#french catholics

[thefreelancehistorywriter]

The Consequences of the Massacre of Wassy

Commerative plaque to the Massacre at Wassy (Photo credit: Ji-Elle from Wikimedia Commons) French history has been a favorite of mine since college days when the designated professor was eccentric and gave fascinating lectures. Those are fond memories. Recently, my reading list has included lots of French history, especially the sixteenth century and the Renaissance era. A certain incident in…

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Joan of Arc (1999) dir Luc Besson

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"And she had brown eyes like a lamb, innocent and golden"

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Sacred Heart with Doves, French Catholic Holy Card

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Jean Fouquet (French, c.1420-1481) Virgin surrounded by seraphim and cherubim, Melun Diptych (right panel), ca.1455 Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp

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Photo originale par Steph-Photo

Une visite à l'abbaye du Thoronet (83). Chef d'œuvre de l'art cistercien !

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Kimi + Seb + Carlos aka my holy trinity

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the baroque male

you have died to the law so to belong to another (Romans 7:4)

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01/12/2024

"Can that tiny pamphlet really contain all of Mosaic law?" Bro.  Sure.

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JOKE-OGRAPHY: 1. Following from the last two comics, Mary has to make a sacrifice as a new mother, according to Mosaic law (Leviticus 12:1-8).  As a poor family, she and Joseph can't afford the prescribed sacrifice of one yearling lamb and one turtledove, so they address their "Mosaic Law and You" brochure and see if there are substitute sacrifices they can use.  It turns out there are!  According to Leviticus 12, if they can't afford a lamb, they can sacrifice TWO turtledoves (or pigeons) instead of one.  "Two turtledoves" is one of the lyrics in the song, "The Twelve Days of Christmas," so in this cartoon, I add a list of other possible substitute sacrifices as if the song is an extension of the Leviticus law.  It is not.  I am a lying liar, who has lied. 2. "What's a french?" reflects the fact that Mary has no idea what "french" means.  Back in ye olde Bible dayes, France did not exist in its current form, as St. Joan of Arc hadn't yet slain the titan, Grumblebuff, whose head became England and whose body formed the rest of Europe.

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Virgin Adoring the Eucharist, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1854)

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my bourgeois failwife

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Henri de la Rochejaquelein by Pierre-Narcisse Guérin

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Sometimes I think about how loustat are in a placage marriage and make myself insane.

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Paul Gustave Louis Christophe Doré (French, 1832-1883) Procession sainte et pénitents à Séville, Voyage en Espagne (Holy procession and penitents in Seville, Travels in Spain), ca.1863

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Photo originale par Steph-Photo

La salle capitulaire de l'abbaye du Thoronet (83)

[kokiri]

I could not get girl math Estinien out of my head