https://www.saintpodcast.com/episodes daily 0.75 2023-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630063005393-IXF755G9BE2NR20VZLL5/crivelli+painting+reduced.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Stephen detail from the Demidoff Altarpiece, painted by Carlo Crivelli (1491), currently at the National Gallery, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630089179605-CLTBKJP8TNMJKQ7Z928B/hand+relic+in+genoa.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Bejewelled case at the Church of Saint Stephen in Genoa containing the hand relic of Saint Stephen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630093864955-13TS1BXGS8IX9GI7KSLB/Giotto._saint-stephen-1320-25_Florence%2C_Museo_Horne+reduced.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Stephen with rocks resembling Princess Leia’s hairdo, painted by Giotto di Bondone (c. 1320) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630089764693-74H82GFLZPNWAY3H3CYG/botticelli+augustine.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Augustine of Hippo by Sandro Botticelli (1480), on display at the Uffizi Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630090432817-OMQPZO83O1V0YKY91PFK/bernardo+daddi+gamaliel.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Gamaliel appearing to Lucian, painted by Bernardo Daddi in 1345, at the Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630087726147-QNYN2H40NZ1ME1KQQI7V/martino+di+bartolomeo+reduced.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Martino di Bartolomeo’s retable of extra-Biblical legends (c. 1390), at the Städel Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630062824274-J28HULVHG1AFEC8MTS3L/rembrandt+painting.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The stoning of Saint Stephen by Rembrandt (1625), from the Musée des beaux-arts de Lyon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630090733992-9LFJVRN7CGEFC456RPOC/hans+klocker+gamaliel+reduced.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Gamaliel appearing to Lucian in a dream, painted by Hans Klocker, 1482 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630089423782-I5B2LYFUO65NWBAF19SR/relics+at+san+lorenzo.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630063845062-797FHO312TIAXXOYAONZ/hans+leinberger+sculpture.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Seated Saint Stephen holding the rocks that killed him, sculpted by Hans Leinberger c. 1525-30, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630094442048-GYC1R0Y6393WXWZVDD8Q/Koudounaris2+reduced.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Example of a bejewelled relic, photo by Paul Koudounaris from his book, Heavenly Bodies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630090070908-3KONGY29IXPZO8FU69GA/peter+paul+ruben.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Stephen Triptych by Peter Paul Rubens (1616-17), at the Musée des Beaux Arts de Valenciennes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630064094418-CFQXN78H5FQ04JUHZQFB/Gabriel-Jules+Thomas.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lunette at the Church of Saint-Etienne du Mont depicting the stoning of Saint Stephen, created by Theby Gabriel-Jules Thomas in 1863 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630091994735-1WIXRB9PKC47CYVQ6FVA/giovanni-domenico-tiepolo-the-stoning-of-saint-stephen-1.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Painting by Giovanni Deomenico Tiepolo (18th century) with microwave-sized rocks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630175096617-DR4Y5Z9UFGN8JNICZ0O1/madonna.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Madonna’s 2012 single, I’m a SInner with lyrics, ‘Saint Sebastian, don't you cry Let those poison arrows fly’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630163787334-4R4SJEGFTJYM8DAGG1HG/nero+playing+lute.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Nero playing a lute while Rome burns, painted by the school of Giulio Romano, c. 1536-9; Royal Collection Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630438780446-0Z7YIYNETU3DS53MBB6H/medieval+seb+getty+.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Illuminated manuscript showing a gruesome Sebastian by Master of Sir John Fastolf, c. 1430-40; The Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630171226354-610JP531ONE1LEUWPTGT/Screenshot+2021-08-28+at+18.19.36.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Examples of the ‘chaste’ Sebastian and Irene scene permitted in Protestant art - but soon became as erotic as the arrow penetration depictions banned by many Church officials https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630173703247-3MZGDWC6K43XNVEELINI/rem.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Still from REM’s Losing My Religion music video (1991) directed by Tarsem Singh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630167617642-DE5YIVIKHBQ4ZB0JBUOJ/st-sebastian-by-giuseppe-giorgetti-san-sebastiano-fuori-le-mura-rome_orig.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sebastian body is said to be buried under this 17th-century sculpture by an unknown artist; San Sebastiano fuori le mura https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630171772075-K9CQWLY9MS6NRQT42I05/Screenshot+2021-08-28+at+18.28.15.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Christ-like depiction of Saint Sebastian with Irene and her maid looking like Mary Magdalene and the Virgin Mary, painted by Antonio Bellucci, c. 1718 (left); Dulwich Picture Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630167017518-1M8KSH97V8TWPWCVGGVG/veronese+sebatian+beaten.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sebastian sentenced to death, painted by Paolo Veronese, 1558; Chiesa di San Sebastiano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630174794966-Z6R8KCS9VP773ROWSO1V/damien.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, created by Damien Hirst, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630174983213-Q3ZTEIFORECWKMJVFWF0/aquaria.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Drag performer Aquaria as Saint Sebastian on Rupaul’s Drag Race, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630165960821-0JZXWD3AB64BWPWBGRUC/hans+holbein.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian with Mauritanian archers depicted in Eastern clothing, painted by Hans Holbein, c. 1516; Alte Pinakothek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630171101847-1K8GKEBD0E5NMTTPVN7I/Screenshot+2021-08-28+at+18.16.59.