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A procession, in Christianity, is an organized body of people advancing in formal or ceremonial manner as an element of Christian ritual or as a less official expression of popular piety. Public processions seem to have come into vogue soon after the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Jerome, also known as Jerome of Stridon, was a Latin priest, confessor, theologian, and historian; he is commonly known as Saint Jerome. Jerome was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The trials of Jesus are ordinarily divided into six stages, with each stage being regarded as a separate trial. The first three were Jewish (or religious) in nature, and the last three were Roman (or civil)...
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...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Sudarium of Oviedo, or Shroud of Oviedo, is a bloodstained piece of cloth measuring c. 84 x 53 cm kept in the Cámara Santa of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain. The Sudarium is...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Second Ecumenical Council of the Vatican, commonly known as the Second Vatican Council, or Vatican II, addressed relations between the Catholic Church and the modern world. The Council, through the Holy See, was formally opened...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Last Supper is the final meal that, in the Gospel accounts, Jesus shared with his apostles in Jerusalem before his crucifixion. The Last Supper is commemorated by Christians especially on Maundy Thursday. The Last Supper...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Gian Lorenzo (or Gianlorenzo) Bernini (UK: /bɛərˈniːni/, US: /bərˈ-/, Italian: [ˈdʒan loˈrɛntso berˈniːni]; Italian Giovanni Lorenzo; 7 December 1598 – 28 November 1680) was an Italian sculptor and architect. While a major figure in the world of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Thomas, one of Jesus' disciples, was not present when the resurrected Christ first appeared to his disciples. Until he had seen for himself the wounds of Jesus' Crucifixion, Thomas refused to believe in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Descent from the Cross is the central panel of a triptych painting by Peter Paul Rubens in 1612–1614. It is still in its original place, the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium, along with...
