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This wooden Rood depicting Christ's crucifixion, with His mother Mary to the left and John to the right, sits above the entrance to the Nave of St Helen's Church in Waddington.
This part of Great Skellig Michael is known as Christ’s Saddle because of its saddle like rock formation.
Euphorbia milii. Crown of Thorns, Christ Thorns. Toxic.
Believed to be the plant used for Christ's Crown of Thorns.
Full frame. Dedicated macro lens. No crop. No post processing.
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St. Georg, Reichenau, Baden-Württemberg, Deutschland.
La Iglesia de San Jorge es una iglesia católica romana. Es parte de la Abadía de Reichenau fundada en el año 724, ubicada en la isla de Reichenau en el lago Constanza en el sur de Alemania. La isla alberga las iglesias de Santa María, Marco, Pedro y Pablo. La iglesia fue construida a finales del siglo IX para albergar la reliquia de la cabeza de San Jorge, un regalo del Papa Gregorio II, que conmemoraba la visita a Roma del abad Hoito en 896.
La iglesia es propiedad y está dirigida por el Fondo de la Iglesia Católica de San Jorge. El interior de la iglesia está decorado con pinturas murales que representan historias y figuras de las Escrituras y fue diseñado para aquellos que dedican sus vidas a la oración y la adoración.
La iglesia alberga frescos que se añadieron en el siglo X. Las pinturas murales representan una expresión artística de la Edad Media y son únicas por su antigüedad y ubicación. Son el único conjunto completo
conservado de pinturas murales realizadas al norte de los Alpes antes del año 1000 d.C.
Los frescos se dividen en tres zonas. La primera zona y la más baja se sitúa entre la nave y los arcos. La segunda zona está encima de los arcos. La tercera y más alta zona se encuentra encima de las ventanas. El panel inferior muestra los monasterios de la isla Reichenau. La segunda es la zona más investigada. Representa los milagros de Cristo. El panel superior representa a los profetas del Antiguo Testamento y a los apóstoles del Nuevo Testamento.
Cada fresco detalla una historia específica de la vida de Cristo. Inscripciones descriptivas, o Tituli, acompañan a las pinturas.
The Church of Saint George is a Roman Catholic church. It is part of Reichenau Abbey founded in 724, located on the island of Reichenau on Lake Constance in southern Germany. The island is home to the churches of Saint Mary, Marcus, Peter and Paul. The church was built in the late 9th century to house the relic head of Saint George, a gift from Pope Gregory II, which commemorated a visit to Rome by Abbot Hoito in 896.
The church is owned and run by the Catholic Church of Saint George Fund. The church interior is decorated with wall paintings that depict stories and figures from scripture and was designed for those who dedicate their lives to prayer and worship.
The church hosts frescoes were added in the 10th century. The wall paintings typify artistic expression from the Middle Ages and are unique for their age and location. They are the only preserved complete set of wall paintings produced north of the Alps before 1000 AD.
The frescoes are divided into three zones. The first and lowest zone is located between the nave and the arches. The second zone is above the arches. The third and highest zone is located above the windows. The lowest panel depicts the monasteries at Reichenau Island. The second is the most researched zone. It portrays Christ's miracles. The top panel depicts Old Testament prophets and New Testament apostles.
Each fresco details a specific story from the life of Christ. Descriptive inscriptions, or Tituli, accompany the paintings.
The cathedral church of the Anglican diocese of Niagara. Built in 1835, it is the oldest Anglican cathedral in Canada outside of Quebec. The building was originally a wooden stucco structure with Palladian and Baroque influence, but additions in the mid-late 19th century turned it into a stone faced Gothic structure.
Wikipedia: Rye is a small town and civil parish in the Rother district, in East Sussex, England, two miles from the sea at the confluence of three rivers: the Rother, the Tillingham and the Brede. In medieval times, as an important member of the Cinque Ports confederation, it was at the head of an embayment of the English Channel, and almost entirely surrounded by the sea.
Its historical association with the sea has included providing ships for the service of the Crown in time of war, and being involved in smuggling. The notorious Hawkhurst Gang used its ancient inns The Mermaid Inn and The Olde Bell Inn, which are said to be connected to each other by a secret passageway.
Those historic roots and its charm make it a tourist destination, with hotels, guest houses, B&Bs, tea rooms, and restaurants.[3] One such hotspot is Mermaid Street, which was named one of the most instagrammed streets in the UK.[4] Rye also has a small fishing fleet, and Rye Harbour has facilities for yachts and other vessels.
Traditional Easter banner of Camprodon.
