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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen are two sculptures by the Italian artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. They sit in the Chigi Chapel of Siena Cathedral. The statues were commissioned as part of the chapel by the then–pope...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The precise date for this early work by Donatello is not known, but between 1408-1415 the artist worked on this large-scale marble figurative sculpture depicting Saint John the Evangelist. Typically depicted as a young man, Donatello...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Chrism Mass is a religious service held in Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Anglicanism. The Chrism Mass is one of the most solemn and important liturgies of the Church year. Holy Thursday is the usual day...
Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! The Abbey of Notre-Dame-de-l'Annonnement du Barroux, founded in the 20th century, is an abbey of Benedictine nuns located in Barroux in the French department of Vaucluse. The monastery has about thirty nuns. Source [https:...
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Please Subscribe or Donate [https://sdcason.com/donate] to Help Keep This Site Free! In Eastern and Western Christian liturgical practice, the elevation is a ritual raising of the consecrated elements of bread and wine during the celebration of the Eucharist. The term is applied especially to that by which,...
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