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SAINT NEKTARIOS: The Saint of Our Century. Translated by Peter and Aliki Los. Publications "Καινούργια Γή", Greece. ISBN 978-960-7374-43-1 (St. Nektarios Monastery, Roscoe, NY.) A Brief Account Of The Life Of St. Nectarios, Metropolitan of Aegina at www.serfes.org; Nectarios at www.st-seraphim.com; Saint Nektarios at www ...
Marian apparitions are reported supernatural appearances by Mary, the mother of Jesus.Below is a list of alleged events concerning notable Marian apparitions, which have either been approved by a major Christian church, or which retain a significant following despite the absence of official approval or despite an official determination of inauthenticity.
Several venerated images of Jesus Christ and Saint Joseph have also been granted a pontifical coronation. [ a ] The pontifical decree of canonical coronation Qui Semper granted for the "Virgin of Hope of Triana" in Spain , legally imposing the venerated Marian image the Pontifical right to wear a crown by Pope John Paul II on 7 April 1983.
Our Lady of Fátima (Portuguese: Nossa Senhora de Fátima, pronounced [ˈnɔsɐ sɨˈɲɔɾɐ ðɨ ˈfatimɐ]; formally known as Our Lady of the Holy Rosary of Fátima) is a Catholic title of Mary, mother of Jesus, based on the Marian apparitions reported in 1917 by three shepherd children at the Cova da Iria in Fátima, Portugal.
Late in the day some people reported unusual phenomena related to the appearance of the Sun, [4] similar to the 1917 Miracle of the Sun. [5] The event was investigated by a team assembled by Bishop of Lubbock Michael J. Sheehan. As of 2008, the event was not recognized by the Catholic Church.
A simple Italian Virgin and Child by Carlo Crivelli, c. 1470. Virgin and Child or Madonna and Child or Mary and Child usually refers to artistic depictions of Mary and Child Jesus together, as part of both Catholic and Orthodox church traditions, and very notably in the Marian art in the Catholic Church.
The Madonna of humility by Domenico di Bartolo 1433 has been described as one of the most innovative devotional images from the early Renaissance [35]. Catholic Marian art has expressed a wide range of theological topics that relate to Mary, often in ways that are far from obvious, and whose meaning can only be recovered by detailed scholarly analysis.
The best known of these, and the most commonly credited in the West, was Saint Luke, who was long believed to have had the Virgin Mary sit for her portrait, but in the East a number of other figures were believed by many to have created images, including narrative ones. Saint Peter was said to have "illustrated his own account of the ...