Church Of The Holy Sepulcher

Christians will not apply for permits anymore - Yusef Daher

I will remind this hypocrite that prior to the Israeli liberation of 1967 the only people allowed free access to the holy sites were Muslims, and they desecrated many of those sites just as they still do today. Its become fashionable for hypocrites like Dahar to try to portray Christians as being oppressed by Israel. They are not! They suffer restrictions along with everyone else because of Islamic terrorism. And like their Jewish brothers, they suffer persecution in Islamic countries. To Tobias #1 'This is just a small price, that all Palestinians must pay as a result of their decades old, and on-going cycle of war, terror, war, terror ...' Leaving aside the accuracy of your characterization of events, this is exactly the argument the police battalion commander offered his troops in 'Ordinary Men' -- immediately before leading them in the murder of the Jews of Jebewabne in 1942. It's your cause. See where it leads you? To Chuck #3 'I tried to visit old Jerusalem when the Jordanians controlled the city pre 1967. I was denied. Why? Because I was Jewish.' First off, where did you try to visit it FROM? Israel, perchance? Jordan was technically at war with Israel at the time. Second, the discussion is not about the treatment of Jews, it is about the treatment of Christians. I was once told I would only be rehired if a Black or Hispanic candidate couldn't be found, but that is neither here nor there. To Phil #7 ' Was that before or after they demolished the synagogues and desecrated the graves then destroyed archaeological evidence of Jewish heritage? You are a lying hypocrite!' As noted, it's off the subject, but given the large number of Muslim mosques and graveyards that Israel has razed and continues to raze -- not to mention their appropriation of all and sundry as evidence of the reality of the Solomonic state -- it would seem that it is you that is open to the charge of hypocrisy.

janotydol - The Parisian Jewel for the Jerusalem Crown

A friend once mentioned that she had recently visited the Sainte-Chapelle in Paris. When I asked her, "Isn't it the most exquisite church you've ever seen?" she looked at me with astonishment and replied that she didn't think it was particularly special. In fact, she said, she had found the chapel rather dark, its decorations garish.

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The opulent inner portion of the chapel, with its stained glass windows and vaulted ceiling s.

"Dark! Was it raining when you were there?" I asked.

"No."

"Didn't you feel that the stained-glass windows gave the church a radiant, jewel-like quality?"

She replied that she hadn't noticed any stained glass, but that the ceiling was low and claustrophobic and covered with so many golden fleurs-de-lis that the overall effect was tasteless. I asked if she had gone upstairs to the king's chapel or only visited the ground floor chapel built for servants and lesser nobility.

"Upstairs? Is there an upstairs?"

There is, indeed, an upstairs. One not to be missed.

A perfect way to end a day in Paris is to take the Line 4 Métro to the Cité stop and attend a concert in the Sainte-Chapelle. Sitting in the upper portion of this 13th-century chapel is like sitting inside a giant inverted jewel box. The walls seem entirely made of stained glass, and what stone remains is so delicately sculpted into radiating tracery or gilded that it doesn't seem like stone at all; the vaulted ceiling is studded with stars.

The Sainte-Chapelle is the most perfect embodiment of the Gothic Rayonnant style. It evolved from the High Gothic of Chartres, Reims and Amiens cathedrals, but adds far more elaborate, radiating window tracery. When completed in 1248, it overawed and delighted everyone who saw it.

Although I have said that the inside of the Sainte-Chapelle is like a jewel box, it is more like an opulent inverted reliquary (a box containing holy relics) in which stone has replaced precious metals and stained glass has replaced enamels and gems. Like a reliquary crafted by a goldsmith, every inch of the interior of the Sainte-Chapelle is covered with elaborate decoration. Even the 12 statues of the apostles, each of which stands on a platform between two windows, and all of which are carved so they look like they are the pillars holding up the Sainte-Chapelle, are similar to the embossed figures that decorate reliquaries. They were meant to symbolize the 12 apostles' role as pillars of the church.

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