A series of souls bow their heads as they pass before Christ, who blesses them with his right hand. Above the procession are two massive dials that show the day and the month and the positions of the sun and the moon and the signs of the zodiac dressed in gold. Each day at noon, chimes send these figures circulating across the face of a towering astronomical clock housed within St. Mary’s Chapel of the Dead in Lübeck, Germany, where mortal footfalls echo with the weight of centuries beneath stained glass windows on which rich and poor and noble and common and young and old and paupers and popes and squires and sacristans play and weep and rage over a burning city.
Read Full Article »
