Details: Matthias was, according to the Acts of the Apostles, chosen by the apostles to replace Judas Iscariot following the latter's betrayal of Jesus and his subsequent death. His calling as an apostle is unique, in that his appointment was not made personally by Jesus, who had already ascended into...
Details: 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 by other ancient sources, and is established as a historical event confirmed by non-Christian...
Details: A collection of eight woodcuts by Albrecht Dürer progress from Gabriel’s announcement to Mary that she would bear the Son of God, to the events of her early motherhood and beyond. This included the joy of sharing her pregnancy with her cousin Elizabeth, Jesus’s birth, and the...
Details: Man of Sorrows, a biblical term, is paramount among the prefigurations of the Messiah identified by the Bible in the passages of Isaiah 53 (Servant songs) in the Hebrew Bible. It is also an iconic devotional image that shows Christ, usually naked above the waist, with the wounds of...
Details: The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Nativity of Mary, the Marymas. or the Birth of the Virgin Mary, refers to a Christian feast day celebrating the birth of Mary, mother of Jesus. The modern canon of scripture does not record Mary's birth. The earliest known account of...
Details This is a woodblock made by a follower of the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). A Rosary is a string with knots or beads used in prayer. Each prayer of the rosary is arranged in sets of several prayers (Hail Marys, Lord's Prayer and a Glory Be). During the...
Details Joachim and Anne Meeting at the Golden Gate is a narrative of the parents of the Virgin Mary, Joachim and Anne meeting at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem, upon learning that she will bear a child. It is not in the New Testament, but is in the Protoevangelium of...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Description0:00/1:481×Image Details In the Hebrew Bible, Samson was the last of the judges of the ancient Israelites mentioned in the Book of Judges (chapters 13 to 16) and one of the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Arnulf of Metz was a Frankish bishop of Metz and advisor to the Merovingian court of Austrasia. He later retired to the Abbey of Remiremont. In French he is also known as Arnoul or Arnoulf. In...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in Christian religion, appearing in the New Testament's final book, Revelation, an apocalypse written by John of Patmos, as well as in the Old Testament's prophetic Book of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Annunciation, also referred to as the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation of Our Lady, or the Annunciation of the Lord, is the Christian celebration of the announcement by the Archangel Gabriel to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Adoration of the Magi or Adoration of the Kings is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The burial of Jesus refers to the burial of the body of Jesus after crucifixion, before the eve of the sabbath described in the New Testament. According to the canonical gospel accounts, he was placed in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Jerome (c. 342–347 – 30 September 420) was born at Stridon, a village near Emona on the border of Dalmatia and Pannonia. Jerome is best known for his translation of most of the Bible into Latin...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Dürer made seven of the twelve woodcuts for The Large Passion between 1497 and 1500 and then produced four additional woodcuts in 1510. The scenes of The Large Passion executed between 1497 and 1500 retain certain...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Sebastian was an early Christian saint and martyr. According to traditional belief, he was killed during the Diocletianic Persecution of Christians. He was initially tied to a post or tree and shot with arrows, though...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This is an image based on Saint John's vision of God and the Elders from the Book of Revelation—also called the Apocalypse—which is the final book of the New Testament, and consequently is also...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In this masterful woodcut from The Apocalypse of Saint John, Albrecht Dürer portrays the torture and martyrdom of Saint John the Evangelist, who by Christian tradition is equated with the historical figure of the Apostle John....
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! 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 stump anchors the base...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Part of Durer's series of fifteen images showcasing the Apocalypse, this woodcut displays the angel, with fire-pillared legs, a clouded body, and a rainbow haloing a sun-like head, giving Saint John a Book that the Saint...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Christopher (Greek: Ἅγιος Χριστόφορος, Ágios Christóforos) is venerated by several Christian denominations as a martyr killed in the reign of the 3rd-century Roman emperor. His most famous legend tells that he carried a child, who...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Presentation of Jesus at the Temple is an early episode in the life of Jesus, describing His presentation at the Temple in Jerusalem, to be redeemed by the parents' sacrifice from His birth-state of sanctity,...
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...
