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by bcadmin | Aug 5, 2022 | Associated Press, News, Sistine Chapel, Technology, Vatican | 0 |
Click and gape at the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel ceiling up close.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 10, 2022 | Baptism, Baptism of the Lord, Featured, From the Pope, News, Pope Francis, Preserve Christian identity, Sistine Chapel | 0 |
Before baptizing 16 babies in the Sistine Chapel, Pope Francis reminded parents and godparents of their responsibility to care for and preserve the Christian identity the infants were about to receive.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 9, 2022 | Associated Press, Baptism, News, Pope Francis, Pope John Paul II, Sistine Chapel, Vatican | 0 |
Pope Francis baptized 16 babies in the splendor of the Sistine Chapel on Sunday, resuming a decades-old Vatican tradition which had been interrupted last year by the pandemic.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Dec 7, 2021 | 2021, Botticelli, Brad Miner, Caravaggio, Columns, Crucifixion paintings, Ghirlandaio, Marc Chagall, Michelangelo, News, Perugino, Peter Paul Rubens' "The Elevation of the Cross", Rubens’ “Elevation”, Sistine Chapel, The Catholic Thing, Titian | 0 |
Brad Miner. Peter Paul Rubens’ great painting calls us to ask ourselves: How weighty are our sins? How can evil cooperate in our redemption?
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jun 22, 2021 | 2021, Brad Miner, Carol Reed, Catholic Church, Catholicism, Columns, Elizabeth Lev, Irving Stone, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo's The Last Judgment, News, Pope Julius II, Sistine Chapel, St. John Henry Newman's “The Dream of Gerontius”, That Ceiling in Rome, The Catholic Thing, Timothy Cardinal Dolan, Volta della Cappella Sistina | 0 |
That one in the Sistine Chapel, obviously – the Volta della Cappella Sistina. The Sistine Chapel was completed in 1480…
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Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 12, 2021 | Brazil, Catholic Church, lead, News, sacred music, Sistine Chapel, Sistine Chapel Choir, Vatican | 0 |
After being named the first non-Italian director of the Sistine Chapel Choir, Brazilian-born Monsignor Marcos Pavan said he was “surprised.”
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 8, 2021 | Baptistery, Featured, Mosaicists, Mosaics, News, Sistine Chapel, St. John Lateran, U.S. & World News | 0 |
Even though the baptisms the pope celebrates most years in the Sistine Chapel are better known, the most important place to be baptized in Rome for the past nearly 1,600 years has been the baptistery of St. John Lateran.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Jan 5, 2021 | Baptism of the Lord, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, COVID-19 pandemic, News, Papal baptism, Pope Francis, Sistine Chapel, Vatican | 0 |
The choral cries of newborn babies will not fill the Sistine Chapel in 2021 because the COVID-19 pandemic has forced Pope Francis to cancel his annual celebration of infant baptisms on the feast of the Baptism of the Lord.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 21, 2020 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic Church, Catholic News Service, Church in the US, Minnesota, News, Sistine Chapel | 0 |
The internationally acclaimed Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Exhibition with its 34 life-size reproductions is designed to give visitors a closer look at the frescoes that adorn the ceiling of the chapel at the Vatican than if they visited in person.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Nov 11, 2020 | Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, Catholic, Local News, Mall of America, Michelangelo, News, Sistine Chapel | 0 |
The internationally acclaimed Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel Exhibition opens to the general public Nov. 13 at the Mall of America in Bloomington. Visitors who come to the second level of the north atrium will be able to see 34 life-size reproductions of the ceiling frescoes that adorn the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel.
Read Moreby bcadmin | Feb 19, 2020 | Featured, Masterpiece, News, Raphael, Renaissance master Raphael, Sistine Chapel, U.S. & World News | 0 |
An artistic masterpiece conceived by the Renaissance master Raphael was on display for one week in the Sistine Chapel to help celebrate the 500th anniversary of the artist’s death.
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