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Gaudí devoted the remainder of his life to the project, and he is buried in the church's crypt. At the time of his death in 1926, less than a quarter of the project was complete. [9] Relying solely on private donations, Sagrada Família's construction progressed slowly and was interrupted by the Spanish Civil War.
Basilica of Santissima Annunziata, Florence, the mother church of the Servite Order, where Maria Valtorta is buried. [2] Maria Valtorta died in 1961, at age 64, and was buried in the town cemetery in Viareggio. [4] [5] Later, in 1973, her remains were moved to the chapel of the great cloister of the Basilica della Santissima Annunziata in Florence.
John Mbiti was born on 30 November 1931 in Mulango, Kitui County, eastern Kenya.His parents were two farmers, Samuel Mutuvi Ngaangi and Valesi Mbandi Kiimba. He was one of six children and was raised in a strong Christian environment.
Portrait by Andrea del Castagno, c. 1450. The details of Boccaccio's birth are uncertain. He was born in Florence or in a village near Certaldo where his family was from. [5] [6] He was the son of Florentine merchant Boccaccino di Chellino and an unknown woman; he was likely born out of wedlock. [7]
The literature that makes up the ancient Egyptian funerary texts is a collection of religious documents that were used in ancient Egypt, usually to help the spirit of the concerned person to be preserved in the afterlife.
It is revealed that Neveu and her brother are descendants of Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene. The Priory of Sion hid her identity to protect her from possible threats to her life. The real meaning of the last message is that the Grail is buried beneath the small pyramid directly below La Pyramide Inversée, the inverted glass pyramid of the ...
For instance, Eliade's The Sacred and the Profane partially builds on Otto's The Idea of the Holy to show how religion emerges from the experience of the sacred, and myths of time and nature. Eliade is known for his attempt to find broad, cross-cultural parallels and unities in religion, particularly in myths.
Pessoa translated a number of Portuguese books into English such as The Songs of Antonio Botto. [25] He also translated various works into Portuguese such as The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, [26] and the short stories "The Theory and the Hound", "The Roads We Take" and "Georgia's Ruling" by O. Henry. [27]