Each time I discovered an old bell in China, I found myself wondering “how in the world did it get here?” They were, after all, from the United States, Russia, France, and Germany. I didn’t give much thought to how the giant bells were made. So when I ran across this video recently, I was dumbfounded. […]
Casting a Bell
In my book The Bells Are Not Silent, I write about the origin of the use of bells in the church: Catholic tradition has it that the first time bells would have been heard in a church was in the Roman city of Nola, near modern-day Naples. Saint Paulinas, the Bishop of Nola, initially used […]
