BY RUNOKO RASHIDI* The study of the African presence in history, whether in the African Diaspora or Africa itself, is a richly rewarding endeavor. In
BY RUNOKO RASHIDI* The study of the African presence in history, whether in the African Diaspora or Africa itself, is a richly rewarding endeavor. In
Beginning with Emperor Septimius Severus (born in present-day Libya) and the Egyptian St Maurice, leader of the Roman Theban Legion, Olivette Otele presents an insightful history of people of African descent in Europe. Her well-produced study goes on to explore the lives of enslaved Africans in Renaissance Italy and Spain, and the effects of the transatlantic slave trade and colonialism, before considering the issues facing today’s multi-ethnic communities.
With plenty of charm and culture, Bourg St Maurice has the benefit of high-speed train access, making it a lovely base for exploring the French Alps.
St. Maurice (detail) 1520-25. The Metropolitan Museum of Art recently published a monograph about an addition to the collection, a panel by Lucas Cranach the Elder (and his workshop) showing St. Maurice who is wearing the most gorgeous clothes in the whole world. Here is the whole St. Maurice panel, and below, a second St. Maurice whose panel is still attached to his altarpiece in the Marktkirche, Halle. Both of these panels are based on this drawing of a reliquary statue of St. Maurice. Both drawings from the Liber ostensionis, 1526/27. According to an account written about 450 AD, St. Maurice was a member of the Egyptian Theban Legion which was composed of Christians. Sent to France and ordered by the Emperor Maximian (ca.250-ca.310) to persecute Christians, they refused, and eventually were all executed. Another version of the story written a little later says that they were martyred for refusing to worship the Roman gods. By 515 the ruler of Burgundy built a basilica and monastery in Valais for the throngs of pilgrims who were coming to visit Maurice's relics. In the 10th century Maurice's cult was promoted by Otto the Great who ultimately pronounced Maurice patron saint of the Holy Roman Empire. Statue of St. Maurice, ca.1240-50. Cathedral of St. Maurice and St. Catherine. Magdeburg. St. Maurice and the Theban Legion. South German Master (early 16th C). Private collection, NYC. This panel painting of the Theban Legion dresses them in the spirit of the Vatican's Swiss Guards. The feathered headdresses look as if the painter knew of the tradition that produced. Ag. Alexandros from Kastoria in northern Greece. The Meeting of St. Maurice and St. Erasmus. Matthias Grünewald, ca. 1520-24. Alte Pinakothek, Munich. Finally, this Grünewald panel of St. Maurice who gives him the most extraordinarily luminous armor.
Completed in 2010 in Saint-Maurice, Switzerland. Images by Thomas Jantscher. The abbey of Saint Maurice was built almost 1500 years ago. It is situated against a cliff in a section of the road between Geneva and the Simplon...
With plenty of charm and culture, Bourg St Maurice has the benefit of high-speed train access, making it a lovely base for exploring the French Alps.
Completed in 2010 in Saint-Maurice, Switzerland. Images by Thomas Jantscher. The abbey of Saint Maurice was built almost 1500 years ago. It is situated against a cliff in a section of the road between Geneva and the Simplon...
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Nikolaus Glockendon I Underbar F With Saint Maurice Germany (1524) Illumination on Parchment, 385 x 280 mm. Illumination. Missal of Cardinal Albrecht von Brandenburg (572 ff.). Folio 381 sup v :/...
Visit Catalonia, Spain's only National Park, Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici to see the glittering lakes of St. Maurice and the winding streams.
Abbey built on the ruins of Roman catacombs.
