Six Sentence Sunday has rolled around again: if all has gone well, I am in Dundee. After the long day of travel, I suspect I may still be in bed. Let’s hope! In the midst of packing and tying up loose ends, I was also writing (well, when am I not?). One of the things…
Category: hagiography
Rome: Pretty as a Picture
https://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf I’ve just begun to add the pictures: the process turns out to be a slow one, by means of the travel computer, mostly because I have to keep trying to clear memory on it. Then I have to upload pictures one at a time because I can’t use up memory by downloading the little…
Caravaggios, Artichokes and Agnes’ Skull
First off I have to say this is Alessandra’s photo. I tried to get the pictures off the camera and onto my travel computer only to find that it overloaded the memory and now I can’t upload them to the web. Argh. So kind thanks to Alessandra and she’s started writing a blog, so you…
Saint Margaret
From the Cloisters, statue of Saint Margaret of Antioch: Like most of the early Christian virgin martyrs, she was secretly faithful and it was only when a Roman bigwig wanted to marry her that she ran into trouble because she refused him, and in public, too. Roman bigwigs hate that. She was tormented by a…