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Every evening from 2 to 16 October, a film about the life and faith of the Apostle Peter will be projected onto the façade of St Peter's Basilica in Rome

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Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him an

Now when Job's three friends heard of all this evil that had come upon him, they came every one from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; for they had made an appointment together to come to mourn with him and to

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A Teacher and His Students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian Theologian Augustinus of Ancona

A teacher and his students from the "Summa de potestate ecclesiastica" by the Italian theologian Augustinus of Ancona. Those with a keen eye will have noticed that the tables with benches in this illustration of the fifteenth century bear a suspicious resemblance to the celebrated Erismann desks, invented

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Painting “Behold the Man” showing Christ in a crown of thorns among a crowd of persecutors

Andrea Mantegna, Ecce Homo, 1500s. The title of the canvas means, quite literally, Behold the man! Christ, crowned with thorns, bearing the marks of his torments and bound with cords, and his persecutors, merging into a single, unanimous crowd on either side of him, among them the Jewish dignitaries who

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Hans Memling's Annunciation, 1480-89

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Spectators: the Triple Funerary Monument of the Fettiplace Family in Swinbrook Church, Oxfordshire

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Pilgrims visit two panes of glass with the face of John the Baptist in a church in Mayakovsky

Residents of Mayakovskoye, a village in the Kaliningrad region, bear witness to the miraculous appearance of the face of John the Baptist on a pane of glass in the church of the Great Martyr Panteleimon. Clergy of the church relate that in 2020, at the onset of the pandemic, the

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Giotto's Fresco Christ among the Doctors, 1304-1306

The fresco's original title is Cristo tra i Dottori, which often misleads viewers: many, in error, take Dottori literally as physicians. One should not forget that the word doctor derives from the Latin docere, "to teach", and a doctor is accordingly a teacher. Jesus in this

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The Tetramorph in the Song “Gorod zolotoy” and in Jacobello Alberegno’s Polyptych

"There a fire-maned lion shall meet you, and a blue ox, full of eyes; with them the golden eagle of the heavens, whose gaze is so bright, so unforgettable" The words of "The Golden City" ("Gorod zolotoy"), the song by Anri Volokhonsky performed

Medieval miniature of a haloed monk with a crozier praying before the Virgin and Child, a stream of milk running from her breast to him.

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Bernard of Clairvaux as the Ideologist of the 1147 Wendish Crusade Against the Slavs

Bernard of Clairvaux, who is shown on icons receiving milk from the breast of the Virgin Mary, is regarded as the man behind Pope Eugene III, who had been his pupil and heeded his opinion. It was Bernard of Clairvaux who was the ideologue of the Crusade against the Slavs

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The apocryphal vision of Bernard of Clairvaux and the Virgin's milk, spread from Spain

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux Drinks the Breast Milk of the Virgin Mary, Who Is Nursing the Infant Jesus. This curious subject spread from Spain and is connected with an apocryphal tale of a vision of the Abbot of Clairvaux, in which the Mother of God directed a jet of her

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