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In 1958 he formally declared the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus as Shrove Tuesday (the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday) for all Roman Catholics. On the occasion of the 100th year of Secondo Pia's (May 28, 1898) first photograph of the Shroud of Turin, on Sunday May 24, 1998, Pope John Paul II visited the Turin Cathedral. In his address on that ...
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Holy Tuesday and other named days and day ranges around Lent and Easter in Western Christianity, with the fasting days of Lent numbered. In the Roman Catholic Church, the readings for the Novus Ordo are Isaiah 49:1-6; Psalm 71:1-6, Psalm 71:15, Psalm 71:17; 1 Corinthians 1:18-31; and John 13:21-33, John 13:36-38.
A Confraternity in Procession along Calle Génova, Seville by Alfred Dehodencq (1851). Holy Week in the liturgical year is the week immediately before Easter. The earliest allusion to the custom of marking this week as a whole with special observances is to be found in the Apostolical Constitutions (v. 18, 19), dating from the latter half of the 3rd century and 4th century.
An amputee and his son with cerebral palsy were among the 25 deaths in the fires raging around Los Angeles.The father was found at his son’s bedside. One victim told a relative that he did not ...
Families and friends gather to play cards, sing songs, and shake hands while wishing each other a happy New Year at the end of the evening. The arrival of the new year may also be marked by gunshots. In Chéticamp and the Magdalen Islands, there is a tradition of "beating the old year", where people gather with sticks and hit the corners of ...
Al Roker is kicking off his seventh decade of life with a bang!. As he turned 70 on Tuesday, Aug. 20, the veteran broadcaster's Today colleagues prepared a surprise celebration for him on the NBC ...
Baroque Trinity, Hendrick van Balen, 1620, (Sint-Jacobskerk, Antwerp) Holy Trinity, fresco by Luca Rossetti da Orta, 1738–39 (St. Gaudenzio Church at Ivrea). The Trinity is most commonly seen in Christian art with the Holy Spirit represented by a dove, as specified in the gospel accounts of the baptism of Christ; he is nearly always shown with wings outspread.