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Friar Bartolomeo’s controversial painting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630173349391-VXO3J0BXZ3YZCYQ0117T/Sebastiane-1976-e1549388086239.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Poster from Derek Jarman’s 1976 controversial film, Sebastien https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630168198179-Q1XMZMR8FVRL9TS62JC5/Screenshot+2021-08-28+at+17.28.17.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian’s head reliquary disassembled to reveal a skullcap; Saint Sebastian Church in Ebersberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630169275093-OZPW20W27WSCMLUJQ3YU/apollo+belvedere.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Apollo Belvedere, a powerful god who metes out disease with a bow and arrow, c. 120-40, artist unknown ; Vatican Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630168618604-XPPU9PU5SZTCQYG4JCAG/mosaic+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out One of the oldest depictions of Saint Sebastian, created in 683 by an unknown artist; Basilica of San Pietro ad Vincula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630164583212-IDZ204O4RKAE6YIFO6HP/Mani_of_Cao%27an%3B_the_Buddha_of_Light.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Mani of the Cao'an temple in Fujian, China. Photo by By Zhangzhugang. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630166916335-KZ9BSXYK3ZLZU8F3LPZU/veronese+sebastian+before+diocletian.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A healed Sebastian confronts Diolcetian, painted by Paolo Veronese, 1558; Chiesa di San Sebastiano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630172967397-ZL3LR3R1329ZNXKSHE2Z/aids.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Love AIDS people poster (1989) featuring Saint Sebastian; Shoshin Society https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630169777257-O2W9TEXNLY7FYJ7OJFH9/Screenshot+2021-08-28+at+17.52.12.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The transformation of Saint Sebastian from middle-aged warrior to gruesome Medieval saint of disease to Apollo-like youth to gay pinup https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630170738892-HDE2JO4V9DCAM9M8TIJ7/bronzino.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Bronzino’s shockingly sensual portrayal of Saint Sebastian with no religious iconography, c. 1533; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630170367423-CZTUPT5JBKAF3DSMKLDZ/bernini.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out An Apollo-like Sebastian by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, 1617-18; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630170055977-RDSUTKWINOW5BX0IARAC/Screenshot+2021-08-28+at+17.58.54.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Pagan pandemic gods Eros (left) and Cupid (right) who inflicted illnesses like lust, love, and STDs with arrows https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630161766914-PO4KNCSJUEQ3VWMSQKDO/praetoriam+guard+relief.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Praetorian guards carved by an unknown artist, c. 51-52 CE; the Louvre-Lens https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630438683758-4OKTCG9SZ32BHU7FNG54/medieval+seb.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Woodcut showing a gruesome death, c. 1472; Staatliche Graphische Sammlung https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630174429548-0WLCI9PJZLZFFLTZZ4EA/ali.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Muhammad Ali, Esquire Magazine (1968) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630175762965-ES7XCQ7X1KNJEQ6M682O/reni.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Guido Reni’s painting that inspired so Oscar Wilde in 1877, painted c. 1625; Toi o Tāmaki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630170498888-SGOQ4KV6TZNKEL7SQCEU/michelangelo.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian painted by Michelangelo in the Last Judgement fresco, 1536-41; Sistine Chapel, Vatican City https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630165075929-YWMFL2Y98LZS5UR5A7BT/nicomedia+burning.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Martyrs in the Church of Nicomedia, painted by Menologion of Basil II, c. 1000; the Vatican Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630164378273-7YYHKJX5FXEWWNWXTXDN/galerius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Galerius, after he became an emperor in the Tetrarchy, 4th century, artist unknown; The Egyptian Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630165764979-29H9J56KJKRQPRUMKD7R/Cerchia+di+Girolamo+Siciolante+1560.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Iconic Saint Sebastian ‘martyrdom’ image, painted by Cerchia di Girolamo Siciolante, c. 1560; Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630174732424-53LQLPMGOXWJKMXUEUOS/pierre-et-gilles-st-sebastian-1987-web.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian, Pierre et Gilles, 1987 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630162165371-8E62BTOJJQCOAM8VWUS9/carinus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Bust of Emperor Carinus by an unknown artist, c. 283-85; the Centrale Montemartini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630172731538-59D27BH66Z30TZAQNRV2/kanjoor.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian at Saint Mary’s Forane Church in Kanjoo, India https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630165363930-BTUMB4A8SEJO2WUYTLBP/marcus+and+marcellian.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sebastian (centre) convincing Marcus and Marcellian (far right) to remain true to their faith, artist unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630163071155-13V2JD5K0UYMF9102AKD/diocletian.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Diocletian by an unknown sculptor, made between the late 2nd and early 3rd centuries; Istanbul Archaeological Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630167135372-7GINTIL367W8K0CGIVMG/carracci.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sebastian’s corpse dumped into the Cloaca Maxima; Ludovico Carracci, 1612. The Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630166296120-GSCM1I88SFRXYESM2NIF/georges+la+tour+irene.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Irene and her nursemaid tending to Sebastian’s wounds, painted by Georges de La Tour, 1630s; Kimbell Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630446732053-SZ4EB5EAS1PNK8A6TX7F/mucalinda.