Word: flagellantism
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Thirst gives the vampire genre a new king, or Count, and he wears a cassock instead of a cape. Father Sang-hyun (Korean superstar Song Kang-ho) is a very caring Catholic priest, who gives last rites to terminally ill patients at the local hospital. He is also a serious...
Ten years ago, Blumenthal was a photocopier salesman. He had never worked in a kitchen, and his knowledge of food came entirely from books. Now he is one of the youngest chefs in history to earn three Michelin stars and, just shy of his 39th birthday, is the leading light...
The Florentine artist filippino Lippi was the product of a scandalous 15th century love affair: his father, Filippo, an artist and Carmelite friar, was chaplain of Santa Margarita convent in Prato when he ran off with a beautiful nun named Lucrezia Buti. Their illegitimate son, coached by a Florentine painter...
It was starting in the 1300s that the Passion truly bloomed. Scholars located details of Jesus' suffering in allegedly prophetic verses in the Old Testament. Mystics built devotions around his scourging after a Cardinal returned from the Holy Land bearing the pillar to which he said Christ had been chained...
In the old joke, a monk, asked why he flagellates himself, replies, "Because it feels so good when I stop." The flagellant who would be an artist has a higher motive: "Because the welts I raise make such attractive and meaningful designs." After the Fall, whose original production opened the...