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Imelda Lambertini. Wearing first communion dress, chapel veil with attached to a chaplet of flowers on her head and rosary. Imelda Lambertini (1322 – 12 May 1333) was an Italian Catholic mystic and devotee of the Dominican Order. She is the patroness of First Communicants and many dioceses make use of her feast has a day to schedule First ...
Year. 1940. The Head of Christ, also called the Sallman Head, is a 1940 portrait painting of Jesus of Nazareth by American artist Warner Sallman (1892–1968). As an extraordinarily successful work of Christian popular devotional art, [ 1] it had been reproduced over half a billion times worldwide by the end of the 20th century. [ 2]
Eucharist in the Catholic Church. Eucharist ( Koinē Greek: εὐχαριστία, romanized: eucharistía, lit. 'thanksgiving') [ 1] is the name that Catholic Christians give to the sacrament by which, according to their belief, the body and blood of Christ are present in the bread and wine consecrated during the Catholic eucharistic liturgy ...
v. t. e. Christian symbolism is the use of symbols, including archetypes, acts, artwork or events, by Christianity. It invests objects or actions with an inner meaning expressing Christian ideas. The symbolism of the early Church was characterized by being understood by initiates only, while after the legalization of Christianity in the Roman ...
Liturgical colours. Liturgical colours are specific colours used for vestments and hangings within the context of Christian liturgy. The symbolism of violet, blue, white, green, red, gold, black, rose and other colours may serve to underline moods appropriate to a season of the liturgical year or may highlight a special occasion.
Eucharistic miracle is any miracle involving the Eucharist, regarding which the most important Christian denominations, especially the Catholic Church, teach that Christ is truly present in the Eucharist, which is by itself a Eucharistic miracle; however, this is to be distinguished from other manifestations of God.
A communion token with the word ADMISSIBLE, used by the Huguenot refugee community in Berlin. A communion token is a metal token issued to members of Reformed churches in order to provide them entrance to the Lord's Supper. There were many types issued in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries, but they were largely superseded by communion cards.
Marianne Cope, OSF (also known as Saint Marianne of Molokaʻi) (January 23, 1838 – August 9, 1918), was a German-born American religious sister who was a member of the Sisters of St. Francis of Syracuse, New York, and founding leader of its St. Joseph's Hospital in the city, among the first of 50 general hospitals in the country. [1]