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1100s Khmer bronze of the mystical snake, nāga Mucalinda, protecting Buddha on his throne; Cleveland Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630440094012-IEMSJXMPUG9L00KE1OPU/margaret+shepherdess.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Margaret the shepherdess by Jean Fouquet, 15th century. Her unwanted suitor Olybius approaches in the background. The Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630498049877-XKZZKR90DNU4928922T1/holy+helpers.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Detail from a 1498 altarpiece featuring the Fourteen Holy Helpers, from the now-suppressed Heilbronn Abbey in the Baden-Württemberg region of Germany; Staatsgalerie Stuttgart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630446406417-9M3WRMLP9LXU5M80ZYCF/Quetzalcoatl1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Basalt head of Quetzalcoatl, a feathered snake from Mesoamerica, a deity of wisdom and fertility who invented books; Peyton Wright Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630495816131-V7HCXELEMWWG352HG725/pelagia%3Apelagius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Pelagia/Pelagius’ funeral from a 14th-century French manuscript https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630442107109-Y5N7GG8NYTV1D7JVBV0S/fastulus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The shepherd Fastulus bringing Romulus and Remus - the legendary twin founders of Rome - to his wife, painted by Nicolas Mignard, 1654; Dallas Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630508247294-32Z8NU9KS66OXGNBTZQE/statue+dragon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Statue, c. 1700-1850, possibly French, artist unknown; Science Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630443586792-IJDA4J3V5RD3HVZRFAPB/agnes+zurbaran.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Agnes with the agnus dei or lamb of god, painted by the workshop of Francisco de Zurbarán, Museo Bellas Artes de Sevilla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630446285911-NXOH9FTXE1IIY0N7JZUD/jormundangr.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Norse snake Jörmungandr who brings about Ragnarök, the end of the world. The image is from a 17th-century Icelandic manuscript. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630442316345-ASQ88YUV4NY2NQZO71W1/kriophoros.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Late Roman marble copy of the Kriophoros of Kalamis. Kriophoros is an ancient protector and fertility god. Artist unknown. Museo Barracco di Scultura Antica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630494987650-QG65DDU8CN715LP7NK09/martyrdom.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Margaret in a 13th-century manuscript from Bologna, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630507664220-MOQHRRF826TL9FIPTCT9/joan.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out La Vie de Jeanne d’Arc by Louis-Maurice Boutet de Monvel, 1896. This piece shows Saints Catherine of Alexandria, Michael, and Margaret of Antioch appearing to Joan of Arc (right); National Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630447546553-T5W4XDE08SSF4CTG72A7/adam+eve.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The first evil snake is the Devil in disguise from the Garden of Eden who - like its antecedents - gives knowledge to humans. Knowledge in this story isn’t a gift, however, it’s a curse. Painted by the circle of Jacob de Backer. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630509063819-C9Y7Y6S0163JWV6ZXF7C/reliquary+bust.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 15th-century reliquary bust of Saint Margaret, attributed to Nicolaus Gerhaert von Leyden; Art Institute Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630439852416-4VPR7B9M53DQD8DXAHF1/endymion.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The handsome shepherd boy Endymion enchanted by the goddess of the moon to sleep forever so she could gaze upon his face; painted by Francesco Solimena, c. 1705-10. National Museums Liverpool. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630498213322-798VN5S66Q263JKIYOLW/cranch+helpers.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Fourteen Holy Helpers painted by Lucas Cranach, c. 1525-30; Hampton Court Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630443228541-JT9ABXNK7C9PWTX9SYW2/lamb+of+god+zurbaran.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The agnus dei (lamb of god) by Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1635-40; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630444363240-F2EO0ZSRQ4160UNQ0UL0/dragon+encounter.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Margaret emerging from the dragon, painted by Raphael, c. 1518; Kunsthistorisches Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630509222600-JN2XFZFWNO0C7MXIE66E/demicient.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Woman wearing a demicient from a French Book of Hours, c. 1500; Morgan Library and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630507131081-B4TB2EUJL7UFI5XBZA6W/hermann+leicht.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century painting of Hermann Leicht and the Fourteen Holy Helpers, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630508128053-DH7AUNIY3N2W5R6AF7EF/margarate+souvenir.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out French Saint Margaret figurine, c. 1325-50, artist unknown; British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630494374853-VYQ8SYKJJ41AXTJC9L5M/icon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century Greek icon showing Saint Marina defeating the Devil, artist unknown; Byzantine and Christian Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630446570191-M3U94WJ2T2GPUYM8BRQZ/ladon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Hercules with Ladon, the snake who protected the golden apples of the Hesperides. Roman-era plate at the Staatliche Antikensammlungen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630507960349-UJ5A4KMVZ7KUKBYCR2J3/hammer+devil.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 14th-century painting of Saint Margaret defeating the Devil with a hammer, artist unknown; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630496962910-O46IFQOQXPQVZ0O2NYC4/saint+marinos+sculpture.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Contemporary statue of Saint Marina disguised as Saint Marinos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630447059035-4YZPNO3FF30I39G3KSA3/asclepius.