Another portrait of the same priest as before. Remember that you can click through to leave comments on the flickr page for any image from now on.
 

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Lalibela, envisioned as a second, African Jerusalem, is a pilgrimage site in Ethiopia, home to eleven churches hewn out of the living rock, and host to a great multitude of priests and deacons, who manage the churches, conduct services, and give tours. This priest is showing off a processional cross from the treasury of his [...]

A church cat rests near a window from one section of the Lalibela complex to another.

Annette talks to a young visitor about  the differences between the arming sword and the longsword, while another child handles a helmet behind her.

Holding the tips for safety, Trevor allows visiting schoolchildren to hold blunt AEMMA training weapons. Historically, and arming sword would weigh between two and three pounds. The arming swords AEMMA uses for practice (made by Toronto swordmaker Charles Jevons, based upon the Royal Armories MS I.33 sword) have aircraft aluminum blades, allowing a thicker profile [...]

AEMMA student Trevor demonstrates some of the finer points of the dagger as a weapon to interested schoolcchildren visiting the ROM during the March Break presentation.

Trevor helping a small child try out the great helm.