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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Paul of Thebes, commonly known as Paul, the First Hermit or Paul the Anchorite (c. 227 – c. 341), was an Egyptian saint regarded as the first Christian hermit, who was claimed to have lived alone in...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Jesus at the home of Martha and Mary (also referred to as Christ in the House of Martha and by other variant names) refers to a Biblical episode in the life of Jesus which appears only...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Paul of Thebes is known to posterity because around the year 342, Anthony the Great was told in a dream about the older hermit's existence, and went to find him. Jerome related that Anthony...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! This is the oldest known icon of Christ Pantocrator, encaustic on panel (Saint Catherine's Monastery). The two different facial expressions on either side may emphasize Christ's two natures as fully God and...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Christ on the Cross, Christ between the two murderers or Le Coup de Lance is a 1620 painting of the Crucifixion of Jesus by Peter Paul Rubens, originally intended for the Convent of the Friars Minor....
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Hubertus or Hubert was a Christian saint who became the first bishop of Liège in 708 A.D. He is the patron saint of hunters, mathematicians, opticians, and metalworkers. Known as the "Apostle of the...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saints Justa and Rufina (Ruffina) (Spanish: Santa Justa y Santa Rufina) are venerated as martyrs. They are said to have been martyred at Hispalis (Seville) during the 3rd century. Only St. Justa (sometimes "Justus"...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Descent from the Cross is the central panel of a triptych painting by Peter Paul Rubens in 1612–1614. It is still in its original place, the Cathedral of Our Lady, Antwerp, Belgium, along with...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! When he painted The Death of the Virgin (c. 1601–06), Caravaggio had been working in Rome for fifteen years. The painting was commissioned by Laerzio Cherubini, a papal lawyer, for his chapel in the Carmelite...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The transformation of water into wine at the Marriage at Cana or Wedding at Cana is the first miracle attributed to Jesus in the Gospel of John. In the Gospel account, Jesus Christ, his mother and...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saints Justa and Rufina (Ruffina) (Spanish: Santa Justa y Santa Rufina) are venerated as martyrs. They are said to have been martyred at Hispalis (Seville) during the 3rd century. Only St. Justa (sometimes "Justus"...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Calling of Saints Peter and Andrew is a painting by the Italian Baroque master Caravaggio. It takes its theme from a passage in the Gospel of Matthew describing the moment when Christ called the two...
Details: Rest on the Flight into Egypt is an oil on canvas painting executed c.1665 by the Spanish artist Bartolomé Esteban Murillo which is now in the Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg, Russia. It depicts the Holy Family, attended by two Cupids, resting during a flight to safety. The theme...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A kneeling woman begs Christ in the midst of his disciples to heal her daughter, who is possessed by the devil (Matthew 15:21-21; Mark 7:24-30). On the right there is a disciple with a...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Salome’s dancing so pleased her stepfather Herod that he offered her anything she wanted. Her mother advised Salome to demand John the Baptist’s head, which Salome presented to her family in an elaborate dish....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Laib was a German painter who spent most of his career in Austria. Proof that he came to Salzburg at an early age is suggested by the stylistic affinity of many of his works with Salzburg...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Coronation of the Virgin celebrates the culminating scene in the narrative cycle of the life of the Virgin. The subject follows Mary’s ascent into heaven after her death. Surrounded by a choir of music-making...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! These pinnacles were originally set on top of a multipanel altarpiece that has now been lost. The angels' gestures and glances suggest that they were placed to the left and right of a central image....
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! A saint, holding an abbot or bishop’s crozier, blesses a kneeling figure, probably the donor who commissioned the window. It forms a pair with another panel showing Saint Fiacre, also owned by the Museum. This...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In Christian theology, the Harrowing of Hell (Latin: Descensus Christi ad Inferos, "the descent of Christ into Hell") is the descent of Jesus into Hell (or Hades), a period of time between the Crucifixion...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Descent from the Cross, or Deposition of Christ, is the scene, as depicted in art, from the Gospels' accounts of Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus taking Christ down from the cross after his crucifixion...
