It also deliciously mingles, like so much in the Mediterranean world, the sacred and the profane, the sublime and the domestic.

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Since then, Matheny (along with fellow former Cardinal John Mabry) has been helping guide the growth of the elite teams that play under the sacred-and-profane banner of the TPX Warriors.

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The selection currently on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, "Michelangelo, Sacred and Profane: Masterpiece Drawings From the Casa Buonarroti, " curated by John Spike, does just that.

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Do the sacred and profane really go together?

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The locations featured in these paintings are unrecognisable today but the dual meaning of the beach - a place that is both semi-sacred in its natural beauty and also verging on the profane with its good times - has only continued to grow more powerful.

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They also insist they have taken action against attacks by Salafists, everywhere from the American embassy to sacred Sufi shrines and art exhibitions deemed to be profane.

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