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A chaplain uses rosary prayer beads during the Unit Ministry Teams’ End of Life Training, April 27, 2026, at Fort Carson, Colorado. The use of realistic equipment reinforces the demands of operational environments. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Jonathan Reyes)
231230-N-VM650-1045 SOUTH CHINA SEA (Dec. 30, 2023) Lt. Bradley Lawrence, a chaplain assigned to Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), right, greets Cmdr. Jason Garfield, commanding officer of Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Sterett (DDG 104) after a Catholic Mass
The Canadian Joint Task Force Impact chaplain leads prayer during a Catholic mass service at Ali Al Salem Air Base, July 23, 2023. The 386th Air Expeditionary Wing chapel hosted a service with Italian and Canadian coalition partners. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Breanna Diaz)
Chaplain (Cpt.) Sojan Parappilly, deputy garrison chaplain, Area Support Group - Kuwait, conducts a Catholic Mass at the Al-Salmiya Catholic Church in Kuwait City, Kuwait, Jul. 14, 2023. The near-200 attendees are a cosmopolitan mix of Kuwaiti residents and two dozen American service members.
Rosary held by local resident during the praying of the rosary at the Tinta and Faha Memorials, Merizo, Guam, July 15, 2019. As part of the memorial Marines pay respect to those that passed away during WWII. The memorial is part of the 75th Anniversary Liberation of Guam. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by
Col. Matthew Pawlikowski, the chaplain of the U.S. Military Academy, says the rosary while walking along the sidelines of the 119th annual Army-Navy Game, Dec. 8, 2018 in Philadelphia, Pa. (U.S. Army photo by Brandon O'Connor)
180331-N-JC445-0007 ATLANTIC OCEAN (March 31, 2018) Electronics Technician 3rd Class Phyllis Davis, from Slaton, Texas, leads Sailors in a hymn during Catholic Holy Saturday Easter Mass aboard the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). The ship is underway conducting sustainment exercises t
Maj. Van Constant, a chaplain assigned to Multinational Battle Group-East, blesses a meal on Camp Prizren, Kosovo, Jan. 3, 2017. The chaplain met with Brig. Gen. David Graetz, assistant to the Army chief of chaplains, and liaison for the National Guard, to discuss the spiritual needs of today’s Army
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on January 8, 2025. During the Great Blessing of Water at Epiphany (Theophany), the priest holds lit candles and a cross over a golden vessel of water to be blessed.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, April 5, 2026. Worshippers, led by a priest in white vestments, walk along the side of the church at dusk during the Paschal procession.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, April 5, 2026. At the beginning of the Paschal service, the faithful walk in procession around the outside of the church, led by a processional cross, before the doors are opened to proclaim the Res
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, April 5, 2026. Families bring baskets of bread, eggs, sausage and sweets to be blessed after the Paschal liturgy, a tradition in many Eastern European Catholic communities.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the Sunday of the Holy Cross, March 8, 2026. On the third Sunday of Great Lent, the cross is brought out for veneration and decorated with red and white carnations between two red vigil lamps.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on February 2, 2025. The painted icon of the Mystical Supper (the Last Supper) hangs above the altar table with its candlestand, gospel book and tabernacle.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on December 7, 2025, the week of the feast of Saint Nicholas. An icon of the bishop and wonderworker Saint Nicholas rests on a cushion on a red cloth, between two red vigil lamps and a standing cross.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on December 7, 2025. A framed icon of the Theotokos of Kazan, in which Mary holds the Christ Child, sits on a wooden table.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Pascha, March 31, 2024. The icon of the Resurrection, which shows Christ raising Adam and Eve from the dead, stands on a stand in front of the iconostasis, surrounded by Easter lilies.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024. In many Eastern Christian traditions, pussy willow and flowering branches are blessed and carried on Palm Sunday in place of palm fronds.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on Palm Sunday, March 24, 2024. Branches of yellow forsythia and pussy willow, used in place of palms, lie on a table beneath a painted icon-style crucifix.
Taken at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, on the night of Pascha, March 31, 2024. The full moon rises beside the church's small onion dome under a deep blue sky.
A famous preacher from an aristocratic family in Genoa, Sauli (1534-1591) spearheaded important Catholic reforms, including popular missions and restructuring the church to reach a broader spectrum of worshippers. This sculpture is a model for a large statue commissioned by the Sauli family for a Ge
The distinctively Roman Catholic subject of Mary cradling her son, the crucified Christ, suggests this figure was probably made for one of the aristocratic English families forced to practice their Catholicism in secret during the mid-1700s. Because of the laws banning Catholic worship in England, g
This work has been associated with Johann Pieter Wagner, one of the leading Austrian sculptors of the second half of the 18th century. Because of its small size, it was most likely either a model for a larger altarpiece or an object designed for private devotion. Gold serves as celestial decoration
Apostle figures such as this were made in large numbers in the eastern Netherlands during the early 1500s. This figure of Saint Andrew, identified by his X-shaped cross, was undoubtedly a single figure from an apostle series. It may have been used above a choir stall in a church, or else part of an
