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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Dusty Feasts

The Feast of Saint Stephen I (16 August), a 10th and 11th century Hungarian King, wo is remembered for the establishment of the Christian Kingdom of Hungary and the conversion of the Magyar people to Christianity. He is also remembered for creating a stable political structure and promoting national unity, which laid the foundation for Hungary’s development as a nation.

He is a patron saint of Hungary, kings, masons, stonecutters, stonemason, bricklayers, and as a protector against child death.

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Dusty Art

An Idyll of 1745 by the English artist John Everett Millais is a Victorian era work that depicts a pastoral scene wherein a British drummer boy plays a fife for three Scottish girls.

However, the title gives something away. In 1745, the British and Scottish were fighting the Jacobite Rebellion.

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