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Statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague, given by Princess Polyxena of Lobkowicz to the Discalced Carmelites in 1628. The Christ Child—also known as Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, Child Jesus, Divine Child, Divine Infant and the Holy Child—refers to Jesus Christ during his early years.
The Apostolic Constitutions, whose texts date to c. 400 AD, attribute the precept of using holy water to the Apostle Matthew.It is plausible that the earliest Christians may have used water for expiatory and purificatory purposes in a way analogous to its employment in Jewish Law ("And he shall take holy water in an earthen vessel, and he shall cast a little earth of the pavement of the ...
Romanesque St Basil chapel. The chapel of Saint Basil is one of the best preserved churches in Romanesque style of West Flanders. [2] Built from 1134 to 1149, the chapel is dedicated to St. Basil the Great of whom a relic was brought back by Count Robert II from Caesarea Mazaca in Cappadocia, Asia Minor (modern-day Turkey).
Tazkiyah (Arabic: تزكية) is an Arabic-Islamic term alluding to tazkiyat al-nafs, meaning 'sanctification' or 'purification of the self'. This refers to the process of transforming the nafs (carnal self or desires) from its state of self-centrality through various spiritual stages towards the level of purity and submission to the will of God. [1]
The santri of PPTQM Pakan Sinayan in Agam Regency, West Sumatra, Indonesia doing the Tapak Suci exercise. Tapak Suci Putera Muhammadiyah (lit. ' Sacred Palm, Sons of Muhammadiyah '), shortened as Tapak Suci, is an autonomous pencak silat martial arts organization of Muhammadiyah, the modernist, second largest Muslim organization in Indonesia.