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What the Exaltation of the Cross Really Means —...
"The True Cross raised high, for all the faithful to see." Most feasts remember a person or an event. This one remembers a gesture: a bishop lifting a piece of...
What the Exaltation of the Cross Really Means —...
"The True Cross raised high, for all the faithful to see." Most feasts remember a person or an event. This one remembers a gesture: a bishop lifting a piece of...
What "Soli Deo Gloria" Really Means — Glory to ...
"Glory to God alone. Nothing kept for ourselves." Three Latin words that a composer wrote at the bottom of his manuscripts once the work was finished. Not at the start,...
What "Soli Deo Gloria" Really Means — Glory to ...
"Glory to God alone. Nothing kept for ourselves." Three Latin words that a composer wrote at the bottom of his manuscripts once the work was finished. Not at the start,...
What the Double-Headed Eagle Really Means — Two...
"Two heads. One empire. Church and state as one." A bird with two heads makes no sense as a bird. It was never meant to. The double-headed eagle is an...
What the Double-Headed Eagle Really Means — Two...
"Two heads. One empire. Church and state as one." A bird with two heads makes no sense as a bird. It was never meant to. The double-headed eagle is an...
What "In Hoc Signo Vinces" Really Means — The S...
"In this sign, conquer — the words that changed Rome." Four Latin words that a Roman emperor claimed to have seen written across the sky, and after which the most...
What "In Hoc Signo Vinces" Really Means — The S...
"In this sign, conquer — the words that changed Rome." Four Latin words that a Roman emperor claimed to have seen written across the sky, and after which the most...
What the "Holy Mandylion" Really Means — The Fa...
"Christ's face on a cloth. No artist's hand touched it." Every icon in every Orthodox church descends from one claim: that at some point the face of God was actually...
What the "Holy Mandylion" Really Means — The Fa...
"Christ's face on a cloth. No artist's hand touched it." Every icon in every Orthodox church descends from one claim: that at some point the face of God was actually...
What "Christus Vincit" Really Means — The Accla...
"Christ conquers. Christ reigns. Christ commands." Three verbs, and not one of them is a request. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat is not a prayer asking for anything —...
What "Christus Vincit" Really Means — The Accla...
"Christ conquers. Christ reigns. Christ commands." Three verbs, and not one of them is a request. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat is not a prayer asking for anything —...