Chapel Hill

Rosslyn Chapel,

Rosslyn Chapel.

Chapter 7. The Chapel.

Like like the sistine chapel.

At the Best Little Chapel.

You know Best Little Chapel?

The Sistine Chapel is a vast chapel built inside the Vatican Palace in 1473.

Nurse Chapel, I need 50cc of cortisone.

You will lead the new refugees into the chapel.

Having climbed all the way to the shrine, I decided to dedicate a votive horse tablet.

We also have a gift shop and a wedding chapel.

I think he's at the chapel. He's going to church now?

And I'm like, A This ain't the Sistine Chapel. And B

He earned enough money to buy a burial chapel and decorate it with a pretty painting.

Uh, no, I'm sorry, she's in chapel just now. She will be out in a minute.

If you'd care to pray, you are most welcome... otherwise, I must ask you to leave the chapel.

This is Sister Agnes, from the chapel upstair... she speaks fluent French, and is free to interpret for you

you see around our chapel, but also for the generosity and kindness they've extended to the families in this very difficult time.

And here we are once again in the recreation of the Sistine Chapel, on Vassar's campus, and we're going to talk this time not about the ceiling, but about the fresco that Michelangelo painted on the wall behind the altar in the Sistine Chapel, about 25 years later,

The wife of a whaling captain had provided the chapel with a handsome pair of red worsted man ropes for this ladder, which, being itself nicely headed, and stained with a mahogany colour, the whole contrivance, considering what manner of chapel it was, seemed by no means in bad taste.

At twentyfive she did her part in the killing of nine innocent people, including my unborn daughter, in a small wedding chapel in El Paso, Texas.

The chimney jambs and all the bricks inside were very sooty, so that I thought this fire place made a very appropriate little shrine or chapel for his Congo idol.

In this same New Bedford there stands a Whaleman's Chapel, and few are the moody fishermen, shortly bound for the Indian Ocean or Pacific, who fail to make a Sunday visit to the spot.

And here you can see what he meant in one of his beautiful buildings the chapel Notre Dame Du Haut De Ronchamp where he creates this light that he could only make because there's also dark.

So that Michelangelo might paint certain figures on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, so that Shakespeare might write certain speeches and Keats his poems, it seemed to me worthwhile that countless millions should have lived and suffered and died.

They can tell the story of, among other things, a modestly born money changer attempting to spend his money virtuously by making a local chapel more beautiful, or the story of an ambitious young painter, elevating the reputation of his craft to stand among the wealthy elite of his city.

Like most old fashioned pulpits, it was a very lofty one, and since a regular stairs to such a height would, by its long angle with the floor, seriously contract the already small area of the chapel, the architect, it seemed, had acted upon the hint of Father Mapple, and finished the pulpit without a stairs, substituting a perpendicular side ladder, like those used in mounting a ship from a boat at sea.