The Italian city is known for street shrines honoring the Madonna and local saints.
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This page is dedicated to all the street shrines I came upon in my rambles throughout this trip. I could just as easily call them Madonna shrines, since almost every one is exclusively a shrine to …
Wayside shrines appear at crossroads, town and field boundaries, in city parks, front yards, and niches in old homes.
Venice Travel Poster The winged lion has long been the traditional symbol of Venice, ever since the remains of St. Mark were brought to the city in the early 800’s. You can find statues of the lion everywhere in the city, but most noticeably in St. Mark’s Square. Early history of Venice pottery Archaelogical excavations have unearthed precious artefacts that date the first appearance of pottery in the Venice lagoon vicinity to the 6th century. Venice was one of the first pottery centres in Italy, the oldest decorated plates found date back to the first half of the 1200's. The
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[Reposting .... and best on black!] Here and there and everywhere in Venice as one walks through the ancient streets of this fascinating cultural treasure - now a World Heritage Site - one sees these little shrines. Amid cell phones ringing, appointments to make, responsibilities to take care of, daily challenges, the fast pace and extraordinary complexity of modern life...these precious shrines are like little oases of peace. While making ones way through the complex maze that is Venice one comes around a corner and in a split second one is invited to enter another dimension: a gentle vast realm speaking silently to us through the ages in a symbolic language soaked with meaning. These special gestures that invoke the human heart of healing across time and space.....so nourishing! [Note on the photo: I added a layer from Borealnz to the photo. It had been taken early on a winter morning. The Madonna was on a north wall, in the shade, so the light was slightly blue. I decided to add a layer with a soft glow and make the scene more true to how I felt looking at her. See the original shot below.]
Mary, by sharing her Son’s sorrow, offers us a pathway through her heart to the heart of Christ, especially when we are in pain.
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This page is dedicated to all the street shrines I came upon in my rambles throughout this trip. I could just as easily call them Madonna shrines, since almost every one is exclusively a shrine to …
This page is dedicated to all the street shrines I came upon in my rambles throughout this trip. I could just as easily call them Madonna shrines, since almost every one is exclusively a shrine to …
The Evenin O Jesus and Mary, You are my first and my last thought.
