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painting of the Son of Man with text "the Saint John's Bible"

The Saint John’s Bible: Illuminating the Word of God in Minnesota

Posted onApril 7, 2020April 15, 2022Leave a comment

The Saint John’s Bible brings the ancient art of handwritten and illuminated manuscripts into the 21st century, as both a religious text and work of art. See it at Saint John’s University in Minnesota, at Read More …

CategoriesMinnesota, USATagsreligion and religious architecture

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The (Replica) Hopperstad stave church in Moorhead, Minnesota

Posted onSeptember 29, 2019December 14, 2021Leave a comment

At the edge of the prairie where Minnesota and North Dakota meet, Moorhead’s Hopperstad stave church (a replica of the medieval Hopperstad stavkirke in Vik, Norway,) transports visitors to era of the Vikings when Christianity Read More …

CategoriesEurope, Minnesota, Norway, USATagsreligion and religious architecture

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Historic San Germán, Puerto Rico

Posted onMarch 26, 2017March 23, 2020Leave a comment

Tourists heading to Puerto Rico in search of the island’s history would do well to visit San Germán. Exploring San Germán Everyone knows San Juan is the colonial heart of Puerto Rico. However, in the Read More …

CategoriesCaribbean, Puerto Rico, USATagsislands, National Register of Historic Places, religion and religious architecture

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An introduction to Strängnäs, Sweden

Posted onDecember 26, 2016January 12, 20232 Comments

While Stockholm is the largest and most well-known of the towns linked together by Sweden’s Lake Mälaren, travelers would be wise to journey farther along the lake to discover its smaller and less-famous gems. The Read More …

CategoriesEurope, SwedenTagsreligion and religious architecture

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Fantastic figures at Mia Pagoda, Duong Lam, Vietnam

Posted onDecember 22, 2016April 14, 2021Leave a comment

The traditional Vietnamese villages of Duong Lam, Vietnam, have many treasures hidden within their ancient walls, but the largest collection – both in number and physical size — reside within the quiet confines of Mia Read More …

CategoriesAsia, VietnamTagsreligion and religious architecture

historic church with text "Mission San Juan Bautista on the Mission Trail in California"

The past is present at Mission San Juan Bautista, California

Posted onOctober 9, 2016December 14, 20215 Comments

Time is a shapeshifter at California’s Mission San Juan Bautista. San Juan Bautista is a place where the past slips into the present, where both the church building and the religious life conducted within it Read More …

CategoriesCalifornia, USATagsNational Register of Historic Places, religion and religious architecture

historic Spanish Mission and gardens with text "Mission San Juan Capistrano - Traveling California's Mission Trail"

A walk through California’s Mission San Juan Capistrano

Posted onSeptember 8, 2016August 19, 2021Leave a comment

Among the first California missions to capture the public imagination, Mission San Juan Capistrano (and its swallows) have been immortalized in song and film. A walk through San Juan Capistrano makes it easy to see Read More …

CategoriesCalifornia, USATagsNational Register of Historic Places, religion and religious architecture

Plaza Hotel San Juan Bautista California

Historic town of San Juan Bautista, California

Posted onMay 1, 2016October 20, 2020Leave a comment

Spain authorized the establishment of Roman Catholic missions in Alta California with the intent that these missions would become the nucleus for new cities inhabited by loyal Spanish citizens. In many cases cities did grow Read More …

CategoriesCalifornia, USATagsNational Register of Historic Places, religion and religious architecture

Spanish mission church with text "Mission San Luis Obispo California"

A merger of past and present at Mission San Luis Obispo de Tolosa, California

Posted onApril 11, 2016August 19, 20212 Comments

Mission San Louis Obispo de Tolosa has undergone many physical changes over time, leading to a church where past and present merge in interesting ways today. Past and present merge at Mission San Luis Obispo Read More …

CategoriesCalifornia, USATagsmuseums, religion and religious architecture

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The many churches of Mission Santa Clara de Asis, California

Posted onMarch 3, 2016December 3, 2019Leave a comment

The lovely church of Mission Santa Clara de Asis is the mission’s sixth church and the second at this, the mission’s fifth location. 

CategoriesCalifornia, USATagsNational Register of Historic Places, religion and religious architecture

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