His work enhanced a painting that had. Church leaders on Sunday rededicated a newly repainted mural depicting Jesus Christ’s ascension at First Evangelical Lutheran Church in Apollo.

FOUNTAIN — As a child, Loren Finseth said he still remembers gazing at the towering painting of Jesus’ ascension into Heaven that graced Root Prairie Lutheran Church’s altar.

For the first time in years, parishioners can see the blues in the painting of Christ’s Ascension hanging over Grace Lutheran Church’s altar. And that’s no easy observation &#8212… ...

Some twenty years after it was stolen from Saint Martin Roman Catholic Church in Siciny, Poland, an 18th-century painting, Ascension of Christ, has been returned to the country’s secretary of ...

In fact, Jesus’s Ascension into heaven concluded his work on earth “about our redemption that he began on Good Friday” (Catechism of the Catholic Church no 662.).

Rev. Paul Nicholson, S.J., begins his homily for the Ascension with a striking image from Medieval art: Jesus’ feet dangling in the air, his body swallowed by clouds.