08 works, Today, September 25th, is Saint Albert of Jerusalem's day, his story illustrated #267

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Saints Albert & Brocard

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Adam Kossowski

Saints Albert & Brocard

Ceramic

The Friars, Aylesford

Saint Brocard is said to have been one of the first group of hermits at Mount Carmel, and was perhaps the leader of the community on the death of Saint Berthold around 1195. Various details of his life are legendary.

Adam Kossowski (5 December 1905 – 31 March 1986) was a Polish artist, born in Nowy Sącz, notable for his works for the Catholic Church in England, where he arrived in 1943 as a refugee from Soviet labour camps and was invited in 1944 to join the Guild of Catholic Artists and Craftsmen.

In 1923, uncertain about a career as a painter, Kossowski began architecture studies at Warsaw Technical University. But after two years there, he turned to painting and was accepted into the Cracow Academy of Fine Arts, where he worked on the restoration of paintings at Wawel Castle. In 1929 he returned to Warsaw and its Academy of Fine Arts. Travelling on a government grant, Kossowski experienced Italian art in Rome, Florence, Naples and Sicily.

After Germany invaded Poland in September 1939. Kossowski fled east, where he was arrested by invading Russian troops in November 1939. Kossowski was first imprisoned at Skole and then at Kharkov, both in present Ukraine. He was release with other Polish prisoners in order to form the Polish 2nd Corps under General Władysław Anders.

He was evacuated finally with other Poles to the banks of the Caspian Sea from where we went to Pahlevi on the Persian coast. There the Polish ex-prisoners gradually received English uniforms. They then started the journey towards Teheran and from there to Palestine.

Kossowski, travelled on the liner RMS Scythia to Scotland. In 1943 he joined the Polish Ministry of Information in London, where he worked throughout the war.

Working from a studio in Hampstead, Kossowski composed work for his first show in London, which opened on 7 June 1944. 

After winning a prize for the oil painting Jesus Bearing the Cross, in 1944, Kossowski was invited to join the Guild of Catholic Artists.

From 1953 to 1970, Kossowski completed many commissions for large murals and reliefs.

Kossowski died in London on 31 March 1986. More on Adam Kossowski

Albert of Jerusalem was appointed patriarch of Jerusalem in 1205 by Pope Innocent III. At the time of his election he had been count-bishop of Vercelli for some twenty years. The Avogadro family to which he belonged was the most prominent and richest of all the first families of Vercelli.

Giotto di Bondone  (–1337)

Boniface VIII, c.. 1300

Height: 110 cm (43.3 in) Width: 110 cm (43.3 in)

Archbasilica of St. John Lateran,  Rome

Giotto di Bondone (1266/7 – January 8, 1337), known mononymously as Giotto, and Latinized as Giottus, was an Italian painter and architect from Florence in the late Middle Ages. He is generally considered the first in a line of great artists who contributed to the Renaissance.

In his Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects, the late-16th century artist and art historian Giorgio Vasari describes Giotto as making a decisive break with the prevalent Byzantine style and as initiating "the great art of painting as we know it today, introducing the technique of drawing accurately from life, which had been neglected for more than two hundred years."

Giotto's masterwork is the decoration of the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, also known as the Arena Chapel, completed around 1305. This fresco cycle depicts the Life of the Virgin and the Life of Christ. It is regarded as one of the supreme masterpieces of the Early Renaissance.[4] That Giotto painted the Arena Chapel and that he was chosen by the Commune of Florence in 1334 to design the new campanile (bell tower) of Florence's Cathedral are among the few certainties of his biography. Almost every other aspect of it is subject to controversy: his birthdate, his birthplace, his appearance, his apprenticeship, the order in which he created his works, whether or not he painted the famous frescoes in the Upper Basilica of Saint Francis in Assisi, and his burial place. More Giotto di Bondone

Albert was more interested in putting his talents into a religious context than in joining the diocesan clergy with all its political ramification. The superior general, Boniface of Novara, started including him in his own ecclesial outreach and he soon achieved wider notice. From being local superior he was chosen to be bishop of Bobbio, but before he could be installed there he was transferred to Vercelli.

