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Bibliophile. Would-be linguist. Ardent moderate. Ubi amor et caritas Deus ibi est. 'Pour que de notre amour naisse la poésie' (Mountain Laurel by Donal)

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This is an important article. Thank you. I hope the USCCB is open to your good counsel. Prayers for you -- and for the Catholic Church in America. I pray for metanoia.

08.10.2025 04:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

"Around the time I was learning to ask what the weather was like in French, Charlotte Mandell was named a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government."

08.10.2025 01:28 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

This is good news.

08.10.2025 01:06 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Ironwork attached to a stone wall. The head of a happy looking dog with pricked ears and open mouth. The head sits above a twist of iron which holds a loop.

Ironwork attached to a stone wall. The head of a happy looking dog with pricked ears and open mouth. The head sits above a twist of iron which holds a loop.

#Ironworkthursday Alnwick castle.

02.10.2025 13:53 — 👍 56    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0
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The Virgin of the Rosary, oil on panel, by Quentin Matsys (1466 – 1530), currently on exhibit at the Museo Lázaro Galdiano, Madrid.

07.10.2025 17:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Vatican, other Catholic libraries turn to AI, robotics to digitize collections As the Vatican Apostolic Library digitizes some of its historic collection, other historic Catholic institutions in Rome are going even more high tech.

Vatican Library and other Catholic libraries in Rome turn high tech to digitize historic collections | Catholic News Agency www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/266971/...

07.10.2025 15:47 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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7 Oct: feast of Our Lady of the Rosary.

Which also commemorates the battle of Lepanto in 1571.

07.10.2025 16:35 — 👍 40    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Fresque représentant un paysage avec des branches d’arbre et un oiseau. Elle a été retrouvée place Saint-Thomas à Strasbourg. Elle est exposée au musée archéologique de Strasbourg.

07.10.2025 16:53 — 👍 13    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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06.10.2025 21:34 — 👍 12    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Egon Schiele's "Autumn Trees" portrays a trio of slender, leaf-bearing trees set against a subdued, textured backdrop, capturing a fleeting moment of natural transition. Schiele’s signature use of stark lines and muted colors reflects his unique, expressionistic approach to depicting the interplay between nature and emotion.

Egon Schiele's "Autumn Trees" portrays a trio of slender, leaf-bearing trees set against a subdued, textured backdrop, capturing a fleeting moment of natural transition. Schiele’s signature use of stark lines and muted colors reflects his unique, expressionistic approach to depicting the interplay between nature and emotion.

Autumn Trees, 1911
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25052

07.10.2025 00:31 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Etruscan treasures scattered in international museums: what are they From the 4th century B.C. until modern rediscovery, the Etruscans left an extraordinary artistic and cultural record. Today their sarcophagi, jewelry and vases are displayed in the world's major museu...

Etruscan treasures scattered in international museums: what are they
www.finestresullarte.info/en/works-and...

05.10.2025 17:54 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 1
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Indigenous Nations Plan Tariff-Free Trade Corridor Across US-Canada border “We’re not begging for crumbs anymore. We’re demanding what’s rightly ours."

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

06.10.2025 01:48 — 👍 7    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 1
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Portrait of a family fleeing violence in their native country: Flight into Egypt, fresco by Giotto Di Bondone, circa 1395, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua.

06.10.2025 01:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Health allowing, I am planning an M. R. James post from 1st December every evening to Christmas Eve. This will include items and artefacts from my own collection, some of them extremely rare #Book #ghosts #DeadDecember 👻📚

04.10.2025 11:30 — 👍 79    🔁 12    💬 2    📌 0

Macron is so very articulate and cogent in his remarks. Well worth watching if you know French. Subtitles available in French.

05.10.2025 02:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Print and Drawing Club Fund

Print and Drawing Club Fund

Florilège des Amours de Ronsard, 1948
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/1208422

04.10.2025 23:59 — 👍 16    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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2/2 Still life starring the grapes, ca. 1771, by Luis Melendez.

05.10.2025 00:11 — 👍 39    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel)

The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel)

The Vision after the Sermon (Jacob wrestling with the Angel)
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12369

05.10.2025 00:17 — 👍 19    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Tallulah Bankhead by Dorothy Wilding, 1925.

05.10.2025 01:04 — 👍 159    🔁 30    💬 1    📌 1
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Bishops Nympton church

02.10.2025 06:04 — 👍 25    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Today is the Feast Day of St Francis. Here is a relief in the Carmo Monastery, Lisbon depicting scenes from his life 1382

04.10.2025 10:16 — 👍 32    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

To clarify, most will be books painstakingly acquired over the years from auctions and specialist sellers, with the odd artefact thrown in

04.10.2025 11:39 — 👍 15    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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2/2 Delicious picnic lunch in 1772 from Luis Egidio Meléndez of Madrid. Today is his day.

04.10.2025 21:45 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Olive Trees at Collioure

Olive Trees at Collioure

Olive Trees at Collioure, 1906
https://botfrens.com/collections/48/contents/15533

04.10.2025 19:49 — 👍 32    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
A stack of THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY, including two paperbacks and two hardcovers. The books are on a wooden staircase and beside them is a brown and white cat sniffing at a treat.

A stack of THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY, including two paperbacks and two hardcovers. The books are on a wooden staircase and beside them is a brown and white cat sniffing at a treat.

dēoren, adj: of or like a wild animal. (DAY-o-ren / ˈdeːɔ-rɛn)
It’s #WorldAnimalDay (Dēores Dæg…sounds better in Old English). Learn about medieval animals in THE DEORHORD: AN OLD ENGLISH BESTIARY: buff.ly/l4Lbsip
#OldEnglish #WOTD #TheDeorhord @profilebooks.bsky.social
@princetonupress.bsky.social

04.10.2025 07:01 — 👍 40    🔁 12    💬 0    📌 0
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Saint Francis preaching to the birds, fresco (1299) by Giotto di Bondone, Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi.

04.10.2025 21:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Mountain landscape with a fortified city, drawn by Austrian renaissance painter Wolf Huber, whose day has been today.

04.10.2025 00:14 — 👍 62    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 0
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The Time Is Now to spark your writing! This week we recommend a collection of essays and lectures by Flannery O’Connor, and #PWWritingPrompts on poetic fruit, mythos, and unreliable settings. Read more: at.pw.org/TTIN

03.10.2025 22:30 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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The Seine, seen from the heights Chantemesle - 1881
https://botfrens.com/collections/41/contents/9711

03.10.2025 23:40 — 👍 31    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Kananginak Pootoogook, Inuk (Nunavut, Canada) (1935-2010), Caribou Family, 2001, lithograph, 48.4 x 62.2 cm, edition: 50

02.10.2025 17:19 — 👍 38    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0

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