Re-post du 2 juillet 2009
Les petites soeurs
Pierre Patry, Canada, 1959, 30 min
Documentaire qui pénètre dans l’intimité du monastère des Servantes de Jésus-Marie, à Hull, où une novice découvre les usages, les règles et le rythme du couvent.
Re-post du 20 juillet 2009
BEHIND THE CODEX GIGAS
Filled with satanic images and demonic spells, the cursed text, according to legend, sprang from a doomed monk’s pact with the devil. What else do we know about this mysterious Devil’s Bible?
* The Devil’s Bible is so huge that it requires at least two people to carry it.
* Once considered the eighth wonder of the world, the Codex Gigas stretches three feet long and weighs a hundred and sixty-five pounds.
* It is the only book that places the Old and New Testaments alongside violent, holy incantations.
* The Codex Gigas contains one full page – right opposite the devil portrait – of a towering Heavenly City. Although no people can be seen in the Heavenly City, it is a symbol of hope and salvation, a contrast to the portrait of the devil on the opposing page.
* The Codex Gigas includes mystical medical formulas for anything from treating ailments such as fevers and epilepsy to resolving practical problems such as finding a thief.
* The book’s transfer to Prague in 2008 took a year of planning. It was insured for $15.1 million during the transfer.
* The Devil’s Bible has 600 pages, which is 310 parchment leaves, all made from donkey skins.
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‘A woman jumped the barriers in St. Peter’s Basilica and knocked down Pope Benedict XVI as he walked down the main aisle to begin Christmas Eve Mass on Thursday. 2 Americans, Marybeth Burns and Steve Burns, captured that moment on their cameras.’
Same woman Tried To Attack Pope Last Christmas
December 25, 2009 BBC World
Best of 2009
BOBBY BEAUSOLEIL ‘The Lucifer Rising Suite’
4 x Vinyl LP Box Set released by Anja Offensive
Remastered recordings spanning 11 years (from the ’67 recordings to the Tracy Prison recordings of ’78) in 4 full-length LPs worth of Lucifer Rising material with half being never-before-heard sessions personally selected by Bobby BeauSoleil + 9 new pieces of aft from Bobby (8 record sleeve panels and one 2′ x 3′ poster) + A much-extended version of the ‘Fallen Angel Blues’ piece by Bobby that originally appeared in the Kenneth Anger DVD set + more