From the last day of our Sicily holiday - 23 September, 2015.
This diptych shows two of the shots I took in St Sebastian Basilica which is barely ten metres away from the Acireale cathedral. The robe of Our Lady of Sorrows is made of real cloth and has amazing embroidery in gold thread. In the left shot, Christine waits patiently while I went around capturing every nook of the church.
The basilica has the most beautiful façade of the three churches that are very close to each other. It is built and heavily decorated in the Baroque style like many other buildings in Sicily and in Malta. The basilica dates back to the 18th century.
Joke: A Sunday school teacher asked the children just before she dismissed them to go to church, "And why is it necessary to be quiet in church?"
Annie replied, "Because people are sleeping"
Thank you very much for looking, for the lovely comments and fav's on yesterday's picture and for helping it reach tp and pp. Very much appreciated.
Overwhelming beautiful decorations. You do n`t know where to look first.
Not very Dutch like as we destroy much of it in 1566 by the ``beeldenstorm.``
Wikipedia: Beeldenstorm in Dutch, roughly translatable to "statue storm", or Bildersturm in German ("image/statue storm"), also the Iconoclastic Fury, is a term used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century. During these spates of iconoclasm, Catholic art and many forms of church fittings and decoration were destroyed in unofficial or mob actions by nominally Calvinist Protestant crowds as part of the Protestant Reformation. Most of the destruction was of art in churches and public places
Not very Dutch like as we destroy much of it in 1566 by the ``beeldenstorm.``
Wikipedia: Beeldenstorm in Dutch, roughly translatable to "statue storm", or Bildersturm in German ("image/statue storm"), also the Iconoclastic Fury, is a term used for outbreaks of destruction of religious images that occurred in Europe in the 16th century. During these spates of iconoclasm, Catholic art and many forms of church fittings and decoration were destroyed in unofficial or mob actions by nominally Calvinist Protestant crowds as part of the Protestant Reformation. Most of the destruction was of art in churches and public places
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