In the past we have featured some historical leather veatments as well as some of the leather antependia that can still be procured from contempoary atelier's such as Lutson , a firm located in Gascony, France. In the course of some other, unrelated research, I happened…
An Example of a Leather Antependium from Old Quebec City (1675-1725)
In the past we have featured some historical leather veatments as well as some of the leather antependia that can still be procured from contempoary atelier's such as Lutson , a firm located in Gascony, France. In the course of some other, unrelated research, I happened…
Advent in the Roman Missal: The Rorate Mass
The first time I attended the Votive Mass "Rorate" in honor of the Most Holy Virgin Mary, I was living in the Sandy Hill neighborhood of Ottawa, Canada. In the pre-dawn hour I recall walking in the dark, frigid cold to the nearby FSSP parish. Upon entering the war…
A Monastic Inspired Marian Chasuble from Talleres de Arte Granda
It has been a little while since we've had the opportunity to feature some new vestment work, and with the Feast of Immaculate Conception being just yesterday, it seemed an opportune time to feature a bespoke commission that Talleres de Arte Granda recently completed fo…
Five Marian Chasubles for the Feast of the Immaculate Conception
With it being the feast of the Immaculate Conception, we wanted to share a few antique Marian chasubles that feature the Immaculate Conception (or at very least Marian imagery). In the past we've done this by showing some of the famed and ever popular Cerulean blue chas…
Icons and Illuminations by Ioanna Belcea
In previous articles we have featured the compelling liturgical art of the studio of Ioana Belcea and today we are going to continue our consideration of her work, this time not of her mosaics and frescoes, but rather her iconography and illuminations . The beauty of such pi…
Before and After: The Restoration of Belmont Chapel in Newport, Rhode Island
The Belmont Memorial Chapel is a small church that is located on the grounds of Island Cemetery in Newport, Rhode Island. While that goes slightly outside our usually rather tight sphere of focus here at LAJ, I believe our readers will be very interested in this particular …
Silver Elegance: An Eighteenth Century Italian Thurible in White Silver
Silver, like gold, does not have a singular expression. Rather, silver comes in a range of different shades. Some silvers are very cool and greyish in their hue while others have other underlying secondary colours such as pink/red. However one of those beautiful shades, in…
The Sagrestia Vecchia (Old Sacristy) of the Church of San Lorenzo in Florence
Sacristies are generally places you do not want to miss when you're touring an older European church. Generally speaking, while you may not get a look at the sacred vestments, these are still places of great interest, being more akin to chapels than mere dressing rooms,…
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Amiens (Cathédrale Notre-Dame d'Amiens)
The truly stupendous Amiens Cathedral at once takes hold of the soul -- it is one of the finest churches raised to the Glory of God. Constructed from 1220-1270, a short period for a Gothic cathedral, this lovely church is renowned for its unusual unity of style. Like other …
