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Details: According to the Gospels, Jesus appeared to his disciples several times after the Resurrection, including on the road from Jerusalem to Emmaus. In the encounter, represented at the top of this plaque, the disciples lament the Crucifixion, while Jesus explains the redemptive nature of his sacrifice. Below, Jesus appears...
Details: The Ukrainian Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conception is located in Cooks Creek, Manitoba[1][2]. Construction of the church began in 1930 and it is one of the largest Ukrainian Catholic churches in Western Canada[3][4]. It features a traditional English service with Ukrainian hymns[5] and...
Details: The Ascension of Jesus is the Christian belief that Jesus ascended to Heaven after his resurrection[1]. According to Acts, the ascension took place 40 days after the resurrection in the presence of his disciples[2]. The ascension marks Jesus' entry into supreme authority over creation[3] and...
Details: According to the Gospels, Joseph was the husband of the Virgin Mary and the foster father of Jesus. In Puerto Rico, St. Joseph is often invoked by and for the dying. He is the patron saint of several Puerto Rican communities, including the island’s western region of Lares....
Details: This small panel was once part of an altarpiece depicting the life of the Virgin Mary, mother of Jesus Christ, along with a Nativity scene now in the Rijksmuseum and a depiction of the Annunciation, now in the Glasgow Art Gallery. Forty days after the birth of a male...
Details: Pope Adrian III (also known as Hadrian III)[1][2][3][4][5] was the bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 17 May 884 to his death[1]. He served for little more than a year, during which he worked to help the people of...
Details: Pope Miltiades (Greek: Μιλτιάδης, Miltiádēs)[1][2][3], also known as Melchiades the African[1], was the bishop of Rome from 311 to his death on 10 or 11 January 314[1][4][5]. He was given the right to receive back all ecclesiastical buildings and possessions which had...
Details: Pope Miltiades (Greek: Μιλτιάδης, Miltiádēs)[1][2][3], also known as Melchiades the African[1], was the bishop of Rome from 311 to his death on 10 or 11 January 314[1][4][5]. He was given the right to receive back all ecclesiastical buildings and possessions which had...
Details: This is a painting of three remarkable African popes: Saints Victor I, Miltiades, and Gelasius I. Victor I was the bishop of Rome in the late second century and is remembered for obtaining the release of many Christians who had been deported to the mines. Miltiades was the bishop...
Details: The Virgin Mary holds the Christ Child on her right hip and stands upon a crescent moon, an allusion to the passage in Revelation 12 that describes Mary as "a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet." Christ grasps her exposed nipple as...
Details: This ivory plaque probably once served as part of a decorative cover for a liturgical manuscript. Three holy women intent on anointing the body of Jesus approach his burial place, the Holy Sepulchre, seen here as a twostory cylindrical building. A man "robed in white," and endowed...
Details: Built between 1922 and 1924, the Gothic Revival-style red brick St. John Catholic Church was designed by St. Louis-based firm Ludewig & Dreisoerner for the St. John Catholic Church congregation, the third-oldest catholic congregation in Covington, formed in 1854 and originally located at the corner of Worth Street and...
Details: The Holy Trinity Ukrainian Catholic Church in Vegreville, Alberta is located half a kilometer from the CPR and CNR in the northern part of the town[4]. The church property was incorporated in 1939 and a parish hall was blessed on May 14, 1939 by Fathers Naucratius Kryzanowsky and...
Details: Depictions of the Virgin and Child have been popular in art since the High Renaissance period (1480-1530)[1]. These works often portray Mary as a young mother, wearing the turban favored by peasant women[2], and often combine iconographic themes of joyous motherhood and sorrowful premonition of Christ'...
Details: The circumcision of Jesus is an event from the life of Jesus celebrated as the Feast of the Circumcision[1]. It took place eight days after his birth[2], and was a sign of the covenant God made with Abraham and his descendants[3]. Mary and Joseph were simply...
Details: Rubens depicts the Archangel Gabriel's announcement to the Virgin Mary that she would conceive a son by the power of the Holy Spirit. Behind Gabriel, a ring of cherubs encircles a dove, representing the Holy Spirit. God the Father sits high above, resting his arm on a...
Details: This late medieval manuscript miniature shows the dead Christ hanging from the Cross, suspended by three enormous nails that pierce his hands and feet. The skull of Adam, whose sin Christ redeemed, lies broken below the Cross; above is a banner with the letters INRI (the Latin initialism for...
Details: This image depicted may be considered to adhere to Catholic ideas, despite the chapel being non-denominational. This is primarily because it is an image depicting a scene from the Bible, which is a sacred text that is considered holy and central to the faith of many Christians, including Catholics....
Details: Modeled after a fresco by Raphael in the Vatican, Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving depicts the climactic scene after weeks of combat between the Israelites and the Philistines, According to the Books of Samuel from the Bible, the Philistine (pagan) warrior Goliath is defeated in battle by the young...
Details: This scene is rarely met with as a separate icon, although it occurs as one of the subjects on smaller ones. The subject is one of the church's Twelve Festivals, which were represented on the third tier of the iconostasis (alter screen and icon stand combined), which...
Details: This mourning figure was part of a sculptural tableau depicting the Entombment, the scriptural event when Jesus was laid to rest in a tomb. The mourners for this kind of scene usually included the Virgin Mary, Mary Magdalene, two further Marys (of which the present sculpture was probably one)...
Details: This large Ethiopian Gospel Book was made in the first half of the sixteenth century and is written in Ge'ez, the traditional liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Containing eleven full-page miniatures, six canon tables, and five elaborately ornamented harags, or headpieces, this manuscript represents the...
Details: The Deccani School of Painting is an Indian miniature painting style that originated in the Deccan region of Central India during the late 16th century[1]. It was nourished and thrived under several Sultans of the Deccan[2] and had a certain amount of influence from Mughal schools of...
Details: Crucifixion was a form of execution used by the Romans and was usually reserved for slaves[1]. It was the most painful and disgraceful form of death[1]. In Catholicism, the Crucifixion is an emblem of victory and sits upon every altar where Mass is celebrated[2]. Jesus of...
