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A short, 11-minute tribute to St. Bartholomew is now available on our You Tube channel and also linked from the Digital Library page at the AIC web site. St. Bartholomew/Nathanael is honored on August 24th.
There are multiple illustrations, including this c. 1190 A.D. bas relief from the West Portal at the Basilica of St. Trophime, Arles, France (the other half of the pair was used to illustrate the episode on St. James). Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode 13”
It’s been a very good week, with decent weather, a chance to get outdoors for at least one day, and several projects either completed or getting closer to completion.
On the video and podcast fronts, I completed and uploaded Episode Twelve in The Lives of the Saints, First Series, the 1928 B.C.P. Saints. Episode Twelve celebrates St. James the Greater, brother of St. John, whose feast day is July 25th. Continue reading “Episode 12 in The Lives of the Saints – St. James”
Like Gene Autrey I’m glad to be “back in the saddle again!” Careful listeners will be able to tell that I haven’t completely recovered from my head cold.
Episode Eleven in The Lives of the Saints, First Series, the 1928 B.C.P. Saints is focused on the life and contributions of St. Peter. One of the seven illustrations is a 10th Century mosaic of St. Peter with his key at the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul, Agliate, Lombary, Italy. Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode 11 – St. Peter”
My wife and I both are suffering from colds this last week. In addition to coughing and sneezing, I sound like a sick bullfrog. So there won’t be any new videos or podcasts this week.
I have taken this lull to delve into the AIC podcast and print archive. I presented the entire text of In the Cross of Christ I Glory, which was a three-hour service commemorating Good Friday based upon the Seven Words plus music, in print form in Occasional Services for Anglican Worship, available from our Virtual Bookstore in both paperback and Kindle versions:
The complete URL is https://www.amazon.com/author/ronald-e-shibley. Continue reading “Good Friday – Encore Podcasts”
Episode Ten in The Lives of the Saints, First Series, the 1928 B.C.P. Saints, was uploaded to You Tube last night. One of the longer episodes, just over 30 minutes, it offers images of and the spoken word of the man called the Last Prophet of the Old Testament and John the Forerunner. One of the illustrations is an oil on canvas work from the center panel of a multi-panel altarpiece created by Matthias Grunewald for the monastery of St. Anthony in the Alsace region of France in the early 16th C. This huge altarpiece is now in a museum.
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Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode Ten – John the Baptist”
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
Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode 9 – St. Barnabas”
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.
Watch the video Listen to the Podcast version Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode 8”
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. Continue reading “The Nicene Creed – Our Symbol of Faith”
The Lives of the Saints, First Series, the 1928 B.C.P. Saints, continues with the uploading earlier this week of Episode 7, celebrating St. Mark the Apostle, whose Feast Day is April 25th. The primary illustration is a 19th C. stained glass window at St. Peter’s Collegiate Church, Wolverhampton, England. Continue reading “The Lives of the Saints – First Series – Episode 7 – St. Mark”
Episode Six – Feast of St. Matthias, the latest episode in The Lives of the Saints, First Series: the 1928 B.C.P. Saints, was uploaded to YouTube, with the Podcast version available through our Podbean site. The episode features an early 14th C. icon, a 19th C. stained glass window, and an early 19th C. detail from the Apse mosaic at the Basilica of St. Peter and St. Paul Outside the Wall, Rome. Continue reading “Lives of the Saints – Episode 6 – St. Matthias”
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