RE: How religious or nonreligious is your family?
December 16, 2016 at 3:44 pm
(This post was last modified: December 16, 2016 at 3:47 pm by Mr Greene.)
(December 16, 2016 at 11:47 am)mlmooney89 Wrote:(December 16, 2016 at 11:17 am)FatAndFaithless Wrote: It's still kind of weird though, whenever we travel nowadays and end up in some Catholic church (we both love the architecture) he still habitually does the sign of the cross and dips his fingers in the holy water, etc. I asked him about that in specific and he said (apparently) jokingly that he felt like something bad would happen if he didn't.
I adore going into the different catholic cathedrals just to look at them. They are so pretty. I reckon when you get to take people's money and aren't taxed you have some to spare to really go all out in the architecture lol
Back when the Cathedrals were being built it was a means of showing off the wealth and power of the incumbent bishop. In England that applies to the Cathedrals built between 1066 and 1536, then the protestants arrived and started defacing them, removing all the decoration, smashing the statues and applying whitewash.
Some of the churches are now having the whitewash removed to reveal frescoes underneath.
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