#st eustace

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Eustace 

Died: 118

Feast Day: September 20

Patronage: hunters, firefighters, trappers, torture victims, difficult situations, Madrid

Saint Eustace was a successful Roman military officer who had an instant conversion while hunting, when he had a vision of a stag with a crucifix between his antlers. He was baptized with his entire family. Because he refused to sacrifice to pagan gods, he was martyred by being roasted to death. St. Eustace is honored as one of the middle ages 14 holy helpers, especially in Germany.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase here: (website)

#St Eustace #Saint for hunters #Saint for firefighters #Saint for difficulty #catholic art

[shortsighted-owl]

Since we have imagery of St Sebastian for Eddie, and St Christopher linking the Diaz boys (+ Buck during the tsunami arc), I would like to offer up St Eustace - Patron saint of Fire-prevention, firefighting, stags, trapping, and difficult situations - for Buck

#911 on fox #evan buckley #owl hoots #911 on abc #St Eustace

[profetizamos]

St. Eustace, patron saint of hunting. According to tradition, a stag with a cross between his antlers appeared to the saint while he was hunting.

19th c. French woodcut, anonymous artist.

#st Eustace #woodcut #christian art #saints #hagiography #fourteen holy helpers #saint eustace #saint veneration #my post

[beautiful-belgium]

Unknown Flemish master after Albrecht Dürer - Saint Eustace in a Landscape (c. 1505 - 1525)

Albrecht Dürer - Saint Eustace (c. 1501)

“Dürer's largest engraving depicts the moment of conversion of a Roman general named Placidus. While hunting, Placidus saw a crucifix miraculously appearing between a stag's antlers. The stag spoke in Christ's voice, and Placidus fell from his horse and became a Christian baptized with the name Eustace. The print has long been admired as an exemplar of Dürer's extraordinary virtuosity; the animals and features of the landscape served as models for artists for the following century.” - The Met

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/336232

#Unknown #Flemish #Albrecht Dürer #St. Eustace #St. Hubert #landscape #after #favourites #compilation #Christ

[seraphim777s]

vision of st. eustace

painting by florian s. fauna

#trans artist #intersex artist #traditional art #black and white #queer artist #lgbtq artist #floriansfauna #my art #deer #stag #st. eustace #saint eustace

[fideidefenswhore]

I have not the least doubt that if His Majesty intends to treat and come to some sort of arrangement with these people, some personage of authority and rank ought now to be sent, and if he could but come before the closing of this Parliament, the affairs of the Princess and other matters might be satisfactorily adjusted. Should the said personage come before St. John's Day, he might assist, as I believe, at the King's approaching marriage and the coronation of the new queen, which is to be celebrated with great solemnity and pomp, the King intending, as I am told, to perform wonders, for he has already ordered a large ship to be built, like the Bucentaur of Venice, to bring the lady from Greenwich to this city, and commanded other things for the occasion.—London, 19 of May 1536.

Eustace Chapuys to Monseigneur de Granvelle.

#i used to very skeptical but...i mean. it sort of does sound like there might have been a marriage ceremony of sorts may 20 #and the betrothal might have been dated even before #altho this could also just be rumor ; i don't know if any of henry's inventory confirms this #again; he tends to send the unlikelier rumors to granvelle and the more credible to charles v #or sorry. so like a betrothal before even may 19 bcus that's literally when this is dated. so.... #idk why the date always given is may 20 tbh what is that based on. wriothesley's chroncile? #so was chapuys shocked when the marriage was may 30 then? bcus this is say he thinks late june (st john's day) #it didn't seem like it from his dispatches but food for thought #*inventory or papers #primary sources #eustace chapuys

[twobrothersatwork]

Federico Zuccaro (Italian, ca. 1542 - 1609), The Vision of Saint Eustace (1542–1609).

