Antique Catholic

In 1881, as a Roman Catholic living in sin with a divorced woman, Tissot would not have been able to partake of the sacraments and perhaps had occasional crises of conscience.

His family came from the Alsace region and were poor and Catholic. On his mother’s side, the Staubs were from Wihr-au-Val where they had been coopers for several generations.

These may be the purported or actual physical remains of saints, such as bones, pieces of clothing, or some object associated with saints or other religious figures. Medieval Roman C...

Georg Braun (1541-1622) was German Catholic cleric who was born and who died in Cologne, Germany.

Fine exhibition quality, almost certainly a custom made one of a kind work, that could have only been commissioned by someone with extraordinary means, such as aristocratic nobility,...

With the worship of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Catholic Church intends to honour the Heart of Jesus Christ, one of the organs symbolizing his humanity, which by intimate union wi...

They were raised as Catholics. According to Daniels, Dreiser’s childhood was characterized by severe poverty, and his father could be harsh.

Charles was a deeply spiritual man and a lifelong and devout Catholic. In the mid 1850s he decided to enter the priesthood and spent three years as a monk in a Dominican House, at Ne...

The long main street, rimmed with aristocratic palaces, Catholic churches, and townsfolk's houses, is a thriving pedestrian zone with boutiques, cafés, and restaurants.

The scene is likely set in the 16th or 17th century when Protestants were prosecuted, amongst others, for reading the bible in the vernacular, a practice prohibited by the Catholic C...

The Sacred Military Constantinian Order of Saint George is a Roman Catholic order of chivalry. It was fictively established by Constantine the Great, though, in reality, it was found...

Their work is found in museums and galleries too numerous to mention.The de Hellebranth sisters were devout Catholics, and this is evident in their many portraits of clerics and reli...

The Basilica di San Pietro di Castello is commonly referred to as San Pietro di Castello. It is a Roman Catholic Church located on San Pietro di Castello, a small island off the east...

Medallion or devotional pendant or reliquary made of aventurine or aventurine with an octagonal shape and faceted fronts, enhanced with a series of enamels combining black and gold, ...

After Liverpool's retirement, George IV was forced to accept Catholic emancipation despite opposing it. His only legitimate child, Princess Charlotte, predeceased him in 1817, so he ...

After Liverpool's retirement, George IV was forced to accept Catholic emancipation despite opposing it. His only legitimate child, Princess Charlotte, predeceased him in 1817, so he ...

., always related to the Sacrifice of Christ, Salvation, Transubstantiation, Eucharist, etc. for being a key element for Christianity (especially the Catholic) what they will always ...

They probably decorated the space of a church, chapel, convent, or Catholic school. In the results of the interview with glass restorer Daniël Theys, you will learn more about the pa...

It was the last great dynastic collar order to be constituted as a chivalric fraternity, with a limitation to Roman Catholics, and a direct attachment to the dynasty rather than the ...

Gustavo attended this school, where he received Catholic training. This school was when he began to show interest in painting and to make his first paintings.

As a Privy Councilor he attempted to steer a moderate course between extreme Protestants, High Church Tories and Roman Catholics, but he was dismissed at the accession of James in 16...

In 1686 he resigned his commission to protest the introduction of Catholic officers into the English army by James II.

Hallock (Harper and Brothers, 1932) A Lovely Gate Set Wide: A Book of Catholic Verse for Young Readers--Sister Patrice Margaret (The Bruce Publishing Co., 1946) The Pageant o...

Following the Counter-Reformation (the self-imposed disciplining of the Catholic Church to ‘counter’ the successes of the Protestant Reformation), portrayals of Christ’s suffering be...

In the opposite of the table, there are a pope, a devil, a cardinal and a monk with the aspergillum; these are the allegories of the Catholic Church trying in vain to extinguish the ...

Though a strong religious image well understood by any Italian or Roman Catholic of the period the drawing simply shows the portrait of an elder statesman and leader up close with po...

Georg Braun (1541-1622) was German Catholic cleric who was born and who died in Cologne, Germany.

Under the Act of Settlement 1701, which excluded all Catholics, she was succeeded by her second cousin George I of the House of Hanover.

Georg Braun (1541-1622) was German Catholic cleric who was born and who died in Cologne, Germany.

The fact that Louis XIII's father Henry IV had been assassinated by a fanatical Roman Catholic, and Louis was only nine years old when he succeeded to the throne, already gives some ...

The ‘cathedra’ was originally associated with the Catholic Church where it was reserved as the seat of the Bishop and placed against the wall of the apse of the church.

Georg Braun (1541-1622) was German Catholic cleric who was born and who died in Cologne, Germany.

In 1959 at the age of 72, Catholic Church baptized Foujita at the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Reims and christened Léonard.

A beautiful wooden frame included, cm 25.4 x 1 x 29.3 This old master's original print with a lifetime impression and with a full mastery of this artistic medium, tells the story of...

Intended for the Roman Catholic priesthood, he was sent to Ushaw College, from which he absconded.

Georg Braun (1541-1622) was German Catholic cleric who was born and who died in Cologne, Germany.

They adhered to strict Catholic orthodoxy after their abjuration. Bartolomeo Panciatichi developed fairly close contacts with the literary world, not limited to Florence, as evidenc...

Long after her death, Marie Antoinette remains a major historical figure linked with conservative and the Catholic Church positions; and a major cultural icon associated with high gl...

., 'The Gillows and their work in Georgian Lancaster' in Catholic Englishmen, ed. J.A. Hilton, 1984. Simon Jervis, Victorian Furniture, 1968

He also publicly defended the Romanian Jews and spoke up in defence of the Irish Catholics against Britain, supporting William O’Brien, one of the leaders of the Irish revolt.

This piece is most likely made in New Mexico or the California region where the Catholic missions existed from the 17th to the early 19th century as hold outs of Spanish ideals.

Like other family members, Bega was probably Catholic. Houbraken's claim that Bega studied with Adriaen van Ostade is likely to be correct; this was probably before 24 April 1653, wh...

It was used by Nordic tribes, and even early Christians used the Swastika as one of their symbols, including the Teutonic Knights, a German medieval military order, which became a pu...

His mother, Marie Durand, assisted her husband in the family business and designed hats. A devout Catholic, Tissot's mother instilled pious devotion in the future artist from a very ...

Although they were ordered to come immediately to court to explain their actions, to all appearances things were smoothed over, and neither Southampton nor his father-in-law was puni...

Provenance: From the High Altar of St. Patrick’s Roman Catholic Cathedral, Armagh, Northern Ireland.

Text identified as an Armenian Catholic devotional treatise centered on the Sacred Heart of Jesus, with concluding Marian prayers.