Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This is a small chapel in The Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, which is a large Catholic minor basilica and national shrine located in Washington, D.C., United States, on 400 Michigan...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary - La Naval de Manila (Spanish: Nuestra Señora del Santísimo Rosario - La Naval de Manila; Tagalog: Mahal na Ina ng Santo Rosaryo ng La Naval de Manila; commonly...
The son of God is represented seated on heaven's throne, with his right hand raised, palm faced outward with three fingers extended. This gesture communicated a particular message to medieval Catholics in Western Europe. It is part of an iconographic pose called in Latin the "Maiestas Domini,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Gian Lorenzo Bernini was just twenty-three years old when he received one of his first commissions to make a full-sized bust of Pope Paul V, the recently deceased uncle of his most important patron, Cardinal Scipione...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In the late 1400s Andrea del Verrochio set up a large workshop where he and his assistants reproduced copies of his sculpture and other works for a middle-class market. Originality was not the objective; in fact,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This statue resides inside Saint Benedict's Parish in Chesapeake, Virginia. Benedict of Nursia OSB (c. 2 March 480 – c. 21 March 547 AD) is a Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The striking impression of this figure is the vivid representation of suffering. The sculpture captures the moment after Christ’s death: the drooping head on a frail neck is a mask of agony. The eyes are...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Joseph was a 1st-century man of Nazareth who, according to the canonical Gospels, was married to Mary, the mother of Jesus, and was the legal father of Jesus. Joseph is venerated as Saint Joseph in the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This impressively carved and distinctively conceived Virgin and Child is, on stylistic grounds, probably by the hand of Gil de Siloé or a member of his important workshop. A sculptor of northern origin, Siloé was employed...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In this photo, Fraternity of Saint Peter priests at Saint Benedict Parish in Chesapeake, Virginia, USA are blessing a statue of Saint Benedict which is stationed in front of the parish. The Priestly Fraternity of St....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Francis of Assisi (born Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone; Italian: Francesco d'Assisi; Latin: Franciscus Assisiensis; 1181 or 1182 – 3 October 1226), venerated as Saint Francis of Assisi, also known in his ministry as Francesco,...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A Holy Week procession is a public ritual march of clergy and penitents which takes place during Holy Week in Christian countries, especially those with a Catholic culture. Various images of the saints, especially the Virgin...
Christ the King is a title of Jesus in Christianity referring to the idea of the Kingdom of God where the Christ is described as seated at the right hand of God (as opposed to the secular title of King of the Jews mockingly given at the crucifixion). Many Christian...
The Fatima Centennial U.S. Tour for Peace, took place March 2016 – December 2017, and commemorated the 100th anniversary of the apparitions of the Angel of Peace (1916) and the Blessed Mother (1917) at Fatima, Portugal. The goals of the World Apostolate of Fatima in arranging the U.S. Tour...
The image of Jesus holding children is inspired by biblical verses in the Gospels: Luke 18:16, Matthew 19:14, Mark 10:14 and Matthew 18:1-3: "At that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying: Who thinkest thou is the greater in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus...
This statue resides outside Saint Benedict's Parish in Chesapeake, Virginia. Benedict of Nursia OSB (c. 2 March 480 – c. 21 March 547 AD) is a Christian saint venerated in the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, the Anglican Communion and Old Catholic Churches. He...
John the Baptist was one of the most beloved and widely venerated saints of the Middle Ages. He is depicted here wearing his traditional camel hair fleece beneath a luxuriant outer mantle. The sculpture is attributed to Jan Crocq, a Netherlandish artist active at the court of René II, Duke...
Giuseppe Sanmartino or Giuseppe Sammartino was an Italian sculptor during the Rococo period. Sanmartino was born in Naples. His first dated work is Veiled Christ or Christ lying under the Shroud, commissioned initially from the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini who did not live to complete the work. Sammartino interpreted his...
The Tomb of Pope Julius II is a sculptural and architectural ensemble by Michelangelo and his assistants, originally commissioned in 1505 but not completed until 1545 on a much reduced scale. Originally intended for St. Peter's Basilica, the structure was instead placed in the church of San Pietro...
Peregrine Laziosi was born of a wealthy family at Forli, Italy, in 1260. As a youth he was active in politics as a member of the anti-papal party. During one uprising, which the Pope sent St. Philip Benizi to mediate, Philip was struck in the face by Peregrine. When Philip...
The parish of Christ the King was formally erected on May 15, 1984 The parish of Christ the King has a total land area of 1,831 hectares, and close to 30,000 population, 85 percent of which are Catholics. It belongs to the Roman Catholic Diocese of Antipolo. Source...
Pope Gregory XIII, born Ugo Boncompagni, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 13 May 1572 to his death in 1585. He is best known for commissioning and being the namesake for the Gregorian calendar, which remains the internationally accepted civil calendar to this...
Pope Clement XIV (Latin: Clemens XIV; 31 October 1705 – 22 September 1774), born Giovanni Vincenzo Antonio Ganganelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 19 May 1769 to his death in 1774. At the time of his election, he was the only Franciscan friar...
Our Lady of La Salette is a Marian apparition reported by two children, Maximin Giraud and Mélanie Calvat to have occurred at La Salette-Fallavaux, France, in 1846. On 19 September 1851, the local bishop formally approved the public devotion and prayers to Our Lady of La Salette. In 1846 on...
