Tag: Saints
"Genius Bach" in the All Saints Court Church: Expressive masterpieces
With flawless virtuosity and lucid elegance: Markus Bellheim presents the six piano parts by Johann Sebastian Bach in the Allergesundheits-Hofkirche source site
Violinist Mikhail Pochekin in the All Saints’ Court Church – Munich
Who is afraid of Johann Sebastian Bach? Not Mikhail Pochekin. He devotes himself to Bach’s solo repertoire for violin with confidence and natural sound imagination. The violinist documented his own…
Eliot Weinberger’s essay “Angels and Saints”: God speaks to people – culture
The new prose volume by the American author Eliot Weinberger, who is poorly characterized as an “essayist,” could be prefaced with the following words of warning: Whatever you always wanted…
Cult of saints in the church: Saint Maradonasius, help! – Bavaria
One of the sympathetic aspects of the Catholic Church is its extensive cult of saints. It has now taken on such forms that even the polytheistic Romans would probably have…
All Saints Day: For a beer at Grandpa’s grave
Commemorating the dead is often sad in Bavaria. There are certainly suggestions from other countries. They could be changed wonderfully. source site
Feature film tips for All Saints’ Day: Knights, divers and vampires
“In the Intoxication of the Deep”, “The First Knight”, “Zombieland” and “Little Children”: the TV tips for the holiday. source site
Reformation Day, All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day Halloween: Who celebrates what?
Differences between holidays Reformation Day, All Saints’ Day, All Souls’ Day and Halloween: What are we actually celebrating? Evangelical Christians celebrate October 31st as Reformation Day – the beginning of…
Ice saints in Bavaria: How do meteorologists look at the phenomenon? – Bavaria
In some areas of Upper Bavaria there are still boys walking around who are baptized with the rare name Pankraz, they are allowed to celebrate their name day on this…
Naked saints, excited minds: Exhibition “Damned Lust” in the Diocesan Museum – Munich
At the beginning of the week it was there again, this all-other-suffocating topic when it comes to the Catholic Church: “Searches in the abuse scandal also in Cardinal Marx’s official…
Premier League: Arsenal capitalize on Man City blunders – Liverpool beat Saints
premier league Arsenal capitalize on Man City blunders – Liverpool beat Saints Arsenal’s Martin Odegaard (M) celebrates his goal to make it 1-0 with his teammates. photo © Nigel French/PA…