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 Henry VI of Swabia (1165-1197), son of Frederick Barbarossa

Miniature from the Codex Manesse, ca 1300

Heidelberg, Universitatsbibliothek Heidelberg 

One of Albert’s first official acts shows him requesting and receiving permission to wear the pallium, a papal emblem. Henry VI, the son of Barbarossa, even appointed him a Rechtsfürst, or imperial prince with a seat on the council. Albert was immediately drafted into papal matters. He was often asked to mediate between warring parties, sometimes between secular communes, sometimes between religious and diocesan disputes.

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Pope Innocent III wearing a Y-shaped pallium, circa 1219

Fresco

Coister Sacro Speco

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In 1205 Pope Innocent urged him to accept another election, one that required all the diplomacy and tact for which he was famous – that of Patriarch of Jerusalem. 

In early 1206 Albert finally arrived in the Holy Land. He found things in a dilapidated state. The king and queen who had confirmed his election had both died within 5 days of each other. They left behind a 14-year old heiress who needed to find a husband to help her rule and to govern the powerful and independent barons of the kingdom. 

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Christians and Sarasens

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Christianity in middle ages saw great divide know as Great schism between Eastern and Western churches. Great spilt result divided opinion about the crusades in which christens fought against Muslims over holy land 

Meanwhile he had to keep the local barons from fighting one another, while keeping on good relations with the Saracen rulers.

In 1210 the French king found a husband for the young queen. He was an impoverished second son of the House of Brienne, John of Brienne

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John of Brienne, French Jean de Brienne, Latin emperor of Constantinople (1231–37)

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John arrived in Acre on 13 September 2014. He was met by the patriarch himself. Albert officiated at the wedding of the landless count and the young heiress to the throne. Two weeks later, at the royal residence in Tyre, he crowned them King and Queen of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Detail; The early Carmelites receive the Rule from St. Albert
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The early Carmelites receive the Rule from St. Albert
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In the summer of 1254, King Louis IX of France failed the Seventh Crusade and returned to Paris. He was wearing a gray striped monk's uniform and was despised by the citizens of Paris. Instructed by The Pope, the monk's uniform was finally changed to a white cloak in 1287.

A group of hermits petitioned the patriarch for permission to set themselves up on Mt. Carmel and follow a holy way-of-life. They asked him to help supply them with a way-of-life they could follow, and if they might also have his blessing on their new beginnings.

Sister Petra Clare

St. Albert with the holy hermits of Mount Carmel

 Icon

National Shrine of St. Jude in Faversham

The icon depicts Saint Albert, the Latin Patriarch (Roman Catholic Bishop) of Jerusalem

approving the Carmelite way of life and giving a copy of the Rule to Saint Brocard 

Sister Petra Clare was an art student at Shrewsbury and Leeds in the 1960s. Her interest in

iconography developed gradually as her religious vocation grew. After years of discernment she decided that she wanted to be a hermit inspired by the Benedictine tradition, and with permission from Rome received formation specific for this vocation at St. Cecilia’s Abbey on the Isle of Wight.

In 1995 Sister Petra Clare moved to the Scottish Highlands to develop a skete, a hermitage which allows the members comparative solitude whilst also affording a level of mutual support, not unlike the original Carmelite hermit community on Mount Carmel. Sister’s skete in Invernessshire is dedicated to the Sancti Angeli (Holy Angels), and has a particular vocation to foster relations between the Churches in the West and the East. More on Sister Petra Clare

In 1214 he had been invited to the Fourth Lateran Council, but the Master of the Hospital of the Holy Spirit, whom he had rebuked and deposed for immorality, stabbed him to death, while taking part in a procession on the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. More on Albert of Jerusalem

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07 works, Today, September 24th, is Saint Gerard Sagredo's day, his story illustrated #266

Johann Carl Loth (German, 1632–1698)Title:

The Assassination of Saint Gerard Sagredo

Oil on canvas

74.9 x 42.5 cm. (29.5 x 16.7 in.)

Abbey of Santa Giustina, Padua

Johann Carl Loth (1632 – 6 October 1698) was a German Baroque painter, born in Munich but active most of his life in Venice. He was the son and pupil of Johann Ulrich Loth (1590–1662) and was possibly influenced by Giovan Battista Langetti. He was commissioned to paint for the emperor Leopold I in Vienna. He worked together with Pietro Liberi in Venice, where he was during the years 1663-1698. His brother Franz Loth was also a painter in Venice and Germany. More on Johann Carl Loth

Gerard or Gerard Sagredo (23 April 977/1000 – 29 August 1046) was the first bishop of Csanád in the Kingdom of Hungary from around 1030 to his death. He was born in a Venetian noble family. After a serious illness, he was sent to the Benedictine San Giorgio Monastery at the age of five. He received excellent monastic education and also learnt grammar, music, philosophy and law.

