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[palatinewolfsblog]

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron." - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th president of the United States, Republican

[portraitsofsaints]

Saint Isidore the Farmer

1070-1130

Feast day: May 15 (New), March 22 (Trad)

Patronage: Farmers, laborers, the national rural conference in the U.S. and rural communities

Saint Isidore the Farmer, also known as St. Isidore the Laborer, was born in Madrid, Spain to a farming family. He married Maria de la Cabeza who was also declared a saint. Deeply religious, St. Isidore attended Mass daily, though never neglecting his labor. Many times his guardian angel would take up the plow while he lingered in prayer. He loved the poor and animals, miraculously multiplying food for both.

Prints, plaques & holy cards available for purchase. (website)

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[newyorkthegoldenage]

Street workers, June 22, 1949.

Photo: Homer Page via the Nelson-Atkins Museum

[blondebrainpowered]

The Red Vineyards near Arles, 1888

Artist: Vincent van Gogh

Now housed at Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow.

The Red Vineyards near Arles is the only painting known by name that van Gogh sold in his lifetime.

The Red Vineyard was exhibited for the first time at the annual exhibition of Les XX, 1890, in Brussels, and sold for 400 francs to Belgian painter and collector Anna Boch, a member of Les XX. Anna was the sister of Eugène Boch, another impressionist painter and a friend of Van Gogh, whose portrait van Gogh painted (Le Peintre aux Étoiles) in Arles in autumn 1888. In a later letter to his brother Theo discussing the sale, van Gogh admitted with some embarrassment that the Bochs paid the Les XX 1890 Exhibition sticker price, when in fact they probably should have gotten a "friend's price".

[artandthebible]

Cain Building the City of Enoch

Artist: Aureliano Milani (Italian, 1675-1749)

Date: 18th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary

Description

After murdering Abel, Cain settled in the land of Nod (east of Eden), married a wife (likely a sister/niece), and built the first biblical city, naming it Enoch after his son. This act symbolized a shift to urbanization, a quest for legacy, or an attempt to create his own security rather than relying on God's mark.