Category: Religious Art
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05 Works, Today, April 26th, is Saint Alda Gambara’s day, With Footnotes – #116
Saint Alda, (c. 1249 – c. 1309), was born in Siena, the daughter of the noble Pedro Francisco Ponzi and Inês Bulgarini, whom God had shown in a dream that he had chosen the child for Himself. After being carefully educated and instructed, she was given as a wife to a man “virtutibus ornatissimus” – decorated…
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12 Works, Today, April 25th, is St. Mark’s day, With Footnotes – #115
St. Mark was an African native who belonged to the Levites’ tribe. His family moved to Jerusalem with their child John Mark. Apparently, he was given a good education and became conversant in both Greek and Latin in addition to Hebrew. His family was highly religious and in close relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ.…
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06 Works, Today, April 22nd, is St. Hieromartyr Januarius’s day, With Footnotes – #108
Saint Theodore of Sykeon was a revered Byzantine ascetic, who lived between the first half of the 6th century and the thirteenth year of the Emperor Heraclius’ rule (i. e. 623) in the early 7th century. Theodore was born in Sykeon, a village in Galatia. The public highway of the imperial post ran through this village,…
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04 Works, Today, April 21st, is St. Hieromartyr Januarius’s day, With Footnotes – #107
Hieromartyr Januarius Bishop of Benevento, and the deacons Proculus, Sossius and Faustus, Desiderius the Reader, Eutychius and Acution suffered martyrdom for Christ about the year 305 during the persecution ordered by the emperor Diocletian (284-305). During the 1 1⁄2-year-long persecution of Christians by Emperor Diocletian, he hid his fellow Christians and prevented them from being caught.…
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Jan Gossaert, The Virgin and Child with a Lily 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 126
The Madonna and Child or The Virgin and Child is often the name of a work of art which shows the Virgin Mary and the Child Jesus. The word Madonna means “My Lady” in Italian. Artworks of the Christ Child and his mother Mary are part of the Roman Catholic tradition in many parts of…
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Cercle of Paul Bril; Saint Anthony Abbot before his field of crops 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 126
Saint Anthony or Antony (251–356) was a Christian monk from Egypt, revered since his death as a saint. He is distinguished from other saints named Anthony by various epithets: Anthony the Great, Anthony of Egypt, Anthony the Abbot, Anthony of the Desert, Anthony the Anchorite, and Anthony of Thebes. For his importance among the Desert Fathers…
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05 Works, Today, April 18th, is Eleutherius and Antia’s day, With Footnotes – #104
Eleutherius was born in Rome, where his father was an imperial proconsul. His mother Anthia heard the Gospel from the Apostle Paul and was baptized by him… Please follow link for full post
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10 Works, Today, April 17th, is Pope Alexander I of Alexandria’s day, With Footnotes – #103
Alexander I of Alexandria, 19th Pope of Alexandria & Patriarch of the See of St. Mark. During his patriarchate, he dealt with a number of issues facing the Church in that day. These included the dating of Easter, the actions of Meletius of Lycopolis, and the issue of greatest substance, Arianism… Please follow link…
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04 Works, Today, April 16th, is Mary Brant’s day, With Footnotes – #102
Mary Brant, (born 1736?—died April 16, 1796, Kingston, Ontario [Canada]), Native American leader, an influential and effective Iroquois ally to Great Britain in the American Revolution and later a founder of Kingston, Ontario. Brant was of the Mohawk tribe, the daughter of a sachem (chief). Sometime in the late 1750s she came to the attention…
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