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Asclepius with his healing snake-entwined staff; Archaeological Museum of Epidaurus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630495348384-S7Q42IESVX5OINLG76NS/marina+icon+1.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 13th-14th-century Greek icon of Saint Marina, Saint Margaret’s name in the Eastern Orthodox Church; Byzantine and Christian Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630448116102-7AJWFIXPRAQ7YH7AN1J1/evil+dragons.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Evil medieval dragon from the Hours of Henry VIII, c. 1500; Cleveland Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630441789136-HD09HPYGAQ4FF2XBJ28P/rubens+paris.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The shepherd boy Paris, who inadvertently starts the Trojan War when he sel; painted by Peter Paul Rubens, c. 15907-99. The National Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630444733933-TXYB8IYA6HLELG6G4CX2/hopi+snake+dance.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1930s postcard depicting the Hopi snake dance, a divine healing ritual https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630496462027-MZTU1SFWG114TE8MMHLU/botticelli+aphrodite.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Botticelli’s Birth of Venus (c. 1480) showing the goddess as a deity of the sea; Uffizi Galleries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630495984142-7VA7SDLEUV36K7W0743W/marina%3Amarinus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Marina entering a monastery as Saint Marinos from a 14th-century copy of Jacobus de Voragine’s Legenda Aurea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630494574372-YIHCODYW1S32TKLGCQMV/beheading.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Margaret painted by Starnina, 14th century; The National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630496707891-TJKNXI87SOLNLL96DJ5X/ancient+aphrodite.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 2nd-century BCE faience figurine of Aphrodite emerging from the sea, made by a Greco-Egyptian artist in Egypt; Brooklyn Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630439671282-QYQXTVD7QBZRUZDI1Y0W/bronze+shepherd.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Greek statuette of a shepherd made of bronze by an unknown artist, c. 525–500 BCE. The figurine is engraved with a dedication to Pan; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630508848131-VL0XT4V3WCT96ZE7FUG0/hand+relic.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Hand relic of Saint Marina from Sveta Marina church in Plovdiv, Bulgaria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630443422107-7P0ZWYAMDPU5Q4OV6YTA/saint+rose.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Rose of Lima as a shepherdess, painted by an unknown Peruvian artist; Chastleton House. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630441548342-1FUX51NPP6HDH8O82B1A/ganymede.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Zeus abducting his beloved shepherd boy Ganymede in the form of an eagle. The figure on the right is a river god. Roman-era carving by an unknown artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630448365015-R517BH54DALDCI4VZOPK/margaret%2Bdragon%2Bstatuette.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out French sculpture of Margaret exploding from the evil dragon, the Devil in disguise. Artist unknown, c. 1475; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630447903546-B4K8AFET19WFSW37Z0SK/medieval+dragon+art.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Snake-like medieval dragon from a bestiary c. 1278–1300; The Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630444181245-KM8EHI5ABOFD28OGE86E/margaret+book+of+hours.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Page from a Book of Hours created in France c. 1500. Margaret undergoes tortures above, her death below. Morgan Library and Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630444584869-M5VGWHB6C2E4BCZWEAX1/medieval+dragon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Late 15th-century painting of Margaret emerging from the dragon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630442477574-ER2T8R7UE6F3FXLAQ0PO/john+the+baptist.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Early 17th-century painting of John the Baptist as a shepherd boy, painted by the circle of Annibale Carracci; The National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630444856762-OMF7WIK5UQ1Q9GH8NZHX/angkor+wat+snake.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sculpture of a divine snake, a nāga, at Angkor Wat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630443821933-FQ0WWU3KMP6SXKWUZFFF/margaret+shepherdess+zurbaran.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Margaret as a shepherdess, attributed to the workshop of Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1650-1700; The Royal Collection Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630447237961-ONFHDYMWJOWGHIHCL25B/chinese+dragon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 18th-century Chinese vase showing the wise and benevolent East Asian dragon, a symbol of luck and fortune, associated with water not fire https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630863127979-6MWGK9VEHKBYJL3I1CWH/festa+sicilian.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara processional maquette from a procession on the saint’s feast day in Paternò, Sicily. Photographed by Riccardo Spoto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630861294113-4S1P404NE0X00V8DKRCG/artillery.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara the patron saint of artillery from a WWI-era postcard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630861977478-KXK0DAFTA4EBU4T1M2RR/us+field+artillery.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Certificate from the US Field Artillery association for the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630603624160-ZWBZRBNOQG82486VC7ZR/francesco-solimena-the-martyrdom-of-saint-barbara.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Dioscorus martyring Barbara, attributed to Francesco Solimena, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630668642758-4BHM9UUEWS70520PT0N7/barbara+and+juliana.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century icon depicting Saint Barbara with Saint Juliana, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630603391851-4VLXNLHU0RQY1ZJURCNQ/beheading+manuscript.