United States
United States
For some, an unnecessary exhortation.
David was on the way to developing an alternative market using the Abbey’s Brewery as his source of ill gotten gain until James and Marcel’s music made him think of more ambitious plans.
Anybody hungry?
The pope commands you to stop speaking.
This photo was taken at Sacred Heart Mission and Abbey in Konawa Oklahoma. In the spring of 1876, the monks accepted an offer of land and hospitality offered by the Citizen Band Potawatomi. / / The early monks had several sources of water on their beautiful new property and they constructed cisterns and ponds to collect the water for consumption and for use with livestock and crops. If you look closely at the photo you will see a heart at the bottom and a cross coming out of the top of the cross, designating Sacred Heart. The Name of this spring is “St. Benedict Spring” it was one source of cool, fresh water. The monks built a springhouse over the spring and a concrete trough in the ground to collect the water. In addition to using the trough to collect water, the monks also grew Water Cress in the trough. Some of this delicious plant continues to grow wild in the water along the forest floor. The Springhouse is found in a ravine in a wooded area about ½ miles from the monastery site. The springhouse roof has now collapsed over the springhouse and is part of the planned renovation in the future. I have included some other photos of the spring from different angles and also one from looking down from the dam.
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An image of Pope Benedict XVI is projected on to the southern pylon of the Sydney Harbour Bridge during World Youth Day 2008. Sydney, Australia.
The Apostolic Journey to the US. Considering the millions of faithful followers. I was of the lucky chosen few who was able to attend this extraordinary event.
The Apostolic Journey to the United States. Standing room only,Every seat in the stadium had someone in it!
Pope Benedict XVI bids farewell to all at the end of mass. Yankee Stadium the Bronx, New York
The Apostolic Journey to the United States.
The Apostolic Journey to The United States.
Strathmore 400 Series drawing paper and graphite pencil!
Face Magazine is no more, but Dirk Benedict still continues.
I was recently angered by the pope’s comments that condoms could actually worsen the AIDS pandemic by encouraging promiscuity and his suggestions that abstinence is the best way forward. This is my response.
There are 24 statues in white Carrara marble around the upper basin of Perugia’s wonderful main fountain. They are regarded as some of the earliest masterpieces of Italian medieval sculpture, created by the Pisanos, father and son, in the late 1270s. This one, probably by Giovanni Pisano, portrays St Benedict of Norcia, founder of the Benedictine Monastic Order, handing the Rule of the Order to his first disciple. Notice also the bronze protome forming the water-spout underneath: here it is in the form of a gazelle’s head. (I had to stand on the stone ledge and cling on to the railings around the fountain to take this shot!)
2008/beginning of 2009, I think, and just sort of walked away from it for a while. Work resumed in late June, at about the same time I was commissioned by a local metal band to do some album art with the words “Never On Sunday” in mind. Seemed like a perfect fit. So, I went and had the sucker photographed, scanned the print into my computer, added some evil glowing eyes with GIMP, and there you have it. The original’s still available to anybody who wants it. Oils on 12” x 16” canvas panel.
7 Shape Vector drawn by hand from scratch in Xara Xtreme. Mr Infallible himself – it’s the Pope! He used to be in the Nazi Youth proving that forgiveness exists and there for god. (Erm, I might do Richard Dawkins soon). More Info About Pope Benedict XVI / —— /
Another RedBubble exclusive experiment… / One of the finest humans on this planet – and a very dear friend of mine – gave me a box of oil pastels that he bought in France some years ago and told me “make something with them”. They sat for many months. They frightened me actually. But I decided to try something. (gosh, they are messy!) I made what is the background here – but knew it needed “just a little something yet”. Not sure what that would have been so I let it sit until today. Ah – it wanted to get married – (the messy side of me and the side that is all tucked in and proper). So I brought out the face from my pencil drawing Idee Fixe / and let them hang out for a few hours to see if they got along.
Every Wednesday morning the Pope gives a talk in Saint Peter’s Square and does so in many different languages. We were suppose to do a tour of the Vatican that September morning when we were in Rome. The tour was to meet in the square and after he spoke in English it was to begin. Well we slept too late and missed the tour but as we approached St Peter’s square we could hear him still speaking over the loudspeakers.. We entered the square and were situated way in the back against these wooden barricades that separated us from the people in front of us about twenty feet away. We could see the Pope way up in front of us. His orange hat looked like a little dot. I took a shot from there just to be able to say “See that little orange dot? That’s the Pope”. After he spoke I could see him stepping down from where he was speaking. The “orange dot” all of a sudden started to move back and forth among the crowd. I suddenly realized that the barricades we were right up against were to give him a path to drive through the crowd and that he would be passing only a few feet in front of us! Of course I started snapping away as he passed. We were never expecting to see the Pope on our visit, let alone being that close. Good thing we slept in!
The Abbey was founded in 1087 by nobleman Robert FitzHamon, however building of the present Abbey did not start until 1102. Built to house Benedictine monks, the Norman Abbey was near completion when consecrated in 1121. After the dissolution of monasteries in 1540 most of the claustral buildings and the Lady Chapel were quarried for their materials but the Abbey Church was sold to the parishioners for £453, by Henry VIII, as they insisted it was a parish church. – www.tewkesburyabbey.org.uk Tewkesbury Abbey is a Grade I listed building in Gloucestershire
Pen and ink drawing scanned into computer and repeated.
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