Saturday, October 31, 2015
Saturday, October 24, 2015
A peek inside ~ courtesy photographer Ivo Meeus The St Michael's Church of Louvain Belgium is considered one of the seven wonders of Leuven.built in the period 1650-1671 ,, Tombs There are three gravestones in the church. Rear left in the baptistery is the bones of Leonard Lessius. Rear right is a white marble stone of the sisters Aldegondis and Anna Van Horenbeeck, who raised funds for the construction of the church. Front right is a broken black stone on which many coats of arms adorn the Jonker family Geeraert of Herckenrode and Anne Christine Coursel. info wiki
Tuesday, October 20, 2015
The Day of the Dead ~~~~ Child's Alter “On October 31, All Hallows Eve, the children make a children's altar to invite the angelitos (spirits of dead children) to come back for a visit. November 1 is All Saints Day, and the adult spirits will come to visit. November 2 is All Souls Day, when families go to the cemetery to decorate the graves and tombs of their relatives. The three-day fiesta filled with marigolds, the flowers of the dead; muertos (the bread of the dead); sugar skulls; cardboard skeletons; tissue paper decorations; fruit and nuts; incense, and other traditional foods and decorations. ” — Frances Ann Day, Latina and Latino Voices in Literature Originally, the Day of the Dead as such was not celebrated in northern Mexico, where it was even unknown until the 20th century; before that the people and the church rejected it in northeastern Mexico because they perceived the day was a result of syncretizing pagan elements with Catholicism. courtesy info wiki
Saturday, October 3, 2015
Bodie is a ghost town in the Bodie Hills east of the Sierra Nevada mountain range in Mono County, California, United States . Bodie began as a mining camp of little note following the discovery of gold in 1859 by a group of prospectors, including W. S. Bodey. Bodey perished in a blizzard the following November while making a supply trip to Monoville (near present-day Mono City, California), never getting to see the rise of the town that was named after him.The U.S. Department of the Interior recognizes it as a National Historic Landmark. info wiki
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