Emmanouela Grypeou

Ο Επιτάφιος (1893) Θεόδωρος Ράλλης (1852-1909)

In hoc signo vinces.

Today's the feast of the Annunciation, and here it is in a c1530 tympanum in Dunfermline Abbey. It formed a lintel to a window in the Abbey guesthouse, which in 1598 was converted to a royal palace for James VI and Queen Anne, at which point it was plastered over, not to be revealed until repairs of the 1820s.

25th March is the feast of the Annunciation. Here the Annunciation is depicted in Armenian style. Bodleian Library MS. Arm. d. 13; Illuminated Armenian Gospels with Eusebian canons; 1609 CE; f.1v @BDLSS @kbalian90

A Coptic magical text (Spell to Acquire a Beautiful Voice), 6th-7th century AD from Egypt. Ink on papyrus, now part of Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.

Hagar and Ishmael, who have been cast out of their home, being comforted by an angel. BL Egerton 1894; Egerton Genesis Picture Book; 14th century; England (?Norfolk); f.11v @BLMedieval

Hydra was entered as a pause in the musical score of creation by an expert calligrapher. It is one of those divine pauses which permit the musician, when he resumes the melody, to go forth again in a totally new direction. — Henry Miller photograph: George Seferis

Comparative Anthropology of Ancient Greece ift.tt/Q3aGiwc

Illustrations from the beguiling Clavis Artis, a German alchemical manuscript which claims to hail from the 13th century and have pages made from dragon skin: publicdomainreview.org/collection/cla…

'We die with the dying: See, they depart, and we go with them. We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them.' Remembering T. S. Eliot who died on 4th January 1965

The Nativity #Nativity St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, Cod. Sang. 375; Gradual; around 1135 CE; St. Gall; p.236 (e-codices.ch/en/list/one/cs…)

When the short day is brightest, with frost and fire, The brief sun flames the ice, on pond and ditches, In windless cold that is the heart’s heat, Reflecting in a watery mirror A glare that is blindness in the early afternoon.' T.S. Elliott

Austria bans headscarves in schools for under-14s bbc.in/4oQPZno

Greek Αμυγδαλωτά Αχλάδια (Marzipan Pears) 💙🇬🇷😋🇬🇷💙

In Sweden, where Catholics make up less than two percent of the population and contemplative orders are underrepresented, Sister Elisabeth from the Carmelite monastery of Glumslöv offers an extraordinary look at a way of life that is almost completely unknown in Scandinavia. vaticannews.va/en/church/news…

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know. ― Lawrence Durrell d. 7 November 1990 Cimetière du Père Lachaise (Ulf Andersen)

The Orthodox Church commemorates today the Synaxis of the Chief of the Heavenly Hosts, Archangel Michael and the Other Heavenly Bodiless Powers; celebrated in November, the 9th month after March (with which the year began in ancient times) since there are Nine Ranks of Angels.

The German capital has about a dozen cemetery cafes theguardian.com/world/2025/oct…

The Philocalia (selection) in a new translation by Andrew Louth and Jonathan Zecher penguin.co.uk/books/284248/t…