The theme of holiness has been with God’s people from the beginning of recorded history, and it calls us to deep study in ...

Advent is about a two-fold triple dynamism: Christ comes to us in “history, mystery and majesty,” and we go out to meet him respectively in Bethlehem, in the sacraments, prayer and daily life, and as ...

Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, gilt; champlevé enamel: blue-black, dark, medium, and light blue; turquoise, green, yellow, red, translucent red, and white ...

Copper: engraved, chiseled, stippled, and gilt; champlevé enamel: dark, medium, and light blue; turquoise, dark and light green, yellow, red, and white; wood core ...

“Christ in Majesty” is the official name of the striking, somewhat controversial mosaic on the apse wall of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, DC, but ...

Depicting Christ in majesty, the mural was added to the church around 1882. Over the years, the varnish had yellowed and the mural became dingy and hard to see. The extensive restoration included ...

THE Very Rev. Eryl Stephen Thomas, dean of Llandaff Cathedral in Wales, was categorical. Restoration of the cathedral, which had been virtually destroyed in 1941 by German bombers, was being planned, ...