Merry Christmas on Christmas Eve

 Salvete Omnes,

so it is Christmas Eve (Wigilia in Polish, La Nochebuena in Spanish) - 

a page from Breviary of Salisbury

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Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones, dear fellow net travelers. 

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I would like to point your attention to the much damaged frescoes by one maestro  Jenez (Johannes) Aquila - XIV century painter in the Arpad Kingdom of Hungary. 

The Holy Trinity and Saint Stephen church in Velemer, Hungary, has some surviving frescoes showing, presumably, the Magi approaching and adoring the Baby Jesus. 

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.all images are from Wiki Commons

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[Polish] Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia - wesolosci i humoru, pieknej a smacznej kolacji Wigilijnej

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Feliz Navidad...

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May your horse, dogs and other domestic animals stay healthy and safe.

Again, Merry Christmas - may peace prevail everywhere and the current wars cease immediately.  

Valete

The Magi en route to Bethlehem - horses and camels

 Salvete Omnes,

on the eve of Christmas Eve , with all the shopping and cleaning still going on, having decorated the Christmas tree, let us turn, for a brief moment, to the beautiful arts. 
So we can take a 'peak' at the Magi traveling to Bethlehem, arriving on January 6th, to perform proskynesis in front of Our Lord. The 'peak' through the art of the amazing Middle Ages art

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until the next time 

Valete

Merry Christmas - Wesolych Swiat - Feliz Navidad

 Salvete Omnes,

so Christmas' Eve is here - Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones.. 

in Polish tradition tonight all 'Polonians' (old English name for Poles) around the world celebrate with a 12 courses supper known as kolacja wigilijna or 'Wigilia' (Christmas Eve Supper).

May peace and joy rule your Wigilia's table and home.

and these images  come from the Polish National Library digital collection known as Polona. These are old, pre-1939, Polish postcards - 

Wesolych Swiat 

Feliz Navidad 

Valete

Malinowski, Susliga & Goldsworthy - science about birth of Jesus Christ

 Salvete omnes,

one day to Christmas' Eve - time moves without any pause, doesn't it?

the Magi traveling to pay homage to Baby Jesus at  Bethlehem 

A quick entry: 

firstly, I often listen to the podcasts by a Wroclaw University professor of classics, Gosciwit Malinowski, and  his last podcast was, inter alia,  about the invention of the Anno Domini dating  by the Roman provincial from Scythia  Minor, named Dionysius Exiguus.  [professor's podcast is in Polish] in Rome, in  the VI century AD.

Secondly, while Dionysius Exiguus created the concept of year 1 AD, it was Polish Jesuit priest, father Wawrzyniec (Laurentius) Susliga or Suslyga (1570-1640), who in 1605 AD  at  Graz University   presented his doctoral thesis titled 'Theoremata de anno ortus et mortis Domini, deque universa Jesu Christi in carne oeconomia,' bring the birth year of Christ to year 4 BC or shortly thereafter . 

 Nota bene our Jesuit was also a preacher and poet and the astronomer  Johannes Kepler knew of his ideas and perhaps used them to bolster his own theory about the Star of Bethlehem.

 Finally, one of my favorite ancient  history podcasters,  and fiction writer,  dr Adrian Goldsworthy published a podcast on the historical evidence the birth of Jesus of Nazareth. 

 and some XIX century oil paintings on beehives' boards [sic!] from Slovenia - 

enjoy 

Valete

Christmas 2023

 Salvete Omnes,

Willem Vrelant's Nativity miniature

Today is Christmas Eve - if  you are celebrating , then do enjoy your special feast with the family and friends, may it be full of joy, tasty foods made at home and happiness.

Merry Christmas to you all, dear friends -:) 

Wesolych Swiat Bozego Narodzenia - wesolosci i humoru, pieknej a smacznej Wigilii 

Feliz Navidad...

May your horse, dogs and other domestic animals stay healthy and useful 

Merry Christmas  - may peace prevail and wars cease

and some medieval horses for your pleasure

Valete

Century-Old Polish Christmas cards

 Salvete Omnes,

and so on this Friday the joys of  Christmas are around the corner and with that  family & friends-oriented time in mind I would like to share with you all the old Polish Christmas cards with some horse etc theme - (Polona, Polish National Library digital collection)

enjoy -:) 

Valete