Along the main street of Kosice, the second largest city in Slovakia, is the Immaculata Statue. It commemorates the victims of the plague in 1710 and 1711. The 14 m high statue was erected in 1723 on the place of the medieval gallows. In Trnava, the other Slovak town we were in, they did not depend upon classical medicine alone to deal with the plague. There the town voted that after a period of fasting they should take a vow to be celebrate, hoping the virgin Mary would help them.... it is said to have worked and apparently the Italian national soccer team still depends upon the same course of action...maybe the NHL should try it during the playoffs instead of the not shaving thing... This statue was heavily damaged in bombings during the second war but ... as Ray says "if it ain't Baroque don't fix it" but it was so they did.Sunday, January 10, 2010
Plague Monument
Along the main street of Kosice, the second largest city in Slovakia, is the Immaculata Statue. It commemorates the victims of the plague in 1710 and 1711. The 14 m high statue was erected in 1723 on the place of the medieval gallows. In Trnava, the other Slovak town we were in, they did not depend upon classical medicine alone to deal with the plague. There the town voted that after a period of fasting they should take a vow to be celebrate, hoping the virgin Mary would help them.... it is said to have worked and apparently the Italian national soccer team still depends upon the same course of action...maybe the NHL should try it during the playoffs instead of the not shaving thing... This statue was heavily damaged in bombings during the second war but ... as Ray says "if it ain't Baroque don't fix it" but it was so they did.
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it may just be a spelling error but the vow was to be celebate, celebrate is what you do after you stop being celebate...
ReplyDeletehey brother you have come along way in your spelling since that Wednesday at university
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