This is a list of my favorite 12 orders of Catholic nuns and sisters in no particular order. This list includes their history, and images of their habits. What is a Catholic Nun or Sister? In the Roman Catholic tradition, there are many religious institutes of nuns and sisters (the...
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Details: According to Christian belief, three days after his death by crucifixion, Christ rose from the dead and ascended into heaven. König’s interpretation of this traditional theme employs vivid colors and explosive poses to express the drama of the event. Meticulous brushwork delineates exquisite details, and draws attention to...
Details: This ivory cross is carved on the front with scenes drawn from Twelve Feasts of the Orthodox Church, including the Passion and Resurrection of Christ; on the reverse is a scene of the Mother of God surrounded by clergy. The scenes include Slavonic inscriptions. The ivory cross is mounted...
Details: 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 are now found in almost all Catholic churches. However, the subject occurs in...
Details: Also known as the "Poor Men's Bible," the Biblia Pauperum was a simple picture book used to explain biblical prophecies and symbolism. These volumes served as an aid for preachers to demonstrate the unity of the Bible. The iconography of these popular books juxtaposed two...
Details: The second oldest European porcelain factory after that at Meissen (in Germany) was set up in Vienna in 1716. During its early years, the Vienna factory was privately owned by a court official, Claudius Innocentius Du Paquier, and its early wares-made before 1744-carry his name. They are characterized by...
Details: The Flagellation of Christ, sometimes known as Christ at the Column or the Scourging at the Pillar, is a scene from the Passion of Christ very frequently shown in Christian art, in cycles of the Passion or the larger subject of the Life of Christ. It is the fourth...
Details: Gerard van Honthorst (Gerrit van Honthorst) (4 November 1592 – 27 April 1656) was a Dutch Golden Age painter who became known for his depiction of artificially lit scenes, eventually receiving the nickname Gherardo delle Notti ("Gerard of the Nights"). Early in his career he visited Rome, where...
Details: The practice of creating scenes of the Nativity for the home dates from the early 1700s in Italy, where people began to set up doll-like figures of about a foot or less in height. The custom was particularly popular in Naples around 1800, where crèche scenes (crèche means cradle,...
Details: Eager to intensify their compassion for Christ, people hungered for details about his physical pain. Passion narratives reported that during the Crowning with Thorns, the tormentors pushed down so forcefully that "the crown pierced Christ's head and brains." The men pounded until "the points...
Details: On this leaf, lively figures tell the story of Christ’s Crucifixion and of his appearances after the Resurrection. They are part of an extensive picture cycle from an early 14th-century book disassembled almost 200 years ago, its illustrated pages now scattered in libraries and private collections. The text...
Details: On this statue of Christ kneeling, to the right lie the three sleeping apostles, each with one hand against his head, which represents the Agony in the Garden. The Agony in the Garden, according to all four canonical Gospels, is when, immediately after the Last Supper, Jesus took a...
Details: This is a page from Catholic Comics, which was a monthly magazine by Catholic Publications that ran from 1946 to 1949. They featured stories for Catholics that included religious subjects, American history, Crossword Puzzles, funny comics, and sports stories (usually featuring athletes from Notre Dame University). The magazine was...
Details: At the turn of the century, Henri de Groux was among the most respected members of the Belgian avant-garde. In Christ among His Tormentors, de Groux’ s most ambitious print, Christ cowers next to Pontius Pilate as he is jeered by the crowd that will ultimately sentence him to...
Details: Built in 1903 at the corner of Mills Avenue and Carter Avenue, the former St. Elizabeth Catholic Church was designed by an unknown architect in the Romanesque Revival-Byzantine Revival style. The building replaced a combination parochial school and church building that was constructed in 1887 to the rear of...
Details: This is a page from Catholic Comics, which was a monthly magazine by Catholic Publications that ran from 1946 to 1949. They featured stories for Catholics that included religious subjects, American history, Crossword Puzzles, funny comics, and sports stories (usually featuring athletes from Notre Dame University). The magazine was...
Details: A young sleeping child lies in the arms of two equally young angels who kiss each other. Under the show the title in English. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download RP-P-1982-184.jpeg 4 MB download-circle [https://sdcason.com/content/files/2022/02/RP-P-1982-184.jpeg] Please Subscribe...
Details: After disobeying the Lord’s command to proclaim judgment on the city of Nineveh, the Old Testament prophet Jonah was cast into the sea, swallowed by a sea monster, and ultimately cast ashore. When asked a second time, Jonah obeyed the Lord but became displeased when the city was...
Details: This is a page from Catholic Comics, which was a monthly magazine by Catholic Publications that ran from 1946 to 1949. They featured stories for Catholics that included religious subjects, American history, Crossword Puzzles, funny comics, and sports stories (usually featuring athletes from Notre Dame University). The magazine was...
Details: The energy and awe with which the evangelist Saint Matthew responds to the angel presenting the divinely inspired text echoes William Blake’s attitude toward artistic inspiration. From childhood Blake experienced visions that are reflected in the otherworldliness of his work. While Blake was not embraced by the fine...
Details: The Missionaries of Charity (Latin: Congregatio Missionariarum a Caritate) is a Catholic (Latin Church) religious congregation established in 1950 by Mother Teresa, now known in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. In 2020, it consisted of 5,167 religious sisters. Members of the order designate their affiliation...
Details: This is a page from Catholic Comics, which was a monthly magazine by Catholic Publications that ran from 1946 to 1949. They featured stories for Catholics that included religious subjects, American history, Crossword Puzzles, funny comics, and sports stories (usually featuring athletes from Notre Dame University). The magazine was...
Details: This colorful metalcut was removed from a 1480 missal printed by Bartholomew Gothan and Lucas Brandis in Magdeburg. That volume also included a Crucifixion and other images from the same anonymous artist’s set of large metalcuts, using the same separately cut border plate for each different center plate....
Details: St. Stephen's Cathedral, Stephansdom, is the mother church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Vienna and the seat of the Archbishop of Vienna. The current Romanesque and Gothic cathedral was initiated by Duke Rudolf IV and stands on the ruins of two earlier churches, the first a...
Details: This is a page from “Treasure Chest”, which was a bimonthly magazine published by Pflaum Publisher Inc. from 1946 to 1972. The magazine featured stories for Catholic students and teachers that included religious subjects, history, puzzles, funny comics and original stories such as Valiant Lad and Chuck White. The...
