Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The striking impression of this figure is the vivid representation of suffering. The sculpture captures the moment after Christ’s death: the drooping head on a frail neck is a mask of agony. The eyes are...
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! 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...
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 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...
Giuseppe Sanmartino or Giuseppe Sammartino was an Italian sculptor during the Rococo period. Sanmartino was born in Naples. His first dated work is Veiled Christ or Christ lying under the Shroud, commissioned initially from the Venetian sculptor Antonio Corradini who did not live to complete the work. Sammartino interpreted his...
Saint Joseph's Catholic Church, located at 812 Poplar Street in Macon, Georgia, was listed on the NRHP on July 14, 1971. The church is located in the middle of Downtown Macon and takes up one block. It is operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Savannah. The towers...
Burial plot of the Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary in section 70 of Mount Olivet Cemetery in Washington, D.C., in the United States in 2014. The Little Sisters of Jesus and Mary is a religious body for lay women within the Roman Catholic Church. The organization formed in...
The Catholic Franciscan chapel of the "Condemnation and Imposition of the Cross", according to tradition, this was where Jesus took up his cross after being sentenced. It is based on the finding of large Roman pavement stones that may have been part of Pilate's judgment seat...
Photo taken during the procession, around the Metropolitan Cathedral, which accompanied this miraculous figure (the Lord of Health). The priests and parishioners prayed to the Virgin Mary and asked for help from Jesus Christ, the Lord of Health for an end to the COVID-19 pandemic. Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https:...
Statue of Jesus on the cross outside the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, also known as the St. Mary Catholic Church, in High Hill, a little community near Schulenburg in Fayette County, Texas. Photographer: Carol, M. Highsmith Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/05/...
Baptismal font of the Nativity of Mary, Blessed Virgin Catholic Church, also known as the St. Mary Catholic Church, in High Hill, a little community near Schulenburg in Fayette County, Texas. Built in 1906, the church is considered the "queen" of what Texans call their "painted churches....
Part of the sanctuary at the Catholic Basilica of St. Lawrence in Asheville, North Carolina. There are statues of the Infant Jesus of Prague (center), Saint Anthony of Padua (left), and Saint Lawrence (right). Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/05/iiif-service_pnp_highsm_43400_43419-full-pct_...
The building, now a prominent landmark in the city, features ornate octagonal towers, flying buttresses, elaborate ornamentation, and a variety of arches. The design reflects influences of the Moorish, Byzantine, Gothic, and the Romanesque styles. The building's original dome, damaged in a 1915 hurricane, was redesigned by Nicholas...
The Roman Rite has no celebration of Mass between the Lord's Supper on Holy Thursday evening and the Easter Vigil. While there is no celebration of the Eucharist, it is distributed to the faithful only in the Service of the Passion of the Lord, but can also be...
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