Saint Maurice (Moritz or Mauritius), pictured here with St Elmo, was the Knight Commander of the famous Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century. His Feast Day is 22 September. The Legion, almost entirely composed of Christians, was ordered from Thebes in Egypt to Gaul to assist Maximian. Marcus Aurelius Valerius Maximianus Herculius (c.250-c.310), commonly referred to as Maximian, was Caesar (junior Roman Emperor) from July 285 and Augustus (senior Roman Emperor) from 1 April 286 to 1 May 305. He shared the latter title with his senior co-emperor, Diocletian, and they made a formidable duo in persecuting Christians. Maximian established his residence at Trier but spent most of his time on campaign. He spent the late summer of 285 suppressing the Bagaudae, rebels in Gaul. From 285 to 288 he fought against Germanic tribes along the Rhine frontier. Together with Diocletian, he ran a scorched earth campaign deep into the territory of the Alamanni tribes in 288, temporarily relieving the Rhenish provinces from the threat of Germanic invasion. Bust of the Christian-persecuting Roman Emperor Diocletian However, when Maximian ordered the Theban Legion to attack local Christians, they refused and Maximian ordered them to be punished with the savage punishment of decimation, whereby every tenth man was randomly executed. More such orders followed but they still refused, encouraged by Maurice, and they were further punished. Finally, in response to their refusal to use violence against fellow Christians, Maximian ordered all the remaining members of the 6,600 strong Legion to be executed. This took place in Agaunum, which is now Saint Maurice-en-Valais, site of the Abbey of Saint Maurice-en-Valais, in Switzerland. In the East of Switzerland is another St Moritz, the famous skiing resort, also named after St Maurice of Agaunum. Near Agaunum, in a place still identifiable as a former temple to Mercury, god of travellers, a revelation led to the discovery of the bones of the Agaunum martyrs during the time of Theodore, Bishop of Octodurus (now Martigny), who was in office in 350 AD. Their martyrology was written by Eucherius, Bishop of Lyon, who died in 494 AD. He wrote: "We often hear, do we not, a particular locality or city is held in high honour because of one single martyr who died there, and quite rightly, because in each case the saint gave his precious soul to the most high God. How much more should this sacred place, Agaunum, be reverenced, where so many thousands of martyrs have been slain, with the sword, for the sake of Christ." The actual site of the martyrdom (or of the cache of bones) was pointed out to pilgrims as the "true place" the vrai lieu, a name it still carries, as Verroliez. In 515, the basilica on the site became the centre of a monastery built on land donated by Sigismund of Burgundy, the first king of the Burgundians to convert from Arianism to Catholic Christianity. The Bell tower of the Abbey of St Maurice in St Maurice-en-Valais, Switzerland The liturgy at the Abbey, known as the laus perennis, "perpetual praise", of relays of choirs, was an innovation for Western Europe, imported from Constantinople. It was distinctive to the Abbey of St. Maurice and the practice spread widely from there. St. Maurice's Abbey at Agaunum was the chief abbey of the Burgundian kingdom. St Maurice became a patron saint of the Holy Roman Emperors. In 926, Roman Emperor Henry I (919–936), ceded the present Swiss canton of Aargau to the Abbey, in return for St Maurice's lance, sword and spurs. Aargau is the region in which is found the original seat of the Habsburgs, later the most famous of the Holy Roman Emperors. St Maurice as a mounted Knight The sword and spurs of Saint Maurice formed part of the regalia used at coronations of the Holy Roman Emperors (and later Austro-Hungarian Emperors), and were among the most important insignia of the imperial throne. Moreover, the Holy Roman Emperors were traditionally anointed before the altar of Saint Maurice in St. Peter's Basilica, Rome. The Martyrdom of St Maurice and the Theban Legion Emperor Henry I the Fowler held a royal court gathering (Reichsversammlung) at Magdeburg. At the same time the Mauritius Kloster, in honour of St Maurice, was founded. In 961, Emperor Otto the Great built and enriched the cathedral at Magdeburg in preparation for his own tomb. In that year, in the presence of all of the nobility, on the vigil of Christmas, the body of St. Maurice was conveyed to Emperor Otto at Regensburg along with the bodies of some of the saint's companion legionaries. They were then