Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ-on-the-Mount The Church of the Holy Transfiguration of Christ on the Mount is a modest, single-room, hand-built wooden church near the summit of Meads Mountain in Woodstock, New York, originally constructed c. 1891. Services in the Sarum Rite of the Western Orthodox (Catholic) tradition are held each Sunday morning. It is purported to be the repository of a Marian weeping Icon. In the 1960s, Father Francis, the much-beloved "hippie priest", here welcomed hippies who had congregated in town during those years that culminated in the famous art and music festival. Fr. Francis began the
Venus and Mars (Veronese) Venus and Mars (Veronese) Venus and Mars is an Italian Renaissance painting by Paolo Veronese. The painting was commissioned by Emperor Rudolph and was one of three mythological and love-themed works commissioned by the artist. The other two are at the Frick Collection in New York: "The Allegory of Virtue and Performance" and "Allegory of the Source of Wisdom and Power". It deals with the romantic love of the Roman goddess of love Venus and the god of war Mars, as described in the Ovid's "Metamorphoses". The act of meeting the two lovers takes place in idyllic, peaceful scenery. On