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Home Page Photo Archive

 

Some of the photos and captions that have appeared on the Home Page of Paradoxplace since early 2007 (the dates refer to when the photo was on the home page, not when the photo was taken).

 

Food photos from the home page can be found in "Simply the Best Meals"

 

 

Places included in the links below (sometimes more than once):

 

Italy:  Bitonto Cathedral, Trani Cathedral, Urbino Palazzo Ducale, Pentecoste in Venice, Chiaravalle della Colomba Corpus Domini Infiorata, Duomo Vecchio Molfetta, Ognissanti at La Foce, Tartufo Bianco in Alba, Sant'Antimo Tuscany, Florence Duomo, Rome Pantheon, Rome Santa Pudenziana, Rome Santa Maria Maggiore, Rome Vatican,

 

France:  Autun Cathedral Zodiac Roundels, Cistercian Abbey of Noirlac, Zodiac Window in Chartres Cathedral, Gislebertus in Autun, St-Pierre Besuéjouls, Avallon, Midsummer and a floating angel at Vézelay,  Louvre Paris, Entraygues-sur-Truyère

 

Spain:  Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas in Burgos, Cistercian Abbey of Rueda in Aragon, San Miguel de la Escalada,

 

PortugalSalema,

 

Britain:  Worcester Cathedral, Lincoln Cathedral, Saint George's Day, Wells Cathedral, Canterbury Cathedral, Geddington Eleanor Cross, Runnymede, Bewcastle Cross in Cumbria,

 

Australia:  Anzac Day (25 April),

 

 

 

 

Scything Hay and Leo - Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window

 

August 2008

 

 

Salema, Portugal

 

 

Salema, Portugal

 

August 2008

 

 

Entraygues sur Truyere

 

 

Entraygues-sur-Truyère

 

August 2008

 

 

 

 

The Basilique St-Julien, Brioude, the biggest and internally most beautiful of the many Romanesque churches of the Auvergne.

 

July 2008

 

 

 

 

San Miguel de la Escalada - rare Mozarabic church survivor near Leon (Castile)

 

July 2008

 

 

Pope Benedict XVI

 

 

Pope Benedict XVI waves to Paradox (and others) on his first balcony appearance in Rome - May Day 2005

 

In July 2008 the Pope was in Sydney for the "World (Roman Catholic) Youth Day"

 

 

 

Link to Paradoxplace Churches of Rome pages

 

 

 

 

The Bewcastle Cross, Cumbria

 

July 2008

 

 

 

 

Cistercian Abbey of Rueda, Aragon

 

July 2008

 

 

 

 

Limoge reliquary châsse for Archbishop Thomas Becket in the Louvre, Paris

 

June 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Becket window image in Canterbury Cathedral

 

June 2008

 

 

 

 

If the sun is shining over north Burgundy at mid-day on SATURDAY JUNE 21 2008 (the day of the Summer Solstice) the pools of light falling on the floor of the Basilique Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay will lead down the centre of the nave to the crypt and relics of Ste-Madeleine.

 

June 2008

 

 

 

 

Magna Carta Memorial, Runnymede - Magne Carta was signed somewhere around here on 15 June 1215

 

June 2008

 

 

 

 

The Fall of Jericho - year 430 mosaic in Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome

 

May 2008

 

 

 

 

Basilique Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay (Burgundy) - an angel floats off the door jam capital of the south west portal of the church

 

April 2008

 

 

 

 

The oldest early Christian mosaic in Rome in the Basilica of Santa Pudenziana

 

April 2008

 

 

 

 

The Pantheon, Rome

 

 

 

 

 

The Gemini Twins, May 22 - June 21

Eglise St-Lazare, Avallon, Burgundy

 

May 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Taurus the Bull, April 21 - May 21

Eglise St-Lazare, Avallon, Burgundy

 

April 2008

 

 

 

 

April 23 is Saint George's Day

Paolo Uccello liked painting him

 

 

 

 Spring Equinox (Autumn Equinox Down Under) - Aries - The Ram (Le Bélier) - March 21– April 20

Autun Cathedral, Burgundy

 

March 20 2008

 

 

 

 

 

The pilgrims' chapel in the tower of the little pilgrimage church of St-Pierre, Besuéjouls (near Espalion, River Lot)

 

March 2008

 

 

 

 

Lorenzo il Magnifico (de'Medici)

 

 

 

 

Suleiman the Magnificent

 

 

 

 

Perugino's Madonna della Consolazione

 

 

 

 

Eleanor Cross, Geddington

 

 

 

 

Evening light on the Florence Duomo

 

 

 

 

February Foot Warming - Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window

 

February 2008

 

 

 

 

The Magi in Autun Cathedral

 

December 2007 / January 2008

 

 

 

 

December Dinner - Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window

 

December 2007 / January 2008

 

 

 

 

Sagittarius - Chartres Cathedral Zodiac Window

 

November / December 2007

 

 

 

 

L'Abbazia di Sant'Antimo (Tuscany)

 

November 2007

 

 

 

 

October & November - white truffle time in Piemonte and Tuscany

 

October / November 2007

 

 

 

 

Flowers for Ognissanti (November 1) by the graves of the Origo family in the beautiful little cemetery at La Foce

 

October / November 2007

 

 

 

 

The Cistercian Abbey of Noirlac in Central France

 

October 2007

 

 

 

 

Cistercian Royal Abbey & Nunnery of Santa Maria la Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos

 

September 2007

 

 

 

 

Canterbury Cathedral, England

 

August 2007

 

 

 

 

 

Wells Cathedral, England

 

July 2007

 

 

 

 

Il Duomo (Vecchio) di San Corrado, Molfetta (Puglia)

 

June 2007

 

 

 

Summer Solstice (June 21)

Autun - Cathédrale St-Lazare

Roundels illustrating the seasons and their labours

 

 

The Gemini twins

(Les Gémeaux)

May 22 - June 21

Autun - Cathédrale St-Lazare

 

 

Corpus Domini at l'Abbazia di Chiaravalle della Colomba

near Piacenza 

 

 

Pentecoste

in Venice

 

 

Trani (Puglia) - Cattedrale di San Nicola il Pellegrino

 

 

Urbino - Palazzo Ducale

 

 

 

Bitonto (Puglia) - May's Magnificent Cathedral

 

May 2007

 

 

"April 25 is Anzac Day in Australia"

 

A national holiday when more and more people have been taking part in memorial marches and ceremonies.  These are maternal Grandfather Paradox's WWI medals, including the "Old Contemptibles" medal (second from left, awarded to the soldiers who went to France between 5 August and 22 November 1914 with the bar signifying service under enemy fire) and the Croix de Guerre (right).  The oak leaf on the next door Victory Medal indicates a "Mention in Despatches" for gallantry in WWI.  Our man, an army doctor, spent the entire war in and around the trenches in France.

 

April 2007

 

 

 

 

"April 23 is Saint George's Day"

 

The Saint George Ensign flying over the minster church of Saint Gregory the Great at Morville (Shropshire)

 

April 2007

 

 

 

 

Lincoln - April's Magnificent Cathedral 

 

April 2007

 

 

 

 

Worcester - March's Magnificent Cathedral

 

March 2007

 

 

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