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Barbara martyred by her father, from a French manuscript created in 1455; National Library of the Netherlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630601424833-8FN5S1G1DW1RGFD058MU/siloam+fountain.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The miraculous Fountain of Siloe (also Siloam) where Jesus made a blind man see, coloured aquatinit by Luigi Mayer in 1803; Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630600631906-XKDLP1FCMX35LRCGAN6W/Retaule_de_Santa_Ba%CC%80rbara-_Gonc%CC%A7al_Peris_Sarria%CC%80._MNAC.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara altarpiece depicting various scenes from her legend, attributed to Gonçal Peris Sarrià; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630861032617-DRVPMKKC2K6YP8S3EOVU/cannon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara is the patron saint of the Royal New Zealand Army Ordnance Corps https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630860501021-B09QGE1GLFYW5OAU04XH/shango.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century Nigerian Yoruba Shango figure https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630754371048-MK7NVBUAUP224D1GHKCI/saule%CC%87.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saulė is an ancient solar goddess who was imprisoned in a tower by a giant. 20th-century Saulė idol from Lithuania; National Museum of Lithuania. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630862097623-ZXET451UNUL26Z88DR16/petit+journal.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Firemen celebrating Saint Barbara’s feast day; Illustration for Le Petit Journal, 6 December 1908 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630603967971-NYO49V2L7ARQZJIGGWWF/barbara+beheading.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Barbara by Giulio Quaglio the Younger (1721–1723); Ljubljana Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630753303110-S78H54QLWMFPJHN39BCY/rapunzel+1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara is one of the many Maiden in the Tower archetypes that inspired the fairytale Rapunzel popularised by the Brothers Grimm. Illustration from Chelsea Jensen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630754164000-LYDAV0T5Y4WNFE45D5LC/Campanula+rapunculus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Campanula rapunculus rampion, the bell-flower or rapunzel plant; 19th-century, English, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630754645205-829M7DY9BDBFAF7FCRFG/shahanameh.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Another maiden in a tower from tale of Zal and Rudabeh, one of the stories in the 10th-century epic poem, Shahnameh, by Persian writer Ferdowsi. Page from a Persian manuscript, artist unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630600976937-IAD5IK4PKV4M08P3Z4WW/altarpiece+scenes.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara altarpiece depicting various scenes from her legend, painted by Wilhelm Kalteysen, 14447. The top left panel shows Dioscorus’ pagan sculptures smashed to pieces by Barbara. Muzeum Narodowe w Warszawie. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630860877450-EKD5P3WITZGTF8FUTJLB/shango+barbara.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Shango (also Changó) and Saint Barbara, worshipped as the same god of lightning in many Afro-American and Afro-Cuban communities https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630602049140-CGNRHLNCAGQRHA7RZFN0/fountain+of+youth.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Fountain of Youth painted by Lucas Cranach, 1546; Gemäldegalerie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630600877222-AHXN7HGPNAGO1U9ZZD2F/barbara+converting.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Barbara converting to Christianity; 15th century, German, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630601736697-MUGI72QROA9NF9QQVOO1/baptism+christ+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Christ was baptised by John the Baptist in the River Jordan. perhaps the holiest body of water in Christianity. Painted by Paris Bordone, c. 1535/40. National Gallery of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630599781898-GNBARHEUZKV4652PZBML/maximian.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Emperor Maximian, 3rd century; Musée Saint-Raymond https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630753671471-22B2M1XX646ZEQ790R2W/petrosinella.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Petrosinella, a 1634 Neopolitan story by Gimabattista Basile that pre-dated the Brothers Grimm’s Rapunzel tale. Illustration by Benito Montresor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630669095899-7VRR1IVA746I8IPV8SDQ/komnemos.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Alexios I Komnenos, Byzantine emperor, father of the legendary Princes Barbara who moved (or translated) Saint Barbara’s relics from Constantinople to Kyiv when she married Michael Izyaslavich, the Grand Prince of Kyiv. The portrait is from a Greek manuscript. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630599405193-CONA4UASLBLJZS1CG2E9/speculum+maius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Page from the 13th-century Speculum maius or Greater Mirror, written by Vincent de Beauvais https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630602898332-FJCVIYYVUJFRC1MMLWL9/bath.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara bath liquid for ‘protection from miserable people seeking to harm you’ from the Lazaro Brand Spiritual Store https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630753974537-OWWGJZD0E0NEKA4WCGFG/barbara+with+tower+statue.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara is one of many Maiden in the Tower stories, an ancient Eurasian archetype. Sculpture created by an unknown artist c. 1450-1500. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630602724673-MO20IHBX1S8G7VTPOMQH/soap.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Triple-strength Saint Barbara soap from the Luck Shop https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630604288314-GT7MI2MJUTO3NGKCR6AM/escape.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Barbara escapes to the mountains while pursued by her father. Painted by Lorenzo Lotto, 1523-24; Oratorio Suardi, Trescore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630954561784-HBJQLC1XT9RVXW6SKL6J/old+map.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Map of Santa Barbara, California, 1896. The seaside town was named after Saint Barbara. