Dusty Feasts

The Feast Day of St. Rita of Cascia (22 May), a patron of lost causes, celebrates one of history’s most venerated saints, a 14th and 15th century Catholic widow and Augustinian nun. She is known for the numerous miracles throughout her life and resulting from her intercessory prayer.

+ includes a feast day recipe for home-made fig bars.

Dusty Art

Pentecost (1732) by Jean Restout II (a/k/a Jean Restout the Younger)

Dusty Quotations

by William B. Travis

#Quotes #QOTD #QuoteoftheWeek

Eye in the Sky

by the Alan Parsons Project

Dusty Buildings

Pažaislis Monastery (Kaunas, Lithuania)

+ One of the best examples of Baroque Architecture in the world.

Dusty Art

The Arch of Constantine (Rome, Italy)

+ A Triumphal Arch in Rome, built to honor the world-changing victory of Constantine the Great over Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in AD 312

James and the Giant Peach (Book Review)

James and the Giant Peach by Roald Dahl, narrated by James Acaster (Audiobook Review)

Silence

by Thomas Hood

#PoetryReview
#Poetry #Sonnet

Dusty Feasts

The Feast Day of Saint Bernadino of Siena (20 May) celebrates a 14th and 15th century Italian priest and Franciscan missionary, who was famous for his successful efforts to counter societal corruption with something very much like Christian marketing.

Dusty Art

The Embarkation for Cythera (“L’embarquement pour Cythère”) is a painting by the French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau