Altar: (1) a place designated for offering sacrifices to God; (2) marker of a special place, event, or person in order to commemorate or memorialize said event or person.
Wednesday, 22-June, was a challenging day. In order to wrap my head around ...
Posted on June 22nd, 2016
What you're looking at here is the high altar at Karlskirche (St. Charles Church) in Vienna. We visited this cathedral on June 6, 2016. This church we erected in honor of St. Charles Borromeo (1538–1584), patron saint of plague sufferers. In 1713,...
Posted on June 6th, 2016
This morning, 4-June, while with a student at the Anker down the street from Das Millicanhaus, which is across the street from Servitenkirche, we caught the bells ringing calling people to mass. Click here to listen to about 10 seconds of audio.
Posted on June 4th, 2016
There are many cathedrals in Vienna, but the most iconic and, arguably, the most well-known and important one is Stephansdom (a.k.a., St. Stephen's). Two days ago (2-June) our group went for a tour.
[Note: I did not take this photo (I wish I had!)...
Posted on June 4th, 2016
Today was our first day of class in Vienna (BTW, we considered all of the tours and museum visits in London—excluding Harry Potter World, of course—to be "class"). The topic today was "Roman Vienna." Did you know that the Romans had established a ...
Posted on June 1st, 2016
Yesterday (30-May) we made it from London to das Millicanhaus. Getting into and through Heathrow was relatively easy—well, for all but one of us. One of our students was told at the check-in counter that there weren't enough seats because the flig...
Posted on May 30th, 2016
Today (May 29, 2016) our group went to the National Gallery (above) located in London's famed Trafalgar Square. This museum holds some of the world's most famous works of art. Many of our students were excited to have seen a number of the pieces t...
Posted on May 29th, 2016
Yesterday (Friday, May 27) was a good day. First we went to the British Museum. When I tell the students that they have 2 to 2.5 hours to follow an audio guide through the museum, I can almost hear them think, "What?!? Two hours in a museum?!?" Th...
Posted on May 28th, 2016
Guess who's a card-carrying member of British Library? Guess who can arrange to see ancient Greek manuscripts in a reading room?
Posted on May 27th, 2016
Above: Our group getting started on a tour of Westminster Abbey with tour guide Sean
Hi everyone. Sorry for the delay in posting this entry. I've not had a very good wifi experience in London until now.
Today was our first day of touring London. O...
Posted on May 26th, 2016
