Nothing to blog about…
Except Saints.
March 10 is the feast of St. John Ogilvie, Scottish victim of the horrendous English protestant carnage. Ooooooo! They were a wicked lot - actually employing priest-hunters. (Did I ever mention I have a sculpted head of Elizabeth I on my fireplace chimney - it is out doors of course - and I hanged her there in retribution for all those hanged, drawn and quartered during her reign. I’ll post a photo one day.)
Then there is the 40 Holy Martyrs of Sebaste…supposedly the Roman Church took them off the calendar in the late 1960’s - tell that to the Orthodox. In fact, go here for the Orthodox Kontakion and martyrology. Forty naked soldiers on an ice covered lake, with hot baths on shore inviting them to apostatize.
And then today everyone forgot to mention St. Catherine of Bologna, whose feast is March 9th, and she is the patron of artists no less. This Madonna and Child is her work. (Don Marco! You’re slipping!)
St. Catherine of Bologna was a Poor Clare nun, and wonderful mystic, in addition to artist. I’m not sure she would be happy with how they display her incorrupt body however. It’s kinda creepy.
An artist I know, Pat Benincasa, seemed to be so impressed with the pose, she did a painting of the saint - not at all creepy. (Pat’s work is rather intriguing - click on her name to enter her gallery and see what she does - she has a beautiful image of Bl. John XXIII, and I like her St. Bernadette very much.)
Nothing else to blog about tonight.
March 10th, 2007 at 4:10 am
Being in Rome, Santa Francesca Roman, captured all my attention yesterday! As the novelist Barbara Pym used to exclaim: “So much richness!” And you should have seen the lemon trees at Tor De’ Specchi!
March 10th, 2007 at 7:25 am
I was just teasing Father - your post on St. Frances was excellent!
March 10th, 2007 at 10:17 am
Wow!
Yeah, post a pic. & may I say… Your unique expression of your disgust with E-I’s reign is at once justified, appropriate, (& also, pardon me, a bit Icky.) & although I am expressing a decidedly morbid curiousity about your chimney, I agree that displaying someone’s body is also kind of ‘Ick!’ although I understand its significance…
That said, you can see the look of prayerful serenity on her face, which imo the artist vaguely captured.
March 10th, 2007 at 12:56 pm
I forgot it was Saint John Ogilvie’s day. Shame on me. I knew it was the feast of someone I really, really like, but could not remember which saint. Thanks, Terry!
March 10th, 2007 at 6:30 pm
Wow, Andersen Stained Glass Windows! A whole new market for them!
And your Betty I monument really should go on the “Sights and Sounds of Minneapolis” tours. Do you think the neighbors will mind if a couple dozen Grey Line busses stop by each day?
You might open a Kool-Aid stand in the Summer and hot apple cider in the Winter for a little extra cash. That might take a City Council permit though.
But with no Library for them to worry about now, they probably will have the time to ram it through.