ENGLISH
Holy Week is the most sacred week in the liturgical year in Christianity. it begins with Palm Sunday and concludes on Easter Sunday. For all Christian traditions it is a moveable observance. In the Western Christian Churches, Holy Week falls on the last week of Lent or Sixth Lent Week.
Holy Week begins with the commemoration of Christ's triumphal entry into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday, climaxing with the commemoration of the Mystical or Last Supper on Maundy Thursday and the Passion of Jesus on Good Friday. Holy Week concludes with Christ's rest in death and descent into Hades on Holy Saturday.
It is believed Jesus rested in death from the ninth hour (3 pm) on Good Friday until just before dawn on Sunday morning, the day of his resurrection from death, commonly known as Easter Sunday. This marks the beginning of the season of Eastertide, with its first week being known as Easter Week (Bright Week).
CASTELLANO
La Semana Santa1 2 es la conmemoración cristiana anual de la Pasión de Cristo, es decir, de la entrada a Jerusalén, la última cena, el viacrucis, la muerte y resurrección de Jesús de Nazaret. Es la sexta y última semana de Cuaresma desde el Domingo de Ramos hasta el atardecer del Jueves Santo, entre el atardecer del Jueves Santo hasta el Domingo de Pascua, denominado Triduo Pascual. Por eso, es un período de intensa actividad litúrgica dentro de las diversas confesiones cristianas. Da comienzo con el Domingo de Ramos y finaliza el Domingo de Resurrección,3 aunque su celebración suele iniciarse en varios lugares el viernes anterior (viernes de Dolores).
CATALÀ
La Setmana Santa és el moment més important de l'any litúrgic cristià. Es tracta d'un conjunt de celebracions que tenen lloc entre el divendres abans del diumenge de Rams i el diumenge de Pasqua o, ja en el terreny de les festes populars, el dilluns de Pasqua. A través d'un vast i ric conjunt de pràctiques festives -processons, escenificacions teatrals i altres activitats litúrgiques i rituals- la comunitat cristiana recorda i recrea els darrers moments de Jesucrist a la Terra, el que hom coneix com a la Passió, Mort i Resurrecció. És a dir, des que Jesús arriba a Jerusalem procedent del desert i ja proclamat Salvador, fins que és processat, mort clavat a la creu, enterrat i fins que ressuscita.
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Vaig fotografiar aquesta planta als Jardins de Saint-Martin, a Mónaco. S'anomena espina de Crist (euphorbia milii) per les grans punxes que presenta i alhora unes flors que recorden gotes de sang. És nadiua de Madagascar.
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I photographed this plant in the Saint-Martin Gardens in Monaco. It is called Christ's thorn (euphorbia milii) because of the large spikes it presents and at the same time flowers that resemble drops of blood. It's native to Madagascar.
Derelict - The derelict Cill Chriosd or Christ's Church near Torrin on the road between Broadford and Elgol. Stacks of history and mystery in the church and adjoining graveyard. This 15th-16th century church was abandoned in 1840 when the church in nearby Broadford was erected.
Isle of Skye, Scottish Inner Hebrides
Cill Chriosd (Christ's Church or "Kilchrist") is a ruined former parish church of Strathaird, on the Isle of Skye, Scotland. It was constructed around the 16th century, replacing an earlier Medieval church on the same location, and was used until 1840 when the Parish church was relocated to Broadford. It lies on the B8083 Broadford to Torrin and Elgol road.
Christ Church, Dover, DE. Located in the Dover Green Historic District, the church was established as a mission church in 1704 and the building constructed in 1734.
Church in Quincy, MA
Episcopal church built in the Tudor Revival style built in 1874 of granite stone from Quincy quarries. This parish itself dates back to 1689 and is believed to be the oldest continuously active Episcopal parish in Massachusetts. This is the parish's fourth church building.
Christ's Church College
In 1525, at the height of his power, Thomas Wolsey, Lord Chancellor of England and Cardinal Archbishop of York, suppressed the Priory of St Frideswide in Oxford and founded Cardinal College on its lands.
In 1546, King Henry VIII who had broken from the Church of Rome and acquired great wealth through the dissolution of the monasteries in England, refounded the college as Christ Church as part of the re-organisation of the Church of England, making the partially demolished Priory church the cathedral of the recently created diocese of Oxford.
Christ's College, University of Cambridge. Just student accommodation! The college has been in the news lately: Sir Martin Evans, who graduated from the college in 1963, has been named as the joint winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine. Sir Evans is credited for discovering embryonic stem cells.
A stone's throw from St. Paul's Cathedral, at the Christchurch Greyfriars Garden, this sculpture commemorates the Christ’s Hospital School’s 350 year presence in the City of London.
