Retired computer scientist & church crawler living in 🇩🇪 who loves to travel in 🇮🇪 and 🇫🇷. Photographs are all my own except where noted.
Lonsee
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Mosaic of our queen in heaven (in front of the Bavarian alps!), created after a painting by the Munich artist August Spiess (1841–1923) at St. Nicholas' Church in #Rosenheim, Bavaria. #MosaicMonday
15th-century tomb effigy of a knight in armor with sword and dagger at the north wall of the choir in Sainte-Marguerite-et-Saint-SĂ©bastien, La Bonneville, Manche, France. #MementoMoriMonday
11th-century Romanesque axial apse with 19th-century stained glass windows by Emile Delande (cartoon) and Félix Gaudin (stained glass artist) in Collégiale Saint-Martin de Brive-la-Gaillarde, Corrèze, France. #StainedGlassSunday
Pulpit from 1716 on the southern side of the nave in St. Vincent's Cathedral in Chalon-sur-SaĂ´ne, France. #SundaySermons
11th- or 12th-century baptismal font employing a reused base of a column with a relief of overlapping leaves. Église Saint-Marcouf de Saint-Marcouf, Manche, France. #FontsOnFriday
16th-century clerestory window on the southern side of the nave of #Oviedo Cathedral, Asturias, Spain. Created by Diego de Santillana and restored by Santos Cuadro in 1953. On two of the lights, the arms of Philip I of Castle are presented by two soldiers. #LesArmoiriesDuVendredi
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Thanks! Today we should also remember Margaret Hamilton who died one week ago who was the lead software engineer of the team that allowed the Apollo mission to be a success: nytimes.com/2026/10/07/obitu… (NYT gift article)
Gothic ogee-headed doorway in the south aisle of St. Vincent's Cathedral, Chalon-sur-SaĂ´ne, France. #AdoorableThursday
Renaissance stained glass window of Bayonne Cathedral (baie 19), depicting Jesus and the woman of Canaan. Created 1531 by Jean Chastellain and restored in 1854 by Coffetier and Steinheil. #Bayonne #WindowsOnWednesday
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The Boyle monument, designed by Roger Leverett and sculpted by Edward Tingham was completed in 1633 and initially erected on the east side of the choir. Shortly afterwards, the liturgy was changed and required worshippers to kneel when receiving communion. 🧵 1/3
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St Columba's feast day is today. This detail from a window by David Esler at Saint Patrick’s Church of Ireland Cathedral, Armagh, depicts the legend of his rescue of an exhausted crane.
Visit the church: nationalchurchestrust.org/ch…
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ALT A stained-glass window showing St Columba standing on a cliff beside the sea, holding a cross. Beside him is a crane.
Lesenswertes Interview mit der Sozialwissenschaftlerin Eirliani Abdul Rahman in der SZ, nachdem sie von Harvard zur Uni Mannheim wechselte. Zitat: „In Deutschland spürt man die Rechtsstaatlichkeit.“ sueddeutsche.de/wissen/deuts…
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114 years on, Belfast witnesses a full-scale drone Titanic depart into the night...a powerful tribute.
#titanic #rmstitanic
Happy St. Patrick's Day! The depicted window of St. Patrick's Church in Ballymena, Co. Antrim, displays St. Patrick as slave on Slemish (a hill close to Ballymena). Created in 1954 by Antoine Theodore Acket (1918–1981) in the studio of C. E. Welstead, Croydon.
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The #NorthMayo sculpture trail is indeed amazing! Depicted is the sculpture “Thin Places” created in 2002 under the direction of the American architect and artist Travis Price with his students at Poll na Seantoinne, a blowhole in the townland of Gladree.
I've watched the first landing on the moon live on TV on 20 July 1969. I have taken now the opportunity to let at least my name be flown around the moon during the coming Artemis II mission. Earliest launch date is 6 February 2026.
1.5 million names are flying around the Moon on Artemis II. Is yours one of them?
It's not too late to add your name to the mission—and it's absolutely free: go.nasa.gov/artemisnames
ALT The Moon. This natural-color global mosaic is based on a composite of images from the wide-angle camera on NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter. Credit: NASA/SVS
Ancient texts from Plato's Symposium can apparently no longer be taught or discussed at Texas A&M. Diotima's Ladder of Love and Aristophanes' split humans appear to be in conflict with new A&M policies: nytimes.com/2026/01/07/us/ta…. So much for the illusion of free speech in the US.
The relevant policy is 08.01 Civil Rights Protections and Compliance. See § 2.1b: “No system academic course will advocate race or gender ideology, or topics related to sexual orientation or gender identity.” And as it appears that covers Plato as well: policies.tamus.edu/08-01.pdf
Saint-Martin et de la Sainte-Trinité de Néville-sur-Mer, Manche. 11th-century church close to the coastline in North Cotentin in France. Structural weaknesses have been found in the upper part of the 18th-century bell tower. Donations: fondation-patrimoine.org/les…
Saint-Vigor de Joganville, Manche, is a church with parts of the nave from the 11th century. Disaster struck in WW2 when a shell hit the bell tower, causing it to collapse into the nave. Repairs are now urgently needed. Donations: fondation-patrimoine.org/les…
