We already brought you part one of our list of 15 things you didn’t know about Barcelona, and now we’re back with part two! Check out seven more fascinating facts about the beautiful city below.
Number Seven: One of Their Cathedral’s is Home to Geese
Eulalia was a young girl, owner of geese, who lived in Barcelona during Medieval times. She got savagely tortured and crucified due to her refusal to give up Christianism. A cathedral was erected as homage to the little girl. 13 geese have been living in Santa Creu i Santa Eulàlia's cathedral ever since—one for each year Santa Eulalia lived before she was executed.
Number Six: Barcelona’s Architecture Inspired Star Wars
George Lucas has cited Gaudí's chimneys from Casa Pedrera and Casa Milà
The work begins with Section I, ‘The Background’ which consists of a general overview in medieval women’s social and religious history. The first section delineates the basic societal framework for Western European women in the High Middle Ages and outlines the cultural forces at work in shaping their lives. The second part of this section reviews the changes in religious consciousness concerning sacramental practices and fasting, from the Church Fathers to the late medieval hagiographers. It should be noted here that although more careful attention is given to the practice of ‘fasting,’ especially in the latter portion of the work which I will be examining in more detail, the ‘feasting’ in question more generally denotes the ‘love feast’ of the Eucharist than the fe...
She is a spiritual woman who is able to express her faith and faith led life through the stories she writes down in this diary. She claims to be a Christian woman in all of these stories. “And Hilarianus the procurator, who at that time had received the right of capital punishment in the place of the dead proconsul Minucis Timinainus, said, “Spare the white hairs of your father, spare your infant son. Perform the rite for the health of the emperors!” And I responded: “I will not do it.” HIlarianus said: “Are you a Christian?” And I responded: “I am a Christian”” (Perpetua). This dialogue shows that even in a time where her father and her child were on the line, she would still claim in front of the forum that she is a Christian. This is extremely important, because many people would be likely to hide their faith to save their family members, while she thought it was more important to express her faith
The sacred space of the Cathedral of Chartres in France and the Parthenon will be discussed in comparison with each other.
Born in the year 1412, Jeanne d'Arc was a singularly pious child, grave beyond her years, and showed an intense and ever-increasing devotion to things holy. Even as a young girl, she never wearied of visiting the nearby churches in and about her native village, and she passed many an hour “in a kind of rapt trance before the crucifixes and saintly images in these chapels.”1 If at dusk the evening bells sounded across the fields, Jeanne would kneel devoutly, communing in her heart with her divine Master and adored saints. “She loved above all things these evening bells, and, when it seemed to her that the ringer grew negligent, would bribe him with some gift to remind him in the future to be more instant in his office.”2 That this trait in Jeanne is true, we have the testimony of the bell ringer himself to attest.
STEGGINK, O., and S. V. RAMGE. "Teresa of Avila, St." New Catholic Encyclopedia. 2nd ed. Vol. 13. Detroit: Gale, 2003. 826-830. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 3 Apr. 2014.
St. Francis of Assisi was born in Umbria in the year 1182. He was a child every father hoped for, he was filled with life, a determined and courageous individual. He was gifted with rather good looks, qualities that attracted friends and a gift of leadership. His father was an extremely wealthy merchant in Assisi. But this son, his favourite, was the one who broke Peter Bernardone’s heart. The boy turned on his father, and in a vicious event that eventually resulted into a public scene. St. Francis of Assisi stepped away from his father, his business and left his father in a state of immense emotional suffering.
Thomas Celano starts out by giving us a description of the opulence that surrounded a young Francis of Assisi. “…a man named Francis, who from his earliest years was brought up by his parents forwardly,
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres is a church in Chartres, France. It is about 80 kilometers from Paris, France and is considered one of the best examples of Gothic style architecture. The building was completed by 1220 comprising of an old crypt and a mid-12th-century Royal Portal. The Cathedral was dedicated to King Louis IX on October 24, 1260; however, the building is missing the full set of spires that had been planned.
When Catherine was six she saw a bridal chamber up in the heavens with Jesus Christ who bestowed upon her the sign of the cross and his eternal bene...
Lo was a beautiful spirit of nature maiden and priestess of Hera. One day Zeus spotted Lo from coming home from the river he knew he had to have but she tried to get away. Zeus used one of his powers to transform himself into a thundercloud and captured Lo. Hera knew that something was up on Earth with Zeus when the clouds got dark and he suddenly had vanished. Hera has always been jealous with Zeus affairs so he knew he had to disguise Lo so he turned her into a cow. Hera welcomed Zeus home and asking questions involving the cow which caught Zeus off guard. Zeus on the spot in panic said the cow was from Earth. Hera was pleased with the cow and wanted it but Zeus was hesitant about it since not handing it over meant he was sinful. In the
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The thinking that swans have a close relation to the Celt’s religion is not unheard of. Though the stories and poems speaking of it’s significance in a far more subtle way, the religion quite obviously favored the bird and thought it to hold some sort of supernatural power, as illuminated in the article, “Celtic Symbolism in Celtic Religion,” by Anne Ross,
saw Our Lady at Lourdes in 1858 and was told to dig nearby and she
Gothic architecture is a style of architecture that flourished during the high what's more, late medieval period. It developed from Romanesque structural planning and was succeeded by Renaissance architecture. Originating in 12th-century in France and lasting into the 16th century. Gothic cathedrals resulted from additions to a Romanesque church. The desire to enrich an earlier church was a strong motivation behind Gothic cathedral building. Numerous Romanesque holy places were crushed to clear a path for a cathedral in the new style. As a result, the majority of cathedrals in Europe are Gothic
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