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Ho Chi Minh City, commonly known by its previous name, Saigon, is the largest and most populous city in Vietnam, situated in Southern Vietnam. The three most prevalent religions in Ho Chi Minh City are Mahayana Buddhism with Taoism and Confucianism (via ancestor worship), which are often celebrated together in...
A monstrance, also known as an ostensorium (or an ostensory), is a vessel used in Roman Catholic, Old Catholic, High Church Lutheran and Anglican churches for the more convenient exhibition of some object of piety, such as the consecrated Eucharistic host during Eucharistic adoration or Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament....
Chatswood is a major business and residential district in the Lower North Shore of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia, 10 kilometers north of the Sydney central business district. It is the administrative center of the local government area of the City of Willoughby. 15% of the...
Lindfield is a suburb on the Upper North Shore of Sydney in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 13 kilometres north-west of the Sydney Central Business District and is in the local government area of Ku-ring-gai Council. East Lindfield is a separate suburb, although they share the...
Bosnia and Herzegovina, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country in South and Southeast Europe, located within the Balkans. Sarajevo is the capital and largest city. Bosnia and Herzegovina is bordered by Serbia to the east, Montenegro to the southeast, and Croatia to the...
Robert Cardinal Sarah celebrating Holy Mass with Bishop of Hrodna Alaksandr Kaškievič in Minsk, close to Red Church. Robert Sarah (born 15 June 1945) is a Guinean prelate of the Catholic Church. A cardinal since 20 November 2010, he was prefect of the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline...
Mass on the 8th anniversary of the tragedy near Smolensk. This mass took place in Warsaw, Poland. The Smolensk air disaster occurred on 10 April 2010, when a Tupolev Tu-154 aircraft of the Polish Air Force crashed near the Russian city of Smolensk, killing all 96 people on board. Free...
The Mass rock of Badgershill is a rock used as an altar for masses during Penal Days when Irish Catholics were repressed under the Penal Laws. Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/04/Mass_Rock_of_Badgerhill-_Ireland_o.jpg] 1200px [https://sdcason.com/content/images/...
Palm Sunday mass, St. Franciskus Xaverius, Catholic church, Arendal, Norway. Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/04/Exterior_of_St._Franciskus_Xaverius_Catholic_church_in_Arendal-_Norway._Palmsunday_o.jpg] 1200px [https://sdcason.com/content/images/size/w1200/2021/04/Exterior_of_St._Franciskus_Xaverius_Catholic_...
Elevation at a Solemn Mass of the Presanctified, celebrated in the 1954 rite. This Mass was offered on a Good Friday in 2017, by Father Robert C. Pasley at Mater Ecclesiæ Catholic Church in Berlin NJ. Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/04/Solemn_Mass_of_...
Seychelles, officially the Republic of Seychelles, is an archipelagic island country in the Indian Ocean at the eastern edge of the Somali Sea. It consists of 115 islands. Its capital and largest city, Victoria, is 1,500 kilometres (932 mi) east of mainland Africa. Other nearby island countries and territories...
The National Black Catholic Congress is an American Catholic nonprofit founded in 1987 by Bishop John Ricard, as a spiritual successor to Daniel Rudd's Colored Catholic Congress movement of the late 19th century. This is a photo from the 1892 congress. Front and center is Fr Augustus Tolton,...
The Franciscan Church of the Annunciation (Slovene: Frančiškanska cerkev Marijinega oznanjenja or commonly Frančiškanska cerkev) is a Franciscan church located on Prešeren Square in Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. It is the parish church of Ljubljana - Annunciation Parish. Its red colour is symbolic of the Franciscan monastic order. Since...
Leo Petrović (28 February 1883 – 14 February 1945) was a Bosnia and Herzegovina Franciscan and historian. Petrović, a native of Klobuk, Ljubuški, entered the Franciscan Province of Herzegovina in 1900, and was ordained a priest in 1905. He held various monastic and ecclesiastical positions, including being a general vicar of...
Adigrat is a city and separate woreda in the Tigray Regional State of Ethiopia. It is located in the Misraqawi Zone with an elevation of 2,457 metres (8,061 ft) above sea level and below a high ridge to the west. Adigrat is the last important Ethiopian city south...
The Catholic Church regards Good Friday and Holy Saturday as the Paschal fast, in accordance with Article 110 of Sacrosanctum Concilium. In the Latin Church, a fast day is understood as having only one full meal and two collations (a smaller repast, the two of which together do not equal...
The Discalced Carmelites, known officially as the Order of the Discalced Carmelites of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Carmelitarum Discalceatorum Beatae Mariae Virginis de Monte Carmelo) or the Order of Discalced Carmelites (Latin: Ordo Carmelitarum Discalceatorum; abbrev.: OCD), is a Catholic mendicant order with roots...
The Carmelites, formally known as the Order of the Brothers of the Blessed Virgin Mary of Mount Carmel (Latin: Ordo Fratrum Beatissimæ Virginis Mariæ de Monte Carmelo) or sometimes simply as Carmel by synecdoche, is a Roman Catholic mendicant religious order for men and women. Historical records about its origin...
Throughout the lifetime of the Third Republic (1870–1940), there were battles over the status of the Catholic Church in France among the republicans, monarchists and the authoritarians (such as the Napoleonists). The French clergy and bishops were closely associated with the monarchists and many of its hierarchy were from...
The Catholic University of America (CUA) is a private Catholic university in Washington, D.C. It is a pontifical university of the Catholic Church in the United States and the only institution of higher education founded by U.S. Catholic bishops. Established in 1887 as a graduate and research center...
An Eastern Catholic cemetery in northeastern Pennsylvania, where many Eastern Catholics settled in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/03/Eastern_Catholic_cemetery_o.jpg] 1200px [https://sdcason.com/content/images/size/w1200/2021/03/Eastern_Catholic_cemetery.jpg]...
Prelates of Eastern Catholic Churches with Pope Pius XI (whose arms are displayed on the canopy above his throne). Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/03/Pius_XI_oriental_bishops_o.jpg] 1200px [https://sdcason.com/content/images/size/w1200/2021/03/Pius_XI_oriental_bishops....
This is a photo of St. Clara's Cathedral which is a monument in Zhytomyr Oblast, Horodkivka village, Ukraine. Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/03/Horodkivka_Catholic_Church_RB_o.jpg] 1200px [https://sdcason.com/content/images/size/w1200/2021/03/Horodkivka_Catholic_Church_...
Catholic bishops and clergy (standing from left to right: Fran Kosar, Ignjat Orožen, Marijan Marković, Paškal Buconjić, Jakob Missia, Pajo Miler; sitting from left to right: Fidelis Happerger, Juraj Posilović, Josip Stadler, Juraj Strossmayer, Fulgencij Carev, Tripa Radoničić) during the ceremony of consecration of the Sarajevo cathedral in September 1889....
