{"id":231,"date":"2018-03-25T10:49:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T14:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/?p=231"},"modified":"2018-04-12T08:46:23","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T12:46:23","slug":"giorno-3-la-chiesa-monreale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/sicily\/giorno-3-la-chiesa-monreale\/","title":{"rendered":"Giorno 3 &#8211; La Chiesa (Monreale)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The one fact I like to share about older churches that have these depictions of Christ: one can determine the type of church by observing Jesus&#8217; benediction (his right hand).  As seen below, his ring finger, pinky, and thumb are touching, representing a Catholic benediction because this formation reflects the Trinity.  Orthodox benedictions (the other predominant church) have only the ring finger and thumb together.<\/p>\n<p>Side note: this is my favorite church I have ever been to<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/img_0840.jpg\" class=\"size-full wp-image-230\" height=\"4032\" width=\"3024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/img_0840.jpg 3024w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/img_0840-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/200\/2018\/03\/img_0840-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 3024px) 100vw, 3024px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The one fact I like to share about older churches that have these depictions of Christ: one can determine the type of church by observing Jesus&#8217; benediction (his right hand). As seen below, his ring finger, pinky, and thumb are touching, representing a Catholic benediction because this formation reflects the Trinity. Orthodox benedictions (the other [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":644,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sicily","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/644"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/italian-3008-spring-2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}