Free downloadable coloring pages of Catholic priests.
Details: Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger (1927-2022), was the head of the Catholic Church and sovereign of the Vatican City State from 19 April 2005 until his resignation on 28 February 2013[1]. He was elected to the papacy in 2005[2] and is remembered outside the Catholic...
Details: In Masses celebrated in accordance with the 1962 Roman Missal the Gloria is sung frequently: the 1960 Code of Rubrics require it at not only on I and II-class feasts (corresponding to solemnities and feasts in the post-Vatican II Mass) but also on III-class feasts (corresponding to memorials in...
Details: The priest makes the sign of the Cross while he begins to read the Introit, which is usually taken from a Psalm. This evolved from the practice of singing a full Psalm, interspersed with the antiphon, during the entrance of the clergy, before the Prayers at the Foot of...
Details: In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders and is responsible for teaching doctrine, governing Catholics in his jurisdiction, sanctifying the world and representing the Church. Catholics trace the origins of the office of bishop to the...
Details: Asperges (Sprinkling with holy water, Psalm 51:9, 3) is an optional penitential rite that ordinarily precedes only the principal Mass on Sunday. In the sacristy, a priest wearing an alb, if he is to celebrate the Mass, or surplice, if he is not the celebrant of the Mass,...
Details: The procession is the first part of the mass. During a solemn Mass, the priest processes in from the narthex with deacon, and subdeacon, master of ceremonies and servers. During Low Mass, the priest processes in with alone or with one or two servers and places the veiled chalice...
Details: Emperor Constantine the Great receives clergy at the First Council of Nicaea in 325. He bestows the honorific patriarch on these four bishops. From heaven he is illuminated by a divine light. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download Constantine and Bishops at Nicea.jpeg 3 MB...
Details: In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders and is responsible for teaching doctrine, governing Catholics in his jurisdiction, sanctifying the world and representing the Church. Catholics trace the origins of the office of bishop to the...
Details: This image presents the hierarchy of the church in successive levels. The clergy (which includes priests, bishops, and cardinals) are at the top of the image. Most likely because the clergy provide the sacraments. On the next level are monks. Some monks are clergy, but most are not. Monks...
Details: A bishop is an ordained clergy member who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution. In Catholicism, all bishops have apostolic succession, a direct historical lineage dating back to the original Twelve Apostles. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download Bishop...
Details: The pope (Latin: papa, from Greek: πάππας, romanized: pappas, 'father'), also known as supreme pontiff, Roman pontiff or sovereign pontiff, is the bishop of Rome and head of the worldwide Catholic Church. A cardinal (Latin: Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally "cardinal of the Holy Roman Church") is a senior...
Details: A cardinal (Latin: Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally "cardinal of the Holy Roman Church") is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church, immediately behind the pope in the order of precedence. Collectively, they constitute the College of Cardinals, and are appointed for life. Source A bishop...
Details: In the Catholic Church, a bishop is an ordained minister who holds the fullness of the sacrament of holy orders and is responsible for teaching doctrine, governing Catholics in his jurisdiction, sanctifying the world and representing the Church. Catholics trace the origins of the office of bishop to the...
Details: The history of the Church is full of many female / women Catholic saints, who received recognition for great deeds or meritorious conduct. Many lost their lives in defense of the faith, while others were themselves the mothers of important saints. Many were also honored for their contributions to the...
Details: Saint Gennadius I of Constantinople, (died 471, Constantinople; feast day August 25), Byzantine theologian, biblical exegete, and patriarch, a champion of Christian Orthodoxy who strove for an ecumenical (Greek: “universal”) statement of doctrine on the person and work of Christ to reconcile the opposing Alexandrian (Egyptian) and Antiochene (Syrian)...
Details: Saint Rupert (c. 660 – 710 AD) was Bishop of Worms as well as the first Bishop of Salzburg and abbot of St. Peter's in Salzburg. He was a contemporary of the Frankish king Childebert III. Rupert is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches....
Details: Peter Damian (1007—1073) was a reforming Benedictine monk and cardinal in the circle of Pope Leo IX. Dante placed him in one of the highest circles of Paradiso as a great predecessor of Francis of Assisi. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download peter damian.jpeg...
Details: A calyx with a bishop. He has a crook and a book in his hands. The text identifies him as Eusebius of Caesarea. Eusebius (260—339) was a Greek historian of Christianity, exegete, and Christian polemicist. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download bishop eusebius coloring page....
Details: A calyx with a cardinal. He wears a galero on his head and has a cross staff in his hands. The text identifies him as Basilios Bessarion. The print is part of an album. 🙏🏽This image is in the public domain. Free Download a bishop coloring page.jpeg 2...
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 cardinal (Latin: Sanctae Romanae Ecclesiae cardinalis, literally "cardinal of the Holy Roman Church") is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church, immediately behind the pope in the order of precedence. Collectively, they constitute the College of Cardinals, and are appointed for life. Their most solemn...
In the Middle Ages, this would have been local healers, but very often priests, who would have been called to visit people near death in order to hear their confessions, and administer their last rites. During The Black Death of 1347 (and the years following), priests were faced with the...
