tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009293139644224585.post6034663566611946956..comments2024-01-05T09:30:37.894-05:00Comments on Major's Saint of the Day: June 25 -- Feast of Saint Febronia and Blessed LysimachusUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5009293139644224585.post-83505186915295276042013-06-25T12:28:01.164-04:002013-06-25T12:28:01.164-04:00It's great to have a fresh post! I've bro... It's great to have a fresh post! I've brooded about the brevity of my frequenting your blog (February of this year and then a hiatus in June that you have only just now ended.<br /> Yesterday to comfort myself I went over Caravaggio's various St. John the Baptists with Major eyes. What I turned up was the narrative outside the frames: the disturbingly youthful St. John––in one picture grinning at us with a horny ram instead of the Lamb of God in the foreground––has become the older man (34?) with his face forced into the ground by the executioner, his neck slashed, his blood pooling on the ground in a murky dungeon, with strange onlookers (altarpiece at Valletta.)<br /> So much for a "clean death" by beheading--and the rest is silence.<br /> <br /> <br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com