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From: Stephen Lauf
To: design-l@lists.psu.edu
Subject: Re: aesthetic knowledge
Date: 2004.03.27 15:15
It would be interesting to research the iconographic history of the 'Christian' cross prior to 14 September 325, that is, prior to Helena's discovery of the True Cross.
[There was a congregation of Serbian Orthodox Christians in my mother's hometown of Brestowatz, Yugoslavia, and my grandmother, as a teenage girl, was the nanny at the Serbian priest's household. About 20 years ago, my grandmother taught me the names of the priest's five children, but I don't remember them anymore. On 1 January 1945, when all the ethnic Germans of Brestowatz and other neighboring towns were being loaded into boxcars for shipment to labor camps in Russia, my mother tells me that the only person protesting there was a Serbian Orthodox priest, who continually cried, "What are you doing with these people?" until someone hit him, told him to shut-up and pushed him away.]
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