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Category Archives: Just Too Cool
2500th anniversary of the Battle of Marathon, reenacted, sort of, at Marathon
According to one reckoning, today, 12 September, could be the anniversary of the Battle of Marathon (490 BC). They are probably wrong, but… who cares? Marathon is, of course, a Greek word (Mάραθον or modern Greek Μαραθώνας and ancient Μαραθών, … Read More
Posted in Classic Posts, Just Too Cool
Tagged Battle of Marathon, fennel, Pheidippides, Robert Browning
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Design for a new cathedral in Raleigh. Great!
Is it possible that the Silly Season of church architecture is coming to an end? I saw at CMR that His Excellency Most Rev. Michael Burbidge, Bishop of Raleigh, help a presser about the construction of a new cathedral church … Read More
Our traces on the Moon
I don’t have a Truly and Fantastically Super Cool category, but if I did, this would be in it. NASA has clear photos of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. The photos show the twists and turns of … Read More
Posted in Just Too Cool
Tagged Apollo, Emily Dickinson, moon landing, NASA, photos, POTUS
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16 September – England and Wales – Return to meatless Fridays
The Bishops have decided to re-establish the practice that this penance should be fulfilled simply by abstaining from meat and by uniting this to prayer On 16 September in England and Wales, Catholics are asked by the Catholic bishops to … Read More
Listen to the new, corrected translation in use last Sunday in the wilds of England on BBC 4
On the site of BBC 4 you can listen, for this week, to a recording of a broadcast of Holy Mass from a parish in England, Our Lady and the English Martyrs, Cambridge, from this last Sunday. That means Mass … Read More
What the Devil fears
Over at Vultus Christi there is a great post about Bl. Ildephonso Schuster, OSB, the Archbishop of Milan who died in 1954. John Paul II declared him Blessed in 1996. Bl. Ildephonso was one of the great liturgists of his … Read More
Gladiator school of Vienna discovered
Very cool: Archeologists locate ruins of gladiator school By: The Associated Press | The Associated Press | 08/30/11 10:48 AM Archeologists say they have located and excavated the ruins of a massive amphitheater used to train gladiators east of Vienna … Read More
QR Code and You
Lots of these today at Catholicon. Let’s have a WDTPRS poll.
Posted in Just Too Cool, Mail from priests, On the road, What Fr. Z is up to
Tagged code, QR
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