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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Mark the Evangelist is the traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark. Mark is said to have founded the Church of Alexandria, one of the most important episcopal sees of early Christianity. His feast day...
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! Daniel and the Lion is a sculpture created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini c. 1655–57. Standing in a niche in the Chigi Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, it shows the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In Christian theology and ecclesiology, apostles, particularly the Twelve Apostles, were the primary disciples of Jesus according to the New Testament. During the life and ministry of Jesus in the 1st century AD, the apostles were...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Christian doctrine of the Trinity defines God as being one god existing in three coequal, coeternal, consubstantial persons: God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit — three distinct persons sharing one essence....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This intimately-scaled illuminated manuscript is a luxury example of the Arganonä Maryam (The Organ of Mary), one of the most popular Ethiopian Orthodox prayer books dedicated to the Virgin Mary. It is one of ten works...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Joseph is an important figure in the Bible's Book of Genesis. His function is to explain how Israel came to Egypt: the favourite son of the patriarch Jacob, he is sold into slavery by...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This tapestry is a fragment of a larger hanging. Since both Saint John the Evangelist and the faltering Virgin look upward, it is probable that this was from the left side of a tapestry of the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This chalice is likely from a Christian community in Syria and Palestine, probably forced to bury their church silver to hide it from the Persians or Arabs, who conquered their lands in the first half of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Anne, the mother of the Virgin Mary and grandmother of Jesus, was a popular saint in the fifteenth century. When depicted with her daughter and grandson, the subject is called Anna Selbdritt in German or...
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 Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches and in some historical cases referred to as Uniates, are twenty-three Eastern Christian sui...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In the late 1400s, Saint Jerome grew to have yet another symbol-a dead tree stump. In Albrecht Dürer's woodcut, it rests in the left foreground; in Albrecht Altdorfer's (P.10,484), the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! For the medieval viewer, this Crucifixion instantly recalled wrenching extra-biblical details, like the fact that Christ could not rest his head to the side lest his shoulders be pierced with thorns. The German tract Christi Leiden...
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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! Saint John the Baptist was, by all accounts, a rough character, living in the wilderness on locusts and honey. But Italian and Spanish artists of the 1600s often depicted the Biblical figure as an innocent child,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Modeled after a fresco by Raphael in the Vatican, Marcantonio Raimondi's engraving depicts the climactic scene after weeks of combat between the Israelites and the Philistines, According to the Books of Samuel from the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Tarcisius was a twelve-year-old acolyte during one of the fierce Roman persecutions of the third century, probably during that of Valerian. Each day, from a secret meeting place in the catacombs where Christians gathered for Mass,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to Matthew 2 starting at verse 19: When Herod died, an angel of the Lord suddenly appeared in a dream to Joseph in Egypt and said, "Get up, take the child and his mother,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Adoration of the Magi or Uffizi Triptych is a group of three tempera-on-panel paintings by Andrea Mantegna, dating to around 1460. Their three subjects are the Ascension of Christ (86 by 42.5 cm), Adoration...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Angel with the Superscription is a statue by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Originally commissioned by Pope Clement IX for the Ponte Sant'Angelo project, the statue was replaced with a copy and the original...
