'Suffer Little Children to come unto Me'
Mark 10:14
01- Jesus is sentenced to death
02 - they carry the cross
03 - Jesus falls first time
04 - Jesus finds his mother
05 = Simon forced to carry the cross
06 - Veronica wipes the face of Jesus
07 - Jesus falls second time
08 - Jesus meets the women of Jerusalem
09 - Jesus falls under the cross
10 - Jesus is stripped of his garments
11 - Jesus is nailed to the Cross
12 - Jesus dies on the Cross
12 - Jesus dies on the Cross
13 - Jesus is taken down from the Cross
13 - Jesus is taken down from the Cross
14 - Jesus is laid in the tomb
14 - Jesus is laid in the tomb
15 - Resurrected
15 - Resurrected
3 Crosses
3 Wise Men
3 Wise men
Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem
A Benedictine Abbot
The convent is the name especially appropriate to the body of individuals who composed a religious community. The whole convent was under the government of the abbot, who, however, was bound to govern according to the rule of the order. Sometimes he was elected by the convent; sometimes the king or some patron had a share in the election. Frequently there were estates attached to the office, distinct from those of the convent; sometimes the abbot had only an allowance out of the convent estates; but always he had great power over the property of the convent, and bad abbots are frequently accused of wasting the property of the house, and enriching their relatives and friends out of it.
A Carmelite Friar
The Carmelite Friars had their origin, as their name indicates, in the East. According to their own traditions, ever since the days of Elijah, whom they claim as their founder, the rocks of Carmel have been inhabited by a succession of hermits, who have lived after the pattern of the great prophet. Their institution as an order of friars, however, dates from the beginning of the thirteenth century, when Albert, Patriarch of Jerusalem, gave them a rule, founded upon, but more severe than, that of St. Basil; and gave them a habit of white and red stripes, which, according to tradition, was the fashion of the wonder-working mantle of their prophet-founder.
A Christmas Suggestion
A Clerk
The word clericus—clerk—was one of very wide and rather vague significance, and included not only the various grades of clerks in orders, of whom we have spoken, but also all men who followed any kind of occupation which involved the use of reading and writing; finally, every man who could read might claim the “benefit of clergy,” i.e., the legal immunities of a clerk.
A domed church
A Dominican Friar
Dominic gave to his order the name of Preaching Friars; more commonly they were styled Dominicans, or, from the colour of their habits, Black Friars—their habit consisting of a white tunic, fastened with a white girdle, over that a white scapulary, and over all a black mantle and hood, and shoes; the lay brethren wore a black scapulary.
A Franciscan Friar
The Franciscans were styled by their founder Fratri Minori—lesser brothers, Friars Minors; they were more usually called Grey Friars, from the colour of their habits, or Cordeliers, from the knotted cord which formed their characteristic girdle. Their habit was originally a grey tunic with long loose sleeves (but not quite so loose as those of the Benedictines), a knotted cord for a girdle, and a black hood; the feet always bare, or only protected by sandals.
A House built on the Rock
Matthew 7:25 And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.
A Levite with a Ram's Horn
A Levite with a Ram's Horn
A lie, like a boomerang has a way of coming back
A miraculous draught of fishes
A Monks Cell
A Monks Cell in Carthusian monastery The Grand Chartreuse
A much needed Flood Control Program
A pipe dream
A Priest Confessing a Lady
The picture represents a priest confessing a lady in a church. The characters in the scene are allegorical; the priest is Genius, and the lady is Dame Nature; but it is not the less an accurate picture of a confessional scene of the latter part of the fourteenth century.
A Solemn Fast and Repentance of the People
Neh. 9:1,2
A study in black and white
A Vacation Suggestion
A visitors Cell
I rang the great bell at the convent gate, and begged for hospitality. A tall, cowled monk received me, but uttered no word. He merely made a sign for me to follow him, and, closing the gate and shooting the massive bolts, he led the way across a court, where I was met by another monk, who was allowed to break the rigid vow of silence so far that he could inquire of strangers what their business was. He asked me if I desired food and rest, and on my answering in the affirmative he led me to a third and silent brother, and by him I was conducted to a cell with whitewashed walls. It contained a small bed of unpainted pine wood, and a tiny table, on which was an iron basin and a jug of water. A crucifix hung on the wall, and beneath it was a prie-dieu.
Aaron and Hur Holding Up the Hands of Moses
Ex. 17:11
Aaron's Rod Changed to a Serpent
Ex. 7:10
Aaron's Rod that Budded
Num. 17:8, 9
ABC of the gospel
ABC of the gospel
Abraham blessed by Melchizedek
Genesis 14:19 And he blessed him, and said, Blessed be Abram of the most high God, possessor of heaven and earth:
Abraham Entertains Three Angels
Gen. 18:10
Abraham Offering Isaac as a Sacrifice
Gen. 22:11, 12
Abraham's Servant Meeting Rebekah at the Well
Gen. 24:17
Abrahams Sacrifice
Abram Sees the Promised Land
Gen. 12:3-7
Achan confessing his sin
Adam and Eve driven out of the garden of Eden
Gen. 3:23, 24
Adam the Cellarer
The Cellarer was in fact the steward of the house; his modern representative is the bursar of a college. He had the care of everything relating to the provision of the food and vessels of the convent. He was exempt from the observance of some of the services in church; he had the use of horses and servants for the fulfilment of his duties, and sometimes he appears to have had separate apartments. The cellarer, as we have said, wore no distinctive dress or badge; but in the Catalogus Benefactorum of St. Alban’s there occurs a portrait of one “Adam Cellarius,” who for his distinguished merit had been buried among the abbots in the chapter-house, and had his name and effigy recorded in the Catalogus; he is holding two keys in one hand and a purse in the other, the symbols of his office; and in his quaint features—so different from those of the dignified abbot whom we have given from the same book—the limner seems to have given us the type of a business-like and not ungenial cellarer.
After the Banishment from Eden
Gen. 3:19
Agni
Agni
Ah, that's better
Albe
Albe (Latin alba) A Shirt or white linen garment reaching to the heels (whence its names alba, telaris, &c.) and floded rond the loins by a girdle, formerly the common dress of the Roman Catholic clergy; but now used only in sacred functions. The second vestment put on by the priest when preparing for the celebration of mass.
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All on the same footing
An Assyrian King
Ancient Musical Instruments
Ancient Serpent Idol
Finding it difficult to fasten their thoughts on invisible, intangible beings, men, at the beginning. probably sought to aid their worship be selecting some object to represent the being worshiped.