This 2009 interpretation of The Last Supper is by contemporary artist Lorna May Wadsworth. Featuring the Jamacan-born model Tafari Hinds as Christ.
It hit the headlines in the summer of 2020 when the artist heard it had been shot while in situ behind the altar of a church in Gloucestershire. The damage occurred on Christ’s right [...]
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5 Comments CherryPie on Nov 28th 2024
Architecture is the thoughtful making of space.
Louis Kahn
8 Comments CherryPie on Nov 24th 2024
The apostles were moved, not so much by an intellectual apprehension, as by a spiritual illumination. They met men, and the need of those men whom they met cried aloud to them.
Roland Allen
20 Comments CherryPie on Nov 4th 2024
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The Holy Crib
Commissioned by Pope Pius IX (1846-78), Roman architect Virginio Vespignani built the Confessio (1861-64) in front of the Papal Altar. Vespignani used some 70 different types of marble, mostly from extractions that occurred concurrently in Rome and Ostia.
The Confessio recalls the importance of Saint Mary Major as the Bethlehem of the West and as Rome’s Basilica [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 3rd 2024
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The Nativity Scene by Arnolfo Di Cambio
For many centuries, the Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major was called Saint Mary of the Manger or The Bethlehem of the West, owing to preservation in the Basilica, sine the 7th Century, of the precious relic of the Manger of the Child Jesus (today at the relquary crypt below the Main Altar. Originally, it [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2024
The Papal Basilica of Saint Mary Major has dominated over the city of Rome for 16 centuries as the Marian shrine par excellence and the cradle of artistic civilization. Located at the summit of the Esquiline Hill, it is one of Rome’s four Papal Basilicas. According to tradition, the Virgin Mary indicated and inspired the [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Oct 31st 2024
I was a stranger and you welcomed me.
Matthew 25:35
13 Comments CherryPie on Sep 29th 2024
