Grotto

End of poem Imitation of Martial by Alexander Pope This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

at length my friend while time with still career wafts on his gentle wing his eightieth year sees his past days safe out of fortune's power nor dreads approaching fate's uncertain hour reviews his life and in the strict survey finds not with the series of each happy day such such a man extends his life's short space and from the goal again renews the race for he lives twice who can at once employ the present well and e'en the past On a Grotto by Alexander Pope.

This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

here shunning idleness at once and praise this radiant pile nine rural sisters raise the glittering emblem of each spotless dame clear as her soul and shining as her frame beauty which nature only can impart and such a polish as disgraces art but fate disposed them in this humble sort and hid in deserts what would charm a court ebook of mapstone in oxford england End of Fugitive Pieces by Alexander Pope

And actually,

before we turn on the mics, you guys were also talking about the beautiful, what is it over there? Grotto.

Grotto, thank you.

Couldn't remember what the word was.

You guys have a beautiful grotto on the campus here that I will admit even I have strolled around from time to time when I need a minute.

Right.

And she went home to her parents, Bernadette, and told them that she talked to Demoiselle at the Grotto and Demoiselle told her that these waters could heal people.

People should come there and, you know, bathe in the water or drink it or something, I don't know, and they would be healed of sicknesses, diseases.

So, of course, the parents immediately called the priest, got the priest over there, and the priest told Bernadette, that was no Demoiselle, that was the Holy Virgin Mary you talked to.

Vicky's

Grotto.

That's pretty sick.

Yeah, they're recreating Vicky's Grotto.

The thing that does actually interest me is Heather's plight on this show, but it's such a fourth wall break that they all just secretly hate her that they never really can get into it.

So you just have to suffer for it just repeating over and over again, this mistreatment.

But there's a specific area called St. Bon that is taken care of by Dominican friars and the Catholic Church, the French Catholic Church, as well as the National Park Service.

And so it's this beautiful mountainscape that has what's known as Mary's Grotto, which is it's a cave in the side of a mountain that where they host mass and where there are these beautiful statues of Mary, including one of my favorite, which is behind the altar space.

There's a crucifix.

So Jesus is on the cross and he's looking down over his shoulder and Mary Magdalene is kneeling and looking back up to him.

I find that inordinately fascinating as part of the Lupercalia rites that they're actually – part of the ritual was designed to keep away not just the wolves but the werewolves too and clearly even in just this discussion we've established uh that the greco-roman world believed firmly in those kinds of entities well into late antiquity

that that is very interesting um because of the the connection with the lupercalia and the god pan to the uh base of Mount Hermon, you know, the Grotto of Pan, Banias or Panias back in the day.

So

before leaving this, I wanted to bring this up and see if any of you have heard about this, but And I wish that I would have thought about it before doing this show.

This is like our first really nice big cave room.

This is called Watson's Grotto.

We've got one, two, three, four, five, six of us.

And today is the...

[instrumental music] We can see the ornate structure of the walls, and as we glance down, the base of the walls from 31 AD can still be seen today.

[instrumental music] From here, we will head northeast a short distance to the area identified as Jeremiah's Grotto.

[instrumental music] It is there that we can see the Place of the Skull, which was discovered in the late 19th century.

We are walking just a short distance north along Nablus Road.

And then I explained to him how the pyramids were built and that seemed to get his attention.

So he says, "I've been doing some digging along this cliff face here." He says, "How about coming along with me and, and have a look at it and see what you think?" So I was walking along looking, these were Roman ruins and remains, and my left hand suddenly pointed out at a grubby looking hole in the rock where there was garbage, two dead cats, uh, just, uh, shall we say nasty stuff.

And my mouth said, "That's Jeremiah's Grotto and the Ark of the Covenant is in there." This guy said, "That's wonderful." He said, "We will let you excavate there, and we'll provide you a place to stay, your food, your laundry." I can, you know, understand why he mentioned laundry.

[laughing] Praise the Lord.

She says that Renee pops her head out of a second floor window to say hello to her.

And that event, Naked at the Grotto at Midnight, happens.

Cameras from E! are there.

And clips from the night end up on Wild on E! in 2003.