conveyed to Magdeburg, received with great honour and are still venerated there. Maurice is traditionally depicted in full armour, often emblazoned with a red cross. In folk culture he has become connected with the legend of the "Spear of Destiny", which he is supposed to have carried into battle; his name is engraved on the Holy Lance of Vienna, one of several relics claimed as the spear that pierced the side of our Lord upon the Cross. The Holy Lance of Vienna. It is said to be the spear by which Longinus pierced the side of Christ. Longinus soon converted to Christianity and was later venerated as a saint Hundreds of religious houses are dedicated to him as well as chivalric orders, including the famous Burgundian Order of the Golden Fleece which later became the heirloom of the Holy Roman Emperors, and the Order of Saint Maurice. Many towns have been named after him, also. Emperor Franz Joseph in the robes of the Grand Master of the Most Illustrious Order of the Golden Fleece, one of the grandest orders of chivalry in the Empire and dedicated to St Maurice The Order of St Maurice was founded in 1434 by Amadeus VIII, Duke of Savoy, who became Antipope Felix V. The Order declined, but in 1572 was re-established by Pope St Pius V at the instigation on the then Duke of Savoy. In 1572 Pope Gregory XIII merged the Order of Saint Lazarus, a crusading order of leper-knights who tended other lepers as well as defended the Holy Land, with the Order of St Maurice. The Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus. The white cross is a cross botonny (the cross of St Maurice). The green Maltese cross is that of St Lazarus. The new Order of St Maurice and St Lazarus was charged to defend the Holy See as well as to continue to assist lepers. The war galleys of the Order fought against the Turks and the Barbary pirates. When leprosy again broke out the Order founded, in 1773, a hospital in Aosta in Savoy. The images of Saint Maurice in the Cathedral of Magdeburg show him as a black man and there is evidence to indicate that Maurice was Egyptian. Thus it is that the patron saint of the Holy Roman Empire is, in fact, a black man, indeed a black Roman Knight Commander (or Legatus) of the great Roman Legion called “The Theban Legion” celebrated in the Roman Martyrology as the Martyrs of the Theban Legion. Medieval statue of St Maurice in Magdeburg Cathedral All Catholics, not least black Catholics, may be justly be proud of this great soldier-saint and martyr of the Church. St Maurice, Knight Commander of the Theban Legion, pray for us ...
Abritel location studio à Bourg St Maurice, Studio Bourg Saint Maurice - les arcs. Loue Studios de 25 m2 de 2 à 5 couchages avec balcon sud . Résidence avec gardien. A 400 mètres du funiculaire qui vous mène sur les pistes de la station des ARCS en 8mn
Image 8 of 14 from gallery of Coverage of Archaelogical Ruins of the Abbey Of St. Maurice / Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes. Photograph by Thomas Jantscher
Visit Catalonia, Spain's only National Park, Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici to see the glittering lakes of St. Maurice and the winding streams.
Les Jeux Olympiques et Paralympiques de Paris 2024 ont été l’occasion pour de nombreux étudiants d’écoles d’architecture de concevoir les pavillons éphémères d’une vingtaine de fédérations sportives. Ces créations seront visibles au parc de la Villette jusqu’à début septembre.
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Visit Catalonia, Spain's only National Park, Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici to see the glittering lakes of St. Maurice and the winding streams.
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Completed in 2014 in Saint-Maurice-sous-les-Côtes, France. Images by Nicolas Waltefaugle . At the heart of the Natural Park of Lorraine, the Sainte-Genevieve chapel can be found through the hiking trails near riverside of Meuse, a natural...
This project reflects a powerful creative vision that respects the cultural heritage of the Boulevard des Forges area and its physical constraints. Inspired by a narrative that calls on nature and culture, in which tales and legends have been fed by the surrounding natural setting that follows the meandering St. Maurice River, the project itself becomes a work of art articulated around the site's own attributes.
Imagen 4 de 27 de la galería de Capilla St Genevieve / OBIKA Architecture. Fotografía de Nicolas Waltefaugle
Image 11 of 14 from gallery of Coverage of Archaelogical Ruins of the Abbey Of St. Maurice / Savioz Fabrizzi Architectes. elevation
