St Simeon of the pillar
It is strange but one of the best films about a saint was made by an atheist. Luis Bunuel, Spanish anarchist and surrealist genius, directed Simon of the Desert, an [...]
Frank Jullian Gelli
St. John the Baptist; a Prophet of Christians and Muslims
The great German painter Grunewald has a picture in which he shows St John the Baptist with an exceedingly elongated forefinger. A finger pointing to the figure of Jesus [...]
The Souls of the Righteous go marching on
“…Death, the undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveller returns…” Hamlet, 3.1.78 On the face of it, William Shakespeare’s Hamlet contains a glaring [...]
The Feast of Christ the ‘Leader’
“So you are a king?’ inquired Pontius Pilate, the haughty Roman governor of Palestine, of the bound and bruised Jesus brought before him. ‘You say that I am [...]
