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The Basilica of Santa Cristina is a Catholic basilica church in Bolsena, province of Viterbo, region of Lazio, Italy. The church is best known for being the site of a Eucharistic Miracle in 1263, immortalized by The Mass at Bolsena by Raphael in the Vatican palace. It also was the burial site for the martyr and saint Christina of Bolsena ...
Christina was once included in the General Roman Calendar; the older Tridentine calendar gave her a commemoration within the Mass of the Vigil of Saint James the Great. When Pope Pius XII suppressed this vigil as part of his 1955 reforms , [ 6 ] celebration of Saint Christina became a "simple" and by 1960, a "commemoration". [ 7 ]
Gothic Revival church built in 1854. It is a San Francisco landmark [24] St. Boniface 133 Golden Gate Ave. 1860 [25] St. Patrick: 756 Mission St. 1851 Church rebuilt after 1906 San Francisco Earthquake. It is San Francisco Historic Landmark #4 [26] Sts. Peter and Paul: 666 Filbert St. 1884 Known as the Italian Cathedral of the West, completed ...
The Mass at Bolsena is a painting by the Italian renaissance artist Raphael. It was painted between 1512 and 1514 [ 1 ] as part of Raphael's commission to decorate with frescoes the rooms that are now known as the Raphael Rooms , in the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican .
The miracle of Bolsena is related in the inscription on a slab of red marble in the church of St Christina, and is of later date than the canonization of St. Thomas Aquinas (1323). The oldest record of the miracle is in the enamel representations of it that adorn the front of the reliquary made by Sienese goldsmith Ugolino di Vieri in 1337–1338.
The Rev. Cecil Williams, who with his late wife turned Glide Church in San Francisco into a world-renowned haven for people suffering from poverty and homelessness and living on the margins, has died.
The entry Church of San Francesco includes churches linked to the devotion to St Francis of Assisi (San Francesco in Italian) and the Franciscan order. They mainly include churches or monasteries in the Italian peninsula in the following cities/towns and regions:
Historic view (1906, after the earthquake and fire) looking North at Saint Francis of Assisi Church. The Saint Francis of Assisi Church was dedicated as a parish church on March 17, 1860, and during the 1906 earthquake and fire the interior was fully damaged. [2] Throughout its parish history, nineteen priests served as pastors.