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(Thérèse of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face) 2 January 1873 30 September 1897 24 France: Bayeux-Lisieux: Heroic Virtues Religious, Discalced Carmelite Nuns: Maria Goretti: 16 October 1890 6 July 1902 11 Italy: Albano: Martyr in defensum castitatis: Francisco Marto: 11 July 1908 4 April 1919 10 Portugal: Leiria-Fátima: Heroic Virtues ...
The Infant Jesus of Mechelen (French: l'Enfant Jésus de Malines) is an unadorned 16th-century wooden image depicting the Child Jesus holding a globus cruciger and imparting a blessing. It is now in the Louvre Museum in Paris, as a typical representative of a type of image produced in considerable numbers in 16th-century Mechelen (Malines, in ...
Bambino Gesù di Praga (lit. ' Child Jesus of Praga ') is a Roman Catholic image of the Child Jesus venerated by the Genoese faithful. [1]The image takes its iconography from a painting of Infant Jesus of Prague which was brought by the Carmelite Order who wanted to propagate its devotion in the area.
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 various different names are ...
Made and painted by Lucas Cranach the Elder, the painting depicts Jesus Christ with children, based on the New Testament verse "Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for of such is the kingdom of God" (Mark 10:14); a popular subject of Protestant iconography in line with the Lutheran teachings of Sola gratia and Sola Fide; salvation by grace through faith, a theme ...
Each time this happened, the image of the child on the Virgin's arms was found to be dirty and his clothes had little holes in them. After that, the Holy Child was taken off his mother's arms and put on a glass box for everyone to see. The Holy Child of Atocha has become a symbol of Zacatecas and the protector of miners. Many make pilgrimages ...
Shortly before her death, she described a vision of the infant Jesus as lying on the ground, and emitting light himself, and describes the Virgin as blond-haired; many depictions reduced other light sources in the scene to emphasize this effect, and the Nativity remained very commonly treated with chiaroscuro through to the
Virgin and Child with Four Angels (or Virgin and Child with Angels) is a small oil-on-panel painting by the Early Netherlandish artist Gerard David. Likely completed between 1510 and 1515, it shows the Virgin Mary holding the child Jesus , while she is crowned Queen of Heaven by two angels above her, accompanied by music provided by another two ...