XI. CHRIST'S BIRTH [99]
I saw the radiance round the Blessed Virgin ever growing greater. The
light of the lamps which Joseph had lit was no longer visible. The
Blessed Virgin knelt on her rug in an ample ungirt robe spread out
round her, her face turned towards the east.
At midnight she was rapt in an ecstasy of prayer. I saw her lifted from
the earth, so that I saw the ground beneath her. Her hands were crossed
on her breast. The radiance about her increased; everything, even
things without life, were in a joyful inner motion, the stones of the
roof, of the walls, and of the floor of the cave became as it were
alive in the light. Then I no longer saw the roof of the cave; a
pathway of light opened above Mary, rising with ever-increasing glory
towards the height of heaven.
In this pathway of light there was a wonderful movement of glories
interpenetrating each other, and, as they approached, appearing more
clearly in the form of choirs of heavenly spirits. Meanwhile the
Blessed Virgin, borne up in ecstasy, was now gazing downwards, adoring
her God, whose Mother she had become and who lay on the earth before
her in the form of a helpless newborn child. [100]
I saw our Redeemer as a tiny child, shining with a light that
overpowered all the surrounding radiance, and lying on the carpet at
the Blessed Virgin's knees. It seemed to me as if He were at first
quite small and then grew before my eyes. But the movement of the
intense radiance was such that I cannot say for certain how I saw it.
The Blessed Virgin remained for some time rapt in ecstasy. I saw her
laying a cloth over the Child, but at first she did not touch Him or
take Him up. After some time I saw the Child Jesus move and heard Him
cry. Then Mary seemed to come to herself, and she took the Child up
from the carpet, wrapping Him in the cloth which covered Him, and held
Him in her arms to her breast. She sat there enveloping herself and the
Child completely in her veil, and I think Mary suckled the Redeemer. I
saw angels round her in human forms, lying on their faces and adoring
the Child.
It might have been an hour after His Birth when Mary called St. Joseph,
who was still lying in prayer. When he came near, he threw himself down
on his face in devout joy and humility. It was only when Mary begged
him to take to his heart, in joy and thankfulness, the holy present of
the Most High God, that he stood up, took the Child Jesus in his arms,
and praised God with tears of joy.
The Blessed Virgin then wrapped the Child Jesus in swaddling-bands. I
cannot now remember how these bands were wound round; I only know that
the Child was wrapped to His armpits first in red and then white bands,
and that His head and shoulders were wrapped in another little cloth.
Mary had only four sets of swaddling-bands with her. Then I saw Mary
and Joseph sitting side by side on the bare earth with their feet under
them. They did not speak, and seemed both to be sunk in meditation. On
the carpet before Mary lay the newborn Jesus in swaddling clothes, a
little Child, beautiful and radiant as lightning. Ah, I thought, this
place enshrines the salvation of the whole world, and no one guesses
it. Then they laid the Child in the manger, which was filled with
rushes and delicate plants and covered with a cloth hanging over the
sides. It stood above the stone trough lying on the ground, to the
right of the entrance, where the cave makes a big curve towards the
south. This part of the cave was at a lower level than the place where
Our Lord was born: the floor slanted downwards in a step-like
formation. After laying the Child in the crib, they both stood beside
Him giving praise to God with tears of joy. Joseph then arranged the
Blessed Virgin's resting-place and her seat beside the Crib. [See
Figure 13.] Both before and after the Birth of Jesus, I saw her dressed
in white and veiled. I saw her there in the first days after the
Nativity, sitting, kneeling, standing, and sleeping on her side,
wrapped up but in no way ill or exhausted. When people came to see her,
she wrapped herself up more closely and sat upright on her lying-in
coverlet.
The south transept rose window of Reims Cathedral is a 13th-century Gothic stained glass composition designed to illuminate the southern arm of the transept.
The south transept rose window, installed in 1937 under the design of Jacques Simon, features Christ in Majesty at its center, surrounded by a circle of adoring angels. Beyond this inner ring lies another band composed of the twelve apostles, each depicted in their own roundel, forming a two-tiered arrangement that radiates outward from the central medallion. Beneath the rose, three six‑lobed oculi depict symbolic Christian elements—the bread, the wine, and the lamb, reflecting Eucharistic themes.
The window was first rebuilt after being destroyed in a 1580 storm, restored again after World War I, and the present design remains faithful to its intended iconographic program centered on Christ’s glory and the supporting roles of angels and apostles.
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A masterpiece of the Early and High Middle Ages, Svetitskhoveli is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
Known as the burial site of the claimed Christ's mantle, Svetitskhoveli has long been one of the principal Georgian Orthodox churches and is among the most venerated places of worship in the region.