One of the best depictions of the ordeals that St. Anthony Abbot went through during his retirement in the desert is an engraving from the very late Middle Ages (ca. 1470-75) by the Alsatian Martin Schöngauer (ca. 1435/50-1491): “St. Antonius von Dämonen gepeinigt” (St. Anthony tormented by demons). As the title says, the work focuses
The plights of Saint Anthony the Great (or Anthony of Egypt or Anthony Abbot) during his extremely long sojourns in the Egyptian desert around the 3rd and 4th centuries, and all the torments supposedly inflicted to him by the Devil, are an often-repeated subject in history of art. After the first narrative by Athanasius of
Llegit aquesta mateixa tarda amb molt d’interès: “The four-Hebrew-letter name of God, which scholars refer to as the Tetragrammaton, YHWH, was probably not pronounced “Jehovah” or “Yahweh,” as some have guessed. The Israelite priests would have read the letters in reverse as Hu/Hi — in other words, the hidden name of God was Hebrew for
At last, after years of laziness and elusion, I have played the PC-game that my sister always recommended me to play: Syberia; both parts. I have to apologize to Ari for not having done this while she was still here, to be able to tell her —with frank enthusiasm— how pleasant and deeply absorbing these