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 (Botticelli) and Simonetta had been dead for several years when this painting was made: Giuliano, had been assassinated in 1478 in the Pazzi conspiracy and Simonetta died in 1476 at 22. "Stanze" 122 describes how the hero found Venus "seated on the edge of her couch, just then released from the embrace of Mars, who lay on his back in her lap, still feeding his eyes on her face". However, the description, with Mars in Venus' lap, gazing up at her, is a poor fit to the painting. Poliziano was one of the humanist scholars in the court of Lorenzo de'