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Saturday, December 29, 2018

The Cultural Impact Of "The Exorcist" (Released December 26, 1973)

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Thanks to inflation, box-office records seem to get broken every few weeks, but looking at the adjusted highest-grossing films list, one of...
Tuesday, December 18, 2018

Christ Antiphonetes: The Icon That Allegedly Could Foretell the Future

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Christ Antiphonetes, c. 1350 somewhere in Greece, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Empress Zoe Porphyrogenita (1028–50) reportedly...
Saturday, December 8, 2018

Why Monsters Haunt Christmas in Europe but not America

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December 24, 2014 By Caitlin Hu Quartz Nothing says Christmas quite like a terrifying monster. The worst isn’t the screams or the snow ...
Thursday, November 15, 2018

A Byzantine Nativity Icon that Depicts a Belief in Witchcraft and the Evil Eye

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The fresco above, dated to 1289 from the church known as Omorphi Ekklesia on the island of Aegina, might appear upon first glance to be a s...
Monday, October 29, 2018

Why Bother to Save Halloween? (Richard Seltzer)

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A 1984 essay by Richard Seltzer, frequently referenced in other sources, titled “Why Bother to Save Halloween?”, argues as I do that revere...
Friday, October 26, 2018

Saints Lucian and Marcian: Two Former Magicians Who Died for their Faith in Christ

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Sts. Lucian and Marcian the Martyrs (Feast Day - October 26) The Holy Martyrs Lucian and Marcian, living in the darkness of idolatry, ap...
Tuesday, October 23, 2018

Angry Stone Throwing Demons

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By John Sanidopoulos There are a few ways demons express their anger in physical form. One of the more characteristic ways, recorded many ...