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Photograph shows a soldier, standing in rubble, looking through gapping holes made by bomb blast into a Catholic church in Libya during World War II; a statue of an angel holding candles can be seen inside undamaged. Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/05/service-pnp-ds-00700-00738v_o....
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...
Benedictine sisters are nuns who live according to the Rule of Saint Benedict : “ora et labora”, that is to say a life of prayer and work, of silence, of welcoming guests and of fraternal charity. By her monastic profession the nun devotes her life to the search for God, promising...
The founders of the Bethlehem Convention before leaving for the Holy Land: Mariam Baouardy (standing, 2nd from left) and her fellow sisters (barefoot Carmelites) in August 1875 in southern France. Pau Monastery (western foothills of the Pyrenees). Free Downloads Below Hi-Res [https://sdcason.com/content/images/2021/04/Mariams_Abschied_...
Teresa of Jesus of Los Andes (13 July 1900 – 12 April 1920) - born as Juana Fernández Solar - (Spanish: Teresa de Jesús de Los Andes) was a Chilean professed religious from the Discalced Carmelites. Fernández Solar was a pious child but had an often unpredictable temperament for she could...
"May 1968: Field Mass: Lieutenant Commander Paul J. Antos (Albany, New York), holds Catholic Mass in the field for Marines of 2/4 [2d Battalion, 4th Marines] during Operation Napoleon/Saline (official USMC photo by Staff Sergeant J. Reid)." From the Jonathan F. Abel Collection (COLL/3611), Marine...
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,...
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...
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...
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....
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....
