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[Beauty of the Catholic Faith @advoluntas]

♰🕊 Mondays are dedicated to the Holy Ghost 🕊♰

Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in them the fire of your love.  Send forth your Spirit and they shall be created, and you shall renew the face of the earth.

Spiritus Sancte, Deus, miserere nobis.

🎥 Santiago Ocampo, Escultor Arte Sacro. Colombia 🇨🇴

[Rev .Vitus @Vitus_osst]

Nice visit.

Today, the traditional site of Christ’s crucifixion, Golgotha or Calvary, is located inside the Church of the Holy Sepulchre within the Christian Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City.

Inside the 4th-century church complex, the specific spot is marked by the Altar of the Crucifixion (the 12th Station of the Cross.

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"Arm yourself with prayer rather than a sword; wear humility rather than fine clothes." - #SaintDominicdeGuzmán #EasterSeason

📷 Praying Hands / © Kanjana Jorruang / #GettyImages. #CanvaPro #Catholic_Priest #CatholicPriestMedia #TheSeasonofEaster

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Rosary in the sky…

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El descubrimiento del fresco oculto de Aniello Falcone (1645) en la basílica paleocristiana de San Giorgio Maggiore en Nápoles es uno de los secretos mejor guardados y más fascinantes del patrimonio barroco napolitano.

La pintura que se observa a simple vista en el coro es un gran lienzo del siglo XVIII pintado por Alessio D'Elia, el cual representa la misma temática.

Durante unos trabajos de restauración, se descubrió que el lienzo de D’Elia estaba montado sobre un bastidor de bisagras y un sistema de cuerdas. Al abrirse con poleas, revela intacto el espectacular fresco oculto en la pared posterior.

Debido a que permaneció cubierto y protegido de la luz y el humo de las velas por más de tres siglos, los pigmentos originales y los detalles de la obra de Falcone sobrevivieron en un estado excepcional.

Video grabado con fines culturales.

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

In Rome, on the road that leads to St. Peter's, there is a marble statue of St. Catherine of Siena. From most angles, she is simply walking. From one viewpoint, her lips meet the dome of the basilica behind her.

The illusion is the completion of a story Catherine spent her life trying to finish, and never lived to see...

She was born in Siena in 1347, the year the Black Death first arrived in Europe. She had her first mystical vision at the age of six. By her early thirties she had become one of the most influential women in medieval Christendom, exchanging letters with popes, princes, and warring city-states. She wrote, or dictated, an enormous spiritual treatise called the Dialogue, and a body of nearly four hundred letters that remain a landmark of Italian literature.

Her great political mission was the return of the papacy to Rome. The popes had been living in Avignon, in southern France, for nearly seventy years. Catherine believed this was a wound at the heart of the Church. She wrote relentlessly to Pope Gregory XI, urging him to come home. In 1376 she travelled to Avignon herself to persuade him in person. In 1377, against the advice of nearly every cardinal around him, he returned to Rome.

Catherine died three years later. She was thirty-three years old.

The dome that stands above St. Peter's today did not yet exist. The basilica she knew was the old Constantinian church begun in the fourth century. Michelangelo would not be born for another seventy-five years. The dome he designed was not finished until 1590, more than two centuries after her death.

In 1961, the Sicilian sculptor Francesco Messina was commissioned to make a monument to her, near the road that leads to St. Peter's. He carved her in white marble, bent slightly forward, her cloak streaming behind her as if she were still walking toward Rome. He placed her in a position where, from one angle, her lips appear to touch a dome she never lived to see...

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[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

Prayer is powerful! It fills the earth with mercy, it makes the Divine clemency pass from generation to generation;

St.Frances Xavier Cabrini

[Johnny Midnight ⚡️ @its_The_Dr]

This is where Jesus Ascended to Heaven!

[DivineMercy @SantaFaustyna]

"Do not be afraid, I will not harm you. I am from heaven"

Our Lady to Sister Lucia

Feast Day of Our Lady of Fatima

[THIERRY D "ardéchois et français" @ThierryTout]

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Si vous allez prochainement dans le nord de l'Italie, profitez-en pour faire un détour par le Sanctuaire de "la Madonna della Corona".
Cette incroyable église construite sur le flanc d'une montagne semble suspendue en plein air.
Cet endroit est vraiment magnifique ! 🤩

[Mytical Europe @EuropeMytical]

The Church of Santa Maria dell’Orto, located in the Trastevere neighborhood, is one of the hidden jewels of Rome. Its name, which means “Santa María del Huerto”, comes from a miracle that occurred in the fifteenth century, when a farmer was healed after praying before an image of the Virgin painted on the wall of his garden.

[Fascinating History @Fascinate_Hist]

The golden reliquary containing the purported skull of Mary Magdalene.

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Andrea Pozzo stands out as one of the most distinctive artists of the Baroque era due to his mastery of illusionistic painting.

He specialized in quadratura, creating convincing 3D architectural spaces on flat ceilings and walls.

His masterpiece, The Glory of Saint Ignatius in the church Sant'Ignazio of Loyola in Rome, is a striking example, where perspective and trompe-l’œil combine to give the impression that the ceiling dissolves into a vast heavenly scene

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There is an order of nuns in Spain who are currently going viral because they are saving a breed of GIANT rabbits from extinction

[Emese Balog ن @EmeseZsBalog]

Remember to look up.

(Peterborough Cathedral)

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Happy Birthday Saint Carlos Acutis!

[Catholics for Catholics 🇺🇲 @CforCatholics]

“A man who carries his son to Church, carries a generation to Christ”

FACT: Data suggests that a father's regular attendance at Mass is the most significant factor in whether children continue practicing their faith as adults, with studies indicating that roughly 60% to 75% of children stay engaged when their father is a regular attender.

Practicing Catholic dads leading their families to Christ and Heaven.

This is the patriarchal leadership we need to save our Families and America 🇺🇸

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An 800-year-old historic door at Wells Cathedral.

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Congrats to all the kids and parents celebrating First Communion today!

[Saint Adaugoijele ✝️ @JustAdaugoijele]

The rare photographs taken of "Miracle of the Sun" and Our Lady's apparition in Fatima Portugal on October 13th,1917,