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From the image of Christ is responsible for a fraternity is the largest of the Canary Islands, [8] call: Pontificia, Real y Venerable Esclavitud del Santísimo Cristo de La Laguna. The Spanish King Alfonso XIII to this brotherhood Awarded the title of "Royal" on 19 December 1906, and Pope Pius X gave him the title of "Pontifical" on 15 February ...
Sanctuary of Christ the King – is a famous Catholic monument and shrine dedicated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus Christ, place of many pilgrimages. Church-Shrine of the Sacred Heart of Jesus – situated in Ermesinde, is an important pilgrimage destination to visit the tomb with the incorrupt body of Blessed Mary of the Divine Heart Droste zu ...
Sagrat Cor de Jesus (Christ, the Sacred Heart of Jesus) is a monument [1] located 3.5 miles (5.6 km) north of Ibiza Town on the Spanish island of Ibiza. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Description
Christian pilgrimages were first made to sites connected with the birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus.Aside from the early example of Origen in the third century, surviving descriptions of Christian pilgrimages to the Holy Land date from the 4th century, when pilgrimage was encouraged by church fathers including Saint Jerome, and established by Saint Helena, the mother of ...
In the seventeenth century the house where he was born was given to the Society of Jesus. The Order built there, near the birthplace of its founder, the Sanctuary of Loyola. In 1900 the Society commissioned an altar for the sanctuary, employing metalwork artist Plácido Zuloaga , who had won international success creating intricate artworks by ...
The Camino de Santiago (Latin: Peregrinatio Compostellana, lit. ' Pilgrimage of Compostela '; Galician: O Camiño de Santiago), [1] or the Way of St. James in English, is a network of pilgrims' ways or pilgrimages leading to the shrine of the apostle James in the cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia in northwestern Spain, where tradition holds that the remains of the apostle are buried.
The sculpture was not liked by the inquisitors of the islands, as the iconography of Christ conformed to the Passion of Christ as told in the Bible. [ 2 ] The statue depicts a naked man clutching the cross alive despite bleeding profusely from his open sores on the hands, feet, knees and back, plus a lance on the side, and whose left foot ...
The Monastery of Santo Toribio de Liébana is a Roman Catholic monastery located in the district of Liébana, near Potes in Cantabria, Spain.Located in the Cantabrian Mountains in northern Spain, the monastery is one of the five places in Roman Catholicism, together with Rome, Jerusalem, Santiago de Compostela and Caravaca de la Cruz, that has the privilege of issuing perpetual indulgences.