Anybody with a dream should come to Italy.
No matter how dead and buried the dream is thought to be, in Italy it will rise and walk again.
Elizabeth Spencer
Sacred Landscape, Pilgrimage and Memory
In the Middle Ages, setting out on pilgrimage was far more than simply undertaking a journey. It meant breaking, however temporarily, with one’s former life—a radical choice filled with faith, hope and mysticism, and often undertaken as an act of penance.
Yazılıkaya Hittite Sanctuary and Lunisolar Calendar
In the 13th century BC, during the 66 years of his reign, Pharaoh Ramses II found himself facing a powerful political counterweight in Asia Minor: the Hittites.
Doubts and Dogmas
There are things that official archaeology is unable to explain; indeed, at times it ignores them by looking the other way. In this chaos, there are people who continue to carry out their work as independent researchers, desperately but with great determination.
San Cipriano From Sorcerer To Saint
Saint Cyprian, bishop of Antioch, should not be confused with Saint Cyprian of Carthage, another early Christian bishop who was martyred about 50 years earlier.
Exclusive! The Enigmatic Stone Slab of the Abbey of San Pietro ad Oratorium – Capestrano
The church of San Pietro ad Oratorium (8th – 12th century) is part of an ancient Benedictine monastery built in 722 by order of the Lombard king Desiderius
Sacred Woods
The Celts call the sacred woods Nemeton; for the Romans it is the Lucus or Nemus, the part of the woods where sunlight manages to reach; for the Etruscans it is Luk Eri, the woods sacred to the divinity Veltha, also called Voltumna, protector of the fields and patroness of the Lucumonies.
The Health of the Templars
The Knights Templar were the most powerful military religious order of the Middle Ages. Formed to protect pilgrims in the Holy Land, they took part in the Crusades and quickly gained wealth, land, and influence, answering to no one except the Pope himself.
Magdalene The Hidden Goddess
The Shekinah, the primordial Creatress, is also known as the Bride of God, the Soul of the World, the eternal Light of Wisdom.
Abu, God of Plant Life
For ancient people, the rhythm that governed their lives was cyclical, repetitive, and a reflection of the divine universe
The Labyrinths of Faith Part 2
Labyrinths are motifs that seem to belong neither to Christian architecture nor to the history of Christian decorative arts.
In any case, walking through a labyrinth means following a “spiritual journey” designed according to principles such as harmonious proportion and alternating energy.
