(Click to enlarge) Well, perhaps not so strange. This is a detail of one of the monuments to the earls of Coventry in the church at Croome. I love statues with extreme and rhetorical gestures especially when there is a suggestion of a narrative. Here the husband expostulates with his wife concerning the TV remote control.
An interesting fact concerning the church at Croome: Capability Brown had it demolished and rebuilt in a more picturesque location at some distance from the house. Presumably the earls preferred to keep their religion "at arm's length" so to speak!
On the 55th Anniversary of the Novus Ordo: "The Problem with Judging a Book
by its Cover" -- by Fr. Richard Cipolla
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Suppose a new edition of a famous novel was published with great fanfare,
including press conferences, new releases, and all the other public
manifestation...
1 hour ago
Looks like me on the couch alright.
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