Today is the Feast of Saint John of Capistrano. He is famous for helping John Hunyadi break the Siege of Belgrade in 1456. And then dying of the plague spread in the aftermath. This lovely altarpiece from the Walters Art Museum, titled Saint Louis of Toulouse, Saint Francis, and the Blessed John Capistrano, was constructed [...]
Today is the Feast of the Archangels. Yesterday was the 22nd anniversary of my mother's death. I like today a lot better. I went looking for angel art at the NGA and the Walters Art Museum. I enjoy finding engravings from the National Gallery, which are, most often, not on view. Saint Gabriel here has [...]
I had the happy experience recently of meeting a old friend named Helen. In her honor... https://www.vaticannews.va/en/saints/08/18/st---helena--empress.html Today’s saint is Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine ... Constantine the Great, Roman Emperor 307-337 [obverse]Parisian 15th Century National Gallery of Art, DC public domain ... and the rediscoverer of the True Cross around 327 A.D. Her pilgrimages [...]
You might notice that the header image is reversed. I visited a church last week with that lovely stained glass over the door in the back. I couldn't get a picture, or even actually see the image very well from the inside of the church. When I went into the (very tiny) vestibule the light [...]
There doesn't seem to be a lot of agreement on a saint for today. The vatican.va website lists Saints Quiricus and Julietta as the saints of the day, but provides no further information on them. They were a mother and child, martyrs under the Diocletian persecutions in Tarsus. Saint Lutgardis (1182-1246) was sent to a [...]
