#Cathedral of St. John

[travsd]

This Week: Commemorating 50 Years Since Philippe Petit's WTC Wire Walk

August 7, 1974 was the date that French acrobat Philippe Petit made his unthinkable (and quite illegal) tightrope walk across the Twin Towers of the original World Trade Center. As I chronicled in my earlier post, my good friend and sometime collaborator Jim Moore was right there with him as assistant and chronicler. A front row seat at hair-raising history! I wanted to let you know about two…

[religious-extremist]

The devil loves noise; Christ looks for silence.

☦︎ St. Ambrose

[illustratus]

St. Augustine: A View of the Plaza and the Ponce de León Hotel in 1890 by John Stobart

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Lucille Corcos, Morningside Park, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, 1928. Oil on canvas and masonite.

Corcos paints what appears to be the northern part Central Park from an elevated view looking northwest. The artist used a restricted palette of warm browns and grays with heavy outlines. She was a leading modern American primitivist who has had numerous museum shows, including the Whitney Biennial.

Photo & text: 1st Dibs

[angel-oftheday]

The Angel of the Day is...

The Archangel Uriel

From the Testament of Solomone, 2 Esdras, Book of Enoch & Hermetic Qabalah

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[bugatsu]

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.

[escapismsworld]

'St. Paul's Cathedral from Ludgate Circus, London, England' || 1885 || John Atkinson Grimshaw

(Private collection)

[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)

[wandering-jana]

St. John's Co-Cathedral, in Valletta, Malta. It's a very shiny church.

Explore Valletta:

[rabbitcruiser]

Charleston surrendered on February 18, 1865.

[hanssloane]

Stone face

Slightly mysterious stone face in a frieze in the cathedral. Amongst the angels and baroque twirls he seems a little out of place.

St. John's Co-Cathedral, Malta

[chavisory]

"Petit would be charged for trespassing, but those charges were ultimately dropped amid the positive publicity the Port Authority received for the caper — and Petit agreed to perform a free high-wire show for children in Central Park. He was even given a lifetime pass to the World Trade Center’s observation deck."

[newyorkthegoldenage]

In 1955, women from Hiroshima whose faces had been deformed by the atom bomb flew to New York for reconstructive surgery. Dr. William H. Hitzig, the plastic surgeon, took them to the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on May 9, 1955.

Photo: Associated Press

[postcard-from-the-past]

Tomb of Nicolas Cotoner, Grand Master of the Order of St. John in Saint John's Co-Cathedral in Valetta, Malta

French vintage postcard

[bugatsu]

The icon of Our Lady of Caraffa is set in a prominent place in the Co-Cathedral of St. John in Valletta,Malta.

[dr-julius-sumner-miller]

Here we are again