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Saint Stefan, before 1930

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He left Venice for a pilgrimage to the Holy Land around 1020, but a storm compelled him to break his journey near Istria. He decided to visit the Kingdom of Hungary. Maurus, bishop of Pécs, and Stephen I of Hungary convinced him not to continue his pilgrimage, emphasizing that Gerard's preachings could accelerate the conversion of the Hungarians. 

László Hegedűs, (1870–1911)

Saint Emeric of Hungary

Oil on canvas

Height: 75 cm (29.5 in); Width: 50 cm (19.6 in)

Private collection

László Hegedűs, (1870–1911), undertook studies with Simon Hollósy in Munich, in Vienna and at the Julian Academy in Paris, to finally become the pupil of Gyula Benczúr in his Master School. Took a study trip to Spain in 1899. He also signed the memorandum initiating the establishment of the artists colony of Szolnok, and was among the first to settle in the colony in 1902. Taught at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts from 1903. More on László Hegedűs

Gerard was made the tutor of the king's son and heir, Emeric. Before long, Gerard went to the Bakony Hills to live as a hermit near Bakonybél. 

A powerful chieftain, Ajtony, ruled the region near the rivers Tisza, Danube and Mureș in the early 11th century. He was baptised according to the "Greek rite" and settled "Greek" (or Eastern Orthodox) monks in his seat on the Mureș. After Ajtony began taxing the salt carried on the Mureș, Stephen I of Hungary sent the royal army against him under the command of Csanád, who had previously been Ajtony's commander. Csanád defeated and killed Ajtony whose domain was transformed into a county. Ajtony's seat was renamed for Csanád.

After the conquest of Ajtony's territory, Stephen I summoned Gerard and made him bishop of the newly established Diocese of Csanád. Gerard was consecrated bishopin 1030.  The king appointed twelve monks from the Benedictine monasteries in Hungary to accompany Gerard to his see. Seven of the twelve monks who could speak Hungarian were tasked with interpreting for Gerard among Ajtony's former subjects. The Greek monks who had arrived during Ajtony's rule were transferred from Csanád to a monastery newly established at Oroszlámos, and their former monastery was granted to the Benedictines.

Gerard and the Benedictine monks shared a house and he forbade them to leave it without his authorization. The monks were required to be present for the morning service and to wear monastic costume. Gerard continued to wear the habits of a hermit and spent days in solitude in the forests near his see.

The Long Life credits Gerard with the building of churches "for every city" in his diocese to serve the growing number of believers. Gerard regularly visited Stephen. 

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King Stephen at the funeral of his son, Saint Emeric

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Károly Jakobey, (1826–1891)

Saint Emeric in Pannonhalma, circa 1875

Altar painting of the cemetery chapel in Páty

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Károly Jakobey, ( Kula , 1826 . August 17 - Budapest , 1891 . July 14 ) was a Hungarian painter.

He studied at the First Hungarian Academy of Painting under Jakab Marastoni, then went to the Vienna Academy in 1845, and then to F. Waldmüller's free school. He moved to Pest around 1850, regularly appearing in the exhibitions of the Pest Art Association. His works include historical portraits, custom portraits, animal depictions, allegorical and landscape landscapes, still lifes, and folk and humorous-anecdotal works. He made countless altarpieces and murals for church orders, which further helped his reputation. He was one of the founding members of the National Hungarian Fine Arts Society , founded in 1861, until his death. More on Károly Jakobey

The succession plans of Emeric's father could never be fulfilled: on 2 September 1031, at age 24, Emeric was killed by a boar while hunting.

Stephen I died on 15 August 1038. His nephew, the Venetian Peter Orseolo mounted the throne, but he was dethroned in 1041. Peter's successor, Samuel Aba, had many lords executed. He visited Csanád, asking Gerard to put a crown on his head during the mass on Resurrection Sunday. He refused Aba, but the bishops who accompanied the king to Csanád, performed the coronation. Gerard went to the pulpit, declaring that the "sword of vengeance will descend" upon Aba's head in three years, because he had gained the kingdom by deceit. 

