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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonnement du Barroux, founded in the 20th century, is an abbey of Benedictine nuns located in Barroux in the French department of Vaucluse. The monastery has about thirty nuns. Source [https:...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Simon the Zealot or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, but Saint Jerome does not include...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Annunciation of Ustyug (Russian: Устюжское Благовещение) is a Russian Annunciation icon, created in Novgorod in the 12th century, and one of the few icons which survived the Mongol invasion of Rus'. The Annunciation of Ustyug...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In Eastern and Western Christian liturgical practice, the elevation is a ritual raising of the consecrated elements of bread and wine during the celebration of the Eucharist. The term is applied especially to that by which,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Andrew the Apostle, also called Saint Andrew, was an apostle of Jesus according to the New Testament. He is the brother of Saint Peter. He is referred to in the Orthodox tradition as the First-Called. According...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Transfiguration is the last painting by the Italian High Renaissance master Raphael. Commissioned by Cardinal Giulio de Medici, the later Pope Clement VII (1523–1534), and conceived as an altarpiece for the Narbonne Cathedral in...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Simon the Zealot or Simon the Canaanite or Simon the Canaanean was one of the most obscure among the apostles of Jesus. A few pseudepigraphical writings were connected to him, but Saint Jerome does not include...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! St. Sebastian is the subject of three paintings by the Italian Early Renaissance master Andrea Mantegna. The Paduan artist lived in a period of frequent plagues; Sebastian was considered protector against the plague as having been...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This lively composition clearly references Titian’s famous masterpiece Death of Saint Peter Martyr (1526–30). The heavenly apparition that dominates the upper half of the drawing, with the Madonna and Child appearing amid resplendent, swirling...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna 'my lady&...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Disputation of the Sacrament (Italian: La disputa del sacramento), or Disputa, is a painting by the Italian Renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1509 and 1510 as the first part of Raphael's...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The arrest of Jesus was a pivotal event in Christianity recorded in the canonical gospels. Jesus, a preacher whom Christians believe to be the Son of God, was arrested by the Temple guards of the Sanhedrin...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to the Synoptic Gospels, Herod, who was tetrarch, or sub-king, of Galilee under the Roman Empire, had imprisoned John the Baptist because he reproved Herod for divorcing his wife (Phasaelis, daughter of King Aretas of...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This sculpture originally represented a philosopher or a god, and was transformed into St. Peter in the late 16th century by adding the expressive head, hands, and feet in gilt bronze, and a throne. An unknown...
