MARKGRAGO.COM โœ๐Ÿป https://markgrago.com/ I'm a writer&poet&vlogger from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. You are invited on my journey! โœ๐Ÿป๐Ÿ“ฝ๐Ÿ“ธ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:57:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/markgrago.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/imageedit_2_3033854795.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 MARKGRAGO.COM โœ๐Ÿป https://markgrago.com/ 32 32 128556770 WHO WAS ST. PATRICK? ๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ€๐Ÿ€โ˜ฆ https://markgrago.com/who-was-st-patrick-%f0%9f%8d%80%f0%9f%8d%80%f0%9f%8d%80%f0%9f%8d%80%e2%98%a6/ https://markgrago.com/who-was-st-patrick-%f0%9f%8d%80%f0%9f%8d%80%f0%9f%8d%80%f0%9f%8d%80%e2%98%a6/#respond Tue, 17 Mar 2026 17:57:41 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2618   To many Irish March 17th is a bit more than Clovers, Leprechauns, and Guinness. This is the โ€œtraditionalโ€ feast day of Saint Patrick. He is, without question, one of the most celebrated and theatrical saints of the church. But who was he?   To begin with, Saint Patrick was NOT Irish; he was born …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/should-chrisitians-continue-to-celebrate-lent-%e2%98%a6%e2%9c%9d%f0%9f%90%9f/feed/ 0 2560 The Funerary Mask of King Tutankhamun ๐Ÿ’› https://markgrago.com/the-funerary-mask-of-king-tutankhamun-%f0%9f%92%9b/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:33:18 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2475   One of the most mystical gifts of art from the ancient world is the funerary masks of the pharaohs. The masksโ€™ main purpose of being placed over the head of mummies was to emphasize the ancient Egyptian belief in the fragile process of transition that the dead would have to endure successfully to relish …

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]]> 2475 SHROUD OF TURIN (PART 2) THE ORIGINS โ˜ฆโ˜ฆโ˜ฆ https://markgrago.com/shroud-of-turin-part-2-the-origins-%e2%98%a6%e2%98%a6%e2%98%a6/ Tue, 30 Dec 2025 01:19:41 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2454   In this 2nd installment, I will now present a portion of the origins of the shroud. Most are unaware as to the precise beginnings of the Shroud of Turin, which I think, in proper respect, should be accounted for. The first page of mention in this history commences in medieval France. FRANCE 13th century; …

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]]> 2454 Giuseppe Sanmartino “Christ lying under the Shroud” โ˜ฆ https://markgrago.com/giuseppe-sanmartino-christ-lying-under-the-shroud-%e2%98%a6/ Mon, 01 Dec 2025 01:34:12 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2467   What do alchemy and marble have in common? The subject of this sculpture piece has a lot to say about them both. For many centuries, it was thought that alchemy imposed magical elements into the marble so that the sculptor working on a subject could forge the marble in any way he desired. According …

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]]> 2467 SHROUD OF TURIN: FORGERY OR DIVINE, ESSAY 1 โ˜ฆโ˜ฆโ˜ฆ https://markgrago.com/shroud-of-turin-forgery-or-divine-essay-1-%e2%98%a6%e2%98%a6%e2%98%a6/ Sat, 12 Jul 2025 17:13:16 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2444   The Shroud of Turin, like most folks my age, came to prominence in the late 1970โ€™s. At that time, National Geographic magazine published some of the first articles ever brough onto the world stage; even more important, they provided the 1st photographs ever taken of this mysterious burial cloth. It was, indeed, a spectacular …

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]]> 2444 TEMPORARY https://markgrago.com/temporary/ Wed, 09 Jul 2025 15:30:57 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=2210 Hello, Everyone. ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป   Due to a uncontrollable amount of spam I receive, I have been compelled to true comments off on my website. I hope to have this fixed quite soon and restore other’s views and ideas on my subjects and material, please be patient in this matter as I will have it fixed …

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]]> 2210 ABANDONDMENT vs. CREATION ๐Ÿ“ธ๐ŸŽฅ https://markgrago.com/abandondment-vs-creation-%f0%9f%93%b8%f0%9f%8e%a5/ https://markgrago.com/abandondment-vs-creation-%f0%9f%93%b8%f0%9f%8e%a5/#respond Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:59:47 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=1969 THINGS ARE CREATED, THINGS ARE DESTRYOED, THINGS ARE ABANDONED. HISTORY HAS COME, HISTORY HAS GONE. WHAT WAS ONCE A SKELETON NOW HAS FLESH AND BRICK AND STEEL. EVENTUALLY, STRENGTH WILL DROWN IN THE TSUNAMI OF TIME. WHAT IS LEFT IS ONLY BY GOD. โ˜ฆ๐Ÿ“ธ๐Ÿ“ฝ   THIS IS THE ABANDONEDย      THIS IS THE CREATION …

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]]> https://markgrago.com/abandondment-vs-creation-%f0%9f%93%b8%f0%9f%8e%a5/feed/ 0 1969 WICKED: A SUBLIME DISPLAY OF ETERNAL EXTRAGAVANCE AND IMAGINATIVE CHIMERA๐ŸŒˆ๐Ÿ”ฎ๐Ÿง™๐Ÿปโ€โ™‚๏ธ https://markgrago.com/wicked-a-sublime-display-of-eternal-extragavance-and-imaginative-chimera%f0%9f%8c%88%f0%9f%94%ae%f0%9f%a7%99%f0%9f%8f%bb%e2%99%82%ef%b8%8f/ https://markgrago.com/wicked-a-sublime-display-of-eternal-extragavance-and-imaginative-chimera%f0%9f%8c%88%f0%9f%94%ae%f0%9f%a7%99%f0%9f%8f%bb%e2%99%82%ef%b8%8f/#respond Sat, 26 Apr 2025 13:47:28 +0000 https://markgrago.com/?p=1465   Embroidering imagination and creation onto the silver screen is a divine task of delicious challenge and inflated points of view. However, from time to time, in a quite lucky generation, it is performed with geometric accuracy and intensely colored assay. This film soars, in every way that a film can. Color, cinematography, theatrics, and …

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