Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! 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...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Christ or birth of Jesus is described in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The flight into Egypt is a story recounted in the Gospel of Matthew (Matthew 2:13–23) and in New Testament apocrypha. Soon after the visit by the Magi, an angel appeared to Joseph in a...
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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The story of the visitation comes from Luke Chapter 1:39–45: And Mary rising up in those days, went into the hill country with haste into a city of Juda. And she entered into the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The nativity of Jesus, nativity of Christ, birth of Christ or birth of Jesus is described in the biblical gospels of Luke and Matthew. The two accounts agree that Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea,...
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...
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! According to the Gospel, Jesus performed a final act of service for his Disciples, following the Passover meal. Arising from the table, He tied a towel about His waist and filled a basin with water. Then,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Lamentation of Christ is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over...
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...
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! 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 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...
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! One of the most popular saints in the Late Middle Ages, Saint Christopher—whose name means "Christ-bearer"—was the patron saint of travelers and pilgrims. A legendary giant, Christopher wished to serve the most...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The main sources which directly attest the fact of Christ's Resurrection are the Four Gospels and the Epistles of St. Paul. Easter morning is so rich in incident, and so crowded with interested persons,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Mount of Olives or Mount Olivet is a mountain ridge east of and adjacent to Jerusalem's Old City. It is named for the olive groves that once covered its slopes. The southern part...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. The subject became popular in art from the 1490s on, but veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Christian doctrine holds that a divine Jesus chose to suffer crucifixion at Calvary as a sign of his full obedience to the will of his divine Father, as an "agent and servant of God"...