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630668438716-6OI3LKUG55T16A3TG9UH/lighting+dioscorus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Barbara. Note the lightning charging in the dark cloud above. Painted by the Master of the Joseph Sequence, c. 1470-1500; Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630859677868-T8D4UTEGJZ988KHDFF89/danae.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Danaë, the mother of Perseus, imprisoned in a tower of brass by her father. Painted by Edward Burne-Jones, 1887-88; Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630668920582-IDT195ZX557XDV7YZU89/relics+translated+in+legend.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Barbara’s body translated from Constantinople to Kyiv - where it still lie today - in a legend involving a princess also named Barbara; St Volodymyr's Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630954884481-VV23M0XGBBTC9K5WXEMQ/santa+barbara+soap.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The 1989 cast from the US soap opera, Santa Barbara, set in the eponymous California town. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630861909306-1YOTAZEID25EP5RD6VUV/order+medal.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Medal for the Honorable Order of Saint Barbara from the US military https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630954747644-UQAUKDV4HY6GJ1DU3KRO/portuguese+soap.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Santa Bárbara, a Portuguese telenovela https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630599987614-IH9TRGIUP0FBN15UFQT2/babs+tower+construction.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Barbara commanding the architect to add a third window painted by the Master of the Joseph Sequence, c. 1495-1500; The Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630602535552-9KIX4AF1TIVOD9MO70P1/barbarathermenb+roman+restoration.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Reconstruction of what the Barbarathermen Baths looked like in 2nd-century Roman Trier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631811647152-T1EG347FUGBUDUH54FNW/bronzino.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Lawrence painted by Bronzino,1569. The scene takes place at a bathhouse and contains portraits of Bronzino’s benefactors. Basilica of Saint Lawrence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631973417396-5CBFHJ2Y0FW9LMIM9OKQ/larry+and+steve.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Mariotto di Nardo’s painting of Saints Lawrence and Stephen, 1408, the Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631810319410-DLU3Y7U55E6MHYVEJ7VV/sixtus+death.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The death of Pope Sixtus and his deacons. Cote Français 185, Fol. 96v. Lives of Saints, 14th century, Richard de Montbaston and collaborators https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631971656077-0U9GJWFZHEBJN0QGW1N2/ysl.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1960s portrait of designer Yves Saint Laurent, whose world-famous label and family name is French for Saint Lawrence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631803470530-XWN56AUKBUDUNTTF85EV/Prudentius_-_Bishop_of_Troyes.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Prudentius, Bishop of Troyes, who wrote a hagiography about Saint Lawrence; French engraving, 1836 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631806413767-DCOYA4UQNVYAA5W9ALDF/valerian.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Roman coin with a portrait of Emperor Valerian whom some sources name as the emperor who arrested Sixtus and Lawrence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631808995295-HFUHQZWBCC7DFSLPFQL9/Screenshot+2021-09-16+at+17.15.44.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Pope Sixtus’ arrest painted by Michael Pacher, c. 1465 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631823491050-Y0JXESQVDG36566Q6G3B/alfonso.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Alfonso V of Aragon by Portrait by Vicente Juan Masip in 1557, Zaragoza Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631823840865-SFGII92JA2AEEWUKG8MW/valenica+chalice.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Valencia Chalice, one of the vessels claimed to be the Holy Grail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631973270903-1BTLJC51Y7G62OEBTC1D/lawrence+and+stephen.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Entombment of St. Stephen and St. Lawrence in Rome, from the Altarpiece of St. Stephen by Michael Pacher, c.1470 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631811162268-EPC0XKAOAFBL5T20R4IT/cornelia.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, by Joseph-Benoît Suvée,1795, Louvre. Cornelia’s legend predates Saint Lawrence and has a common theme. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631812131643-LSD2VIP4QETSY2891KO0/michelangelo.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Michelangelo’s Last Judgement at the Sistine Chapel, 1536-41. The mass of nude figures would’ve influenced Bronzino’s Saint Lawrence painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631808510769-SK66C2GYSKUKKI4MGJSY/sixtus+arrest.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Pope Sixtus’ arrest, a chalk illustration by Jacob Matham, late 16th-early 17th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631823234263-6W12DQZHWCJA9Q24ZVZC/martin+of+aragon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Detail of the portrait of Martin I of Aragon, who was one of the Grail’s custodians. The image is from a 1542 altarpiece at the Diocesan Museum of Barcelona https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631824284550-1BV0G3H6W5AIXCBTWA01/sacro+catino.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sacro Catino, also known as the Genoa Chalice - another contender for the Holy Grail https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631973003403-52OZLWQIRNVQBXHBOMRY/IMG_8365.JPG Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The head of Saint Lawrence, on display during the week of his feast day at Saint Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631824374855-NO4HW5XALERXXBUUQBRY/Chalice+of+Don%CC%83a+Urraca.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Chalice of Doña Urraca from the Basilica of San Isidoro, a cup presented in 2004 as yet another Holy Grail contender https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631810599904-051XOHM0SV4S9SVBQTU0/treasures+of+the+church.