#St Clement

[anastpaul]

St Clement I – Papacy (c88–c101) Pope Martyr, Miracle-worker. St Clement is considered to be the first Apostolic Father of the Church, one of the three chief ones together with St Polycarp and St Ignatius of Antioch. Papal Ascensi,on c 88. Born in Rome, Italy and died by drowning at Chersonesus, Taurica, Bosporan Kingdom (modern Greece). His Life and Death: https://anastpaul.com/2022/11/23/saint-of-the-day-23-november-st-clement-i-c-88-c-101-pope-martyr/ AND: https://anastpaul.com/2021/11/23/saint-of-the-day-23-november-st-pope-clement-i-died-c-101-martyr/

(via St Clement I – Papacy (c88–c 101) Pope Martyr, St Felicity, Widow, Martyr, St Columban and all the Saints for 23 November – AnaStpaul)

[forgeatsweetwater]

Wishing everyone, near and far, a very merry St. Clement's* Day!

(yeah, yeah, yeah, it's Thanksgiving in the US too, and Wolfenoot...but it's All About Clem!)

*one of the Patron Saints of blacksmiths and metalworkers

[scowling24-7]

The beach.

[brother-hermes]

Christianity is such a mongrelized religion. Influences poured into the region of Yeshuas origin from all over. The Silk Road tied the east to the west effectively creating middle eastern hubs of culture and philosophical ideas. Since the region was already saturated with Kemetic and Hebraic thought it’s no wonder a Hellenized Alexandria ended up giving us such a brilliant background a few centuries later. Click the link to take a deep dive into mystic Christian history.

[maypoleman1]

23rd November

St Clement’s Day

Clement I Bishop of Rome (c1000 AD). Source: Wikipedia

Today is St Clement’s Day. Clement was one of the early bishops of Rome, held by the Roman Catholic Church to be the fourth Pope. He lived in the first century at a time when Christianity, whereas not yet attracting the wholesale persecution of future years, was being considered a subversive nuisance by the Roman Empire. Clement got the wrong side of the authorities during the reign of the Emperor Trajan and was allegedly executed by being tied to an anchor and thrown overboard to drown, which he did. This made him the patron saint of sailors and blacksmiths.

In former days Clementing parades took place in which mock anvils and axes were carried with Old Clem, a blacksmith in effigy, being the centrepiece. The parades would usually conclude with a feast, a bonfire and the ritual Firing the Anvil, in which a real anvil had a hole made in its side which was then filled with gunpowder and lit. This highly dangerous stunt would result in a loud explosion and the anvil being lifted high in the air, to the watching crowd’s delight unless the now lethal piece of ironmongery happened to land on someone. Celebration of St Clement’s Day was once very widespread but by the end of the nineteenth century it had completely died out, its traditions being subsumed into Bonfire Night.

[tinyshe]

“Let us fix our gaze on the Blood of Christ and realize how truly precious It is, seeing that It was poured out for our salvation and brought the grace of conversion to the whole world” (Pope St. Clement I).

[empirearchives]

Napoleon with a puppy

🥺

[vigilantkilliforniakatholixxx]

[rangersfc-1872]

2024/25 SCOTTISH PREMIERSHIP MATCH DAY 7

Rangers 2-0 St Johnstone 6th October 2024 Ibrox Stadium

Černý (34', 58'), Hagi (81' sent off)

[anastpaul]

(via Quote/s of the Day – 23 November – St Clement I – AnaStpaul)

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Men who offer laudatory speeches to the rich ... are insidious because, although mere abundance is by itself quite enough to puff up the souls of its possessors, and to corrupt them, and to turn them aside from the way by which salvation can be reached, these men bring fresh delusion to the minds of the rich by exciting them with the pleasures that come from their immoderate praises, and by rendering them contemptuous of absolutely everything in the world except the wealth which is the cause of their being admired. In the words of the proverb, they carry fire to fire, when they shower pride upon pride, and heap on wealth, heavy by its own nature, the heavier burden of arrogance.

Οἱ μὲν τοὺς ἐγκωμιαστικοὺς λόγους τοῖς πλουσίοις δωροφοροῦντες ... ἀσεβεῖς μέν, ὅτι παρέντες αἰνεῖν καὶ δοξάζειν τὸν μόνον τέλειον καὶ ἀγαθὸν θεόν, ἐξ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ δι᾿ οὗ τὰ πάντα καὶ εἰς ὃν τὰ πά��τα, περιάπτουσι τούτου τὸ γέρας ἀνθρώποις ἐν ἀσώτῳ καὶ βορβορώδει βίῳ κυλινδουμένοις καὶ τὸ κεφάλαιον ὑποκειμένοις τῇ κρίσει τοῦ θεοῦ.

—St Clement of Alexandria (Κλήμης ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς), The Rich Man's Salvation (c 190 CE)

[Robert Scott Horton]

[dramoor]

[rabbitcruiser]

Houston, BC (No. 6)

Houston is known as the world’s Steelhead capital of the world, and is proud to be the home to Canada’s largest fl y rod which is located in our award-winning Steelhead Park located on Highway 16. It is also home to the Houston’s Visitor Centre. The park is a perfect setting for a leisurely stroll or picnic and includes the lovely Steelhead fountain and our majestic, giant “Phantom Grizzly bear” weighing 975 pounds (visible 24/7 at the visitor centre), and our local museum’s “Walk through History”.

Source

[longlistshort]

Christina Bothwell, "Spirit Animal", 2014, Cast glass, ceramic, oil paint

Christina Bothwell and Robert Bender "Cloud Pillow", 2016, Cast glass, ceramic, oil paint

Karen LaMonte, "Etude 11", Cast glass

Leah Wingfield and Steve Clements, "Low Winter Sun, Shadow III", 2016, Cast glass

K. William LeQuier, "Synergy 2", 2017, Cut and sandblasted glass

Above are some of the amazing glass works from a 2021 visit to Imagine Museum in St. Pete, Florida. For more work by artists Christina Bothwell, Robert Bender, Karen LaMonte, Leah Wingfield, Steve Clements, and K. William LeQuier, head to the links in this post.

This weekend (9/30 and 10/1) you can visit the museum for $5 (normally $15).

[mariocki]

Play for Today: Not for the Likes of Us (BBC, 1980)

"It was a relief when she married you, I'm telling you. That'll calm her down, I thought, stop these crazy ideas. Mind you, I can't say that it did. Do you remember that spiritualism craze she had, when she was carrying Paul? Eight months pregnant and trying to contact other worlds! I said to her, that baby will be born funny in the head."