(photo: Paul Haring / Knights of Columbus) For more than 45 years, the Knights of Columbus Pilgrim Icon Program has brought sacred images to Catholic ... Sacred Heart of Jesus program during ...

BETHLEHEM (AFP) — Down a Bethlehem alleyway, sunlight illuminates a golden icon of ... believe Jesus was born — houses a group of enthusiasts specializing in the sacred art of iconography.

For modern skeptics, the 6th-century icon hanging in the Orthodox monastery in the shadow of Mount Sinai is simply a 33-by-18-inch board covered in bees wax and colored pigments. For believers ...

‘Sacred Heart of Jesus,’ by Bernadette Carstensen(Photo: Courtesy of Dappled Things and Bernadette Carstensen) The competition was motivated by a need for personal enthronement images ...

The writings of St. Ignatius Loyola and the traditional Catholic ... Jesus “instituted the most holy sacrifice of the Eucharist as the greatest sign of his love." The Sacred Heart is a living ...

Poland was consecrated Friday to the Sacred Heart of Jesus ... Catholic bishops first consecrated the country to the Sacred Heart on July 27, 1920, at Jasna Góra, the monastery housing an icon ...

In Greece, a beekeeper's decade-long practice of placing religious icons in hives has yielded a remarkable phenomenon. Bees construct honeycombs aroun ...

As a historian of Byzantine art familiar with the fierce debates over sacred ... images claimed that the image of Jesus Christ was unacceptable, since his nature was both divine and human. An icon ...

They will be on display at Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic Church ... "Our churches are filled with stained-glass images, statues, bells, incense, music … . We taste the wine and bread, we ...

For more than 45 years, the Knights of Columbus Pilgrim Icon Program has brought sacred images ... Catholic Church’s commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the visions of the Sacred Heart of ...

The factions that were against images claimed that the image of Jesus Christ was unacceptable ... Church officially ruled that sacred images, or icons, were essential to that faith.