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Palma il Giovane’s painting of Lawrence doling out alms, c. 1581-82 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631806186270-CRPJ17JI32TJEFQ75F58/vincent.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lawrence with his cousin Vincent from an engraving in the 1890 book, Sacred and Legendary Art by Anna Jameson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631971084022-Y711GQ7PTHPDK3QOXLU9/map+river.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1768 map of the Saint Lawrence River dividing Canada from the USA by Thomas Jeffreys. Both the river and gulf were named after Saint Lawrence by French explorer Jacques Cartier. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631821174677-1IAQCFV85I84H48OGQV4/fisher+king.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Perceval arrives at the Grail Castle to be greeted by the Fisher King in an illustration for a 1330 manuscript of Perceval, the Story of the Grail. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631807841042-D76U98AND0KDODU2JROD/philip+ii.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Bust of Philip II, National Archeological Museum of Venice. According to legend, Philip II gave away his father’s wealth to the Church, which Lawrence in turn gave to the poor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631869409365-I9F97OEWYQOBP8NATJQ9/finger+reliquary.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Gilded copper and silver reliquary case containing one of Saint Lawrence’s fingers; late-13th or early-14th century, French, Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631822582968-2WGCTM0D0FNRRTHZQ6PC/fra+angelico+the+grail.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Pope Sixtus entrusting the Grail to Lawrence. Painted by Fra Angelico, 1447-51, in the Niccoline Chapel at The Vatican. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631821306678-Z0FR7RPHFQ7HB1JVO8YS/joseph+of+arimethea.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Close-up on Joseph of Arimathea in a painting (c. 1448) by Pietro Perugino depicting the Lamentation, Uffizi. Joseph is said to have taken the Holy Grail from Jerusalem to Glastonbury. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631809982664-IF53U6SHQF8SXIH6VK71/hippolytus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Hippolytus, a 2nd-3rd century theologian whose historicity has never been confirmed. Many legends connect him to Saint Lawrence, naming him as Lawrence’s jailor. Painted by Daniel Gran, 1746, Sankt Pölten Cathedral. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631803819749-V4L3Y5QNDH5AWT55ZJXT/orenico+and+paceincia.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lawrence’s parents, Saints Orentius and Patientia; painted in 1628 by an unknown artist, Diocesan Museum of Huesca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631810708265-JTR75048Y7V0GE3NMD31/fra+angelico+lawrence+befroe+emperor.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lawrence arrested and brought before Emperor Decius. Painted by Fra Angelico, 1447-51, in the Niccoline Chapel at The Vatican. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631811333302-GGBHCBW5LN22REL56XVS/bernini+lawrence.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Marble sculpture of Saint Lawrence on the grill; Bernini, 1617, Uffizi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631869426516-5IU4KK8UO07KF3W0KB8E/arm+reliquary.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Arm reliquary, c.1175; Staatliche Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631805658323-K18RLHXCXYRWKTKQ81B1/sixtus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Pope Sixtus Portrait painted either by Justus van Gent or Alonso Berruguete, c. 1474; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631811867819-G9S1HGGP0WRKETVVQ2OL/cosimo.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A portrait of Cosimo de Medici from the ruling family of Florence whose patron saint was Lawrence. Painted by Bronzino c. 1545, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631804163900-BAUQ7J2UXEOGLP0Y0QKU/severus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Emperor Severus whose unattested Christian persecutions made Lawrence’s parents flee. Roman, artist unknown, Glyptothek. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631894136600-HF9TZO05ZW4CYICMF8BT/sangue-san-lorenzo.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out An ampule of Saint Lawrence’s blood which the faithful say liquefies on his feast day of 10 August; Chiesa di Santa Maria Assunta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631807635468-MW8BJS41X89UNJAYEC6I/decius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Emperor Decius who succeeded Philip the Arab; Roman, artist unknown, Glyptothek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631823073937-T5DU2JAI5G6OZP60VLR4/galahad.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 20th-century illustration of Sir Galahad bowing before the Holy Grail by Donn P Crane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631808167974-8E7QTF86UYDIMECHEXHB/fra+angelico+giving+wealth+away.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Pope Sixtus hands Lawrence the treasure of the Church to be given to the poor. Painted by Fra Angelico, 1447-51, in the Niccoline Chapel at The Vatican. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631821834887-H2TKNX0O30DSTYJ2C50P/indy.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Indiana Jones holding the Holy Grail from the 1989 film, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631811568634-5XSQMOMQM4DE6ZLCJSQU/diocletian+baths.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Reconstruction of the Diocletian Baths on the Viminal Hill in Rome, the purported location of Lawrence’s martyrdom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631808339660-SIV61EDSHW6K2VZ8WL1E/fra+angelico+lawrence+alms.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lawrence gives alms to the poor as instructed by Pope Sixtus. Painted by Fra Angelico, 1447-51, in the Niccoline Chapel at The Vatican. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631804966740-DKYW7OAAPSOE8QKCL6W7/wreath.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Egyptian gold laurel wreath, Brooklyn Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631823962728-MCPCRQB3K4FBJDK0R3RA/John+Chrysostom.