The Cristo Redentor, as Brazilians call it, is a postcard not only for the city of Rio de Janeiro but for the entire country. The statue’s wide-open arms, spanning 92 feet, seem to personally ...

One of the foreign priests who came to Bougainville sometime in the late 1960s or early 1970s brought the statue with him ... pursue their ultimate dream: a country of their own, free from ...

The first statue of Saint John of Nepomuk ... Switzerland and a dozen other countries around the world. In a weird twist of fate, the rather obscure St John of Nepomuk – a priest who died in Prague in ...

Ankara police recovered a sixth-century statue depicting a priest during an inspection, according to Hurriyet Daily News. The 1,500-year-old, 70-centimeter-tall statue was found during a search of ...

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According to Tetsu Hirose, chief priest of Omiyajinjya shrine, the statue was behind the Korasha ... shrine in Kyoto and other parts of the country. However, after Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616 ...

Over the centuries, it moved from one place to another across the country ... the chief priest of Gokurakuji, became curious when his grandfather referred to a statue he received from an antique ...