#Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

[dramoor]

“I [Christ] who am Life itself am now one with you.” ~St. Epiphanios, from his ancient homily for Holy Saturday

(Photo © dramoor 2015 Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Turin, Italy)

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Cathedral of St. John the Baptist

Savannah, GA. August 2019. Photo by M. Lucero.

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The Shroud of Turin: 7 Intriguing Facts | HISTORY

The Shroud of Turin is believed by many Catholics & Non-Catholics alike to be the burial shroud of Jesus Christ Himself.

https://www.history.com/news/shroud-turin-facts

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[rabbitcruiser]

Charleston surrendered on February 18, 1865.

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[pamwmsn]

visitsavannah

Step inside the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist and be transported to a world of divine beauty.

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[tini21]

things and thangs savannah december 2022 photo dump

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Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Georgia, Savannah

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[pazzesco]

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio | Medusa, 1597

Cardinal del Monte commissioned Caravaggio to paint two versions of Medusa. Both paintings were gifts to the Grand Duke of Tuscany, Ferdinando I de Medici, who presumably had a taste for all things gruesome. The second version, painted in 1597, is the most famous of the two. The reason for the commission was to rival Leonardo da Vinci’s earlier depiction of Medusa, which the Medici family once also held in their private art collection. Sadly, Da Vinci’s Medusa is lost, so we will never know exactly how Caravaggio’s version compared to that of his predecessor.

Caravaggio painted his Medusa onto a convex wooden shield, and it could still function as a working shield today! He did this for several reasons. One was simply because this was what Da Vinci had done before him, and he was imitating the design of the great Renaissance master.

Another reason ties in with the Greek mythological tale of Medusa, and the reflective shield Perseus used to help him find her without looking her in the eye. Caravaggio might also have painted Medusa onto a shield because he had heard a story about how Da Vinci once painted a shield for his father with a realistic array of snakes, lizards and monsters.

Caravaggio was quite an interesting character...

Actually he sounds like an asshole. An exhibition of documents at Rome's State Archives throws vivid light on his tumultuous life here at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th centuries.

The documents provide a completely new account of his most serious brawl in May 1606 in which he killed a certain Ranuccio Tommassoni. 

Some biographers have suggested that there may have been an argument over a woman, but the text of the court report suggests the quarrel broke out over a gambling debt. Caravaggio killed Ranuccio and fled the city. (details are attached to his portrait above)

Anyway... a few more paintings:

Caravaggio | The Beheading of St. John the Baptist (1608)

The highly dramatic painting, The Beheading of St. John the Baptist, still resides in the locale for which it was commissioned. Located in the Oratory of the Co-Cathedral of St. John in Valletta, Malta, this painting depicts St. John being held on the ground while blood is gushing from his neck. Salome waits nearby holding a golden platter, while another woman watches in horror as the scene plays out.

Caravaggio | The Taking of Christ "Presa di Cristo nell'orto or Cattura di Cristo", 1602

A painting, of the arrest of Jesus, commissioned by the Roman nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1602. Featuring seven figures, all of which fill out the majority of the composition, the painting, once again, showcases Caravaggio‘s skill in using light and dark to create a bold (and in this case, claustrophobic) work.

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[thelordismylightandmysalvation]

Depiction of Christ on the Cross ~ Roman Catholic Cathedral Basilica of St John the Baptist, Savannah

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The Beheading of Saint John the Baptist is an oil painting by the Italian artist Caravaggio. It is located in the Oratory of St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta.

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[orthodoxadventure]

General view of the interior of the Russian Orthodox Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, at 4001 17th Street NW, in the Crestwood neighborhood of Washington, DC. Photo by Mr.TinMD

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[teatimeatwinterpalace]

'The most remarkable thing I saw is the great bell, which is indeed stupendous, and surprises equally on account of its size, and the folly of those who caused it to be made; but the Russians from time immermorial have had a strange ambition of this kind.' Hanway

The Tsar Bell in the grounds of the Kremlin, Moscow, 1874. (x)

201,924 kilograms height 6.14 metres diameter 6.6 metres thickness 61 centimetres

The great bell is variously ornamented. On one side is represented the Tsar Alexei Michailovitch above him the Saviour, on the right of the Saviour the Virgin Mary, and on the left John the Baptist. On the other side of the bell is a figure of the Empress Anna Ioannanovna in imperial robes, and a figure above it of the Savirous, with the Apostle St. Peter on the right, and the Propehetess Ann on the left, besides numerous seraphims and other ornaments. | A Detailed History of Moscow by Robert Lyall

‘Nowhere perhaps is the vicinity of a church more disagreeable than in Russia,' complained a Swedish prisoner of war in 1760, tormented by the 'perpetual dinging' from St Peterbsurg's Peter-Paul Cathedral. Its bell tower was only a few feet from his cell. Yet had Count Johann Hard been incarcerated in the Moscow Kremlin, his ears would have been even sorer. While the Russians long continued to attribute magical powers to their bells, ringing them out to drive the devil from their parishes, their eighteenth-century rulers had co-opted the instrument as a symbol of the sacralisation of tsarist power. Empress Anna could think of no better way of adding to her glory in the 1730s than by comissioning the world's largest bell. Fatally craked by fire in May 1737, before it had been raised from its casting pit, tsar-kolokol - 'The tsar bell' - lay buried in the Kremlin until 1836. | Catherine the Great by Simon Dixon

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[rabbitcruiser]

The great fire of 1838 in Charleston started on April 27, 1838.  

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[pamwmsn]

Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist. Savannah GA.

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Inscribed on the entryway to the portico of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome are the words: Mother and head of all the churches in the city and the world.

This inscription may seem wrong at first. Isn’t St. Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican the pope’s main church?

No, not exactly.

The pope serves as the Bishop of Rome and as the Cathedral of the Diocese of Rome, St. John Lateran is the pope’s church.

First dedicated on this day, November 9th, in the year 324, the original basilica was built on land donated to Constantine by the wealthy Lateran family. That structure and its successors suffered fire, earthquake, and the ravages of war, but the Lateran remained the church where popes were consecrated.

In the 14th century, when the papacy returned to Rome from Avignon, the Basilica of St. John Lateran was found in ruins.

Knowing the profound history that occurred there, Pope Innocent X commissioned the present structure in 1646, rebuilding St. John Lateran to its former glory. One of Rome’s most awe-inspiring churches, the Lateran’s towering facade is crowned with 15 colossal statues of Christ, John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, and 12 Doctors of the Church.

San Giovanni in Laterano Rome

Beneath its high altar rests the remains of the small wooden table on which tradition holds St. Peter himself celebrated Mass.

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Cathedral of St John the Baptist, Georgia, Savannah

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