Photo tag

Here is how you play.

Open your photos folder or program.

Go to the first folder that comes up.

Go to the 10th picture in that folder.

Post that picture and tell about it.

In 2004 Chad and I took a trip to Germany. This is a picture of the cathedral in Muenster. Chad lived in Muenster for four months while serving a mission in Germany.

This cathedral has an interesting story. It's kind of hard to see in the picture but hanging from the spire just above the clock are cages, called the cages of the Anabaptists.

Here's the story behind them-

During the Protestant Reformation, a group of Anabaptists followed a prophet to Munster and settled there, chasing off the Bishop who ruled the city. The group believed the world would end on one Easter Sunday in the 16th century. When it didn't, their prophet was killed in a fight. A new leader stepped forward and was crowned king.The new king ruled for only 18 months before his people got fed up and let the Bishop's men into the city walls. In the ensuing battle, the new king, his second-in-command and his executioner where tried, found guilty and tortured to death. Their bodies were hung in these cages on the spire as a message to anyone who would go against the bishop.These are the original cages from the 16th century, protected during the bombings of World War II and rehung in the spire of St. Lamberti Church. True to Munster's love of modern art, light bulbs now hang in the cages, as a symbol that ideas cannot be bound by bars.

Really, they are there, here's a close up I found on the internet.

oh yeah, and I tag Aimee, Anna, Ben, Amanda, and Chad (yes you have alread been tagged by robin but I am tagging you again because yes we have the same computer but you could chose a different pictures folder.)