Category: Religious Art
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07 Works, Today, March 24th, is St. Gabriel the Archangel’s Day, With Footnotes – #82
Gabriel, in the Abrahamic religions, is an archangel. He was first described in the Hebrew Bible and was subsequently adopted by other traditions. In the Hebrew Bible, Gabriel appears to the prophet Daniel to explain his visions. The archangel appears in such other ancient Jewish writings as the Book of Enoch. Alongside archangel Michael, Gabriel…
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04 Works, Today, March 21st, is Saint Lea’s Day, With Footnotes – #80
Saint Lea (died c. 383) is a fourth-century saint in the Roman Catholic Church based on the authority of Jerome. Lea of Rome is known only through the testimony of her beloved friend, the learned Saint Jerome. Jerome, a scholarly monk best known for his Latin translation of the Bible, is the Church’s only source of…
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05 Works, Today, March 20th, is Saint Cuthbert’s Day, With Footnotes – #78
Saint Cuthbert, (born 634/635, died March 20, 687, islet of Inner Farne), bishop of the great Benedictine abbey of Lindisfarne (or Holy Island) one of the most venerated English saints, who evangelized Northumbria and was posthumously hailed as a wonder-worker. After a divine vision, Cuthbert, a shepherd, entered the Northumbrian monastery of Melrose under Abbot St.…
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Flemish painter; Saint Gertrude of Nivelles 04 Works, Today, March 17th, is St. Gertrude of Nivelles’ Day, With Footnotes – #75
Gertrude of Nivelles, Virgin, and Abbess of the Benedictine monastery of Nivelles; born in 626; died 17 March, 659. She was born into a well-connected noble family. But she didn’t stick to the script that most noble women were made to follow in her era. One day, when she was about ten years of old,…
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03 Works, Today, March 16th, is St. Aristobulus’s Day, With Footnotes – #74
Aristobulus of Britannia is a Christian saint named by Hippolytus of Rome (170-235) and Dorotheus of Gaza (505-565) as one of the Seventy Disciples mentioned in Luke 10:1–24 and as the first bishop in Roman Britain. Aristobulus preached and died in Roman Britain. While some orthodox traditions say he “died in peace”, others say he was…
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06 Works, Today, March 13th, is Saint Christina of Tyre’s Day, With Footnotes – #71
Saint Christina of Bolsena, also known as Christina of Tyre, or in the Eastern Orthodox Church as Christina the Great Martyr, is venerated as a Christian martyr of the 3rd century. Archaeological excavations of an underground cemetery constructed at her tomb have shown that she was venerated at Bolsena by the fourth century… Please follow link for full post
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05 Works, Today, March 10th, is Saint Quadratu’s Day, With Footnotes – #68
During a persecution against Christians,in the third century, a woman named Rufina fled from Corinth to a mountain, to escape from her pursuers. There she gave birth to a son Quadratus, and died soon afterward. The infant remained alive and was nourished in miraculous manner: a cloud appeared over him, dropping a sweet dew into…
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