Dcn. Gabriel Borges Bonfim Silva, EP

T he Mediterranean Sea serenely watched the approach of another storm. It was the dawn of August 24, 1704 and two imposing armadas faced one another near Gibraltar, on the southern coast of Andalusia. On …

Portrait engraving by Antonio Visentini of Giovanni Antonio Canal, nicknamed Canaletto Giovanni Antonio Canal opened his eyes to the world in Venice on October 18, 1697. Little Canal, nicknamed Canaletto, a creative, vivacious and perceptive …

By declaring himself united in a symbolic marriage with Sister Poverty, St. Francis of Assisi left us a precious lesson. Since the sharing of goods is inherent to marriage, we can imagine what “benefit” the …

Do not be alarmed, dear reader, by the title of this article. Do not be alarmed, because we do not intend to recall here the conflicts of various kinds that afflict our world today… Do …

We may be stating the most obvious of banalities when we say that we are a long way – and how long! – away from the days when people used to write letters. But, the …

In a previous article,1 a challenge was launched to readers: to discover the author of the letters pictured once again on these pages. The first revelation will undoubtedly override all initial hypotheses: the letters are …