Dusty Feasts

The Feast Day of Saint Charles Borromeo (4 November) celebrates the 16th century Italian aristocrat who served as a prelate, Archbishop, and Cardinal. He was an important figure in the Catholic Counter-Reformation. He oversaw significant reforms within the Church, including the establishment of seminaries for the education of priests. Later in his life, he served in Milan during a plague outbreak, not leaving the city even when most civil officials had done so. He went into personal debt at this time to feed thousands of people. He died of a fever, in Milan, at the age of only 46 years old.

He is a patron saint of bishops, cardinals, catechists, catechumens, seminarians, spiritual directors, spiritual leaders, apple orchards, starch makers, colic, intestinal disorder, against ulcers, stomach diseases, Lombardy, Italy, and Monterey California.

+ Includes a feast day recipe for Chimichangas San Carlos

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Piano Sonata No. 2

Piano Sonata No. 2 by Frédéric Chopin

This piece is most famous for its Funeral March. Though if you’re a fan of professional wrestling, the mood set by the piece is one wherein perhaps the Dead Man might just rise.

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Dusty Buildings

St Mary Magdalene, Paddington (Rowington Close, London, England)

+ Designed by Gothic Revivalist architect, George Edmund Street, to serve a poor part of 19th century London with (among other things) beauty, this church is considered his masterpiece and is filled with incredible stained glass, mosaics, and sculptures. It has also served as a filming location for multiple movies, including most recently 2012’s Les Misérables .

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Dusty Art

Head of Christ, by the American painter Warner Sallman (1940) is now one of the most famous portraits of Christ ever created.

The work is more than it seems, too, with hidden symbols and a history that touches the miraculous.

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Dusty Feasts

The Feast Day of Saint Jude Thaddeus and Saint Simon the Zealot (28 October), celebrates two of the original Christian Apostles. Church tradition says they evangelized together and were martyred together in 65 AD.

+ Includes recipe for Dabgadz Banir Boerag (fried Cheese Turnover)

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