Michael is revered as the Archangel devoted to combating the Evil One, and Raphael is a guardian in the Book of Tobit of the Old Testament of Catholic bibles. Guardian Angels: Guardian Angels, the lowest tier of angels, look after individual humans. They are the ones who are with you ...
playwrights for over a thousand years. The Catholic church grew concerned about theatre, primarily because theatre was associated with paganism and often mocked Christianity in its comedies. By the time Rome was captured in the 5th century CE, theatre and the dramatic arts had fallen out of ...
But he does not throw any light on what must be for the outsider the absorbing problem of this Catholic asceticism, for the excellent reason that not being an outsider he does not find it a problem at all. To most people, however, there is a fascinating inconsistency in the position of ...
Religious wood-carving was taken to new heights during the Northern Renaissance by master carvers like: Tilman Riemenschneider and Veit Stoss, known for their intricate wooden altarwork and figurines, while the Baroque Counter-Reformation stimulated supreme examples of Catholic Christian art in the form...
Rev 14:12Here is the endurance of the saints, who are keeping the precepts of God and the faith of Jesus.” Rev 14:13And I hear a voice out of heaven, saying, “Write: ‘Happy are the dead who are dying in the Lord henceforth! Yea, the spirit is saying that they will be restin...
Since North America is a continent rather than a country, it doesn’t have an official national animal. But understanding the national animals of the three most populous countries can tell us a lot both about the character of North America and demonstrate some facts about the ecological diversity...
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November 1, "All Hollows Day" (or "All Saints Day"), is a Catholic day of observance in honor of saints One story says that, on that day, the disembodied spirits of all those who had died throughout the preceding year would come back in search of living bodies to possess for the ...
Indulgence, a distinctive feature of the penitential system of both the Western medieval and the Roman Catholic Church that granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin. The granting of indulgences was predicated on two beliefs. First, in t
the prophet never loses control of his ego. On occasion mystics have delivered messages from the deity, thus acting in the role of a prophet, and have been known to use ecstatic trances to reach the divine or sacred world; e.g., manyRoman Catholicsaintsand Sufi Muslims (Islamic mystics)...