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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! All Souls' Day, also known as the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and the Day of the Dead, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the souls of those who have died, which...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! All Souls' Day, also known as the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and the Day of the Dead, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the souls of those who have died, which...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! All Souls' Day, also known as the Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed and the Day of the Dead, is a day of prayer and remembrance for the souls of those who have died, which...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Pietà (Italian pronunciation: ; meaning "pity", "compassion") is a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus after his body was removed from the cross.It...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Here the Archangel is already victorious, his bejeweled foot planted triumphantly upon a prostrate Lucifer. Arpino imbued the saint with extraordinary physical presence, giving considerable descriptive detail to his wings, costume, and flesh, all without sacrificing...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Peter, also known as Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, Cephas, or Peter the Apostle, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus Christ, and one of the first leaders of the early Church. According to Christian...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Jude was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is generally identified with Thaddeus, and is also variously called Jude of James, Jude Thaddaeus, Judas Thaddaeus or Lebbaeus. Source [https:...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Immaculate Conception of El Escorial is a circa 1660–1665 oil religious painting by the Spanish Baroque artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, now in the Museo del Prado in Madrid. Murillo's many artistic depictions...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The annual May procession by Knights Templars is one of the highlights of the year in this town in Murcia, in southern Spain. The May festivities in honor of the Blessed and Vera Cruz are a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! John the Apostle or Saint John the Beloved was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus according to the New Testament. Generally listed as the youngest apostle, he was the son of Zebedee and Salome. His...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In a composition borrowed from imperial Byzantine art, Mary is shown seated on a jeweled throne with the Christ child and flanked by archangels Michael and Gabriel. Above, Christ appears in a radiant light supported by...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This work is quite atypical for the period due to its physiognomy and composition: Christ's figure is stout in comparison to the slender, elongated figures more common at the time. This effect is compounded...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Matthew the Apostle, also known as Saint Matthew and possibly as Levi, was, according to the New Testament, one of the twelve apostles of Jesus.According to Christian traditions, he was also one of the four...
