Monstrance
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Monstrance
Icons are something like sacraments in materiality: they participate in what they represent and communicate the sacredness to the believer.
Dale B. Martin • Biblical Truths: The Meaning of Scripture in the Twenty-first Century
1999
Diary: San Giovanni Rotondo
Tobias Jones goes in search of Padre Pio
‘By the reception desk there’s a cabinet of Padre Pio mementos – letter-racks, mirrors, diaries, plates, each one bearing his by now familiar image: a high forehead, grey beard and bushy eyebrows, deep-set eyes above a slightly bulbous nose. The set of his mouth makes him... See more
Diary: San Giovanni Rotondo
Tobias Jones goes in search of Padre Pio
‘By the reception desk there’s a cabinet of Padre Pio mementos – letter-racks, mirrors, diaries, plates, each one bearing his by now familiar image: a high forehead, grey beard and bushy eyebrows, deep-set eyes above a slightly bulbous nose. The set of his mouth makes him... See more