the the southern part of Asia Minor, but he left his family wealth and worldly affairs to become a monk. He attended the Fourth Ecumenical Council at Chalcedon in 451 AD. His feast day is celebrated on March 4… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Today, March 2nd, is Holy Martyr Euthalia’s Day, With Footnotes – #60
Andrea Mantegna ( c. 1431 – September 13, 1506) was an Italian painter, a student of Roman archeology, and son-in-law of Jacopo Bellini. Like other artists of the time, Mantegna experimented with perspective, e.g. by lowering the horizon in order to create a sense of greater monumentality. His flinty, metallic landscapes and somewhat stony figures give evidence…
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