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Details: Paul (born Saul of Tarsus; c. 5 – c. 64/65 AD), commonly known as Paul the Apostle and Saint Paul, was a Christian apostle who spread the teachings of Jesus in the first-century world. Generally regarded as one of the most important figures of the Apostolic Age, he founded...
Details: According to all four canonical Gospels, immediately after the Last Supper, Jesus took a walk to pray. Each Gospel offers a slightly different account regarding narrative details. The gospels of Matthew and Mark identify this place of prayer as Gethsemane. Jesus was accompanied by three Apostles: Peter, John and...
Details: Built in 1938 in an Art Deco interpretation of the Romanesque Revival style to replace an earlier church built in 1861, the buff-brick St. Stephen Catholic Church was once one of four in the city of Newport, and is only one of two that remain in the city today,...
Details: In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders and is responsible for teaching doctrine, governing Catholics in his jurisdiction, sanctifying the world and representing the Church. Catholics trace the origins of the office of bishop to the...
Details: This set of posters created by Joseph Binder depict various Bible portraits with verses. This image shows Saint Thomas and features the quote: "And Thomas answered and said unto him, My Lord and my God. Jesus saith unto him, Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed:...
Details: This panel, most likely one of five narrative scenes representing the Passion of Christ, comes from a now dismembered altarpiece. The central panel was undoubtedly a scene of the Crucifixion. Such carvings in alabaster were frequently painted in vibrant colors with added gilding. The flesh areas of the figures...
Details: The anointings of Jesus’s head or feet are events recorded in the four gospels. The account in Matthew 26, Mark 14, and John 12 takes place on the Holy Wednesday of Holy Week at the house of Simon the Leper in Bethany, a village in Judaea on the...
Details: This illuminated manuscript of the Four Gospels was created at a monastic center in northern Ethiopia. Twenty full-page paintings depict scenes from the life of Christ and four portraits of the evangelists introduce the respective Gospel texts. The New Testament was translated from Greek into Geez, the classical language...
Details: This leather-bound manuscript is a prayer book written in Gə’ez, the liturgical language of the Ethiopian Orthodox Church. Its 144 folios features three distinct kinds of ornaments: a single full-page illumination; interlaced borders (haräg); and textual ornament, including punctuation marks and headers. The full-page illumination on folio 1v...
Details: In the Gospel of Matthew, a rich young man asks Jesus what actions bring eternal life. First, Jesus advises the man to obey the commandments. When the man responds that he already observes them, and asks what else he can do, Jesus adds: If you want to be perfect,...
Details: This set of posters created by Joseph Binder depict various Bible portraits with verses. This image shows Saint Paul and features the quote: "Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet...
Details: The St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Community has come a long way from its inception, from a small Mission in Litchfield Park to one of the largest parishes in the Diocese of Phoenix. St. Thomas Aquinas mission church was the first church in Litchfield Park. Originally, mass was celebrated in...
Details: The three Marys at the tomb is the name used for a group of three women who came to the sepulcher of Jesus. In Eastern Orthodoxy they are among the Myrrh bearers, a group that traditionally includes a much larger number of people. All four gospels mention women going...
Details: This set of posters created by Joseph Binder depict various Bible portraits with verses. This image shows Jeremiah and features the quote: "Jeremiah lamented the sorrows and travails of his people. His prayers were heard and their mourning was turned into joy. With God as our helper, no...
Details: The St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Community has come a long way from its inception, from a small Mission in Litchfield Park to one of the largest parishes in the Diocese of Phoenix. St. Thomas Aquinas mission church was the first church in Litchfield Park. Originally, mass was celebrated in...
Details: This image presents the hierarchy of the church in successive levels. The clergy (which includes priests, bishops, and cardinals) are at the top of the image. Most likely because the clergy provide the sacraments. On the next level are monks. Some monks are clergy, but most are not. Monks...
Details: There is very little information available about this painting, by Merson. I assume that this painting depicts Catherine of Siena's mystical marriage to Jesus Christ, however, one cannot be sure. Luc-Olivier Merson was a French academic painter and illustrator also known for his postage stamp and currency...
Details: The Feast of Corpus Christi procession to the church. According to Will Plazewski, the photo was taken between 1892, when the two-story wooden school (behind the trees) was built, and 1910, when construction began on the current church. From the extensive Florida postcard collection of Fr. Henry Riffle. 🙏🏽This...
Details: This image includes three scenes. In the center scene, Christ meets Bartimaeus. Each of the three Synoptic Gospels tells of Jesus healing the blind near Jericho, as he passed through that town, shortly before his passion. The Gospel of Mark tells of the curing of a man named Bartimaeus,...
Details: Jesus Cleanses the Temple: Matthew 21 13. And He declared to them, “It is written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer.’ But you are making it ‘a den of robbers.’ ” 14. The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them....
Details: Requiem Masses are masses that are offered for the dead. They derive their name from the first word of the Introit, which may be traced to the Fourth Book of Esdras, one of the Apocrypha, at the passage "Expectate pastorem vestrum, requiem æternitatis dabit vobis". Memorial Day...
Details: In Luke Chapter 5, Christ preaches in a boat. The disciples leave everything and follow him. He also cleanses the leper, heals the paralytic, calls Matthew, the customs officer, and eats with open sinners. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download Christ preaches from a boat.jpeg...
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Details: Gardeners and taxi cab drivers have a patron saint in St. Fiacre. Said to be the illegitimate son of a Scottish king, he was raised in County Kilkenny at a Kilfearagh monastery. He developed a local reputation for healing and herbal remedies. Finding notoriety unsettling, Fiacre went on a...
