This week The Lives of the Saints, First Series, turns to St. Barnabas, whose Feast Day/Holy Day in the 1928 Book of Common Prayer is June 11th. St. Barnabas enters and leaves the New Testament in Acts of the Apostles. Without St. Luke’s historical and spiritual-minded account in Acts, we would know nothing of the man from Cyprus who, with St. Paul, established what would become the See of Antioch, the second See of the Church Universal. Watch the Video Listen to the Podcast Image copyright Alamy Stock Photo
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Two of the lesser known saints, St. Philip and St. James (the Less), are celebrated together on May 1st. My purpose in producing the Lives of the Saints series is to bring the traditional saints to life in the modern, anti-religious, secular-dominated world of the early 21st Century. Episode Eight is illustrated with two watercolor and charcoal drawings by James Tissot, from his Life of Christ series at the Brooklyn Museum; two statues from the Basilica of St. John Lateran, the Vatican, carved by two of Italy’s most celebrated artists in the early 18th Century; and a remarkable drawing of the death of St. James from the Menalogion of Basil II from the Vatican archives, based on the original work made in Constantinople around 1000 A.D. According to tradition, St. James was beaten to death with a Fuller’s Rod.
This week I came down with a head cold on Sunday night, followed by sinus problems, serious rounds of sneezing, and the inevitable sore throat the following morning. No videos could be recorded this week with me sounding like a very sick frog. Unable to do much else, I worked on posting all the changes to the AIC Virtual Bookstore version of Revelation: An Idealist Interpretation. It will have over 200 pages, 52 illustrations, and will be available in both paperback and Kindle versions some time in March. 
Episode Five in The Lives of the Saints – First Series, focused on the life and contributions to the Church Universal of St. Paul, was uploaded on January 25th, the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul. In addition to the familiar unfinished icon by the celebrated Russian icon painter Andre Rublev, I’ve included a 14th C. mosaic at Chora Church, Istanbul (formerly Constantinople) and an early 20th C. mosaic from Romania; and photographs of the exterior and interior of the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls, Rome, the place of St. Paul’s remains. 
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