I was hoping to dazzle you today with dates and details about the Holy Roman Empire, the German monk Martin Luther, the Thirty Years Wars, the Reformation and Calvinism. Instead all I have are dazzling images of one of Bavaria’s renowned churches, one that weathered all the aforementioned turmoil quite beautifully.
I hope my top ten photos of Dom St. Peter in Regensburg, Germany will suffice.
sculpted in about 1280 by the artist known as the Master of St. Erminold. The brochure published by the Diocese describes her as “the visible expression of the Gospel – the good news of the love of God became man.”