Evans once told a friend that drugs gave him a feeling of "death and transfiguration.
Every day you wake in pain like death, and then you go out and score, and that is transfiguration".Readers will not find that quotation in this biography, but it shows the same kind of harrowing clarity Evans brought to his music.
But all the stone had been carefully stabilised before his work began.The window was of the Transfiguration of Christ, made by Tom Denny, and one of the largest to be installed in Durham in modern times.
Imagery and language from Sukkot occur at many moments in the Christian year; in the stories of Christ's birth, baptism, transfiguration, and most obviously at Palm Sunday, when Christians wave palms (or in Russia, willow twigs) to commemorate Christ's entry into Jerusalem on a donkey.
Far from "damaged", Ms Jenner's medical transfiguration is a glorious example of the American faith in action.
Its golds and blues were smoky in the evening light, but the central column blazed white, like the transfiguration of a man; and of all men, named or un-named, whose lives and skills are embedded in the stone and glass of great cathedrals.
Finally, death brought transfiguration.
The poem describes the love of "Julio" (i.e., Giuliano de' Medici), for "Simonetta" (i.e., Simonetta Cattaneo; d. 1476) by means of a poetic transfiguration in which beauty is glorified according to humanist ideals.
Hesychast prayer aspires to attain the highest form of God man communion in the form of a vision of the "divine light" or "uncreated energy" analogous to the Gospel account of Christ's transfiguration on Mt. Tabor (Matt. 17; Mark 9).
Surviving historic buildings include the Trinity and Annunciation monasteries and the churches of the Resurrection and Transfiguration, all from the 17th century.
In 1539 the great Spanish humanist and art patron Juan Pardo Cardinal Tavera asked Berruguete to Toledo to execute the choir stalls of the Toledo Cathedral (1539 43), as well as the alabaster Transfiguration at the west end of the choir (1543 48).
