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5 giorni fa · By March 23, 1889, he was bedridden. Having made a general confession to a visiting priest, Father Damien died of leprosy at 8am on April 15, 1889. He was 49 years old. The next day, a Requiem Mass was offered at the church the dead priest had built.
5 giorni fa · The Rite of Spring [n 1] (French: Le Sacre du printemps) is a ballet and orchestral concert work by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. It was written for the 1913 Paris season of Sergei Diaghilev 's Ballets Russes company; the original choreography was by Vaslav Nijinsky with stage designs and costumes by Nicholas Roerich.
2 giorni fa · Ancient Carthage ( / ˈkɑːrθɪdʒ / KAR-thij; Punic: 𐤒𐤓𐤕𐤟𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕, lit. 'New City') was an ancient Semitic civilisation based in North Africa. [4] Initially a settlement in present-day Tunisia, it later became a city-state and then an empire.
4 giorni fa · Human sacrifice, the offering of the life of a human being to a deity. The occurrence of human sacrifice can usually be related to the recognition of human blood as the sacred life force. Bloodless forms of killing, however, such as strangulation and drowning, have been used in some cultures.
2 giorni fa · Most of the evidence of human sacrifice in Tenochtitlan is not to be found in the Templo Mayor - a building never conceived of as the burying place for sacrificial victims. Instead, the majority of human remains were preserved in the western plaza and in several buildings leading off it.
5 giorni fa · Abraham wanted to sacrifice Isaac but God provided on Mount Moriah. This painting has a somewhat symbolic, mysterious quality, which may be attributed to his use of Sacred Geometry. The scene appears almost dreamlike because the figures do not seem real and are slightly transparent.
4 giorni fa · In her book, ‘Calls’ From the Message of Fatima, Sister Lúcia explains that Our Lady wants us to “make of everything you can a sacrifice, and offer it to God as an act of reparation for the sins by which he is offended and in supplication for the conversion of sinners.”. Recall that Our Lady told the children:
