Patricia Furstenberg, Author of Historical Fiction, Kids Books
Travel Through Stories
What can be more intriguing than a studded gothic door with a Medieval door lock found inside the Evangelical Church Sibiu as well as a story – how else! – for the exciting Thursday Doors weekly challenge.
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The Door of Humility is small, plain, unlike any other church doors I’ve seen, yet it is Easter Time and I’d like to bring it forward together with a story, as its image emphasizes the importance of humility and modesty in matters of faith and spirituality.
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Look past the contemporary photos of Goldsmiths Square Sibiu and discover the life of a medieval village at the time of the Mongol invasion of 1241, through a story.
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As we wandered on the thousand years old Targului Street in Sibiu and snapped both eerie and cheerful photos I imagined how life must have been like for the Saxons who built the first wooden houses here during Medieval Era and wrote a story.
Sibiu started, as did our journey on my blog, on a small piece of land: Huet Square, Goldsmiths’ Square, and Targului Street.
With this blog post I join the beautiful & world-wide Thursday Doors weekly challenge hosted by Dan Antion, do have a look. Dan also read one of my poetry books about dogs, and I am grateful to him for sharing his candid thoughts.
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The legend of how Rășinari, the resin city by Sibiu, Transylvania, came to be named sprang to mind when I read about the meager payslip of a roman soldier – a 2 000 years old papyrus discovered during excavations at Masada. Yet some legends stem from life…
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