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Jesus de Greatest is a statue of Jesus Christ located in Abajah village in Imo State, Nigeria. [1] It is considered "Africa’s largest statue of Jesus", [2] [3] [4] and is the fifth tallest statue on the African continent. [5] Jesus de Greatest is 8.53 metres (28.0 ft) tall and weighs 40 tons. [4]
Jesus Day is the day of the March for Jesus held annually since the 1980s by some Christians in the United States on the Saturday before Pentecost Sunday. The main purpose is to demonstrate public respect for Jesus Christ , the central figure of the Christian faith, by uniting with local communities in worship.
In Luke 24:10, Joanna is mentioned by name, along with Mary Magdalene and Mary of Clopas, as among the women who took spices to Jesus' tomb and found the stone rolled away and the tomb empty. The accounts in the other synoptic gospels do not mention Joanna as one of the group of women who observe Jesus' burial and testify to his Resurrection .
[12] [15] [16] Mary was, by far, the most common Jewish given name for girls and women during the first century, [12] [c] [17] so it was necessary for the authors of the gospels to call her Magdalene in order to distinguish her from the other women named Mary who followed Jesus. [12]
The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [2]
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In the Catacombs of Rome, artists just hinted at the Resurrection by using images from the Old Testament such as the fiery furnace and Daniel in the Lion's Den. The period between the year 250 AD and the liberating Edict of Milan in 313 AD saw violent persecutions of Christians under Decius and Diocletian. The most numerous surviving examples ...
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