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Jul 17, 2022 4 tweets 1 min read
July 17 is the feast of the Blessed Martyrs of Compiègne: 16 Carmelite nuns guillotined by French revolutionaries on this day in 1794, for refusing to accept state control over the Catholic Church. Image Painted by Paul Delaroche.
Jul 6, 2022 7 tweets 4 min read
A Norse depiction of the Crucifixion, on the larger of Denmark’s 10th century Jelling Runestones, showing Christ hanging from the world-tree Yggdrasil. I strongly recommend reading the excerpts from Tree of Salvation which I’ve posted below, but for those who don’t want to: the stone was raised by Harald “Bluetooth” Gormsson, King of Denmark and Norway, circa 965.