Catholic Art
Leonardo da Vinci’s mural of Jesus and the Twelve Apostles at the table, located in the refectory of Santa Maria delle Grazie in Milan, shows the moment of the institution of the Eucharist.
What is The Last Supper?
This is the first book of the New Testament and one of the four Gospels; it includes the Sermon on the Mount and the Beatitudes.
What is the Gospel of Matthew?
This 4th-century bishop of Myra is the patron saint of children, sailors, and pawnbrokers; his legendary generosity later inspired the figure of Santa Claus.
Who is Saint Nicholas?
This massive Renaissance-Baroque basilica in Vatican City, with its iconic dome designed by Michelangelo, is the largest church in the world and the burial place of St. Peter.
What is St. Peter’s Basilica?
In 1531 the Blessed Virgin appeared to St. Juan Diego near Mexico City and left her image miraculously imprinted on his tilma.
What is Our Lady of Guadalupe?
Michelangelo painted this vast ceiling fresco cycle in the Vatican between 1508 and 1512, featuring scenes from Genesis including the iconic Creation of Adam.
What is the Sistine Chapel ceiling?
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The only New Testament book written as a formal historical narrative that continues the story of Jesus’ followers after the Ascension, it is traditionally attributed to the same author as the third Gospel.
What is the Acts of the Apostles?
This 13th-century Italian saint, founder of the Order of Preachers, is the patron of astronomers and is often depicted with a star on his forehead.
Who is Saint Dominic?
This French Gothic cathedral in Paris, famous for its flying buttresses, rose windows, and roleles of Quasimodo, was badly damaged by fire in 2019 and has since been restored.
What is Notre-Dame de Paris?
In 1858 the Virgin Mary appeared to St. Bernadette Soubirous in this French town and declared, “I am the Immaculate Conception.”
What is Lourdes? (or Our Lady of Lourdes)
Michelangelo’s marble sculpture of the Virgin Mary cradling the dead body of Jesus, completed when the artist was only 24, stands in St. Peter’s Basilica.
What is the Pietà?
St. Paul’s letter to the church in this city is the longest of his epistles and contains the classic chapter on love that begins “If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels…”
What is 1 Corinthians?
This 16th-century Spanish mystic and reformer of the Carmelite Order is the patron saint of those who suffer from headaches and is a Doctor of the Church.
Who is Saint Teresa of Ávila?
This Portuguese shrine, site of the 1917 Marian apparitions to three shepherd children, draws millions of pilgrims annually and features the Chapel of the Apparitions.
What is the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fátima?
This 1917 series of apparitions to three Portuguese shepherd children included the famous Miracle of the Sun witnessed by tens of thousands.
What is Our Lady of Fátima? (or Fatima)
Caravaggio’s revolutionary use of chiaroscuro is on full display in this painting of the apostle being called by Christ while counting money at a tax table.
What is The Calling of Saint Matthew?
This short Old Testament prophetic book, attributed to a shepherd from Tekoa, contains the famous line “Let justice roll down like waters.”
What is Amos?
This first-century deacon and martyr is the patron saint of deacons, altar servers, and cooks; he is usually shown holding a gridiron.
Who is Saint Lawrence?
This ancient Spanish pilgrimage destination, said to house the remains of the Apostle James the Greater, is the endpoint of the famous Camino de Santiago.
What is the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela?
In 1879 the Blessed Virgin, St. Joseph, and St. John the Evangelist silently appeared on the gable wall of a parish church in this Irish village.
What is Our Lady of Knock?
Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s dramatic Baroque marble group in the Cornaro Chapel shows an angel piercing the heart of a Spanish mystic with a golden arrow, capturing her spiritual ecstasy.
What is The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa?
This deuterocanonical book tells the story of a courageous Jewish widow who beheads the Assyrian general Holofernes to save her people.
What is the Book of Judith?
This early Christian virgin martyr is the patron saint of eye disorders and is traditionally shown holding a pair of eyes on a plate.
Who is Saint Lucy?
This Roman basilica, the cathedral of the Diocese of Rome and the Pope’s official ecclesiastical seat, is the oldest of the four major papal basilicas and is dedicated to both St. John the Baptist and St. John the Evangelist.
What is the Archbasilica of St. John Lateran?
This 1871 apparition in a small French village during the Franco-Prussian War featured the Virgin Mary appearing in the sky above a barn, accompanied by a red cross and the words “But pray, my children.”
What is Our Lady of Pontmain?