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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! George Alencherry is the Major Archbishop (Head) of the Syro-Malabar Church and is also a cardinal of the Catholic Church. The title of Major Archbishop is essentially equivalent to that of a patriarch. He was elected...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A blessing cross is a hand cross held by a priest or bishop in Eastern Christianity when he gives a benediction. It is often made of precious metal and may be adorned with enamelwork, and precious...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Creating a book of hours was an arduous and costly process. These books were made from vellum, animal skins that were laboriously prepared in a multistep process. The texts were written with a quill pen and...
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! The chalice and paten—the most important liturgical vessels—are used at the altar by the priest for the consecration of the Eucharistic bread and wine during the celebration of the mass. This chalice survives with...
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....
Within Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy and in some traditions of Anglicanism and Lutheranism, the Tabernacle is a box-like or dome-like vessel for the exclusive reservation of the consecrated Eucharist. It is normally made from precious metals, stone or wood, and is lockable and secured to its altar or adjacent wall to...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A bell tower is a tower that contains one or more bells, or that is designed to hold bells even if it has none. Such a tower commonly serves as part of a church, and will...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In Christian iconography, Christ Pantocrator is a specific depiction of Christ. Pantocrator or Pantokrator, usually translated as "Almighty" or "all-powerful", is derived from one of many names of God in Judaism. The...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A tetrapod is a small, four-legged table ('Tetra", meaning four, and "Pod", for foot) directly in front of the iconostasis (a solid screen of stone, wood, or metal, usually separating the sanctuary...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Our Lady of Perpetual Help Byzantine Catholic Church was established by +Most Reverend Michael Dudick, D.D. on October 1, 1989 to serve the spiritual needs of Byzantine Catholics in the southeastern part of Virginia and...
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! Chasuble means "Little house" and it is the outer and chief vestment of the Priest. It is usually ornamented with a large cross on the back, and sometimes on the front of the garment....
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...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Cruets are special vessels for mass that hold the water and wine used for the Consecration, to wash the priests hands, and to sprinkle holy water. These are cruets from Saint Matthew's parish in...
This is a side-chapel—a chapel within a cathedral or larger church building—inside Saint Gregory the Great Church in Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA. The Eucharist is reserved in this tabernacle instead of on the altar, as is the custom in churches built before the Second Vatican Council. Free Downloads...
This parish is located in Virginia Beach, Virginia and has a K-8 School attached (Saint Matthew's Catholic School) as well as one of the longest running perpetual adoration chapels (25 years) in the United States and the only perpetual adoration chapel in the Hampton Roads area. Free Downloads...
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...
The fonts of many Christian denominations are for baptisms using a non-immersive method, such as aspersion (sprinkling) or affusion (pouring). The simplest of these fonts has a pedestal (about 5 feet (1.5 m) tall) with a holder for a basin of water. The materials vary greatly consisting of carved...
A Procession, in Christianity, organized body of people advancing in formal or ceremonial manner as an element of Christian ritual or as a less official expression of popular piety. Public processions seem to have come into vogue soon after the recognition of Christianity as the religion of the Roman Empire...
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...
This church is dedicated to San Isidro, which is the Spanish name for Saint Isidore the Farm Labourer, also known as Isidore the Farmer (Spanish: San Isidro Labrador) (c. 1070 – May 15, 1130). He was a Spanish farmworker known for his piety toward the poor and animals. He is the...
