"This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased" (Matthew 3:17). This verse is from the Gospel of Matthew, one of the three synoptic Gospels in the New Testament of the Bible, and is about the ...

Italy's Sforza Castle includes a underground passage that linked the Duke of Milan to his wife’s tomb.

That’s an important part of the symbolism of baptism: that we go down into the place of death, the deep waters where man cannot live, to rise again. We are baptized into the death of Christ ...

paintings, sculptures, etc. The same will happen at the Baptism site; that is particularly symbolic. The Church is full of images that evoke Jesus Christ’s life and ministry and the core ...

Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a clear conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,... [1 Peter 3:20 ...

Halifax police are investigating the theft of three Christmas-themed postcards believed to have been painted by Nova Scotia folk artist Maud Lewis. Investigators say three framed cards painted by ...

In addition they had little access to stills or cover art to inform what they made. So they relied primarily on their imaginations, resulting in a fascinating collection of wildly imaginative and ...

If able to do this, an adult candidate is required to make a profession of faith, such as the Apostles' Creed, before the Baptism ... We ask this through Christ our Lord. Other parts of the ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s ‘Salvator Mundi,’ a masterpiece that has captivated the art world for centuries, took a remarkable journey from obscurity to the limelight in the mid-2000s.

There is more to the Baptism of Christ than meets the eye and this is clearly shown in the icon of the feast. So why do we call this feast the manifestation of God? The icon, faithful to the Gospel ...