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Snow church opens in Bavaria
Yahoo News ^
| 12/29/2011
| AP
Posted on 12/30/2011 9:06:05 AM PST by iowamark
MITTERFIRMIANSREUT, Germany — A church built entirely of ice and snow has opened in Bavaria — a century after villagers first built a snow church in an act of protest.
The church at Mitterfirmiansreut, near the Czech border, is more than 20 meters (65 feet) in length and boasts a tower. It's made up of some 1,400 cubic meters (49,000 cubic feet) of snow.
The structure was bathed in blue light as it opened Wednesday evening with a blessing from Dean Kajetan Steinbeisser...
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TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events
KEYWORDS: bavaria; catholic; germany
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posted on
12/30/2011 9:06:10 AM PST
by
iowamark
To: iowamark
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posted on
12/30/2011 9:17:45 AM PST
by
iowamark
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posted on
12/30/2011 9:19:56 AM PST
by
iowamark
To: iowamark
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posted on
12/30/2011 9:28:37 AM PST
by
CORedneck
To: iowamark
I’m surprised they’ve got that much snow already — I live in Warsaw and this year we’ve just had a pattering of snow on the 16th of Dec and then nothing.
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posted on
12/30/2011 9:43:58 AM PST
by
Cronos
(Party like it's 12 20, 2012)
To: CORedneck
must be difficult to take a nap during the sermon
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posted on
12/30/2011 9:48:21 AM PST
by
vwbug
To: iowamark
For those wondering what I was also wondering:
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posted on
12/30/2011 9:58:15 AM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
Muslims will burn it down
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posted on
12/30/2011 10:18:08 AM PST
by
dsrtsage
(One half of all people have below average IQ...In the US the number is 54%)
To: dsrtsage
I’d worry about Muslims with hair dryers...
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posted on
12/30/2011 10:21:21 AM PST
by
who knows what evil?
(G-d saved more animals than people on the ark...www.siameserescue.org.)
To: iowamark
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posted on
12/30/2011 10:48:28 AM PST
by
Fester Chugabrew
(let establishment heads explode)
To: who knows what evil?
I’d worry about Muslims with hair dryers...
With any luck, they'll stand in a puddle of their own making...
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posted on
12/30/2011 10:49:52 AM PST
by
BikerJoe
To: MHGinTN; reaganaut
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posted on
12/30/2011 10:53:05 AM PST
by
mrreaganaut
(Stupidity killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.)
To: mrreaganaut
Bitte sehr ... Sie sind willkommen.
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posted on
12/30/2011 1:16:10 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
To: iowamark
What does the name of that town mean: Mittefirmiansreut ?
All I got from Google translate was that mitte can mean middle and reut can mean sorry.
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posted on
12/30/2011 5:03:16 PM PST
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
To: married21
“Mitter-” means in this case indeed middle and there are two othe villages called Vorderfirmiansreut and Hinterfirmiansreut.
They were founded by “Fürstbischof Leopold Ernst Kardinal von Firmian” in 1764 so there is the middle part and “-reut” is just an old word for a settlement in the woods.
To: NMachiavelli
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posted on
12/31/2011 8:34:58 AM PST
by
married21
(As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.)
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