Dusty Feasts

The Feast Day of St. Quadratus of Athens (21 September) celebrates a 2nd century Christian apologist traditionally regarded as a disciple of the original 12 Apostles and one of the Seventy Disciples of Jesus Christ. He is best known for presenting the Gospel to Emperor Hadrian in the early 2nd century, for providing the earliest written defense of Christianity, and as an early Bishop of Athens, succeeding Saint Publius.

He is a patron saint of apologists.

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by Sir Henry Morgan

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Dusty Buildings

Abbey of San Galgano (Chiusdino, Tuscany, Italy)

+ At these still beautiful Italian Gothic ruins in Italy is a famous relic more commonly associated with England. Here you will find a legendary sword stabbed into a stone.

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Ascent of the Blessed by Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1505-1515), depicts angels helping human souls towards heaven. This painting is part of a polyptych of four panels entitled Visions of the Hereafter.

Snake Eyes (1998)

Snake Eyes (1998): Movie Review

An anti-war populist politician is assassinated in a crowd, during a boxing match in Atlantic City. The two people in charge of event security – a corrupt Atlantic City police officer (Nic Cage) and a straight-arrow military officer (Gary Sinise) – work to find out who was behind the killing.

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The Feast Day of St. Joseph of Cupertino (18 September) celebrates the 17th century Italian Conventual Franciscan friar and mystic, famous for both his struggles as a student and for the miracles that surrounded his life, the most famous of which included claims that he levitated.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino is the patron saint of the city of Cupertino, air travelers, astronauts, and pilots.

+ Includes a recipe for “Flying Friar Pasta Salad”

Dusty Words

Word of the Day:

pandiculation

The Epistle to the Galatians 2:15-21

+ Paul summarizes his case against the “Judaizers” by reminding them of the limitations of the law and the new life in Christ.

Dusty Quotations

by Blackbeard, the 17th and early 18th century English pirate who operated in the West Indies and North America’s eastern coast.

Dusty Buildings

Aachen Cathedral (Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany)

+ Built on the command of Charlemagne, this is one of the most historically rich, architecturally significant, and artistically beautiful buildings in Europe. It is the final resting place of Charlemagne and other Emperors. It is the home of four significant holy relics – St. Mary’s cloak, Christ’s swaddling clothes, St. John the Baptist’s beheading cloth and Christ’s loincloth.