Dusty Art

Portrait of Oliver Cromwell by Robert Walker, c. 1649, is an oil on canvas portrait painting and the most well-known of a subject who is among the most divisive figures in English history .

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Dusty Feasts

Dusty Feasts: Saint Augustine of Hippo (28 August) was a 4th and 5th century theologian and philosopher. He is generally regarded as one of the most influential philosophers in the history of the Western world, and he is viewed as one of the most important Church Fathers of the Latin Church in the Patristic Period.

He is the namesake and patron of numerous locations. He is also a patron saint of brewers, printers, theologians, philosophers, and sore eyes.

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Dusty Feasts

Dusty Feasts: Saint Rose of Lima (23 August) celebrates the first canonized saint of the Americas. She was a a 16th and 17th century Spanish member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic in Lima, Peru, Spanish Empire, who became known for both her life of severe penance and her care of the poverty stricken of the city through her own private efforts.

Included is a feast day recipe for Mazamorra Morada (Sweet Peruvian Purple Corn Pudding)

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Dusty Buildings

Glastonbury Abbey (Glastonbury, Somerset, England)

+ These ruins mark the site of what was once one of the wealthiest abbeys in England. Among the legends attached to the site include it being the birthplace of Christianity in England, that it was visited by Joseph of Arimathea, and that it is the burial site of King Arthur.

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