Word: rome
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...Pope, before whom presidents and kings have knelt and offered obeisance, suddenly fell to his own knees last week and kissed the feet of a Greek Orthodox religious leader, Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon. During ceremonies at the Sistine Chapel in Rome, the gray-bearded Metropolitan had announced that representatives of 250 million Orthodox Christians were preparing for theological dialogue with leaders of the world's 650 million Roman Catholics, which could lay the ground for reunification. The great schism between the two bodies dates back to 1054, when the churches of Pope Leo IX and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Michael...
...heavy metal, most of this symbolism is lost to us. But it remains physically preserved in the sacristies and vaults of Roman Catholic churches throughout Europe, and visitors to Italy this Christmas may get a strong sense of it from an exhibition organized at the Palazzo delle Esposizioni in Rome to mark the end of the Holy Year. Entitled "Treasures of Sacred Art," it has been culled from normally inaccessible church collections in Rome and nearby Latium. eluded in brilliant array are coffers, crosses, monstrances, ostensoria, chalices, candlesticks, vestments...
...goes without saying that Rome, as the capital of Christianity, was destined to become a thesaurus almost indescribably rich in these cult objects. Money, talent, raw materials and the competitive pride of rival orders abounded there over the long centuries and spread through the churches of the neighboring Papal States. Despite theft and fire and the plunderings of tourists from Alaric the Visigoth to Hitler's Waffen SS, a stupendous amount remains. In this show, more than 500 examples have been assembled by a group of scholars headed by Art Historian Paolo Cercato...
Such is the fate of culturally stranded objects. Perhaps the most extreme example of it in "Treasures of Sacred Art" is a 16th century reliquary from the Collegiate Church of Calcata, north of Rome. Two elegantly slim silver-gilt angels hold up a casket surmounted by a crown, studded with rubies and emeralds. It is traditionally believed to contain the only relic left on earth by Jesus Christ. True, Christ ascended bodily into heaven before the eyes of the astonished Apostles after his resurrection. But he had been circumcised in the temple as an infant, and the Holy Foreskin, preserved...
Wilder knew his limits as few members of the Lost Generation knew theirs. A onetime archaeology student, he took the long view. From Julius Caesar's Rome in his novel The Ides of March to Grover's Corners, N.H., in Our Town, it was "the ocean-like monotony of the generations of men" that fascinated him. He had a Roman mind and an American heart. He saw "the absurdity of any single person's claim to the importance of his saying, 'I love!' 'I suffer!' " But his democratic passion was writing about...