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 story of Joachim, his wife Anne (or Anna), and the miraculous birth of their child Mary, the mother of Jesus, is told for the first time in the 2nd century apocryphal infancy-gospel the Gospel of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! 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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint George (died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was a Christian who is accepted as a saint in Christianity. According to traditional rumors, he was a soldier in the Roman army. His parents were...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Parable of the Prodigal Son (also known as the parable of the Two Brothers, Lost Son, Loving Father, or of the Forgiving Father) is one of the parables of Jesus in the Bible, appearing in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Albrecht Dürer sometimes spelled in English as Durer (without an umlaut) or Duerer, was a German painter, printmaker, and theorist of the German Renaissance. Born in Nuremberg, Dürer established his reputation and influence across Europe in...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This print depicting Christ’s birth belongs to one of the numerous print series that Albrecht Dürer produced on religious themes. Here, the artist focused on everyday details of the Virgin Mary’s life story to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In this lively woodcut, Dürer evokes the Coronation of the Virgin, the last event in the cycle of prayers known as the Glorious Mysteries of the Rosary. She is about to be crowned Regina caeli, the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Dürer made four engravings of the Virgin and Child standing on a crescent moon. These devotional images link the Madonna with the pregnant woman of the apocalypse from chapter 12 of the Book of Revelation. The...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saint Catherine was among the most popular virgin martyrs during this period and was particularly venerated in Dürer’s hometown of Nuremberg for her intermediary role between the faithful and God. A princess from Alexandria, Catherine...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Like his earliest engraving of the subject, Dürer portrayed the Madonna and Child within an enclosed garden. In addition to the garden, which refers to Mary’s virginity, the artist included other elements that reference each...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Forty days after his Resurrection, Christ made his final appearance to his apostles. The story of the Ascension (Acts 1:9-12) tells that Christ's apostles were standing with him on the Mount of Olives...