#catholicism #catholic saints #st. eustace

[maypoleman1]

24th August

St Bartholomew’s Day

Drawing of Eustace the Monk. Source: Pinterest and Historycollection.com

Today is St Bartholomew’s Day and when in 1217, the saint intervened to thwart the magical attack of a French pirate fleet on Sandwich, led by the flamboyant English traitor and magician, Eustace the Monk. The enchanter had made the French vessels invisible to the English defenders, but he was undone by his former pupil, Stephen Crabbe. This literal magician’s apprentice, used his own spells to reveal the French ships and then stole aboard Eustace’s vessel and decapitated the monk. The English fleet then attacked the revealed enemy and routed them, helped by the presence of St Bartholomew himself, who appeared clothed in a red robe, to summon up a storm to scatter the French. Poor Crabbe did not live to see the victory: he was hacked to death by enemy sailors after killing Eustace. The people of Sandwich later built a chapel dedicated to St Bartholomew in thanks for his intervention.

In recognition of the shortening days, today marked the beginning of the first of the Autumn Fairs, held at Smithfield in London. A rowdy event that attracted all manner of dodgy characters in its time, it died out in 1855, but has since been revived in much more respectable guise as a fund raising event for St Bart’s Hospital in London. It is also worth noting that today marks the fortieth day since St Swithun’s Day. It is therefore a day to hope for better weather if the British summer has so far been a wash out.

#st Bartholomew’s Day #Eustace the monk #Stephen crabbe #Sandwich #autumn fairs

[memories-of-ancients]

The St. Eustace Reliquary Head, crafted in Basel, Switzerland, circa 1200.

from The British Museum

#history #antiquities #art #middle ages #medieval art

[thethirdromana]

Van Helsing's misinformation

I took a look at some of the claims Van Helsing makes in his "immortal parrots" speech on the 26th of September.

Why was it that Methuselah lived nine hundred years, and 'Old Parr' one hundred and sixty-nine...

The oldest authenticated age that anyone has ever reached is 122 years (Jeanne Louise Calment, 1875-1997). Thomas Parr ('Old Parr') allegedly lived from 1483 to 1635 (which is 152 years, not 169) but the 1895 Dictionary of National Biography, which has an entry for Parr, is very sceptical about his claim, noting that his exact age was "attested by village gossip alone."

Here's Old Parr, painted by an unknown artist:

Do you know the altogether of comparative anatomy and can say wherefore the qualities of brutes are in some men, and not in others?

Comparative anatomy is a perfectly reasonable field, but coupled with "the qualities of brutes" and it being the 1890s, I strongly suspect this is some racist physiognomy bullshit (see p550 here for an example of how this looked in contemporary writing, if you must).

Can you tell me why, when other spiders die small and soon, that one great spider lived for centuries in the tower of the old Spanish church and grew and grew, till, on descending, he could drink the oil of all the church lamps?

This one is delightfully weird. It seems to be a telephone-game version of this story, printed in a variety of magazines and miscellanies (e.g.) since 1821:

The sexton of the church of St Eustace, at Paris, amazed to find frequently a particular lamp extinct early, and yet the oil consumed oil, sat up several nights to perceive the cause. At length he discovered that a spider of surprising size came down the cord to drink the oil. A still more extraordinary instance of the same kind occurred during the year 1751, in the Cathedral of Milan. A vast spider was observed there, which fed on the oil of the lamps... It weighed four pounds, and was sent to the Emperor of Austria, and is now in the Imperial Museum at Vienna.

Here's a photo of St Eustache:

In 1894 the story was reprinted in Notes and Queries, with the question: "Are the statements therein pure fiction? If not, can any one tell me how much we may safely believe? A spider weighing four pounds [1.8kg] is indeed a heavy tax on the reader's credulity."

In reality, the largest spider in the world is the Goliath birdeater, which weighs 175g.

Can you tell me why in the Pampas, ay and elsewhere, there are bats that come at night and open the veins of cattle and horses and suck dry their veins...

Vampire bats are real, and live in parts of South and Central America. The prey of the common vampire bat can include cattle (source). The quantity of blood that they drink is small - in the region of 100g, or about a fifth of a typical blood donation. Vampire bat predation can result in the death of much larger animals, but from infection, not draining them dry.

