It's (here for a quarter still) St. Rupert's Day.

Saint Rupert, as a saint, is no one spectacular. A bishop, preaching to pagans, but reasonable enough to cut his evangelization journey short, just before entering realm of potential martyr-makers. Built a cathedral. (Re)created Salzburg in ruins of a Roman town.

And this was how I met him. Not in Salzburg even, but where boats from Salzburg used to come, bringing the eponymous Salz (salt) to Vienna. The good saint even had a barrel of salt tucked under his arm.

Close to Danube channel, just a tad from always busy and loud Schwedenplatz, the saint hides at the feet of church tower. Saint Rupert's church, Ruprechtskirche, said to be the oldest in Vienna, humble in comparison to the Gothic giant of Saint Stephen. Beautiful. My favourite place in all the stunning Vienna. I miss it.

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Oh. The Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle by Viollet-le-Duc is on French wikisource. Although it is, sadly, in French, even automatic translation will do, if you read it just for pleasure. And then there are the illustrations, so should you ever go out of gargoyle ideas for your new Gothic cathedral, look no further.

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Dictionnaire raisonné de l’architecture française du XIe au XVIe siècle - Wikisource

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