Nuns enjoy the recent snowfall in Rome!
I love this sort of thing. I marvel at the careful skill that lies behind miniature carvings in wood or ivory.
(via holy-soup)
This is what heaven looks like, essentially.
(via holy-soup)
“What happiness, what security, what joy to have someone to whom you dare speak on terms of equality as to another self; one to whom you need have no fear to confess your failings; one to whom you can unblushingly make known progress you have made in the spiritual life; one to whom you can entrust all the secrets of your heart, and before whom you can place all your plans.”
Aelred of Rievaulx, on spiritual friendship
The devil is in the details.
Gospels of Henry the Lion
Unknown Miniaturist, German (active 1175-1188 in Helmarshausen)
Between 1175 and 1188
340mm x 245mm
***The gospel book, preserved completely intact, with 50 full page miniatures, is kept in the Herzog August Bibliothek, Wolfenbüttel, and for security reasons is displayed only once every two years.
I want to print this and make wrapping paper out of it. Yes, yes.
Too cute! Annabelle from New York does not approve of the MoMA.
Reminds me of the first time I went to NYC when I was nine and based on the taxi ride from the airport to the hotel I told my parents I had no idea why they brought us here because the place was a dump!
I ate those words at the first sight of the Disney Store…
xo
S
Yeah, dinosaurs would probably make the MoMA a lot more interesting to me, too.
(Source: chasematt)
Having become Catholic, she claims she is now Jewish as a Jew can get. She’s also founded a new order, the Daughters of Mary, Mother of Israel’s Help.
