Perched atop Rio de Janeiro’s Corcovado mountain, Christ the Redeemer is an iconic monument that commands attention. Standing 30 meters tall, this statue of Jesus Christ with outstretched arms offers stunning views of the city and serves as a beacon of spirit...
greater than that of mere bread and blessed it with words that lingered in the air for limitless moments in time. He began to carefully, and with great precision, break off two pieces of the bread, and with one piece in each hand, presented them to us, with outstretched arms for the ...
and arms outstretched. But a paper published by Britain's Scripture shows that If crucified head-up, the victim's weight may also have been supported on a small prestigious Royal Society of Medicine Jesus was indeed cruci- seat. This was believed to prolong the (RSM) says this image has ...
Administration of Rio de Janeiro announced a competition for the best design, which attracted a lot of contenders. The winner was Heitor da Silva Costa. He proposed that the posture of Jesus Christ with the arms stretched to the sides would symbolize a cross, and a massive pedestal would symb...
Sixty-seven feet tall, with arms 65 feet wide, he stands at an altitude of 1,500 feet. According to rumor, or legend, the sculpture originally had feet, but they had to be removed to lower the statue to its current height -- otherwise Jesus by law would have had a red warning ...
Moviegoers who enter the theater looking for Christian imagery are unlikely to be disappointed. At one point, Superman sustains a stab wound reminiscent of the spear jabbed in Christ's side by a Roman soldier. In another scene, Routh poses with his arms outstretched as though crucified. ...
in Vietnam over a 20-year period and completed in 1994. The statue is 32m in height and the outstretched arms span 18.3m. Some of the more agile managed the climb to the site, I had to be satisfied with photos from the parking area. The statue is visi...
Simeon was promised to see Me before his death, and he held Me in his arms. (Luke 2:22-40) Simeon said: ‘Behold, this child is destined for the fall and for the rise of many in Israel, and for a sign that shall be contradicted. And thy own soul a sword shall pierce that the...
Now, nailed to a cross, the beam is shoved upward and comes to its vertical resting place. There, the creator of heaven and earth in human form hangs suspended between his two creations. Outstretched arms that once held the world are now the greatest symbol of love for the creation he br...
Another interesting icon is that of the Mandylion together with the Imago pietatis (16th century) preserved in the Kolomenskoe Museum in Moscow (fig. 6). Besides the front crossed arms, in these images Jesus always has the head bent on the right side; Pfeiffer noticed that joining together...