Epiphany - The Kings finding the Christ Child

The Adoration Anonimo Siglo XIV-XV

Epiphany & the Magi - The Kings' Journey Nears It's End

 Benozzo Gozzoli 1459-61 Centro

 Anonimo Siglo VI Mosaico Sanit-Apollinare

 Salterio de Ingeborg de Dinamarca S XII-I

 Anonimo Romanico Cataluna

 Anonimo Mosaico 430 Sta Maria Roma

 Journey of the Magi by Hieronymus Bosch 1500-1510

 Stefano Di Giovanni Sassetta (Italian artist, 1394-1450) Journey of the Magi 1435

 The Meeting of the Kings by Maestro de Saint Bartholomew 1480

A Sleeping 17C Baby

Bernardo Strozzi (Italian painter, 1581-1644) Sleeping Child

Origin of the name "Quakers" 1650

Origin of the name "Quakers" 1650
From It Happened Today

George Fox 1624-1691

IN 1643, some English lads visited a fair. All claimed to be Christians. George Fox joined them in ordering a jug of ale. “I, being thirsty, went in with them, for I loved any who had a sense of good, or that sought after the Lord.” But, “When we had drunk a glass apiece, they began to drink healths, and called for more drink.” One called out, “Whoever won’t drink pays!” Fox was upset that “Christians” would challenge each other to a drinking bout. So he rose, took a coin from his pocket and laid it on the table, saying, “If that’s the way it’s going to be, I’m leaving.” 

Fox went home, but was so troubled by the incident he couldn’t sleep. Instead, he walked up and down, praying and crying to the Lord. Soon he left home and wandered alone, seeking answers. He became convinced that only those actually born of God are Christians, and they must worship God not with outward show, but with the spirit. 

Certain that no one had answers for his unhappiness, he reached a crisis: “When all my hopes in them and in all men were gone, so that I had nothing outwardly to help me, nor could I tell what to do, then, oh, then, I heard a voice which said, ‘There is one, even Christ Jesus, that can speak to thy condition’; and when I heard it, my heart did leap for joy.”  Ever after, Fox relied on inner illumination from the Lord. He formed a group called the Society of Friends. These believers worked against many intolerant and wicked practices in society, often getting into trouble for refusing to take off their hats to important people, preaching publicly without licenses, and refusing to take oaths to anyone but Christ. 

For being different, Fox was jailed many times, once in a dungeon that was the latrine hole for other prisoners. On this day, 30 October 1650, he was brought before Justice Bennet of Derby on a charge of blasphemy. Quoting Isaiah 66:2, he urged the judge to “tremble at the word of God.” In mockery, Bennet called him a “quaker,” and this is thought to be the origin of the name “Quakers.” 

George Fox died in 1691, exclaiming on his deathbed, “I am clear! I am clear!” For many years he had kept a journal. Two hundred years after his death, Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon addressed a body of Quakers, saying of that journal “It is a rich mine. Every page of it is precious as solid gold.”

The Female Saints of Francisco de Zurbarán 1598–1664

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Apolonia

Spanish painter Francisco de Zurbarán (1598–1664), born at Fuente de Cantos & active mainly in Seville, devoted himself almost entirely to religious works. He worked for churches & monasteries over a wide area of southern Spain and his paintings were also exported to South America. His simple compositions & emotionally direct altarpieces, combining austere naturalism with mystical intensity, made him an ideal Counter-Reformation painter.

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda of Burgos

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda. c 1630-1645

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Casilda

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorotea

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Dorothea

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eufemia

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Isabel

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Margaret. c 1630-1635

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Marina

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Eulalia

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Rufina. Early 1630s

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1625

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Santa Lucia 1633

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Agatha

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ursula

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Lucy

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Mathilda

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Barbe

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Ines

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Catherine of Alexandria

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia

Francisco de Zurbarán (Spanish painter, 1598–1664) Saint Engracia