Heavenly Bodies: Cult Treasures and Spectacular Saints from the Catacombs

Am I now seeking the approval of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a servant of Christ.

Galatians 1:10

A girl and her lamb. The Gulf War - Kuwait. 1991. Photographer unknown. 

Sleepwalking by Katherine Boiarkina

John MacDuff (1818-1895)

Marlene Dietrich “Dali” personally owned makeup compact “Bird in Hand” by Elgin American.

Brass compact features textured wings with gold painted tips and red enamel eyes. It opens to a mirror and unused pouf made of soft real feathers, with additional hinged compartment for pressed powder. A lipstick tube emerges from behind the bird’s head and the tail opens as a pillbox compartment. The name “Dali” is engraved and painted in black under the bird’s neck on the base of the lipstick tube, but no documentation exists to suggest Salvador Dali designed the bird, rather Ellison Irelan, Carl Fritz and Mortimer Vogelman are credited with the design. Compact dates to 1951.

by  Brandon Morales

The faithful Beasts wept round the dead body of the Prince, from The Three Princes and their Beasts for Andrew Lang's The Violet Fairy Book by Henry Justice Ford (1906)

Chasing the moss somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

Women at chores by Kinjoli Das

has anyone else noticed that we must go on

me looking up at you after you call my name