Here's a common vampire bat:

... how in some islands of the Western seas there are bats which hang on the trees all day, and those who have seen describe as like giant nuts or pods, and that when the sailors sleep on the deck, because that it is hot, flit down on them, and then—and then in the morning are found dead men, white as even Miss Lucy was?

From Wikipedia:

West Sea or Western Sea may refer to:

Atlantic Ocean

Pacific Ocean

Indian Ocean

Mediterranean Sea...

So that's not the most helpful starting point. I don't know which bats these are supposed to be, though hanging in trees like giant nuts makes them sound like fruit bats. In Van Helsing's defence, bats do carry a lot of viruses.

Can you tell me why the tortoise lives more long than generations of men...

Lovely to reach something that's just straight-up true. The current oldest living land animal is Jonathan, a 190+-year-old Seychelles giant tortoise.

... why the elephant goes on and on till he have seen dynasties...

Asian elephants live to be 50 or so; African elephants, 60-70 years. Weirdly, it seems to have been widely believed in the 1890s that elephants lived for a century; e.g. that's cited as fact in the 1894 Encyclopaedia Britannica. Either way, "dynasties" feels like an exaggeration.

... why the parrot never die only of bite of cat or dog or other complaint?

I've tried but I can't find where Bram Stoker got this one from. Maybe he made it up. The English Illustrated Magazine, 1897, contains an article complaining about how easily grey parrots die after being imported and sold as pets.

Can you tell me why men believe in all ages and places that there are some few who live on always if they be permit; that there are men and women who cannot die?

I've also got no idea what's going on with this one. I can't figure out how to look into it without coming up with lots of 1890s Christian literature on the immortal soul, which is not what Van Helsing is getting at.

We all know—because science has vouched for the fact—that there have been toads shut up in rocks for thousands of years, shut in one so small hole that only hold him since the youth of the world.

This was a wildly popular myth in Victorian times (see this article for more details). An article in The Gentleman's Magazine, 1877, entitled 'Some Facts and Fictions of Zoology' (reprinted in several other places) went into the question in more detail, and concluded:

These tales are, in short, as devoid of actual foundation as are the modern beliefs in the venomous properties of the toad, or the ancient beliefs in the occult and mystic powers of various parts of its frame when used in incantations.

Here's a toad:

Can you tell me how the Indian fakir can make himself to die and have been buried, and his grave sealed and corn sowed on it, and the corn reaped and be cut and sown and reaped and cut again, and then men come and take away the unbroken seal and that there lie the Indian fakir, not dead, but that rise up and walk amongst them as before?

This seems to have been widely believed in the late 19th century - e.g. this 1897 book references "two undoubted cases... one of whom had remained alive under the ground for six weeks, the other for ten days". This 1880 magazine says that it "will appear incredible" but relays the story of a fakir "buried alive for forty days, then disentombed and resuscitated" as fact.

The longest verified case of someone surviving without drinking water is Andreas Mihavecz, an 18-year-old bricklayer who was mistakenly locked up by police for 18 days. Even then, he drank condensed water from the walls, and was very close to death when he was found.

So in summary:

Old Parr: false

Physiognomy: false

Enormous oil-drinking spider: false

Vampire bats: partially true

Bats killing sailors: partially true

Long-lived tortoises: TRUE

Long-lived elephants: false

Immortal parrots: false

Belief in immortality: ???

Imprisoned toads: false

Buried fakirs: false

I guess there are some disadvantages to having an "absolutely open mind."

#dracula daily #van helsing #historical context #long post

[hometoursandotherstuff]

This is adorable- a strip of historic 1915 stores converted to homes in Eustace, Texas. This particular one was the former drugstore. It has 3bd  2bd & is listed for an affordable $244,900.

There’s a little foyer, then double doors open to the spacious kitchen on the left. 

To the right of the entrance is the dining area, right across from the kitchen. 

The open concept main living area that you see as you enter. The kitchen/dining area and living room. 

This decorated so cozily.

View from the dining table. There’s certainly a lot of storage in those kitchen cabinets and I like the open shelving, too.

