This site's editor-in-chief is a Catholic husband, father, and author. He loves sharing the Catholic faith through art and graphic design. Check out his prayer books and coloring books on Amazon.com
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Trappists, officially known as the Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance and originally named the Order of Reformed Cistercians of Our Lady of La Trappe, are a Catholic religious order of cloistered monastics that...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Ascension of Jesus is the Christian teaching that Christ physically departed from Earth by rising into Heaven, in the presence of eleven of his apostles. According to the New Testament narrative, the Ascension occurred forty...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Abraham Serving the Three Angels is a 1646 panel painting in etching by Rembrandt. The scene depicts Abraham, it is based on an episode from the Book of Genesis (18:1–12) and it has Mughal...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Carmelite Monks or Monks of the Most Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel is a cloistered contemplative religious community of diocesan right dedicated to a humble life of prayer. They are known for their loyalty...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Christ Carrying the Cross on his way to his crucifixion is an episode included in all four Gospels, and a very common subject in art, especially in the fourteen Stations of the Cross, sets of which...
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! Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century church in Rome, Italy, in the Trastevere rione, devoted to the Roman martyr Saint Cecilia (early 3rd century AD). The church has a façade built in 1725 by Ferdinando...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Resurrection of Jesus, is the Christian belief that God raised Jesus on the third day after his crucifixion, starting—or restoring—his exalted life as Christ and Lord. According to the New Testament writings he...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Andrew is said to have been martyred by crucifixion at the city of Patras (Patræ) in Achaea, in AD 60. Early texts, such as the Acts of Andrew known to Gregory of Tours, describe Andrew...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (alternatively Saint Teresa in Ecstasy or Transverberation of Saint Teresa; in Italian: L'Estasi di Santa Teresa or Santa Teresa in estasi) is the central sculptural group in white marble...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Christ or birth of Jesus is described in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Marriage of the Virgin, also known as Lo Sposalizio, is an oil painting by the Italian High Renaissance artist Raphael. Completed in 1504 for the Franciscan church of San Francesco, Città di Castello, the painting...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Coptic monasticism is said to be the original form of monasticism as St. Anthony of Egypt became the first one to be called "monk" (Gr: μοναχός) and he was the first to establish a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Andrew the Apostle (Greek: Ἀνδρέας Andreas; Aramaic: ܐܢܕܪܐܘܣ), 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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In ecclesiastical architecture, a ciborium ("ciborion": κιβώριον in Greek) is a canopy or covering supported by columns, freestanding in the sanctuary, that stands over and covers the altar in a basilica or other church....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Paul of Thebes is known to posterity because around the year 342, Anthony the Great was told in a dream about the older hermit's existence, and went to find him. Jerome related that Anthony...
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...
The Church of Our Lady Seat of Wisdom, also known as Newman University Church or Catholic University Church, is a Catholic church in Dublin, Ireland. The church is accessed by a Romanesque porch in polychromatic brick, with a belfry suspended over it. There is then an atrium leading into the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The story of the visitation comes from Luke Chapter 1:39–45: And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. And she entered into the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Paul of Thebes, commonly known as Paul, the First Hermit or Paul the Anchorite (c. 227 – c. 341), was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit, who was claimed to have lived alone in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This grand, epic-sized statue depicts Moses seated regally to guard the tablets written with the Ten Commandments. His expression is stern, reflecting his anger at seeing his people worshipping the golden calf on his return from...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Christ or birth of Jesus is described in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,...
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...
