Details: A man kneeling. A woman looks into the book, behind her a bookcase. She is the personification of the Bible. Christ as Salvator Mundi appears in the sky. The Master of Delft was an anonymous Dutch painter of the final period of Early Netherlandish art. He was possibly born...
Details: The devotion to the Sacred Heart (also known as the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, Sacratissimum Cor Iesu in Latin) is one of the most widely practiced and well-known Catholic devotions, wherein the heart of Jesus is viewed as a symbol of "God's boundless and passionate love for mankind"...
Details: Belief in the Last Judgment (often linked with the general judgment) is held firmly in Catholicism. Immediately upon death each person undergoes the particular judgment, and depending upon one's behavior on earth, goes to heaven, purgatory, or hell. Those in purgatory will always reach heaven, but those in hell...
Details An allegorical drawing from the Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck (1498-1574). Satan, sitting on a globe and a rug decorated with the seven deadly sins (Lust, Gluttony, Greed, Sloth, Wrath, Envy, Pride), is hurling burning arrows at a praying man. The praying man himself is protected by a woman...
Details This is a woodblock made by a follower of the German artist Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). A Rosary is a string with knots or beads used in prayer. Each prayer of the rosary is arranged in sets of several prayers (Hail Marys, Lord's Prayer and a Glory Be). During the...
Details An engraving made by the flemish artist Antonie Wierix the younger (1555/59-1604). According to Catholic theology, Christ instituted seven sacraments. A sacrament is a Christian rite recognized as of particular importance and significance. The seven sacraments of the Catholic church are: - Baptism - Penance - Eucharist -...
Details Mark the Evangelist is the traditionally ascribed author of the Gospel of Mark. Mark is said to have founded the Church of Alexandria, one of the most important episcopal sees of early Christianity. His feast day is celebrated on April 25, and his symbol is the winged lion.Mark...
🙏🏽Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to help keep this site free!Image Details Drawing the Christ Child and young John the Baptist together was a popular artistic subject in the Renaissance and Baroque periods. Although we do not have direct Biblical evidence that Christ and the Baptist...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A crucifix is an image of Jesus on the cross, as distinct from a bare cross. The representation of Jesus himself on the cross is referred to in English as the corpus. The crucifix is a...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A Madonna is a representation of Mary, either alone or with her child Jesus. These images are central icons for both the Catholic and Orthodox churches. The word is from Italian ma donna 'my lady'. the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are figures in Christian religion, appearing in the New Testament's final book, Revelation, an apocalypse written by John of Patmos, as well as in the Old Testament's prophetic Book of...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A monk preaches to an appreciative audience, with a prominent plaque of Christ in judgment behind his left hand identifying the sermon's theme. At his feet, a seated woman with a long cloak and a covered...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A guardian angel is a type of angel that is assigned to protect and guide a particular person, group or nation. Belief in tutelary beings can be traced throughout all antiquity. The idea of angels that...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Temperance is known by her two pitchers, which she uses to dilute wine with water. She personifies restraint or the middle way, as suggested by her position between a sphere and a cube. Saint Thomas Aquinas...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This is an image based on Saint John's vision of God and the Elders from the Book of Revelation—also called the Apocalypse—which is the final book of the New Testament, and consequently is also...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This print is part of a bound volume of works illustrating the a narrative of the Apocalypse, taken from the Revelation of Saint John in the Bible. The 23 engravings in the series occupied the artist...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! According to the Catholic Catechism; Jesus Christ is God the Son, who became man for us. He is truly God, the Second Person of the Trinity, the Son, the Eternal Word, who with the Father and...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Sudarium of Oviedo, or Shroud of Oviedo, is a bloodstained piece of cloth measuring c. 84 x 53 cm kept in the Cámara Santa of the Cathedral of San Salvador, Oviedo, Spain. The Sudarium is...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Christian doctrine holds that a divine Jesus chose to suffer crucifixion at Calvary as a sign of his full obedience to the will of his divine Father, as an "agent and servant of God" in carrying...
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...
Saint Veronica, also known as Berenike, was a woman from Jerusalem who lived in the 1st century AD, according to extra-biblical Christian sacred tradition. She is a celebrated saint in many pious Christian countries. According to Church tradition, Veronica was moved with sympathy seeing Jesus carrying the cross to Calvary...
In the Catholic Mass, the Word is “unsealed” for us through its preaching by the priest, or deacon, who wear a white garment because they are joined to the Lamb in a special way through Ordination. The Faithful then come before an altar superior to the first and sing “holy,...
John the Baptist (late 1st century BC – c. AD 30) was a Jewish itinerant preacher in the 20th century AD. John the Baptist is mentioned by the Roman Jewish historian Josephus and revered as a major religious figure in Christianity. He is considered a prophet and is honored as a...
The communion of saints is the spiritual solidarity which binds together the faithful on earth, the souls in purgatory, and the saints in heaven in the organic unity of the same mystical body under Christ its head, and in a constant interchange of supernatural offices. The participants in that solidarity...
