From radiant and non-radiative centers

Where an old shrine stands, often completely lost in the area, sometimes by the roadside or at an intersection, can be sure, that there is a bright space is. Radiant places, old places of worship, it also recognizes Say, Name or corresponding customs. Most places are marked and long known. This particularly applies to holy sites of the Bible, has where according to tradition, God or an angel shown or disclosed as a messenger of him. Some churches and chapels stand outside a map, on a slope about, where no builder would construct a building. This is a pretty sure sign, that it is a special place, the quasi drags the Church. Strong courts fall elsewhere in the eye, they are attractive and invite you to stay.

When the Christian missionaries came to the land, they brought the locals to Christianity, but people maintained their inherited traditions laid largely. Now there were two ways - you either dedicated or demonized the place, the pagan origin was. → example: Boniface, originally. Winfried (672 – 754), was an Anglo-Saxon Benedictine missionary, He was in Rome by Pope Gregory II. commissioned under the name Boniface ceremony with the German Mission. 724 he drops the Donar[1]-Oak at Geismar. In Göttweig, a ancient Kultberg, stand an holy Baum. Bishop Altmann left him, built a church around and hung a Madonna image thereon. Other sacred trees, modeled artfully sheet, stand for. B. still in Maria Taferl, the Collegiate Church in Zwettl, and in Maria- Dreieichen. continue reading