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Oct. 22nd, 2007 10:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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We can't be sure who these ladies are but apparently they're older than the church that houses them. Aren't they elegant? One is dated c.1300 and the other c.1375. They've been placed rather awkwardly in the sanctuary of the Lady Chapel in a position where only the priest at the altar can see them properly. I had to climb over the altar rail to take these pictures. An act of trespass. But I am still a priest- yes I am: I may be listed in the archbishop's little black book, but they never defrocked me.
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Date: 2007-10-22 06:29 pm (UTC)There's a scene in Bunuel's The Phantom of Liberty where a Napoleonic officer opens the tomb of a Spanish princess and falls in love with her perfectly preserved corpse. I should have realised (knowing Bunuel) it had a basis in historical fact. It comes just after the scene where the Spanish patriots go to their deaths- as some of them really did- shouting "long live chains".