hexennacht: Apse of the Gelati monastery, Kutasi, Imereti, Georgia with natural light.

The musings of a direct primogeniture descendant of a recognized Ancient Irish aristocratic family, born with refined sensibilities, raised in the mountains of the American West, educated in the Classical Catholic tradition, living and working in the Midwest. "They have no lawyers among them, for...

The blessing of prayer rooms has taken place in the village of Alkhan-Kala in the Chechnya Republic. The prayer rooms are intended especially for police officers from Orenburg who are on assignment in the North Caucasus. Now each Ministry of Internal Affairs worker who is far from his home will have an opportunity to pray or just to stay for a short time alone with his thoughts.

In Greece, a pious beekeeper has a habit of putting icons in his beehives. Mysteriously, bees build their cells everywhere but carefully avoid covering the holy images.