Motorcycle Travel Series by @velimir 'The Stone Gate' (Part #277)
'The Stone Gate'
The Upper Town was once upon a time a town of its own. It had several entrance gates and this is one of them. It was named Stone Gate and it remains so to the present day. There is tower above it, where an elitist fraternity has its headquarters.
The bottom part was converted into a place of worship a long time ago. People come to light the candles and thank for something that happened in their lives. Power of faith can make ordinary things look like miracles.
The walls are covered with thank you tablets. These are brought by people who are thankful for regaining health for themselves or members of their family. True or not, belief is a strong force that swings both ways.
The place is definitely interesting. People kneeling outside of the church is not seen very often. Hope their prayers get answered.
The candle wax is carefully gathered under the box to be reused. This raises the issue of the absurd amount of money the church is receiving from the government and still charging people money for all of their services, including funerals. People pay for everything here. Even for the recycled candles.
This sign says "It is prohibited to push carts through these gates, as well as ride a horse or drive cattle." But, don't believe everything you see. It is only a remake of an old sign that was hanging here ages ago. :D
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They can do something with their money, abilities and abilities. They need no satisfactory help, not even those with God. But all that will change when they are confronted with something that can not be done with money, ability and ability himself.
When the ship that they were riding in swing and banged the waves and storms in the middle of the ocean. Because they exhausted them, they would tear down their garden gardens, transplant diseases that would never tire of their bodies, multiply disasters devastating all their businesses and businesses, make money, and make them unable to cure them. Begin them to look for a power that can save themselves.
Many despaired people, who start to look for power behind them, ask for something they consider strong, whether god, ancestor, paranormal, sacred or God. There is a powerful force that can make the sea air split, hot fires become cold, violent sea waves become calm, storms are terrible so silent, the disease that never healed instantly disappeared.
The tremendous power that can cause extraordinary things and is reached by the human mind and mind is the power of prayer that a servant of God commits. Whoever seriously uses the power of prayer, they are the lucky ones. Because the power of prayer is very powerful.
Well @velimir location of The Stone Gate seems very pleasant at very first sight and it attracted my attention to write for it. I do believe this place is holy for the people due to the bottom part of it that is converted into a place of worship and people offer their prayers there. As Karl Marx said, Religion is an opium of mass". In this context i am 100% agreed with your words my friend,
Wonderful photography with eye catching editing and yes i am always a huge fan of your write up ;)
Stay Blessed :) :) :)
OMG I have been there! I now remember thanks to your post! When I visited Zagreb in 2007... Here are my pics:
http://svelanskroun.canalblog.com/albums/zagreb/photos/15931836-chapelle_2.html
Same place, right?
Yes! :)))
Excellent photography of historical place! Your description really impressed me. The stone gate and other photography with logical word carry good information about this place. @velimir, good job... keep it up your travel photography and excellent word.
Interesting images and informative commentary.
There are likely many financial abuses justly laid at a church organization’s door. However, the idea that charges to worshippers for recycled candles is something free for which the church charges is erroneous. They may collect the melted wax with no additional cost to themselves, but the recycled candles still cost for production – someone has to actually set up the collection of the wax, then gather that wax for processing; and, the processing of the melted wax and the forming of the recycled candles requires labor and organization/administration to produce; then, more labor and organization/administration is required to distribute the candles to the point of sale; and, don’t forget the costs of powering facilities where the candles are produced and the costs of the distribution methods. Nothing made by people is free to produce.
Hmmmm. Interesting conversion from a gate with free passage to a closed place of worship.
There is a Mission south of Tucson that has a chapel like the one you show. There are literally hundreds of candles burning at any given time. In the interest of fire safety you can only use the approved candles which are available at the conveniently located gift shop. Don't forget to buy the long matches to light your candle with...
It truly is a beautiful place. All I can see when I look at it is the subjugation of the local tribe started by the Spanish. The Americans did a pretty fair job of it in their time, also.
Thanks for a wonderful photo essay of a beautiful place. Sorry about the attitude that I bring to it.
you always selected doing very beautiful historical place for travelling. The Stone Gate'
looks to very pretty and attractivc.excellent good shots of your photography.really your knowledge power creativity very best.i hope that you enjoy your travel of nice place.very super sir..@velimir
i read your post daily because you always use an easy language that i can understand and you have a flow of attraction in your writing.
With the name of stone gate i remember my collage gate which is famous with the name of love gate:) because many lovers met on that gate of collage.
This is definitely an interesting place. Faith plays a huge role in people's lives. Thanks to faith, great feats were made (but unfortunately thanks to faith there were also massive wars, such as the Crusades).
If you look from the point of view of science, you can recall the placebo effect. A person is given a pill (an empty tablet) and tells him that she is a real tablet. Using these pills a person is healed. Healed only because he believes that these pills are able to help him.
In your city, there is the cathedral (the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and Saint Stephen and Vladislav). This place deserves attention
What a neat place. It looks very old. Is this a fraternity or a church? Either one , would charge for everything. lol Just saying. It's all about the money for everything anymore. I am grateful these kind of places still exist. I learn something every morning from you @velimir. I enjoy your blogs while I am having my coffee. Thanks for making my day