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Prayer is hard. Even the desert fathers said so.

A book owned by Cologne’s Grevenconvent offered advice involving mat-making, short prayers, and fingers afire.

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Woman with elaborate red and gold cloak and hands raised in prayer against a gold background; blog title: Fiery Fingers and Working Hands: Prayer at the Grevenconvent
October 25, 2026 at 8:08 PM
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Working to develop @enuheritage.bsky.social for the past two and a half years has been an enormous privilege, and I'll greatly miss all the lovely colleagues and collections I've gotten to know during that period!
Selection of overlaid black and white photographs detailing the refurbishment of the late medieval Merchiston Tower in Edinburgh in various stages. Individual images show the Lionsgate entrance, scaffolding, a maquette of the proposed campus surrounding the tower, the stairs into the tower, a workman working on a wall, and several interior shots of work in progress. Photograph of ENU Curator showing a toby jug to three other people during a tour in the War Poets Collection exhibition at Edinburgh Napier University's Craiglockhart Campus, which was a hospital for shell-shocked officers during WWI. The toby jug (a jug in the shape of a standing man with a green coat, yellow waistcoat, blue trousers, white stockings, and a blue wide-brimmed hat, was hand painted by Second Lieutenant J. Wood as part of his treatment at the hospital in 1918. Photograph of a loose ceiling board dating from 1581, with a colour checker and ruler. The ceiling board is part of the Prestongrange House ceiling which is nowadays housed in Edinburgh Napier University's medieval Merchiston Tower. The board in question features - in shades of black, white, and gray - part of a shell (scallops) and swirls resembling ornate ironwork, on a background of red. A leaf from Anton Koberger's 'Vitaspatrum sanctorum Egiptiorum', dated to 1483. The page features a large illuminated initial 'B' (ECC A13).
June 2, 2025 at 11:26 AM