Tag: Bible
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04 Works, Today, March 1st, is Saint Eudokia’s Day, With Footnotes – #60
Eudokia was a Samarian woman who lived in Heliopolis of Phoenicia (present day Baalbek, Lebanon). Eudokia was very beautiful, and garnered her wealth by attracting wealthy lovers. She learned about Christianity from a monk by the name of Germanus. According to legend, Eudokia asked him if she, too, could be saved from Judgment. Germanos instructed her…
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07 Works, Today, February 28/29th, is John Cassian’s Day, With Footnotes – #59
John Cassian (c. AD 360 – c. 435) was a Christian monk and theologian celebrated in both the Western and Eastern churches for his mystical writings. Cassian is noted for his role in bringing the ideas and practices of Christian monasticism to the early medieval West. Cassian was born around 360, most likely in the region of Scythia…
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Roy De Maistre, Our Lady of Walsingham 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Modern Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 39
Our Lady of Walsingham is a title of the Blessed Virgin Mary venerated by Roman Catholics and Anglicans associated with the Marian apparitions to Richeldis de Faverches, a pious English noblewoman, in 1061 in the village of Walsingham in Norfolk, England. Lady Richeldis had a building structure named “The Holy House” built in Walsingham which later…
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07 Works, Today, February 26th, is St. Photini, the Samaritan Woman’s Day, With Footnotes – #56
St. Photini lived in first century Palestine. She was the Samaritan woman who Christ visited at the well asking her for water. It was she who accepted the “living water” offered her by Christ Himself; and told her townspeople that she had met the Christ. For this, she is sometimes recognized as the first to…
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Vincent Sellaer, Susanna and Elders 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – #133
A fair Hebrew wife named Susanna was falsely accused by lecherous voyeurs. As she bathes in her garden, having sent her attendants away, two lustful elders secretly observe the lovely Susanna. When she makes her way back to her house, they accost her, threatening to claim that she was meeting a young man in the…
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05 Works, Today, February 25th, is Saint Tarasios’ Day, With Footnotes – 55
Saint Tarasios (c. 730 – 25 February 806) was Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople from 25 December 784 until his death on 25 February 806. Tarasios was born and raised in the city of Constantinople. He was related to important families, and embarked on a career in the secular administration and had attained the rank of senator,…
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07 Works, Today, February 23rd, is Saint Hieromartyr Polycarp’s Day, With Footnotes – 53
Hieromartyr Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna (167) was born at Ephesus around the year 70. St Irenaeus of Lyons, his disciple, says that St Polycarp was ‘a disciple of the Apostles and acquainted with those who had seen the Lord.’ His parents died as martyrs, and he was given into the care of a devout lady named…
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04 Works, Today February 22th, is the Holy Martyrs at the gate of Eugenius at Constantinople’s Day, With Footnotes – #52
During the persecutions against Christians the relics of the holy martyrs were usually buried by believers in hidden places. So at Constantinople, near the gates and tower in the Eugenius quarter, the bodies of several martyrs were found. Their names remain unknown by the Church. When miracles of healing began to occur at this spot,…
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04 Works, Today, February 20th, is Saint Leo of Catania’s Day, With Footnotes – 50
Saint Leo of Catania, nicknamed the Thaumaturgus, also known as St Leo the Wonderworker in Sicily (May 703 or 709 – 20 February 789) lived at the time of the first persecutions of the holy icons. He was born in Ravenna to a noble family, and became bishop of his native city. Soon his reputation…
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06 Works, Today, February 15th, is Saints Jovita and Faustinus’ Day, With Footnotes – #46
Saints Jovita and Faustinus were said to be Christian martyrs under Hadrian. Their traditional date of death is 120. They are patron saints of Brescia. Tradition states that they were members of a noble family of Brescia in Lombardy (northern Italy). Jovinus, the older brother, was a preacher; Faustinus, a deacon. According to the tradition of…
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Giacinto Brandi, Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane 01 Work, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – #131
Gethsemane is an urban garden at the foot of the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem. In Christianity, it is the place where Jesus underwent the agony in the garden and was arrested the night before his crucifixion. Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane refers to the events in the life of Jesus as recorded in the…
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Aloïse Corbaz; Adoration of the Mages 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – # 38
The Adoration of the Magi (anglicized from the Matthean Vulgate Latin section title: A Magis adoratur) is the name traditionally given to the subject in the Nativity of Jesus in art in which the three Magi, represented as kings, especially in the West, having found Jesus by following a star, lay before him gifts of gold,…
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04 Works, Today, February 5th, is Saint Agatha of Sicily’s Day, With Footnotes – 36
Sebastiano del Piombo (1485 – 21 June 1547) was an Italian painter of the High Renaissance and early Mannerist periods famous as the only major artist of the period to combine the colouring of the Venetian school in which he was trained with the monumental forms of the Roman school. He belongs both to the painting…
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03 Works, Today, February 4th, is Saint Isidore of Pelusium’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Isidore of Pelusium (b. 450) was born in Egypt to a prominent Alexandrian family. He became an ascetic, and moved to a mountain near the city of Pelusium, in the tradition of the Desert Fathers. His parents who saw to his education. They taught him the books of the church, and the Greek language in which he excelled. He was also…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, January 15, is St. Tatyana Rimskaya’s Day, With Footnotes – 15
Saint Tatiana was a Christian martyr in 3rd-century Rome during the reign of Emperor Alexander Severus. She was a deaconess of the early church. According to legend, she was the daughter of a Roman civil servant who was secretly Christian, and raised his daughter in the faith. This was dangerous, and one day the jurist Ulpian…
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Titian, The Madonna and Child 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 129
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 the…
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Renato Guttuso, The CCrucifixion 02 Works, 20th Century Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 37
Crocifissione is the painting for which Renato Guttuso is best remembered. At the time it was derided by the clergy, who labelled Guttuso a “pictor diabolicus” (“a devilish painter”). The fascists also denounced it for depicting the horrors of war under a religious cover. Guttuso wrote in his diary: “it is the symbol of all those…
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Bolognese School, The Holy Family 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 128
The Holy Family consists of the Child Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and Saint Joseph. Veneration of the Holy Family was formally begun in the 17th century by Saint François de Laval, the first bishop of New France, who founded a Confraternity. Matthew and Luke narrate the episodes from this period of Christ’s life, namely his Circumcision…
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Hans Baldung Grien, Lot and his daughters 01 Work, Interpretation the bible, With Footnotes – 127
Lot and his two daughters, Genesis 19:30-38, left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as…
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Viet Ha Tran, Garden of Eden 01 Work, CONTEMPORARY Interpretation of the Bible! With Footnotes – 46
The Garden of Eden, also called Paradise, is the biblical “garden of God” described in the Book of Genesis and the Book of Ezekiel. The location of Eden is described in the Book of Genesis as the source of four tributaries. The Garden of Eden is considered to be mythological by most scholars. Among those…
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