‘IF IT’S Tuesday, this must be Belgium.’ Or it could be Holland, Norway, Sweden, Germany or Spain. For Vera Roper and her husband Stanley, travelling through European countries was part of life, taking countless Bradfordians on holiday. After setting up Ropers - the company that bears their name to this day - the couple took passengers on day trips from their Bradford base and to other parts of the UK including the south coast, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Wight. They later travelled across the Channel to explore Europe. “We used to call Mum Queenie for fun,” says her daughter Alison Grice. “She had spent so many years living in hotels and having everything done and meals cooked. “When we called her that she would laugh and stick her tongue out at us.”
Most organizations this year have opted to provide takeout meals.
Saints Peter & Paul Ukrainian Orthodox Church in Edgemoor also said foods it usually makes for its annual spring bazaar, such as pierogi, paska breads and borscht, will be take-out only this year. Order dates will be March 2 from 9 to 11 a.m., and from 9 to 11 a.m. March 8 and March 9. More information is below.
During the 40 days of Lent, Christian tradition calls for abstaining from eating meat on Fridays as a penitential practice and to remember the sacrifice of Christ. Many area churches have offered seafood meals on Fridays, except on Good Friday, which is April 2 this year.
Written by Lianne Kolirin, CNN
A painting of the Last Supper which hung for more than a century in a small English church was created in Titian s workshop, art historians have found.
The huge painting, which measures more than 12 feet by 5 feet, had garnered little attention on the walls of St Michael and All Angels Church in Ledbury a market town with about 10,000 residents in western England.
But when art historian and conservator Ronald Moore was called in to work on another piece of art at the Herefordshire church, he became intrigued by the discolored and neglected canvas which had been housed there since 1909.
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