The Holy Roman Emperor, Henry III, invaded Hungary and defeated Aba in the Battle of Ménfő in 1044. Peter Orseolo was restored, but his rule was unpopular, because he favored his German and Italian retaineers.

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St. Gerard's martyrdom

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Gerard's martyrdom took place on 24 September 1046, during the Vata pagan uprising. His co-martyrs were Bystrik and Buldus. There are various accounts of his death. An account claims that he was placed on a two-wheel cart, hauled to the hilltop and rolled down a hill of Buda, now named Gellert Hill, then still being alive at the bottom, was beaten to death. Other unverified tales report him as being put into a spiked barrel and rolled down the hill during a mass revolt of pagans.

Canonized in 1083, along with St. Stephen and St. Emeric, Gerard is currently one of the patron saints of Hungary. His feast day is 24 September. More on Gerard Sagredo

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Life of St Gerard, circa 1335

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09 works, Today, September 23nd, is Saint Thecla's day, her story illustrated #265

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, (1696–1770) 

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken, c. 1758 until 1759

Oil on board

Height: 80 cm (31.4 in); Width: 45 cm (17.7 in)

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 - 1770. Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination characterized by one of his contemporaries as "all spirit and fire." 

 

A gifted storyteller, Tiepolo painted walls and ceilings with large, expansive scenes of intoxicating enchantment. In breath-taking visions of mythology and religion, the gods and saints inhabit light-filled skies. His ability to assimilate his predecessor and compatriot Paolo Veronese's use of color was so profound that his contemporaries named him Veronese redivio (a new Veronese). 

 

Tiepolo's commissions came from the old established families of Italy, religious orders, and the royal houses of Spain, Germany, Sweden, and Russia. His frescoes adorn palaces, churches, and villas, and his artistic legacy consists of some eight hundred paintings, 2,400 drawings, two sets of etchings, and acres of fresco. When Tiepolo died at the age of seventy-four, a Venetian diarist noted the "bitter loss" of "the most famous Venetian painter, truly the most renowned...well known in Europe and the most highly praised in his native land." More on Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Thecla or Tecla was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla.

First-Century Asia Minor

Thecla was born to a rich family in Iconium, a town in Asia Minor. She was expected to marry, and marry well. In fact, her mother had a young man picked out for her. He had an excellent position and could offer Thecla a secure life. This was important in Thecla's day because an unmarried woman could find herself with no support and no money. Marriage assured a stable place in society, with children to carry on the family name.

PYNAS, Jacob Symonsz. (b. ca. 1592, Amsterdam, d. after 1650, Delft)

Paul and Barbabas at Lystra, c. 1627-29

Saint Thecla seated on the right?

Iconium, Lystra and Derbe. Three cities in Asia Minor

Oil on wood

48 x 73 cm

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Jacob Symonsz. Pynas (1592, Haarlem – 1650, Delft), was a Dutch Golden Age painter.

Rembrandt studied with him in his workshop a few months after his six-month apprenticeship with Pieter Lastman, before he opened his own workshop in Leiden.

He was the brother of Jan Pynas who travelled to Italy. Though Jacob is known for scenes of Italy, these paintings could have been based on sketches brought back by his brother Jan and it is not certain that Jacob travelled to Italy. He influenced Rembrandt and became a member of the Delft Guild of St. Luke in the years 1632-1639. He became the teacher of Bartholomeus Breenberg.

The Pynas brothers were grouped within Dutch artists called the Pre-Rembrandtists. Their work is close in style to the painter Adam Elsheimer, and there has been a history of mis-attribution between the three, where the Pynas brothers are known to have signed their works "J. Pynas."

Jan died in Amsterdam; Jacob survived him by many years and is thought to have died in Delft. More on Jacob Symonsz. Pynas 

But something happened to Thecla that made her turn away forever from her mother's dream. The apostle Paul, who had been in Antioch, traveled to Iconium and began teaching at a house near Thecla's. She sat in her open window for three days and nights, listening as Paul spoke about the blessings of giving everything to God. Thecla decided not to marry and to devote her life to Jesus Christ.

