St. Michael the Archangel notebook
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I thought it would be fun to create a study aid, a blank lined notebook, printed with the image of St. Michael from the great Hans Memling masterwork, The Last Judgment that we studied yesterday.
I think it might make a nice gift for any student who’s keen on medieval art.
This item is offered for sale to all subscribers through my online shop, Hilary White; Sacred Art:
The shop features items printed with images from historical sources as well as some that I’ve done myself, either paintings or graphite drawings. These are offered as prints on paper and wood panels. Plus a few Christmas ornaments.
A little update:
I’ve finished editing the text of the first ebook I’ve been planning. Today I talked to a lady who does editing and formatting for ebooks and the book will soon be available. It will be available as a free downloadable PDF to paid members of The Sacred Images Project, and for sale to all others at the shop.
Where did all the monasteries go?
The orchestrated death of Catholic Europe
Those who used to read my work at the Remnant might remember a series of articles I did several years ago explaining what really happened to the monastic life in Europe. For some years I have had people asking to have these edited together and presented as a single downloadable book.
When did the monastic life in Europe collapse? It didn’t start in 1965; the devastation of religious life that followed the Second Vatican Council was just the last chapter in a very long story.
This history of systematic, ideologically motivated and sometimes violent suppressions of Catholic monasteries by governments - that dates all the way back before the French Revolution. And it is one of the least remembered among Catholics, especially North Americans and other members of the Anglosphere for whom history is often heavily edited and presented by a biased education system. One could say that this is almost a secret history now, one that has been deliberately memory-holed by the people who perpetrated what is among the worst civilisational crimes in history.
What threat did monks and nuns pose to those regimes? I cannot imagine kicking out men and women who spend their whole lives in prayer. Unless of course, the regimes want to steal their property. It’s diabolical.
With the revolutions in the 20th century my mind can rationalize the atrocities with " oh those crazy sadistic Russians" or "those crazy sadistic Chinese" but the French Revolution was a bit too close to home and it really makes my blood boil. We were supposed to be so "civilized" and "enlightened". That didn't work out so well.