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| Summer Meadow |
Memories of childhood wrap around me each summer on July
24, bowls of sweet cherries, meadows filled with poppies and cornflowers, puffy
clouds floating above...bliss in the hills of Saliste, Sibiu village of my
youth in Transylvania.
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| Cotton Woven Towel |
After church, a delightful summer picnic was unwrapped from the wicker basket, laid out on a woven table cloth in the middle of a meadow under a tree for shade.
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| Sibiu Burduf Cheese |
Fresh
yellow bean salad, grilled bacon dripping on Ardeal bread with sweet onions,
selection of Sibiu cheese, fresh tomatoes and cucumbers, sweet braided bread.
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| Bacon Over Fire |
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| Bacon & Drippings On Farm Bread & Sweet Onions |
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| Sweet Braided Bread |
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Yellow Bean Salad
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| Pottery Large Jar |
Traditional delights were brought in pottery bowls, well water and the always present tuica and a jug of wine from the cellar.
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| Hurezu Pottery Bowls |
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| Corund Wine Jugs |
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| Tuica Plum Spirit |
On the way back, a crown of meadow flowers was always braided and worn with pride reminding me of St.Cristina my patron saint.
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| Someone's Beautiful Child |
St. Cristina of Tyre, Holy Martyr commemorated on July 24, celebrated by the Orthodox and Catholic Christians alike, lived in the city of Tyre,now known as Bolsena in Tuscany, under the rule of Emperor Septimius Severus
(193-211).
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| Byzantine Icon of St. Christina |
Her image was also depicted in the superb mosaics of
Ravenna, Italy.
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| Ravenna Mosaic |
She was the daughter of a Roman general named Urban who forbade
the Christian faith, raised her with pagan gold idols and guarded by well-chosen
pagan servants.
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| Romanian Icon of St. Hristina |
This has not prevented the young Cristina to know Christ,
to shatter the idols of gold and silver and to divide them among the poor, by throwing the pieces out the window.
An angel came to her and appointed her bride of Christ,
giving her more devotion to her faith.
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| Catholic Statue of St. Cristina |
The punishment of her father for her defiant actions was horrific.
After being subjected to torture, Cristina was thrown in jail and finally
sentenced to death for not denouncing her Christian faith.
Brutal end being killed with spears by soldiers.
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| Catholic Painting of St.Cristina |
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