The Fan Vaulting In Bath Abbey.

Bath Abbey Fan Vaults

by richardr on Flickr

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The Nave of Bath Abbey

by simpologist on Flickr (cc)

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Rings Of Saturn And Enceladus.

This Article can be read in full at NASA

The Rings of Saturn, in the foreground, and Saturn's Moon, Enceladus, in the background.

Although The Rings of Saturn and Enceladus are largely made up of water ice, they show very different characteristics. Saturn's Small Ring particles are too tiny to retain internal heat

and have no way to get warm, so they are frozen and geologically dead.

Enceladus, on the other hand, is subject to forces that heat its Interior to this very day.

This results in its famous South Polar water jets, which are just visible above

the Moon’s dark, Southern limb, along with a sub-surface ocean.

Illustration: NASA

Do you ever get the feeling that maybe, just maybe,

possibly even, there might be a higher authority than man ?

If there isn't, I'd like to know who designed this

arrangement in infinitesimal Space (see photo, above).

"Two Things The Devil Is Deadly Afraid Of: Fervent Communions And Frequent Visits To The Blessed Sacrament." Saint John Bosco.

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Saint Finbarre's Cathedral, Cork, Ireland.

Saint Finbarre's Cathedral,
Cork, Ireland.

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The following Text is from Wikipedia - the free encyclopaedia,

unless otherwise stated.

Saint Finbarre's Cathedral, (Irish: Ardeaglais Naomh Fionnbarra) is a Cathedral of The Church of Ireland, in Cork City, Ireland. It is in The Ecclesiastical Province of Dublin. Begun in 1863, the Cathedral was the first major work of the Victorian architect William Burges. Previously the Cathedral of The Diocese of Cork, it is now one of three Cathedrals in The Diocese of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.

The current Cathedral is built on the site of at least two previous structures that were Dedicated to Finbarre of Cork.The first dated from the 7th-Century A.D., with works continuing through to the 12th-Century. This building was damaged during The Siege of Cork (1690), and a new structure was built in 1735 - though elements of the earlier Spire were retained.

The Interior of Saint Finbarre's Cathedral,

Cork, Ireland.

Photo: 17 September 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: The Speckled Bird.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Burges's gift to the Cathedral, the "Resurrection Angel", which was known locally as the

"Golden" or "Goldy Angel", on the Pinnacle of the Sanctuary Roof,

Saint Finbarre's Cathedral, Cork City, Ireland.

Photo: 26 April 2007.

Source: Own work.

Author: Plasmoid.

(Wikimedia Commons)

This structure remained until the 1860s, when a competition for the building of a new, larger Cathedral was held in 1862. In February 1863, the design of the architect William Burges was declared the winner of the competition to build a new Cathedral of Saint Finbarre. His diary records his reaction - "Got Cork !" - whilst the Cathedral accounts record the payment of the winning prize sum of £100. Building work took seven years before the first Service was held in the Cathedral in 1870. Building, carving and decoration continued into the 20th-Century, long after Burges's death in 1881.

The Altar and Sanctuary,

Saint Finbarre's Cathedral,

Cork, Ireland.

Photo: 17 September 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: The Speckled Bird.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Great West Door,

Saint Finbarre's Cathedral,

Cork, Ireland.

Photo: 17 September 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: The Speckled Bird.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The Nave,

Saint Finbarre's Cathedral,

Cork, Ireland.

Photo: 27 April 2013.

Source. Own work.

Author: Twhelton.

(Wikimedia Commons)

The style of the building is Early-French, Burges's favoured Period and a Style he continued to favour throughout his life, choosing it for his own home, The Tower House, in Kensington. The stipulated price for construction was to be £15,000, a sum vastly exceeded. The total cost came to significantly over £100,000. Burges was "unconcerned" (his own words) in his Letter of January 1877 to The Bishop of Cork: "(In the future) the whole affair will be on its trial and, the elements of time and cost being forgotten, the result only will be looked at. The great questions will then be, first, is this work beautiful, and, secondly, have those to whom it was entrusted, done it with all their heart and all their ability."

Burges oversaw all aspects of the design, including the architecture of the building, the statuary, the Stained-Glass and the Internal decoration. The result is "undoubtedly, Burges's greatest work in Ecclesiastical architecture".

Saint Finbarre's Cathedral,

Cork, Ireland.

Photo: 7 September 2014.

Source: Own work.

Author: Debora Guidi.

(Wikimedia Commons)

Just Waiting . . .

Christmas is coming . . .

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Vox In Rama. Music For Advent And Christmas From Around The World. Church Of The Holy Innocents, New York. Saturday, 19 December. 1400 hrs.

Illustration: THE SOCIETY OF ST. HUGH OF CLUNY

Church of The Holy Innocents,

128 West 37th Street,

New York,

New York 10018.

Illustration: CHURCH OF THE HOLY INNOCENTS

Advent/Christmas Concert:

On Saturday, 19 December 2015, 2:00 P.M.,

Holy Innocents' volunteer Choir, Vox in Rama,

will present its Annual Concert of Sacred Music

for Advent and Christmas from Around the World,

immediately following the 1:00 P.M. Mass. 

The suggested donation for tickets is $5. 

Following the Concert, there will be a Reception

with light refreshments in The Church Hall.

The Church of The Holy Innocents,

128 West 37th Street,

New York,

New York 10018.

The Rev. Fr. Leonard F. Villa, Pastor.

National Geographic Magazine Lauds The Blessed Virgin Mary. Deo Gratias.

This Article is taken from THAT THE BONES YOU HAVE CRUSHED MAY THRILL

The Front Cover of the December 2015 edition of National Geographic Magazine.

Illustration: THAT THE BONES YOU HAVE CRUSHED MAY THRILL

National Geographic Magazine has Our Blessed Lady on The Front Cover, this December. Usually, magazines available in newsagents depict women in a rather graceless fashion.

How refreshing it is, then, to see Our Heavenly Queen, Full of Grace, grace such a widely-read magazine.

The Article, which features Marian Shrines new and old, recognised and unrecognised, is entitled 'How The Virgin Mary Became The World's Most Powerful Woman' and it can be read HERE.

'Thou art beautiful above the sons of men: Grace is poured abroad in thy lips; therefore hath God Blessed thee for ever.'

Let's Pray that more magazines, more and more, look to Mary as the full expression of womanhood and the true model of beauty and strength,'for charm is deceptive and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears The Lord is to be praised.'