Fieldtrip Time!

A couple of weeks ago we went on a day trip with the program to two different abbeys outside of Milan in the Lombardy region. The weather was pretty dismal and therefore the pictures aren't that stunning but I've put some below. Although I've been in Italy for a while now which may be causing my standards of "stunning" to be higher than they previously were... what a terrible side effect!

Abby #1:
The marble is starting to get yellow because it has a disease :(
























Bellissima


Abby #2  - Unfortunately I don't remember the name of this one either but this is where the ringing of bells during the consecration started which really blew me away. When I was little I "guest" altar served at a church near my house once for a wedding and they rung bells at this church, which I remembered because I went there when I was little and obviously this loud sound attracted my attention. So now I'm on that altar, older an wiser, ready for my moment. I picked up the 4-bell thing and started to shake it and the other altar server felt she had to help me out because apparently I wasn't giving it a good enough shake and I was offended that my big moment - the first time I ever got to shake those bells - and the other person thought I wasn't capable. Random story but it blows my mind that I had this moment because 500 years earlier they decided to start this practice here, in this very building. It gave me the chills!

Frescos frescos frescos!!!!
This looks normal enough here but if you stand on one side of this statue, it looks like a woman but if you stand on the other it looks like a man.
Medieval music - so cool!


Comments

  1. Lindsey MartinApril 4, 2011 at 6:33 PM

    hahah yes ann, your standards are a bit skewed. coming back to bethlehem is certainly going to be rough transition

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