Sidney Poitier’s singing in “Amen” was dubbed by Jester Hairston, who also composed the song. What is the setting of the lilies of the field? When traveling African-American handyman Homer Smith stops by a farm in rural Arizona, he is welcomed by a group of Roman Catholic nuns who haveRead More →
Medieval surge. From A.D. 1050 to A.D. 1300, thousands of new hospitals were built across Europe, catering for those afflicted with leprosy, poverty and other illnesses. … The central ward of these hospitals resembled a nave, or the central, rectangular part of a church. Do hospitals have religious? In total,Read More →
1. The Sistine Chapel – Cappella Sistina in Italian – takes its name from the man who commissioned it, Pope Sixtus IV: “Sixtus” in Italian is “Sisto”. 2. Is it called the 16th chapel? Sistine Chapel, papal chapel in the Vatican Palace that was erected in 1473–81 by the architectRead More →