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Saint Longinus is a sculpture by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Completed in 1638, the marble sculpture sits in the north-eastern niche in the crossing of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. [1] It is over four meters high and was commissioned by Pope Urban VIII, a great patron of Bernini.
Longinus was not originally a saint in Christian tradition. An early tradition, found in a sixth- or seventh-century pseudepigraphal " Letter of Herod to Pilate ", claims that Longinus suffered for having pierced Jesus, and that he was condemned to a cave where every night a lion came and mauled him until dawn, after which his body healed back ...
The first Filipino canonized as saint was Lorenzo Ruiz, a married lay Dominican and member of the Rosarian Confraternity in dedication to Our Lady. Ruiz died as a martyr of faith during the persecutions in Nagasaki, Japan , where the Japanese rulers organized an anti-clerical campaign.
Statue of Carlo Barberini: Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome 1630 Sculpture Marble Life-size 27 [33] Self-Portrait as a Mature Man (Bernini) [Wikidata] Uffizi, Florence 1630–1635 Painting Oil on canvas 62 cm × 46 cm (24.4 in × 18.1 in) NA [34] Saint Longinus: St. Peter's Basilica, Vatican City 1631–1638 Sculpture Marble Height 440 cm (174 in ...
Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal Statue (Agtalin Shrine) Virgin Mary Pilar, Capiz: 1993 24.4 m (80 ft) [14] Built in 1991 on top of Agtalin Hill at Brgy. Dulangan. It was the tallest Marian statue in the Philippines at the time of its completion in 1993. [14] [9
Fresco by Fra Angelico, Dominican monastery at San Marco, Florence, showing the lance piercing the side of Jesus on the cross (c. 1440). The Holy Lance, also known as the Spear of Longinus (named after Saint Longinus), the Spear of Destiny, or the Holy Spear, is alleged to be the lance that pierced the side of Jesus as he hung on the cross during his crucifixion.
Saint Bibiana (Bernini) Saint Longinus (Bernini) St. Peter's Baldachin; Saint Sebastian (Bernini) Saints Jerome and Mary Magdalen (Bernini) Sleeping Hermaphroditus; Statue of Alexander VII (Bernini) Statue of Carlo Barberini; Statue of King Philip IV of Spain (Bernini) Statue of Pope Urban VIII
Bernini's Longinus is an intermediary between the sober but contorting classicism of Bolgi and Duquesnoy and the emotive dynamism of Mochi. Mochi's passionate depiction appears to overstep the decorum of the place. The other statues [10] exude the equanimity of passionate triumphal Catholicism, celebrated here in the center of the mother church.