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Saint of the Day – 27 December – St John the Apostle and Evangelist. Patronages – • against burns; burn victims• against epilepsy• against foot problems• against hailstorms• against po…

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Murillo was the leading painter in Seville in the later 17th century. He remained one of the most admired and popular of all European artists in the 18th and early 19th centuries. His early works were much influenced by the early works of Velázquez, executed before Velázquez left Seville in 1623, and by the paintings of Zurbarán.

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"We proclaim to you the eternal life which was with the Father and was made visible to us. We are writing this so that you may rejoice, and that your joy may be complete." – Matins responsory for St John's feast, citing 1 Jn 1:3-4. This mosaic of the saint with his symbol, the eagle, is in St Matthew's Cathedral in Washington DC.

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a woman holding an open book with a bird on her arm

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a stained glass window depicting the birth of jesus and mary, with an image of jesus holding

"This is the apostle John, who leaned on the breast of the Lord at the supper: blessed is the apostle to whom were revealed the secret things of heaven." – From the Matins responsory for St John's feast. Stained glass detail from a window in the Sacred Heart (Dahlgren) chapel in Georgetown University.

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a statue of a man with a book in his hand

The statues of the Apostles in Rome’s Church of Saint John in the Lateran were placed in twelve niches, which Francesco Borromini had designed in the central nave of this Roman Cathedral in the second half of the 1600s. Architect and architecture theoretician Paolo Portoghesi has explained the symbolic value of the main nave in […]

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a painting of a woman holding a plate next to a man

Solario (c.1465 - 1524) worked in Milan after 1493, and in 1507 was invited to France, where he decorated a chapel at Château Gaillon for Cardinal Georges d'Amboise, Archbishop of Rouen. Between his return from France in 1510 and his death fourteen years later, he painted a number of variants on the present composition, of which this is one of the most notable. The descriptive naturalism of the picture is indebted to Netherlandish painting. Rather than recreate a narrative of Saint John's…

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