I love this- it looks like the original drugstore counter. Very nice.

Then, behind the main living area is a hallway to the bds and baths and stairs to the upper level.

The main bd is huge.

The 2nd bd is also very large, although I’m not seeing any windows.

Bath #1 has some tin tiles that may be original, decorating the wall.

Upstairs is this large bonus space that the new buyer can do a lot with. 

Isn’t this cute? And, you park right in front of your “store.”

It’s an adorable idea making that little strip of stores into homes.

https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/211-E-Front-St-Eustace-TX-75124/216458642_zpid/

#converted historic store #unusual homes #houses #house tours #home tour

[soulsforscrapbooks]

So today’s entry is packed full with references to actual events, myths, and urban legends, and so I tried to find sources for some of them:

Van Helsing first mentions “Old Parr,” who supposedly lived to 169 years of age. Thomas Parr was a man born in either 1482 or 1483, who claimed to have married his first wife at age 80 and his second wife at age 122. His advanced age was attributed to living a simple country lifestyle with simple meager food. He became a celebrity and even met King Charles I before dying at the alleged age of 152. An autopsy was later performed on his body and it is estimated he was actually no more than 70 when he died. His portrait hangs in the National Portrait Gallery in London. 

The giant spider that lived in a Spanish church and “could drink the oil of all the church lamps” is a reference to a story published in two separate periodicals of the era, the Edinburg Magazine and Literary Miscellany and The Atheneum, or, Spirit of the English Magazines, both released in 1821. The article describes the spider thus:  

 The sexton of the church of St Eustace, at Paris, amazed to find frequently a particular lamp extinct early, and yet the oil consumed only, sat up several nights to perceive the cause. At length he discovered that a spider of surprising size came down the cord to drink the oil. A still more extraordinary instance of the same kind occurred during the year 1751, in the Cathedral of Milan. A vast spider was observed there, which fed on the oil of the lamps. M. Morland, of the Academy of Sciences, has described this spider, and furnished a drawing of it. It weighed four pounds, and was sent to the Emperor of Austria, and is now in the Imperial Museum at Vienna.

The idea of “toads shut up in rocks for thousands of years” has been circulating since at least the 1600s, with over 200 sightings and discoveries of people breaking apart rocks and unearthing live animals, mostly toads, salamanders, and lizards. Explanations for the phenomenon included spontaneous generation, the work of the devil, or the encasing of the animal due to the biblical flood.  One famous case was Ol’ Rip the Horned Toad, who was allegedly found in Texas after 31 years trapped inside a rock. He attracted thousands of viewers in his public appearances and featured in movies before dying in 1929. His body is still available for viewing in a tiny casket. 

#dracula daily

[zeynatura]

List of tanned and dark skinned characters in Granblue Fantasy

Since i created the list of LGBTQ+ characters in granblue i wanted to make more, and this is one of them.

The list will be in alfabetical order, and I will mostly be including playable characters and summons with some special mentions, also some of these chars are slightly tanned, i'll mark them as (ST) so don't shine a light on them or you'll scare their melanin away.

Beware spoilers. Did not include characters that are only tanned in their Summer or so versions. Also original characters only, no collabs.

Masterlist

[Long post below]

Agielba

Aletheia

Almeida

Anderson

Ankusha

Apollonia (ST)

Attiyah

Atum

Bakura

Balurga (ST)

Beelzebub

Bennu

Bowman

Chloe

Corow

Cosmos

Deliford

Eso

Elsam

Eugen (ST)

Eustace

Fediel

Feena (ST)

Fenrir

Fiorito

Fif/Fünf

Galadar

Garuda

Garma

Geisenborger

Gilgamesh

Ghandagoza

Halluel

Hector

Helel ben Shalem

Horus

Inchoate World [humanoid enough to be included]

Io

J.J.