Rembrandt, (1606–1669)

Saint Paul in prison, c. 1627

Oil on canvas

Collection

Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany

Rembrandt Harmenszoon van Rijn (15 July 1606 – 4 October 1669) was a Dutch painter and etcher. He is generally considered one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art and the most important in Dutch history. His contributions to art came in a period of great wealth and cultural achievement that historians call the Dutch Golden Age when Dutch Golden Age painting dominated Europe, was extremely prolific and innovative, and gave rise to important new genres in painting.

Having achieved youthful success as a portrait painter, Rembrandt's later years were marked by personal tragedy and financial hardships. Yet his etchings and paintings were popular throughout his lifetime, his reputation as an artist remained high, and for twenty years he taught many important Dutch painters. His self-portraits form a unique and intimate biography, in which the artist surveyed himself without vanity and with the utmost sincerity.

In his paintings and prints he exhibited knowledge of classical iconography, which he molded to fit the requirements of his own experience; thus, the depiction of a biblical scene was informed by Rembrandt's knowledge of the specific text, his assimilation of classical composition, and his observations of Amsterdam's Jewish population. Because of his empathy for the human condition, he has been called "one of the great prophets of civilization. More on Rembrandt

Her fiancé Thamyris was furious and complained to the local governor that Paul was a bad influence. Because Thamyris was so prominent, Paul was arrested and imprisoned.

Late at night Thecla secretly went to the prison, bribed the guards, and stayed to hear Paul's teaching. When her family found her, they turned her and Paul over to the authorities. Paul was driven from the city and Thecla was sentenced to death. Her mother was so angry at her daughter's disobedient "madness" that she wouldn't intervene.

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Thecla rejoined Paul at Myra in Lycia, dressed as a boy

Icon

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Thecla was tortured, but God delivered her from death. She found her way to Antioch and soon met Paul there. She rejoined Paul dressed as a boy, and was commissioned by him to preach the Gospel/

She helped him preach, and together they did good work for the Lord.

Antoni Szulczyński

St. Tekla, the wild beasts wouldn't harm her

Church of St. Tekla in Wilczyn

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Antoni Szulczyński (born May 6, 1877 in Wilczogóra, died December 11, 1922 in Wilczyn ) - Polish painter, author of polychromes, portraits and landscapes.

Szulczyński was born in Wilczogóra in 1877. He studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow , from which he graduated in 1901, and continued his studies traveling all over Europe. He perfected his workshop at universities in Vienna , Rome , Munich and Vilnius .

At the age of 22 he began working on the polychromes in the church of Saint Catherine in Miednia, from which he graduated in 1907. In his oeuvre, the artist also has polychromes and paintings in the churches of Our Lady of Sorrows in Skulsk , St. Stanislaus the Bishop in Kramsk , St. Urszula in Wilczyn , of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Łubnice and in Broniszewo and Złotków . Antoni Szulczyński, known for his sacred works, was also a valued portraitist and author of landscapes that decorated and adorn the walls of many houses in the country.

Antoni Szulczyński died on the night of December 10-11, 1922 in his home in Wilczyn [1] . His early death was linked to his illness and paralysis. More on Antoni Szulczyński

But once again a powerful person, this time the city governor, tried to turn Thecla toward marriage. When she hurt his pride by refusing he denounced her to the authorities. She was arrested and sentenced to die in the arena. But the wild beasts wouldn't harm her, and when their attempt to drown her also failed, the officials were so frightened that they let her go. 

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Saint Thecla, c. 17th / 18th century

Oil, double canvas

105x73 cm

Private collection

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She retreated to a rocky desert cave in the mountains near the town of Ma'aloula, Syria. Through her prayer she converted many and gathered other women monastics around her. She counseled people and healed the sick, never asking for money.

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St. Thekla fleeing into the cleft of the rock

Fresco

Decani Monastery, Deçan, Kosovo

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Even there, though, she was pursued. Jealous pagan doctors sent young men to harm the saint, now an old woman. But God heard her prayers and opened up a fissure in the rock of the cave. Thecla rushed into the space, which immediately closed up again. More on Saint Thecla

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St. Thekla with scenes from her life

Icon

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03 works, Today, September 22nd, is Saints Digna and Emerita's day, their story illustrated #264

Pietro Andrea Barbieri

 Detail of the altarpiece of the Chapel of Saints Digna and Emerita, c. 1727

Church of San Marcello al Corso in Rome,

Pietro Antonio or Pier Antonio Barbieri or Barbieri Pucciardi (active 1702-1730s) was an Italian painter, active in Rome, as a painter of religious subjects.

