The History Source on Instagram: "Yes, believe it or not, celery used to be considered an exotic luxury. In the 18th and 19th centuries, celery was considered an exotic delicacy across Europe and America. Difficult to grow, expensive to import, and notoriously tricky to keep fresh, it became a status symbol on elite dining tables. Wealthy households even displayed it in ornate celery vases, tall glass vessels designed to show off the crisp, pale stalks like rare flowers. By the Victorian era, se

EWTN Vatican on Instagram: "Today, the successors of the apostles and brothers Peter and Andrew shared a historic moment in Istanbul. On the feast of the Apostle Saint Andrew, considered the founder of the Orthodox Church in Constantinople, Pope Leo XIV and Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I, brothers in Christ, offered an ecumenical blessing together at the Patriarchal Church of St. George in Istanbul, Türkiye (Turkey), before sharing a fraternal lunch and the Pope’s departure to Beirut for the