(Click to enlarge) This Romanesque font is currently at the entrance to the Lady Chapel of Gloucester Cathedral. Made of lead, presumably cast, it is thought to date from c.1140 but was only placed in the Cathedral in the last century.
My interest in Romanesque and Gothic art and architecture is longstanding and it is entirely fortuitous, from my point of view at least, that the Holy Father should be turning his attention to it just after my tours of East Anglia and the West Country.
Gone but not forgotten: Months later, former Knoxville Bishop Richard Stika
is threatening priests
-
Stika presents a microcosm of the sewage we're still mired in ...
From Knox News Sentinel:
Though he hasn’t been employed by the Catholic Diocese of Kno...
4 hours ago
No comments:
Post a Comment