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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!...
Details: James the Less is an early Christian saint who was one of Jesus' twelve disciples. He is also known as "the Minor," "the Little," "the Lesser," or "the Younger." He is not the same as James the Great. Some identify...
Details: Following his baptism by John the Baptist, Christ retired to the wilderness for forty days, where he was "tested by Satan; and was with the wild beasts; and the angels ministered to him" (Mark 1:13). This picture is a fragment of a larger canvas in which...
Details: Raczki is a village in Suwałki County, Podlaskie Voivodeship, in north-eastern Poland. It is the seat of the gmina called Gmina Raczki. It lies approximately 15 kilometres south-west of Suwałki and 100 km north of the regional capital Białystok. The village has a population of 2,100. 🙏🏽This image...
Details: Mary Magdalene kneels by a tree. She is holding an open book. In front of her is an ointment jar and a crucifix. At her knee is a skull. Her ascension is depicted in the distance. The frame has four parts consisting of floral motifs. 🙏🏽This image is in...
Details: John Martin was a Romantic painter, engraver, and illustrator from England. He was known for his typically large and melodramatic paintings of religious subjects and fantastic compositions, which were populated with minute figures set in imposing landscapes. Martin's paintings and prints were popular with the general public—...
Details: Holy Trinity Church is an Armenian Apostolic Church constructed in 2003 in the Malatia-Sebastia District of Yerevan, Armenia. It is modeled after the 7th century Zvartnots Cathedral. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download Yerevan_Holy_Trinity_Church.jpeg 4 MB download-circle Please Subscribe or Donate to...
Details: Paul (previously known as Saul of Tarsus), also known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread Jesus' teachings throughout the first century. From the mid-40s to the mid-50s AD, he established several Christian communities in Asia Minor and Europe. He is widely...
Details: The Christian theology of the Trinity states that there is one God who exists in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial divine beings: God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, who are three different individuals sharing one homoousion. The three persons define who God is in this...
Details: A Catholic shrine is a sacred or holy space dedicated to God or a specific saint, wherein they are venerated. Shrines often contain relics or other such objects associated with the figure being venerated. The Marquesas Islands are a series of volcanic islands located in French Polynesia, a French...
Details: Eugene van Maldeghem, also known as Romaan Eugeen Van Maldeghem, (24 April 1813, Dentergem – 1867, ) was a Flemish painter of history, landscape, and portraits. He was a pupil of G. Wappers. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download virgin mary with child jesus on lap.jpeg 2...
Details: Joseph of Copertino was a Christian mystic and saint who was an Italian Conventual Franciscan monk. He was claimed to be extraordinarily unclever, but prone to miraculous levitation and vivid ecstatic visions. As a toddler, Joseph began to experience ecstatic visions, which he would continue to experience throughout his...
Details: This work has been associated with Johann Pieter Wagner, one of the leading Austrian sculptors of the second half of the 18th century. Because of its small size, it was most likely either a model for a larger altarpiece or an object designed for private devotion. Gold serves as...
Details: A man kneeling. A woman looks into the book, behind her a bookcase. She is the personification of the Bible. Christ as Salvator Mundi appears in the sky. The Master of Delft was an anonymous Dutch painter of the final period of Early Netherlandish art. He was possibly born...
Details: The post-resurrection appearances of Jesus in the canonical gospels (and, to a lesser extent, other New Testament books) are said to have occurred after Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection, but before his ascension. The Gospel of John was written around the year 80 or 90 CE. Jesus appears...
Details: Palm Sunday is a Christian moveable feast that falls on the Sunday before Easter. The feast commemorates Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem, an event mentioned in each of the four canonical Gospels. It involves a ceremony known as the Blessing of the Palms that includes blessing palm...
Details: Traditional iconography depicts Saint Matthew with a money sack and account books to represent his former life as a tax collector, and an angel above or behind him to represent his new life as a Christ-sent messenger. Raphael, also known as Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino, was an Italian painter...
Details: Saint George and the Monster is a tale about Saint George taming and destroying a dragon that wanted human sacrifices. According to legend, the dragon used to exact tribute from peasants. When they ran out of cattle and trinkets for the dragon, they began sacrificing a person once a...
Details: Incense is used during significant services (benedictions, processions, and important Masses) by swinging a censer. The censer is known as a thurible in the Latin Rite of the Catholic Church and some other churches. A thurible is often a metal container the size and shape of a coffee pot...
Details: At the time of his martyrdom, Bartholomew is most commonly depicted in art with a beard and curly hair. According to legend, he was skinned alive and beheaded, so he is frequently depicted holding his flayed skin or the curved flensing knife with which he was skinned; as a...
Details: The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple is an early incident in Jesus Christ's life that describes his presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem and is commemorated by various churches on Candlemas, or the "Feast of the Presentation of Jesus," 40 days after Christmas. The...
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: According to the New Testament, Bartholomew was one of Jesus' twelve apostles. He is said to have been martyred for converting King Polymius of Armenia to Christianity. He has also been identified as Nathanael or Nathaniel, who appears in the Gospel of John when Philip introduces Jesus to...
Details: Duccio di Buoninsegna was a Tuscan painter who worked in Siena in the late 13th and early 14th centuries. Throughout his career, he was contracted to perform several major works in government and religious buildings throughout Italy. Duccio is regarded as one of the finest Italian painters of the...
