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Christ healing a bleeding woman, as depicted in the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter. Jesus healing the bleeding woman (or "woman with an issue of blood" and other variants) is one of the miracles of Jesus recorded in the synoptic gospels. [1] [2]
Jesus healing the bleeding woman, Roman catacombs, 300–350. Early Christian art and architecture (or Paleochristian art) is the art produced by Christians, or under Christian patronage, from the earliest period of Christianity to, depending on the definition, sometime between 260 and 525.
The catacombs "cover 3 hectares with 4.5 kilometers of subterranean galleries on three different levels". [1] Within the catacombs is a variety of frescoes representative of pagan and Christian traditions and a few small artifacts. The significance of the pieces of art can be traced to the time period they were commissioned and some possible ...
Here lies Adelphia, famous woman, wife of Count Valerius. The front side of the marble sarcophagus is split into two registers, typical of the style of the time, with both Old Testament and New Testament subjects and a central shell-shaped clipeus containing the portraits of the dead couple, embracing. The lid of the sarcophagus forms a third ...
Illustration from the Catacombs of Marcellinus and Peter of Jesus healing the bleeding woman. On the other side of the lake Jesus is met by a man named Jairus, a Synagogue Ruler (a rich patron of the local house of worship), [7] who begs Jesus to heal his sick, twelve-year-old daughter. Jesus takes only Peter, James, and John.
The Catacomb of Priscilla is a large archaeological site on the Via Salaria in Rome, Italy, situated in what was a quarry in Roman times. The catacombs extend downward for over seven miles, making them one of Romes most expansive catacombs. [1] it was used for thousands of Christian burials from the late 2nd century through the 4th century. [2]
19th-century group of Saint Veronica offering Jesus the veil, from a series of Stations of the Cross. There is no reference to the story of Veronica and her veil in the canonical Gospels . The closest written reference is the miracle of Jesus healing the bleeding woman by touching the hem of Jesus' garment; [ 5 ] her name is later identified as ...
James Stevenson, The Catacombs: Life and Death in Early Christianity, Thomas Nelson, 1985; Jocelyn Toynbee, Death and Burial in the Roman World, JHU Press, 1996 reprint, ISBN 0801855071, 9780801855078, google books; John Harvey Treat, The Catacombs of Rome; and a History of the Tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul, The Old Corner Bookstore, 1907