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Home Page Photo Archive from July 2012
Some of the photos and captions that
have appeared on the Home
Page of Paradoxplace
(the dates refer to
when the photo was on the home page, not when the photo was taken).
Link to photos which appeared on the Paradoxplace
Home Page in 2007 and 2008 in
2009 and 2010
and in 2011 and
2012
Food photos from the home page can be found
in "Simply the Best Meals"
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Reims Cathedral -
Coronation place of the Kings of France
April 2013
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Gregory & Adriano enjoy a
Working Lunch at Lamole in 2002
those were the (Chianti) Days
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Wells Cathedral
English Cathedral Photo Pages
April 2013
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Soaring Magnificence
Cathedral of St Gatien, Tours
February 2013
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Gislebertus captures the arrival of
the Magi
in the Chapter House of
La
Cathédrale St-Lazare,
Autun (Burgundy)
January 2013
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March 2013
A Durham Prince Bishop enjoys the winter sun and
looks down on the
Cathedral's crossing from on high.
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Eleanor Cross, Geddington
28 November 1290
Eleanor of Castile - Spanish
Queen Consort of England's Edward I, dies in Harby near Lincoln
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2013
Aries –
Le Bélier (The
Ram) - March 21 to April 20
Cathédrale de Notre Dame de Chartres
Medieval Zodiacs & Labours of the
Months
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April 2013
Portraits from the Middle Ages
Lorenzo "il Magnifico" de' Medici
1449 - 1469 - 9 April 1492 (43)
1492 -
Lorenzo the
Magnificent dies in Florence
(9 April),
Columbus discovers America,
and
Granada
(the last Moslem presence in Spain) falls
it is " the end of the Middle
Ages !"
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NEW PAGE: Ilam, Staffordshire
Peak District
February 2013
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February 2013
THE
KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
Friday 8 February is the Feast
of St Jerome Emiliani, patron saint of Orphans
1487 - Andrea della Robbia -
infant in swaddling clothes on the facade of
Brunelleschi's Spedale degli Innocenti
(Foundling Hospital - Florence)
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6 January - Epiphany - Twelfth
Night - El Día de los Reyes
HERE COME THE MAGI
The Place's Magi star - King
Melchior says G'Day in the Cathedral of St Gatien, Tours
Link to lots more Magi
memories
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21 December was the
Winter Solstice
St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)
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Flowers for Ognissanti (November 1) in the beautiful little cemetery at La Foce
(South of Siena)
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Santa Maria in Trastevere
December 2012
Churches of Rome
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Nativity scene in the little painted Pilgrims' Church of
St-Jacques des Guérets, Loir Valley
December 2012
Paradoxplace Nativity Scenes
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This “Spanish
Nativity Scene” is part of the painted plaster ceiling of the Guild
House of
the Spanish
Merchants' Company in Barnstaple, North Devon. It was
originally completed on 9 July 1620.
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CHRISTMAS DAY 1914
25
December 2012
Domenico Ghirlandaio - Nativity
(1482)
in the wonderful Capella Sassetti,
church of SS Trinita, Florence.
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St Peter, Hook Norton (Oxfordshire)
Sagittarius –
Le Sagitaire
(The Archer)
November 23 – December 21
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13 December is the Feast of
Santa Lucia
Patron Saint of Ortigia (Siracusa)
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Eleanor Cross, Geddington |
28 November 1290
Eleanor of Castile - Spanish
Queen Consort of England's Edward I, dies in Harby near Lincoln |
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Sunday 11 November 2012
is the anniversary of
the Armistice which ended WW I in 1918. This photo of Peggy, Clare
and Jimmy Sproule was taken at Bigbury-on-Sea, S Devon, in late August
1918. Jimmy was on a brief leave from the command of 131 Field
Ambulance which served the front line fighting troops of the Welsh Division in one of the bloodiest battle
areas near Amiens. At this time it seemed the fighting could go on
for much much longer than two more months.
More about WW I
Interesting
that Clare resembles closely the
beautiful Margravine Uta, statued in
Naumburg Cathedral (Eastern Germany) c1250.
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Jimmy Sproule gets
the autograph of the Prince
of Wales
a couple of months after the end of WWI
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Photo © Holly Hayes -
Sacred Destinations
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Thursday 4 October is the Feast of St
Francis
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Scorpio –
Le Scorpion (The
Scorpion)
October 24 – November 22
Notre Dame de Chartres Cathedral,
Zodiac Window
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Niña , Pinta , and
Santa María
Columbus' little boats at Rabida,
Andalucia
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12 October
1492 - Christopher Colombus reaches the New World
- Europe's dominant days are numbered
LINK
TO INSIGHT PAGE ON THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
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Postcard Photo
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Saturday 6 October is the
Feast of Ste Foy
Cathedral of Ste Foy, Conques
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Libra -
Le Balance (The
Scales)
September 23 – October 23
September 23 is the Autumn
Equinox
Notre Dame de Chartres Cathedral,
Zodiac Window
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Photo © Holly Hayes -
Sacred Destinations
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Thursday 4 October (2012) is the Feast of St
Francis
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Mason's Head - Lincoln Cathedral
September 2012
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The Jaws of Hell (or "Doom") -
Conques
September 2012
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Medieval Camino
pilgrim
The Bastide of
Villeneuve d'Aveyron
September 2012
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Virgo -
La Vierge (The
Virgin)
August 24 – September 22

in a floor roundel in the old Becket Shrine in Canterbury Cathedral
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and (below) in colour in the Chartres Cathedral Zodiac
Window

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Cistercian Royal Abbey & Nunnery of Santa Maria la
Real de Las Huelgas, Burgos
Las Claustrillos (Small Cloister)
September 2012
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Cistercian Abbey (for Nuns) of Santa Maria del
Salvador at Cañas (La Rioja, Spain)
September 2012
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A
menacing Leo stands over his wimpering
emaciated hoofed mankill in the
Basilique
Ste-Madeleine, Vézelay (Burgindy)
Leo -
Le Lion (The
Lion)
- July 23 – August 23
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The British Museum's books about Medieval Craftsmen
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Cancer the Crab - June 22– July 22
Chartres Cathedral
Zodiac Window (c1217)
paired
with June's monthly activity (wrongly labelled July) - grass
cutting
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9.09 am Thursday 21 June 2012
Winter Solstice
(in Sydney where it's
very cold)
St-Lazare, Avallon (Burgundy)
or Summer Solstice in
Burgundy
Cathédrale St-Lazare,
Autun (Burgundy)
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June is Cherrry time at the
Coop in Poggibonsi
June 2012
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Gemini -
Les Gémeaux (The
Twins) May 22 – June 21
The Gemini Twins from the 1200s "Vasco Vescovali" made in
Afghanistan or Iran.
Illustration from
an
outstanding British Museum book.
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from Amazon UK
June 2012
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Link to photos which appeared on the Paradoxplace
Home Page in 2007 and 2008 and in
2009 and 2010
and in 2011 and
2012
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