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The Coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost

The subject is linked to one of the most important Christian festivals – Pentecost or Whitsuntide. Pentecost falls on the fiftieth day after Easter and celebrates the descent of the Holy Spirit on th...

The Ascension

The four Gospels and the Acts of the Apostles tell how Christ was taken up into heaven on the fortieth day after the Resurrection: “Until the day in which He was taken up, after that He through the H...

The Incredulity of Thomas

The story of doubting Thomas is described in the Gospel of John: “But Thomas, one of the twelve, called Didymus, was not with them when Jesus came. The other disciples therefore said unto him, ‘We ha...

Christ on the Road to Emmaus

The Book of Luke relates how two disciples were going to a village called Emmaus, when they were joined by Christ: “And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was f...

The Resurrection

Entering the Lord’s tomb on the third day, the Myrrhbearers saw an angel dressed in a white robe: “And the angel answered and said unto the women, ‘Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, who was...

The Myrrhbearers at the Lord’s Tomb

On the third day after the Crucifixion, Mary Magdalene, Salome and Mary the mother of James brought spices to the tomb, in order to anoint Jesus’ body in accordance with Hebrew tradition: “In the end...

The Deposition

“And after this Joseph of Arimathaea, being a disciple of Jesus, but secretly for fear of the Jews, besought Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus: and Pilate gave him leave. He came there...

The Descent into Limbo

The iconography of the scene is based on the apocryphal Gospel of St Nicodemus, liturgical texts, psalms, Old Testament prophecies, St Peter’s Epistles and patristic compositions. St Epiphanius of Co...

The Entombment

This subject is encountered in all four Gospels, as well as the apocryphal Gospel of St Nicodemus and the liturgical texts of Good Friday and Easter Saturday: “When the even was come, there came a ri...

The Crucifixion

All the Gospels describe Christ’s death on the cross at a place called Golgotha: “And after that they had mocked Him, they took the robe off from Him, and put His own raiment on Him, and led Him away...

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