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The Wunderkammer of the Mild Colonial Boy, Esq., a Reactionary Tory Gentleman, who armed only with a Steampowered Babbage Engine and Pure Intentions, wanders the Time Streams and Aetheric Plane gathering an Eccentric Hodgepodge of Curiousities, Frivolities, Whimsicalities and Nonsense.

Q. Why is your Tumblelog called "My Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning"?

A. Because "My Grandmother's Ear-Trumpet Has Been Struck by Lightning" wouldn't fit in the available space.

nataliakoptseva: Boris and Gleb on horseback. XIII century http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_and_Gleb

nataliakoptseva:

Boris and Gleb on horseback. XIII century

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_and_Gleb

(via pedestrian-palamite)

fyeaheasterneurope: This extraordinary icon was discovered in 1959 in the tiny village of Pskov, which lies on the River Pinega, a tributary of the Severnaya Dvina which flows into the White Sea at Archangel, in north-western Russia. The panel was being used as the shutter of a barn window. Subsequent cleaning by conservators revealed that it had been overpainted several times. Below an eighteenth-century folk painting they uncovered a seventeenth-century layer and finally this outstanding fourteenth-century icon, which was immediately recognized as an early masterpiece of Russian painting… The saint is painted in vigorous motion, reining in his leaping horse. The representation of St George on a black, rather than white horse is extremely rare, which accounts for the icon’s popular name, ‘the Black George’. I can only assume that they meant this was found in a village in the Pskov region, because describing Pskov as a “tiny village” is…not accurate.

fyeaheasterneurope:

This extraordinary icon was discovered in 1959 in the tiny village of Pskov, which lies on the River Pinega, a tributary of the Severnaya Dvina which flows into the White Sea at Archangel, in north-western Russia. The panel was being used as the shutter of a barn window. Subsequent cleaning by conservators revealed that it had been overpainted several times. Below an eighteenth-century folk painting they uncovered a seventeenth-century layer and finally this outstanding fourteenth-century icon, which was immediately recognized as an early masterpiece of Russian painting…

The saint is painted in vigorous motion, reining in his leaping horse. The representation of St George on a black, rather than white horse is extremely rare, which accounts for the icon’s popular name, ‘the Black George’.

I can only assume that they meant this was found in a village in the Pskov region, because describing Pskov as a “tiny village” is…not accurate.

adamthenorman: Here is St. John of Damascus [675-749. 27 March (Dec.4)]. Born in Damascus, John served as his father before him in the court of the Muslim Khalif. When the Byzantine Empire was convulsed over Iconoclasm, John wrote eloquent defenses of icons, fervently upholding the importance and worthiness of the symbols and images with which we worship God. He argued that when God became incarnate as the human Jesus Christ, the divine entered into the whole of the material, physical universe, sanctifying and making holy matter itself. Thus we can use the stuff of the physical world in our worship, because it is holy: marked by God’s own hand. John became a monk at Mar Saba near Jerusalem, and wrote a great compendium of Christian doctrine unsurpassed for many, many centuries. Here is St. Theodora of Palestine [April 2], a virgin-martyr. She is one those whom Eusebius called “the shining lights of Palestine”, martyred in the Great Persecution of the early fourth century (Eus., HE 8.6).http://stmarypawtucket.org/resources.php

adamthenorman:

Here is St. John of Damascus [675-749. 27 March (Dec.4)]. Born in Damascus, John served as his father before him in the court of the Muslim Khalif. When the Byzantine Empire was convulsed over Iconoclasm, John wrote eloquent defenses of icons, fervently upholding the importance and worthiness of the symbols and images with which we worship God. He argued that when God became incarnate as the human Jesus Christ, the divine entered into the whole of the material, physical universe, sanctifying and making holy matter itself. Thus we can use the stuff of the physical world in our worship, because it is holy: marked by God’s own hand. John became a monk at Mar Saba near Jerusalem, and wrote a great compendium of Christian doctrine unsurpassed for many, many centuries.

Here is St. Theodora of Palestine [April 2], a virgin-martyr. She is one those whom Eusebius called “the shining lights of Palestine”, martyred in the Great Persecution of the early fourth century (Eus., HE 8.6).

http://stmarypawtucket.org/resources.php