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One of the visitors was the writer Alexei Timofeev, who offered the following commentary on the painting: "‘The Appearance of the Saviour, after the resurrection, to Mary Magdalene Vertograd’ - a subject on which many painters worked; but what is particularly good in this painting - the position of the Saviour. This is God!
It is perhaps linked with John 19:41, which mentions that Jesus was buried in a garden. John is the only one of the canonical gospels to mention this. The mention of the gardener is also perhaps linked to a Jewish story from the period which attempted to discredit the resurrection.
Our Lady of Fátima, with her Immaculate Heart surrounded with thorns, a necklace chain with a golden ball of light, and barefooted as described by Lúcia dos Santos OCD. The consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary by a reigning pope was requested during a Marian apparition by Our Lady of Fátima on 13 July 1917, according to Lúcia dos Santos (Sister Lúcia), one of the three ...
Reported messages from Jesus have also influenced papal actions and encyclicals. The 1899 consecration of the world to the Sacred Heart of Jesus by Pope Leo XIII in the encyclical Annum sacrum was due in part to the messages from Jesus reported by a Sister of the Good Shepherd, Mary of the Divine Heart. Pope Leo XIII performed the requested ...
Walter Joseph Ciszek, S.J. (November 4, 1904 – December 8, 1984) was a Polish-American Jesuit priest of the Russian Greek Catholic Church who clandestinely conducted missionary work in the Soviet Union between 1939 and 1963.
After the resurrection, Jesus is portrayed as calling the apostles to the Great Commission, as described in Matthew 28:16–20, [45] Mark 16:14–18, [46] Luke 24:44–49, [47] Acts 1:4–8, [48] and John 20:19–23, [49] in which the disciples receive the call "to let the world know the good news of a victorious Saviour and the very presence ...
In Agony in the Garden, Jesus prays in the garden after the Last Supper while the disciples sleep and Judas leads the mob, by Andrea Mantegna c. 1460.. In Roman Catholic tradition, the Agony in the Garden is the first Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary [8] and the First Station of the Scriptural Way of the Cross (second station in the Philippine version).
Holy Rus: a picture by the Russian painter Mikhail Nesterov, 1901-1906. Holy Rus' or Holy Russia (Russian: Святая Русь, romanized: Svyatáya Rusʹ) - is an important religious and philosophical concept which appeared from the 9th century and developed gradually from the 16th century to the 21st century by people in Grand Duchy of Moscow, East Europe, Central Eurasia and Great Russia.