He was born in Fosdinovo and studied in Bologna with Giovanni Giuseppe del Sole. From there he traveled to Rome to study at the Accademia di San Luca, where he won prizes in 1702. In 1727 he was a custodian of the Academy, and secretary of the Academy in 1729. He painted the Cappella Casoni and the cupola of the Sarzana Cathedral. More on Pietro Andrea Barbieri

Saints Digna and Emerita (died 259 AD) are venerated as saints by the Catholic Church. They were martyred at Rome. Their feast day is celebrated on September 22.

Antonio Tempesta 

Sts Digna and Emerita, c. 1570-1591

Imagini di molte SS Vergini Rom.e nel martirio

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Height: 73 millimetres, Width: 118 millimetre

British Museum

St Emerita falling on the ground to right, and St Digna seated on the ground to left, with two men standing behind them stoning them and putting stones in their mouths.

Antonio Tempesta (1555 – 5 August 1630) was an Italian painter and engraver, whose art acted as a point of connection between Baroque Rome and the culture of Antwerp.

He was born and trained in Florence and painted in a variety of styles, influenced to some degree by "Counter-Maniera" or Counter-Mannerism. He enrolled in the Florentine Accademia delle Arti del Disegno in 1576. He was a pupil of Santi di Tito, then of the Flemish painter Joannes Stradanus. He was part of the large team of artists working under Giorgio Vasari on the interior decoration of the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence.

His favourite subjects were battles, cavalcades, and processions. He relocated to Rome, where he associated with artists from the Habsburg Netherlands, which may have led to his facility with landscape painting. More Antonio Tempesta

Their relics are said to lie at the church of San Marcello al Corso, in Rome, although it is recorded that on April 5, 838, a monk named Felix appeared at Fulda with the remains of Saints Cornelius, Callistus, Agapitus, Georgius, Vincentius, Maximus, Cecilia, Eugenia, Digna, Emerita, and Columbana. More on Saints Digna and Emerita

Book cover, by Gallonio, Antonio, d. 1605

Saint Digna and Saint Emerita

Title: Historia of the holy Roman virgins with various annotations and with some short lives of their holy relatives: and of the glorious martyrs papia and mauro Roman soldiers work / de Antonio Gallonio Romano, priest of the Congregation of the Oratory

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07 works, Today, September 21st, is The Prophet Jonah's day, his story illustrated #263

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Jonah and the Whale, circa 1400

Folio from a Jami al-Tavarikh (Compendium of Chronicles)

H. 13 1/4 in. (33.7 cm), W. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm)

Ink, gouache, gold and silver on paper

Metropolitan Museum of Art

Jonah the son of Amitai, who, as a prophet disciple, had anointed Jehu and who, therefore, enjoyed the king's benevolence. Once God commanded Jonah to go to Nineveh, one of the largest cities of that time and foretell its destruction, because the evil of its inhabitants had reached the limit. The mission, however, was not to Jonah's liking. Nineveh was a bitter enemy of Israel, and Jonah would have liked to see its destruction. If he should succeed in his mission and Nineveh would be spared, it would remain a constant threat to Israel. Jonah therefore decided to seek escape. He boarded a ship that sailed for Tarshish, hoping to forget about his mission. Once the prophet was on the high seas, God caused a storm to break that threatened to tear the ship asunder. The sailors were frightened and each one prayed to his god. Jonah, however, lay down to sleep. The captain of the ship, seeing the sleeping man, went over to him and reprimanded him for sleeping in that fateful hour, instead of praying to God. Meanwhile the sailors drew lots to find out whose fault it was that this misfortune had been brought upon them. 

Nicholas of Verdun

Detail; Jonah in the whale

Verduner altarpiece

Klosterneuburg, Austria

Nicholas of Verdun (c. 1130–c. 1205) was a renowned metalworker, goldsmith and enamelworker active around the years 1180 - 1205. He was born in the Lotharingian city of Verdun, on the western fringe of the German empire. Although he must have maintained a large atelier of his own with numerous assistants, possibly based in Verdun, commissions in Cologne, northern France and outside Vienna required him to travel frequently.

