Posted on 06/03/2017 5:27:48 AM PDT by NYer
Catholic ping!
Coincidentally, there are hundreds of sanctuaries between those two end points that aren’t on the line.
Very nice photos and history.
We visited the one in Cornwall last September. Amazing place. We didn’t pay the extra money or climb the extra stairs to go to the monastery. The view was good from the lower circles. Sort of a tourist trap but since it was off season, not too crowded. On the day we were there with our younger son, he got a text from a friend who was at the one in France.
What happens when the concept of map projection distortion meets religious fervor?
As I get older I am believing less and less in coincidences.
Things happen for a reason.
Bookmark later read
Bookmark later read
btt
Bookmarking; intriguing info!
What a fun idea.
These are St Michael’s footprints for his run-up, as he toe-punts the evil one up the backside.
He shoots, he scores!
Fascinating, especially given the various times they were built.
Exactly. These venerable sites are not even close to lying on a single great circle route. Furthermore, the claim about sunset at the summer solstice is geographically impossible. Moderns, flattering themselves as scientific, usually are completely innocent of any grasp of seasonal earth orientation.
That's a quite unfair observation to make. You're only using facts that support your position. I'll bet you never clapped in Peter Pan to save Tinkerbelle either.
BB - Well said!
This is a fascinating article along with gorgeous locations.
They are gorgeous locations. I regret I will never be able to see them in person.
St. Michael the Archangel
~ PRAYER ~
St. Michael, the Archangel, defend us in battle
Be our protection against the wickedness
and snares of the devil;
May God rebuke him, we humbly pray,
and do thou, O Prince of the heavenly host,
by the power of God,
Cast into hell Satan and all the evil spirits
who prowl through the world seeking the ruin of souls.
Amen
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Haha I was thinking the same thing. But then I realized that these are all sites dedicated to the Archangel Michael, each built centuries apart from each other, thus with no obvious means of coordination.
As to the issue of this not really being a straight line since this is only a straight line on a Mercator projection, I don't have a globe so I can't be sure but to me it seems even on a sphere this might be a line, although an arc at any rate, still a continuous line from the first to the last. It wouldn't be a serpentine pattern in other words.
Even if the line on a globe isn't perfectly straight though, it's still amazing that on a Mercator projection it is a straight line. So there's that.
Amen!
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