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Christ carries the cross on his shoulders, half kneeling. Grinning soldiers on either side pull on a rope tied around his waist. Behind him a herald blows a trumpet from which hangs a banner with a double-headed eagle, and at right in the distance lies Golgotha. Medium: Oil on panel. Measurements:
The vision of Saint Anne, an allegory of the Immaculate Conception. The kneeling Anna sees Mary carried by angels on a cloud toward heaven, where Christ awaits her with outstretched arms. Behind Anna kneels her husband Joachim with folded hands. The work is a preliminary study for the altarpiece dat
A triptych with the Adoration of the Magi on the central panel, where the kings kneel on either side of Mary and the Child. On the inside of the left wing the kneeling male donor appears with his six sons and Saint Jerome, with the family arms of Heereman, Vanolles, Zeller and Baerland above. On the
Christ on the cross. Below the cross stand, at left, Saint Mary Magdalene and Mary. Saint Francis of Assisi kneels and embraces the cross. At right stand John and Saint Ignatius of Antioch. Two angels catch the blood of Christ in chalices, and at right is a banderole with text. Medium: Tempera on p
U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND AREA OF RESPONSIBILITY (March 13, 2025) A U.S. Navy Chaplain conducts a Catholic Mass for Sailors aboard the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS The Sullivans (DDG 68) in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility. (Official U.S. Navy photo)
Chaplain Capt. Sean Magnuson, a priest assigned to U.S. Forces-Iraq, conducts Catholic Mass with parishioners at Contingency Operating Site Marez, Feb. 6. Magnuson visited COS Marez to conduct Mass for the first time since deploying to U.S. Division-North in January. Magnuson, from the St. Paul-Minn
Archbishop Timothy P. Broglio receives wine for communion at MacDill Chapel Jan. 19, 2019.
Bishop Imad Al Banna raises the host in preparation for Holy Communion during a Catholic Mass for servicemembers at Contingency Operating Base Basra, Iraq, Aug. 8, 2009. Banna, a Basra native, said he celebrated the Mass in gratitude for contributions made by U.S. soldiers for peace in his country.
Father John Heffernan distributes Holy Communion to a staff member during an Ash Wednesday Catholic Mass at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Md., Feb. 18, 2026. Walter Reed provides comprehensive health care and advanced medical services to active-duty service members, veter
A U.S. Marine with Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 9th Marine Regiment, Regimental Combat Team 5 receives Holy Communion from U.S. Navy Chaplain Lt. Edward H. Erwin during a visit to Patrol Base Garret in Marjah, Afghanistan, April 2, 2012. Erwin visited patrol bases in the 2/9 area of operations for Ea
Bishop Robert Coyle, the auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese for the Military Services and Lt. Cmdr. Joselito Tiongson, deputy chaplain and Roman Catholic priest for Recruit Training Command, give Holy Communion to recruits at Recruit Training Command. (U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j. g. Adam Demeter/Rele
Team Osan members gather for Mass with Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Archbishop of the Military Services, in the chapel on Osan Air Base, Republic of Korea, Aug. 28, 2015. The Archdiocese for the Military Services is responsible for more than 1.8 million men, women, and children world-wide, including
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, Archbishop for the Military Services USA, conducts a Good Friday service at Sustainer Theater on April 10. Several hundred service members and Joint Base Balad personnel attended the service.
The Archbishop of Military Services, Archbishop Timothy Broglio celebrates Holy Thursday Mass at Liberty Chapel on Forward Operating Base Diamondback in Mosul, Iraq.
Soldiers participate in Catholic Mass with Bishop Bill Muhm, Auxiliary bishop for the Arch Dioecies of Military Services Europe and Asia and Father Anthony Sabastian a priest with the Bucharest and Constanza Arch Dioecies during DEFENDER 23, Slobozia, Romania, May 29, 2023. A traditional Catholic Ma
Saint Symeon the Younger was a stylite saint, an early Christian ascetic who fled the world for the desert and, perched on a column, spent his days fasting and praying. The site of Symeon’s column attracted many pilgrims during and after his lifetime. Medallions like this one, showing Symeon atop hi
Gaggini was a member of a large family of sculptors whose Palermo workshop supplied monumental religious sculptures for the cathedrals of Palermo and Messina in Sicily and Montelione in Calabria. After 1507 Antonello himself worked for 15 years to produce marble sculptures for Palermo Cathedral. Thi
This head exhibits many of the characteristics of the style associated with the workshop of Giovanni Pisano. These are particularly noteworthy in the sensitive carving of the haunting face and its strikingly drilled beard. The head compares favorably to the sculpture made while Giovanni was master o
Both the Virgin and the Christ child are lavishly attired. Their mantle hems are engraved to create the illusion of being fur-lined, and turquoise enamel beads create "pearl"-studded decorative bands on the Virgin’s wrist, knee, and crown and on Christ’s collar. The similarity of their garments emph
The Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) imagines the miracle from the Gospel of Luke in swirling red crayon: Christ stands in a boat over a sea teeming with fish and figures as the disciples haul in their net.
The Virgin Mary in a red veil holds the Christ Child on her lap while an angel holding a lily looks on, painted by the Veronese artist Paolo Morando, known as Cavazzola (1486-1522).
A half-length image of the suffering Christ by the Florentine painter Jacopo del Sellaio (1441-1493). Christ wears the crown of thorns and crosses his wounded hands over his chest, surrounded by the instruments of the Passion, including the scourge and rope.
The Annunciation to Mary. On the left, Mary kneels behind a lectern with a book, and on the right the kneeling angel holds a lily branch. The painting was formerly considered a preliminary study for the Annunciation compositions in Amsterdam (SK-A-282) and Seville. Medium: Oil on panel.
A triptych whose central panel shows Mary seated with the Christ Child on her lap in the walled garden of a castle. In the foreground two sibyls hold a book and a basket of flowers, three angels make music at the back left, and Joseph stands at the right. In the sky, God appears in a halo of light,
