This is Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, built in just seven years in the 13th century for an extraordinary purpose: to house Christ’s most sacred relics, including the Crown of Thorns, acquired by King Louis IX from Constantinople.
To others, it may look like a simple scene-a small monkey being carried.
But for Punch, it's comfort...
It's warmth...
It's the quiet feeling of not being alone anymore.
Sonny had been left behind by his family and was extremely sick. He was also an older gentleman.
I put a tie on him when he came in and told him it would all be ok.
Look at him now with his new family. He is aging backwards ❤️
After the Reformation, Catholic architecture emphasized overwhelming beauty.
“The wall was built of jasper, while the city was pure gold.” (Revelation 21:18)
Jewels, marble, gilding, color.
— Baroque art adopted the same vocabulary to suggest eternity. 📸:Abs
A Canaletto evening in one of the prettiest squares in Venice, Italy.
The beautiful facade of the white building, the Scuola Grande di San Marco, is the work of Pietro Lombardo and Mauro Codussi, in the 1400s. It’s now a hospital. (My 📸)
Teach your children that they are deeply connected to all of Life, that they are One with all people, and that they are never separate from God. Teach them this and you will have taught them grandly.