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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In Eastern and Western Christian liturgical practice, the elevation is a ritual raising of the consecrated elements of bread and wine during the celebration of the Eucharist. The term is applied especially to that by which,...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte is a Portuguese Catholic shrine in Tenões, outside the city of Braga, in northern Portugal. Its name means Good Jesus of the Mount. This sanctuary is a notable example...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This sculpture originally represented a philosopher or a god, and was transformed into St. Peter in the late 16th century by adding the expressive head, hands, and feet in gilt bronze, and a throne. An unknown...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This church is in Budapest, which is the capital of Hungary, in the northern central part of the country; population 1,712,210 (2009). It was formed in 1873 by the union of the city of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Designed principally by Donato Bramante, Michelangelo, Carlo Maderno and Gian Lorenzo Bernini, St. Peter's is the most renowned work of Renaissance architecture and the largest church in the world by interior measure. While it...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches and in some historical cases referred to as Uniates, are twenty-three Eastern Christian sui...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Old Testament prophet Jonah is shown with his hands raised in prayer. It is unclear which moment of the biblical story of Jonah is depicted here. He may be praying in the belly of the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Daniel and the Lion is a sculpture created by Gian Lorenzo Bernini c. 1655–57. Standing in a niche in the Chigi Chapel in the Basilica of Santa Maria del Popolo in Rome, it shows the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This chalice is likely from a Christian community in Syria and Palestine, probably forced to bury their church silver to hide it from the Persians or Arabs, who conquered their lands in the first half of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Eastern Catholic Churches or Oriental Catholic Churches, also called the Eastern-rite Catholic Churches, Eastern Rite Catholicism, or simply the Eastern Churches and in some historical cases referred to as Uniates, are twenty-three Eastern Christian sui...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Carmelites, formally known as the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel or sometimes simply as Carmel by synecdoche, is a Roman Catholic mendicant religious order for men and women....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The statue of the Martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, by Stefano Maderno resides in Santa Cecilia in Trastevere and is one of the most famous examples of Baroque sculpture. Santa Cecilia in Trastevere is a 5th-century church...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Angel with the Superscription is a statue by Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Originally commissioned by Pope Clement IX for the Ponte Sant'Angelo project, the statue was replaced with a copy and the original...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Sanctuary of Bom Jesus do Monte is a Portuguese Catholic shrine in Tenões, outside the city of Braga, in northern Portugal. Its name means Good Jesus of the Mount. This sanctuary is a notable example...
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