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This 8th-century miniature, by the Spanish monk Beatus of Liébana, depicts the Bible ... Beautiful Blue GateThe most famous of the eight gates Nebuchadrezzar II built around Babylon, this gate ...

They stand on the solea, facing the Hierarch who stands in the Beautiful Gate. The subdeacon addresses the bishop ... Grant to him the grace which You gave to Stephen, Your first martyr, whom You ...

And there is no better way to express appreciation for the enduring wonder of God's autumnal creation than by reading fall ...

Pamukkale in Turkey looks like a snowy paradise but its hot springs have been a geothermal tourist attraction for millennia, ...

God must love music,” Jenny stated. “I’m not sure I agree,” Sarah differed. “If He loves music, why did He create people like me who can’t carry a tune in a bucket? Why are there people who can’t even ...

A “60 Minutes” correspondent traveled to Belleville in 1993 to film an episode on alleged racism, and one of his backdrops was a steel gate across a road leading ... then pastor of Belleville Bible ...

French Archbishop Guy de Kerimel consecrates city of Toulouse and archdiocese to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, amid controversy surrounding an urban spectacle that uses esoteric iconography. The ...

For eight years in baseball, he carried a Bible around on road trips ... Egg McMuffin and a coffee and picks up a tiny contraption called a cell phone. It is June 4, 2008, and, in one of his ...

Beautiful drives abound in the U.S., but it ... level or continue over the pass to the towns of Cooke City or Silver Gate, ...

The cathedral also contains many other valuable works of art and beautiful architectural ... copies of the Gutenberg Bible that exist in the world (and the only copy on Polish territory). Pilgrims are ...