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Gem💎ralissimo🇻🇦⚡️🇨🇳
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‘By this sign, you shalt conquer.’ ‘Thou hast conquered, O Galilean!’ —Julian the Apostate



Bad news is we’re not done. Good news is we moved everything out of the way and I get to film the procession. Wish I understood Spanish.








In a lot of ways, the protestant reformation was just dour people being fun police.



#OTD March 31, 1515: Needing money to rebuild St. Peter’s basilica, Pope Leo X announces a sale of indulgences to run for eight years beginning this day. Albert of Brandenberg, deeply in debt after purchasing his position as archbishop, is allowed to keep half the proceeds, but will not profit as greatly as he hopes because the indulgence will anger the friar Martin Luther, who will post his Ninety-Five Theses in response. The Reformation will result.



In The Passion of the Christ, there is a disturbing scene where Satan is shown holding a deformed baby while Jesus is being whipped. Mel Gibson said the scene was meant to be a dark version of the Virgin Mary and child, meant to mock purity and innocence. While Mary watches her Son being tortured, Satan mirrors her by carrying a demonic child through the crowd. This scene suggests that Evil appears to show care for its child, while God seems to have left His Son to suffer alone.


















