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Details: Julia Ledóchowska (17 April 1865 – 29 May 1939) was a Polish Roman Catholic professed religious and the foundress of the Ursulines of the Agonizing Heart of Jesus. Ledóchowska was a prolific supporter of Polish independence which she often spoke about at conferences across Scandinavia while she settled in Russia...
Details: This type of icon is known as the Virgin Eleousa (Virgin of Tenderness) characterized by the touching cheeks of mother and child in a loving moment. The icon signifies Christ’s incarnation, suffering, and death for the sake of humankind. Three ornamental stars on the Virgin’s cloak are...
Details: This statue is made of gilded wood, mother-of-pearl, ebony, red silk, gold wire, seed pearls, rock crystal, pen and ink on paper. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 1964.357.h_print.jpg 891 KB download-circle Please Subscribe or Donate to Help Keep This Site Free!...
Details: Saint Rafqa, also known as Saint Rebecca, was born in Hemlaya, Lebanon on June 29, 1832. She was the only child of Saber El-Choboq El-Rayess and Rafqa Gemayel. Her parents were devout Christians and taught her daily prayers. According to legend, when she entered the convent and gazed upon...
Details: Before leaving for Jerusalem to be crucified, Jesus says farewell to his mother—an ideal subject for meditation that would have been paired with the Virgin and Child to form a folding work that could be carried on a journey. Gerard David was also an illuminator of books, which...
Details: This monumental yet intimate image of the Virgin and Child was probably a gift of John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1419), or his wife, Margaret of Bavaria (d. 1424), to the convent they founded dedicated to the Franciscan order of Poor Clares at Poligny. As court sculptor...
Details: Ghébr-Michael (1791 – 30 July 1855) was an Ethiopian Roman Catholic priest and Congregation of the Mission postulant. He professed as a monk in the Coptic Orthodox Church in 1813 and subsequently met Giustino de Jacobis on a journey. That unexpected meeting would eventually change his life since de Jacobis...
Details: Escape from Chile Laura del Carmen Vicuña was born on April 5, 1891, in Santiago, Chile,[2] to José Domingo and Mercedes Pino. The Vicuña family were Chilean aristocrats, the father in military service and the mother working at home. Forced out of Santiago by the revolution, the family...
Details: Paoay Church is part of the UNESCO World Heritage List. It currently is a property of the Diocese of Laoag, Ilocos Norte. The Paoay Church (also known as the St. Augustine Church ) is a historical church located in the town of Paoay in Ilocos Norte, Philippines. Construction of the...
Details: Blessed Marie-Clémentine Anuarite Nengapeta was a religious sister from Congo who was killed by invading rebels fighting the 1964 civil war. Anuarite Nengapeta was born in Congo in 1939, and was educated in the first mission in her region of Africa. When she entered the religious community of the...
Details: Saint Rafqa, also known as Saint Rebecca, was born in Hemlaya, Lebanon on June 29, 1832. She was the only child of Saber El-Choboq El-Rayess and Rafqa Gemayel. Her parents were devout Christians and taught her daily prayers. According to legend, when she entered the convent and gazed upon...
Details: Italian fifteenth-century marble reliefs of the madonna and Child were highly esteemed by New York collectors in the first half of the twentieth century, and many were given to the Museum. Of these, the Altman Madonna by Antonio Rossellino is arguably the finest. The strong composition, subtle carving, and...
Details: From 1978 to his death in 2005, Pope John Paul II was the head of the Catholic Church and the sovereign of the Vatican City State. He was chosen Pope by the second papal conclave of 1978, which was summoned after John Paul I, who had been elected to...
Details: This is one of Solario’s last works and must have been painted for a church in or near Milan. The architecture of the frame must have matched the painted architecture in the picture so as to create the illusion that the figure of Christ stands in a space...
Details: Designed by David Davis, built in 1913. Parish church and school of the Peaselburg neighborhood. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download 50230468632_a3d5cc7893_o.jpg 3 MB download-circle Please Subscribe or Donate to Help Keep This...
Details: Fulton John Sheen (May 8, 1895 – December 9, 1979) was an American Catholic bishop notable for his preaching and, in particular, his work on television and radio. Sheen was ordained a priest of the Diocese of Peoria in 1919 and immediately rose to prominence as a theologian, winning the...
Details: Christ and the Virgin are shown pleading with God the Father for mercy on behalf of eight small figures, perhaps members of a prominent Florentine family. In the tradition of hieratic scale, the divine figures are portrayed many times larger than the mortals, who kneel in adoration and prayer....
Details: This work exemplifies the visual qualities for which Guatemalan sculpture is renowned, namely, the refinement of its carving and the brilliant color of its polychromy. The Calvary is the work of more than one artist, each skilled in a different aspect of its production. The sculptor or sculptors who...
Details: Mother Teresa, commonly known as Saint Teresa of Calcutta, was a Roman Catholic Albanian-Indian nun who founded and was an active member of the Missionaries of Charity in 1950. Her passport name was Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu, but she was born Anjez Gonxhe Bojaxhiu in Üsküb, which is now the...
Details: Denis-Auguste Affre (September 27, 1793 – June 27, 1848) was a French Catholic Archbishop of Paris from 1840 until 1848. During the June Days uprising of 1848, he was assassinated while attempting to broker a peace treaty. His canonization process has begun, and he is regarded as a Servant of...
Details: ANNAPOLIS, Md. (October 18, 2020) As part of the United States Navy’s 245th birthday celebration and observance, Catholic Mass is celebrated at the U.S. Naval Academy Chapel by Archbishop Timothy Broglio, who has served for the Archdiocese of the Military Services, USA, since 2007. The central theme...
Details: Padre Pio, OFM Cap., commonly known as Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, was an Italian Franciscan Capuchin friar, priest, stigmatist, and mystic. In the Catholic Church, he is regarded as a saint. Padre Pio became famous for having stigmata for the most of his life, which sparked a lot of...
Details: The miracle of curing the man born blind is one of the Gospel miracles in which Jesus is said to have restored the sight of a man at Siloam. Although not identified in the gospel, the man who was healed has been given the name Celidonius by church tradition....
Details: Horgenzell is a municipality in Germany with 4528 inhabitants, near Ravensburg. Horgenzell was first named in 1094. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download Wilhelmskirch_Pfarrkirche_Hochaltar_Altarblatt.jpg 3 MB download-circle Please Subscribe or Donate to Help Keep This Site Free!...
