Here is a webcam aimed at the Ponte Santa Trinita, the Holy Trinity Bridge, which spans the river Arno in Florence. So what? Well, that bridge is the place where, “in the year 1284, the eighteen-year-old Dante Alighieri is traditionally said to have been standing when he caught sight of Beatrice and her two friends.” I’m quoting James Burge in Dante & Beatrice. This is a popular book about Dante’s love-from-afar for Beatrice–the young girl who would become his lifelong muse and the principal inspiration for his epic poem, the Comedia.
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We share with all the saints one Lord
Francis of Assisi--part of an altarpiece by Bartolomeo Vivarini, in the Brooklyn Museum
From a mid-15th-century Dutch prayerbook: Saint James the Great; Saint Joseph; Saint Ghislain, abbot of St Ghislain, near Mons; Saint Eligius; Saint Ermes (Hermes)
Gregory the Great and St. Mamertinus, from a 14th-century French translation of Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda aurea
Cologne Cathedral
The clocktower of the Saint-Leu-Saint-Gilles church in Saint-Leu-la-Forêt (Val-d'Oise), France
Masaccio, Crucifixion, 1426 (Naples, Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte); the blonde figure is Mary Magdalen
Door of Tewkesbury Abbey cloister
Medieval Wisdom for Modern Christians
Grateful to the dead 