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THE TWELVE CLIPS OF CHRISTMAS: DAY 3: MARCIA, MARCIA, MARCIA

by David on December 28, 2012 · 0 comments

On the third day of Christmas we celebrate the feast day of St John The Evangelist, Saint John the Divine, one third of the Triumvirate along with Peter and James, one of the Boanerges (sons of thunder), traditionally represented in…

Pope Gregory IV and the Mystery of the Square Halo

by David Clayton on April 6, 2012 · 0 comments

I was contacted recently by a reader, a priest who had concelebrated a Station Mass at San Marco di Campidoglio in Rome. He had notice a square halo on one of the figures in the 9th century mosaic in the…