Around the year 1200, a new awareness in northern Europe of Byzantine art, coinciding with a revival of interest in classical art, led to the emergence of a highly classicizing style of figural representation in stone sculpture, metalwork and manuscript illumination. Nicholas of Verdun was a leading practitioner of this short-lived proto-Renaissance as seen in the enameled plaques of the Klosterneunurg Altar and the Three Kings Shrine in Cologne Cathedral. More on Nicholas of Verdun

The lot fell upon Jonah. When the sailors questioned him as to who he was, whence he had come, and what his business was, he told them that he was a Jew and a servant of God, the Creator of heaven and earth. Then the sailors asked what they should do in order to quiet the raging sea and save their ship with all aboard. 

Peter Paul Rubens, (1577–1640)

Jonah Thrown into the Sea

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Sir Peter Paul Rubens (28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640) was a Flemish Baroque painter. A proponent of an extravagant Baroque style that emphasized movement, colour, and sensuality, Rubens is well known for his Counter-Reformation altarpieces, portraits, landscapes, and history paintings of mythological and allegorical subjects.

In addition to running a large studio in Antwerp that produced paintings popular with nobility and art collectors throughout Europe, Rubens was a classically educated humanist scholar and diplomat who was knighted by both Philip IV of Spain and Charles I of England.  More Sir Peter Paul Rubens

Jonah replied that all they had to do was to throw him overboard, and the storm would immediately die down, since it had been caused by his refusal to obey God's command. At first the sailors did not want to do as Jonah asked. But the storm grew fiercer and the end was seemingly unavoidable. Very reluctantly, the sailors threw Jonah into the water and the storm ceased at once.

Unknown artist

Jonah thrown up out of the mouth of a great fish

H. Clay Trumbull, “Jonah in Nineveh.” Journal of Biblical Literature, Vol. 2, No.1, 1892

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As soon as Jonah was in the water, God sent a large fish to swallow Jonah alive. Three days and three nights Jonah stayed within the fish. In distress, he prayed to God to save him, and God ordered the fish to eject Jonah and set him on dry land.

Jonah, thrown up out of the mouth of a great fish, in the presence of witnesses, on the coast of Phoenicia, where the fish-god was a favorite object of worship! Such an incident inevitably aroused the mercurial nature of Oriental observers, so that a multitude would be ready to follow the seemingly new avatar of the fish-god, proclaiming the story of his uprising from the sea, as he went on his mission to the city where the fish-god had its very centre of worship” 

Unknown artist

Jonah prophesies to the Ninevites

London, British Library,

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He goes and enters the city, crying, "In forty days Nineveh shall be overthrown." After Jonah has walked across Nineveh, the people of Nineveh begin to believe his word and proclaim a fast. 

Unknown artist

The Repentance of Nineveh’s King Wins Jehovah God’s Commendation
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The king of Nineveh puts on sackcloth and sits in ashes, making a proclamation which decrees fasting, the wearing of sackcloth, prayer, and repentance. God sees their repentant hearts and spares the city at that time. The entire city is humbled and broken with the people in sackcloth and ashes.

Jonah was displeased at this change of events. He had hoped that the doom of Nineveh, had the inhabitants of that city not repented, would forever rid his people Israel of one of its bitter enemies. 

Jack Baumgartner

Jonah and the Gourd Vine, c. 1999

Mdf panel with mahogany veneer

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Jack Baumgartner lives in south central Kansas, with his wife Amy and their four children. As an artist, farmer and woodworker, Jack seeks to cultivate a wide range of disciplines with a high level of skill and authenticity. The daily labor is a holistic gathering and practice of arts, crafts, trades, community and agricultural stewardship. Jack tries to reflect in his life the multifaceted beauty and harmonious complexity He witnesses in creation as a quest into the heart of God. More on Jack Baumgartner

He built himself a hut outside the city in which to live the life of a recluse. Jonah was anxious to know what the fate of the city would be. It was a very hot day, and God made a plant grow to give Jonah shade and protect him from the sting of the hot sun. Jonah was overjoyed with the plant. Then God sent a worm that stung the plant and made it wither. When the protection of the plant had been withdrawn, the sun beat mercilessly upon Jonah's head until he became faint, and wished to die. Then the weary prophet heard God's words: "You are sorry for the plant for which you have neither labored, nor made it grow; which came up in one night and perished in the next; shall I not then, spare Nineveh, the great city, wherein more than twelve times ten thousand people live who do not know how to discern between their right and their left hand (i.e. children), and many animals in addition?" More on The Prophet Jonah

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