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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Longinus (/ˌlɒnˈdʒaɪnəs/) is the name given to the unnamed Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus with a lance and who in medieval and some modern Christian traditions is described as a convert to Christianity....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Martin Schongauer engraved several variations of the Crucifixion, often inspired by fifteenth-century Netherlandish paintings of the same subject. Here, upon a realistic landscape, the exaggeratedly thin and emaciated body of Christ hangs on the cross.The...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! When he painted The Death of the Virgin (c. 1601–06), Caravaggio had been working in Rome for fifteen years. The painting was commissioned by Laerzio Cherubini, a papal lawyer, for his chapel in the Carmelite...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Discalced Carmelites, known officially as the Order of the Discalced Carmelites of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo) or the Order of Discalced...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to the Gospel of John, right after his resurrection, Christ appeared to Mary Magdalene, who had come to anoint his body at his tomb. At first, she mistook Christ for a gardener. When he revealed...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The transformation of water into wine at the Marriage at Cana or Wedding at Cana is the first miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John. In the Gospel account, Jesus Christ, his mother and...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This pyx shows Christ as Pantokrator (Ruler of the World), the Apostles, and the Virgin as a continuous frieze of figures seated in high-backed chairs with cushions. The tapered lip of the body of the pyx...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The crucifixion of Jesus occurred in 1st-century Judea, most likely in either AD 30 or AD 33. Jesus' crucifixion is described in the four canonical gospels, referred to in the New Testament epistles, attested to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saints Justa and Rufina (Ruffina) (Spanish: Santa Justa y Santa Rufina) are venerated as martyrs. They are said to have been martyred at Hispalis (Seville) during the 3rd century. Only St. Justa (sometimes "Justus"...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Vision of Constantine is an equestrian sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini, located in the Scala Regia by St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. Originally commissioned as a free standing work...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This image shows Jesus leaving his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, after living with her for thirty years. According to tradition, for some years (no one is sure how many) Jesus took care of the Virgin...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It takes its theme from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew describing the moment when Christ called the two...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The boundary between heaven and earth is obscured in this engraving as an angel descends to crown the Virgin with a simple diadem. Although she is plainly dressed and sits on a simple wooden bench, Dürer...
Details: Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an oil on canvas painting executed c.1665 by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo which is now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. It depicts the Holy Family, attended by two Cupids, resting during a flight to safety. The theme...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), is a church built in the Renaissance style...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Papal Basilica of Saint Peter in the Vatican (Italian: Basilica Papale di San Pietro in Vaticano), or simply Saint Peter's Basilica (Latin: Basilica Sancti Petri), is a church built in the Renaissance style...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A kneeling woman begs Christ in the midst of his disciples to heal her daughter, who is possessed by the devil (Matthew 15:21-21; Mark 7:24-30). On the right there is a disciple with a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to The Gospel of James (or the Protoevangelium of James), Mary is presented as an extraordinary child destined for great things from the moment of her conception. Her parents, the wealthy Joachim and his wife...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In the Book of Genesis, the son of Isaac and Rebecca, Jacob, went to Haran, saw a well where shepherds were gathering their flocks to water them and met Laban's younger daughter, Rachel, his...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Convent of Santo Domingo was a convent of the Dominican Order in the city of Valencia, Spain. Construction of the church began on land granted by King James I of Aragon in 1239, but it...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Madonna and Child type is very prevalent in Christian iconography, divided into many traditional subtypes. Marian devotion rose to great importance after the Council of Ephesus in 431. The Theotokos iconography as it developed in...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Our Lady, Queen of the Most Holy Rosary Cathedral is a Roman Catholic church located at 2535 Collingwood Boulevard in the Old West End of Toledo, Ohio. The cathedral is the mother church of the 122...
