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Storm hits the Ricasoli Breakwater Lighthouse in Valletta, Malta. 24 February, 2019, by Kurt Arrigo
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If you have any fun fact about Malta, please tell us and I'll reblog it!
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Twentyfour, Rabat, Malta,
Maurizio Ascione / 3DM Architecture
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Let me talk Church and the Revolution
Okay, let me post this preemptively. Because I already know that soon enough those people looking for reasons to hate on Castlevania Nocturne because it is not like the games will also come to cry a river about "they depict the church as evil!!!!"
So, let me quickly talk about the role of the church in the French Revolution. Because there is something you gotta understand about the Church during the French revolution: That there was not THE Church.
Basically within the Catholic church in France there was a fracture over the entire revolution happening. A lot of the higher ranked clergy men stood on the side of the nobles and royals, while a lot of the lower ranked clergymen stood with the revolutionaries. The reason behind that mostly was money.
See, before the revolution the church was allowed to collect taxes themselves, while also being tax exempt. So they did not have to pay taxes on all the stuff they sold and made to the nobility. Which was why the bishops and general higher ups within the church could have the lavish lifestyle of nobility themselves, often of course ignoring their vows.
Meanwhile a lot of lower clergy (and especially certain groups of monks - especially the franciscans) were like: "We are all equal in the eyes of god. Rich folks do not get into heaven. Equality is what god wanted from us" and supported the revolution because of it.
But of course there was also the thing that the show mentioned: Given the show is set in summer it seems (probably just before the Reign of Terror) it would have been not even a year before that a lot of clergy got slaughtered. Why did they get slaughtered?
Well, short explanation: Royalists and also some of the bishops provoked the war with Prussia in an attempt to overthrow the revolutionary forces with the help of the Prussian military. This of course failed and the revolutionaries were out for blood. So nobles fled into the churches for sanctuary. And in retaliation a lot of clergy died for haboring the nobles in question.
And, yeah. There is of course the other aspect: The church at the time for a lot of historcal and religious reasons very much supported slavery. Meanwhile this is already a point where the revolution at large had decided that slavery should be done away with. And that leads to what we see in the show here: Clergy going on about the revolution being against "the natural order".
(Being frank: I LOVE that they brought this into the show. Which is almost like a whole other thing I could write about. The entire idea of the revolution and the "natural order" and how it is all linked to colonialism.)
Another interesting part here is the order the abbot and Mizrak are from. On the Castlevania discord server I already went into a whole thing trying to figure that out, but my last idea was right: They are from the Knights Hospitaller. The order of St. John.
This order arose during the crusades and as the name Knights Hospitaller suggests: Yeah, they mostly created hospitals (though historically those were not only to cure the sick, but also to be a home - "hospitality" - for those on the road). They were based in Jerusalem for a while, but ended up moving to Malta, which was of course for a long while ruled by France. They referenced here that the Abbot came to France from Malta, which is the reason.
But yeah, they actually were about helping people for the most part. But they also made money from it. And when the revolution came, they seized all the assets from the order, which made the order join into the ranks of clergy who stood against the revolution by 1792.
#castlevania#castlevania netflix#castlevania nocturne#french revolution#european history#christianity#knights hospitaller#france#malta
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Hug attack
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A squadron of Spitfire planes from World War II while they docked in Malta in 1944.
➤➤ HIGHER RESOLUTION IMAGE: https://dronescapes.video/3ap257d5
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Epic sax guy lives on thru Malta this year
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Villa Bologna, Attard, Malta
#art#design#archhitecture#countryhouse#villa#villa bologna#malta#attard#luxurylifestyle#luxuryhouses#luxuryhomes#style#history#baroque
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I was lucky enough to win art by the incomparable @seanchaidh7 in the Fandom Trumps Hate auction. And here it is! I can’t BEGIN to express how much I love it. Present-day Joe on the left, long-ago Nicky on the right, both on Malta (the house behind Nicky is his and Joe’s first Malta home). Look at them! And that touch - that wonderful ground touch between them. kjslhdflkj.
I’m tied up for a week finishing a huge work project, but you better believe there’s a story coming for this art just as soon as I’m done. Enjoy!
#joe x nicky#kaysanova#seanchaidh7#yusuf al kaysani#nicolo di genova#malta#beautiful#stunning#my heart#i love them your honor
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