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Devil's Gonna Get You!

13th c. capital of a sinner being devoured, Saint Pierre, Chauvigny, France A nasty case of Covid pretty much bankrupted my energy for...

Angels We Have Seen On High

I thought I'd finish out our year with something light-hearted and ravishingly beautiful. The West Window of Worcester Cathedral was...

Creation and Expulsion of Adam & Eve in the Stained Glass of Chartres Cathedral

To tell the story of Mary through a medieval church's lens, one must have at least one space to tell the story of Eve. At Chartres...

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Remembering the Notre Dame de Paris Interior, Part 1

Notre Dame de Paris was engulfed in a terrible fire in 2019. Here, I include some of my photos of the interior, taken in 2018. I don't...

Remembering the Notre Dame de Paris Interior, Part 3

One thing that revolutionized looking at medieval stained glass for me was using a serious zoom lens, and then spending time in...

Chartres Cathedral--another temple to Mary the Queen

Chartres isn't very far from Paris, by modern standards, and its veneration of Mary is an occasion for comparisons to Notre Dame de Paris....

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