Today I missed my class because even tho I wrote down 1300-1500, I actually remember just "3-5". So i'm a derp. BUT I am taking you along Grodska street so you can see what it looks like on my walk to my language class. Because it's freaking stunning, and I wish I could take you along with me and show you what little I do know.
This is one of the churches I pass. It's got 12 saints, two are women. I stood in the street for five minutes waiting for the cloud to pass so that the saints were back in the sunlight. i must've looked like a goob, lol.
this is, I think, a cloister than nuns still use. every church here is old as the dirt it was founded on and every time a guide would tell you about one, they would finish the schpeal with "it's still in use."
Yeah. Mary Magdelene. And I bet you can guess how well they esteemed her.
This is Her square. It is tiny. And empty. the statue in the middle is of a dude.
at the end of the street, which is more like a trident, in the middle, there is a tiny church. Idk the name of it, but i am sure it's still in use
to left of the third tine of the trident, at the absolute end of the corner, this is a church across the street.
The third tine of the trident is Wawel hill. This is the view from the corner with the church pictured directly above.
this is the closer view of that church.
Such gorgeous pictures, thanks.
ReplyDeleteMary Magdalene is a saint in the Catholic church and others. Her feast day is July 22. She wasn't a prostitute as some think. She was an independent woman in every sense of the word, since she had the freedom to follow Jesus around. Probably she was wealthy and of high status, very prominent in the NT. The "demons" of which she was ridden refers to some kind of illness, mental or physical.
Who's the dude memorialized in the statue?
I know, but I remain under the impression that during either an occupation or a rennovation, they didn't think much of her and her square shrunk.
ReplyDeleteI have no idea, but i'll examine it and get back to you.