Jamil

Joel

Kolulu

Kumbhira

Lowain

Makura

Marduk (or at least the angel that accompanies Marduk)

Mariah

Melleau

Mugen

Nehan (ST)

Nemone

Nezahualpilli (ST) [his pains me the most, because he is based of an actual person that lived in the XV century, his grandfather was Ixtlilxóchitl Ometochtli and his son was Ixtlilxóchitl II (christian name Hernando Cortés Ixtlilxóchitl), Ixtlilxochitl in nahuatl means "dark face flower" at least that was the best i was able to translate it into english from spanish, so it makes sense for them to be a dark skinned family. I'm not an expert, just Mexican and passionate about our culture, so feel free to correct me]

Orchid (ST)

Poseidon

Ra

Raphael (ST)

Redluck (ST)

Reindhardtzar

Satan [humanoid enough to be included]

Seox/Six (ST)

Sethlans

Shiva [i know he is purplish-blue but still dark skin, plus he's definitely poc]

Siegfried (ST)

Skull

Tabina

Thor

Titan

Tomoi

Tsuchinoko (human ver)

Twin Elements

Vanzza

Vaseraga

Zeno Ifrit

Wilnas (ST)

Yatima [i know she has grey skin, still dark]

Yngwie

Yodarha (ST)

Yurius (ST)

Zaja

Zooey

If you squint hard enough maybe the next ones are tanned:

Magisa [tanned vibes]

Paris [tanned vibes]

Petra [in my mind she is tan, but comparing her skin tone to other characters i realized her skin is pretty light]

Yuel [same as Petra, because she is next to Societte the palest of them sacred foxes her skin looks darker in comparison]

Special mentions:

All Kahuans, as seen in the Paliuli Pararaiha event, have tanned/dark skin, to name one we have Felluca, Queen of Kahua and Nemone and Melleau's sister.

Geo [not playable but i don't want him to take down my blog iykyk]

The case of the lightening of some characters the higher their rarity goes will forever be a mystery (or will it?)

I'm looking at you Anna, Feather, Volena, etc.

#granblue fantasy #gbf #poc #poc characters #dark skin #dark skin characters #jrpg #rpg #no counting special mentions #nice #videogames #diversity #inclusion #80

[tinyshe]

A painting depicts 103 Korean martyrs canonized by Pope John Paul II in 1984, seen in this Aug. 19, 2008, photo. (CNS photo/courtesy Archdiocese of Seoul)

More Saints of the Day September 20

Sts. Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and Companions

St. Agatha Chon Kyonghyob

St. Agatha Kim

St. Agatha Yi

St. Agatha Yi Kannan

St. Agatha Yi Kyong-i

St. Agatha Yi Sosa

St. Alex U Seyong

St. Anna Kim

St. Candida

St. Cecilia Yu

St. Dionysius

St. Eusebia

St. Eustace

St. Eustachius

St. Fausta and Evilasius

St. John Charles Cornay

St. Jose Maria de Yermo y Parres

St. Lawrence Imbert

St. Lucia Park Huisun

St. Magalena Ho Kye-im

St. Martha Kim

Martyrs of Korea

St. Paul Chong Hasang

St. Agapitus

St. Susanna U Surim

St. Teresa Yi Mae-im

St. Theodore, Philippa, and Companions

Bl. Thomas Johnson

St. Thomas Son Chason

St. Vincent Madelgarus

#catholic #saint #blessed #martyrs #pray for us #korea

[hippography]

Pretty Polly. 

The property of Major Eustace Loder. By Gallinule out of Admiration, by Saraband. Winner of the One Thousand Guineas, Oaks and St. Leger, 1904. 

W. A. Rouch. 

Sir Humphrey de Trafford, 1907, The Horses of the British Empire, Vol. 1.

#Thoroughbred #racehorse #mare #Pretty Polly #W. A. Rouch #1907 #The Horses of the British Empire

[sonjatwogreyhounds]

PISANELLO

The Vision of St Eustace

the #sighthound #bulletin

#greyhound #greyhoundlovers #art #artist #sighthoundmuseum #sighthoundart #greyhounds #greyhoundart #greyhound art #borzoi #canineart #canine art #hunter #pisanello #greyhound dogs #dogblr #dog #dogart #dog art