Counted amongst the oldest depictions of the Blessed Virgin Mary known is this icon, the Maria Advocata housed in the the Church of the Madonna del Rosario in Rome. The image follows a broader type of icon known as the Panagia Agiosoritissa wherein the Virgin is shown witho…
The Ancient Image of Maria Advocata
Counted amongst the oldest depictions of the Blessed Virgin Mary known is this icon, the Maria Advocata housed in the the Church of the Madonna del Rosario in Rome. The image follows a broader type of icon known as the Panagia Agiosoritissa wherein the Virgin is shown witho…
The All Souls Brotherhood Chapel of St. Laurentius in Vilshofen, Germany
Located in the beautiful Bavarian region of Germany is a chapel of the All Souls Brotherhood ( Allerseelen-Bruderschaften ), a confraternity dedicated to praying for the Holy Souls in Purgatory. The chapel is part of an interesting and somewhat complicated complex of ecclesia…
The Church of the Dead (Chiesa dei Morti) and the Brotherhood of Good Death
Being as it is now that time of the year again, it is an especially fitting time to share yet another ossuary church, this time the Chiesa dei Morti (Church of the Dead) located in Urbania. The church itself was formerly a domestic chapel founded in the year 1380 and associ…
The Mainz-Baron von Bettendorf Requiem Chasuble
Another 'memento mori' style requiem chasuble that gets a lot of play online, but which has seldom come with any further details or information, is this chasuble which features a reclining skeleton at whose feet we can find a various symbols of the vanities of the w…
