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Feb 15, 2023 · The term “church triumphant” underlines the truth that in the glory of heaven all human sin will have been transformed, death and suffering will be no more, and the glory of God will have triumphed over all the imperfections of human history. The church militant refers to the Church on earth.
Even today, art can assist the Church with several of her needs: Art is useful in evangelization, the mission of the Church and her faithful to telling the great story of our salvation. Just as Jesus told stories, Christians recount their personal witness.
Triumphal arch, a monumental structure pierced by at least one arched passageway and erected to honour an important person or to commemorate a significant event. It was sometimes architecturally isolated but usually was built to span either a street or a roadway, preferably one used for triumphal.
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Sep 13, 2016 · September 14th is the feast day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, also known as the Triumph of the Cross or the Elevation of the Cross. This is the day the Church celebrates both the discovery and the recovery of the True Cross of Jesus Christ. Read below for the very interesting historical account surrounding this ancient feast day.
To speak of sacred architecture today in front of a Church which is crushed, humiliated and degraded by the ignorance of its symbols, by the painful alienation of the remaining iconography, drowned in the schemes of a disembodied abstraction, is equivalent to turning a knife in the wound.
The Arc de Triomphe (Arch of Triumph), in the center of Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris, is one of France’s most famous monuments and listed as a French National Monument. As the world’s second largest triumphal arch, it stands 50 meters high and is an important example of 18th century neo-classicist architecture.
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Sep 23, 2022 · The arch of the Last Judgment was completed in 1962 and the main dome in 1965 by Jan Henryk de Rosen of Poland, who depicted Biblical scenes from both the Old and New Testaments. The mosaics in the narthex depict the life of St. Louis, King of France, namesake and patron saint of the church.
