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rocks of ages and sages
The rock monasteries of Cappadocia. In the days of Byzantium, monks turned weird rock cones into a city of cells and churches. It was part of central Turkey and a volcano buried the country-side for forty square miles in a … Continue reading
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Tagged Ahmet Ertug, Buckle Church Cappadocia, Cappadocia churches, Cappadocia Monasteries, Church of the Serpent Cappadocia, Julian the Apostate, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Monasticism history, Saint Gregory of Nanzianus, Saint Jerome, Saint Jerome Vulgate, the anchorites, The Dark Church Cappadocia, the Dendrites, the stylites, the Thebaid
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desert getaway
The Thebaid, a fourteenth-century painting attributed to Gherardo Starnina depicts the Egyptian desert around Thebes as teeming with anchorites. The body of Saint Paul, the first Christian hermit and a contemporary of Saint Anthony , is shown in repose at … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Aristotle, Edward Gibbon, gherardo starnina, Hieronymous Bosch, martin schongauer, Saint Anthony, saint anthony hermit, Samuel Beckett, Socrates, the anchorites, the stylites, Theodore Roszak, Tom Lubbock
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