N.B.: Ascension

Today the bookshop is closed for the Ascension, which is "Christi Himmelfahrt" in German.

As the r.W.a. explains, it comes forty days after Easter, and in the Christian faith celebrates Jesus's rise into heaven.

Edicula on Mount of Olives, Jerusalem
Photo by Adriatikus [via Wikimedia Commons]


Ascension of Jesus [Wikipedia] Read June 2, 2011
Ascension of Christ [Wikimedia Commons]