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A Byzantine mosaic of John Chrysostom from the Hagia Sophia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631970908771-VKG1YQQ1GS55XTHYEIXR/map.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1780 map of the Gulf of Saint Lawrence by French explorer Jacques Nicolas Bellin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631869214339-YL8Y3UKRM0H59MR9P26T/gridiron.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Fragment of the gridiron used to roast Saint Lawrence, San Lorenzo in Lucina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631822347681-313FRZNS1C722RI8F136/adha.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Holy Grail turns out to be a person, Adha, in the video game Assassin's Creed: Altairs Chronicles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631806529294-6I0VUZOSHWXRO2KPBGSU/philip+the+arab.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Roman bust of Philip the Arab by an unknown artist, Vatican Museums. It’s Philip’s imperial treasure that Lawrence later distributes to the poor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630359650107-FKH37MRIYBSCN8D3CQXK/img-Blessed-Anne-Catherine-Emmerich-1.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630356435346-4ZIVGAP2FYPHZAQOPGF6/Dominikanerkloster_Ko%CC%88ln_Mercator_1571.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 13th-century Dominican Cloister, illustrated by Arnold Mercator, 1571 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630357989627-SFUYZH0A6CDMNR5PYSWU/Cardinal_Richelieu_%28Champaigne%29.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Cardinal Richelieu painted by Philippe de Champagne, c. 1640, the Sorbonne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630360314522-94QAK4WAVOZ20WAQXXR1/DT221521.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Ursula by Niccolò di Pietro, c1 1410, the Met Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630357609206-AGRJ72GIG8Q7LASIHXNS/Urbain_Grandier.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Urbain Grandier, the alleged warlock, 1627, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630358566347-WV06ISCYZ01EQ983MWHG/622px-Francisco_de_Zurbara%CC%81n_-_Saint_Ursula_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Ursula painted by Francisco de Zurbarán between 1635-40; Musei di Strada Nuova https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630355004946-DPZZ0V53OQ6WKG0E46VZ/9653_-_Milano_-_Sant%27Ambrogio_-_Bonamico_Taverna_in_preghiera_sec._XIII_-_Foto_Giovanni_Dall%27Orto_25-Apr-2007.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Example of a titulus (singular form of tituli); Sant'Ambrogio, Milan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630354750221-EEDQL70YWLG79CHNS52V/1024px-Elisabeth_von_Scho%CC%88nau.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Elizabeth of Schönau; Austrian National Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630354187587-EL7WDH9LCOU51Z1PM7I8/ursula+travelling.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ursula and her companions on their way to Rome, c. 1450, artist unknown; Strasbourg Museum of Fine Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630356783635-VWDNTYHYXJ5ZOU971PY0/Rathausturm_Ko%CC%88ln_-_Konrad_von_Hochstaden_-_Gerhard_Unmaze_%286143-45%29.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden (centre) on the tower of Cologne City Hall standing atop an autofellatio-performing grotesque https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630356210174-08O2RVL51K3SYQJC3KCZ/Ko%CC%88ln_st_ursula_goldene_kammer.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Goldene Kammer; Basilica of Saint Ursula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630352416497-4F43IS9CA6197ROX1IPN/6183.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A reconstruction portrait of Attila the Hun created by artist/historian George S. Stuart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630354004398-4ZTHBRU5NRLE5UB1VER2/master+of+st+ursula+legend.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ursula and her retinue attacked by the Huns, painted by the Master of the Saint Ursula Legend in 1492; Victoria and Albert Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630353738125-UTIQL36A3YAB1IHUM9QQ/cordula.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Cordula; Basilica of Saint Cunibert https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630352739598-EUYZ6ERXMFQNNAHREET2/Clematius+Inscription.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Clematius Inscription; Basilica of Saint Ursula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630357762093-TEZL9QQSXKEDZJVCXMUK/mauritius+images+-+12015652+-+WITCHCRAFT+-+URBAIN+GRANDIER__The+French+priest%2C+Urbain+Grandier%2C+being+burned+alive+at+Loudun%2C+in+1634+Usually%2C+the+victim+was+garrotted+before+being+burned%2C+but+those+who+officiated+arranged+for+the+g.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The execution of Grandier by an unknown artist, 1634 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630360668761-ROVZ9UYB15LOWH42OO31/sothebys-md.brightspotcdn.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Ursula painted by the workshop or circle of Lucas Cranach, 16th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630356104480-AORLUN42PHAS3P7X3S6Z/Goldene_Kammer_St_Ursula_Ko%CC%88ln_29122014_03.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Goldene Kammer; Basilica of Saint Ursula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630352955659-FHGQ37BW5DZJYCFIX7S0/Gregory_of_Tours_cour_Napoleon_Louvre.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Gregory of Tours by Jean Marcellin, created before 1853; Cour Napoléon in the Louvre. Photo by Jastrow. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630356668402-5F9RZ5GJKJ4HHAAGKS3R/Archive-ugent-be-B06F870C-8F5A-11E3-8041-11B8D43445F2_DS-31_%28cropped%29.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Beguine of Ghent from a manuscript of the beguinage of Sint-Aubertus, c. 1840. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630359417933-C5YUDD9UVHKHW7N9NSJS/CaravaggioUrsula.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Ursula painted by Caravaggio, 1610. It’s likely the last painting he created before his murder. Palazzo Zevallos Stigliano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630355774038-GJMRLIK7NKPP02BA881R/bust.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Reliquary bust of one of the 11,000 virgins, artist unknown, c. 1375-85; brought to Florence in the 13th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630359287545-NX5BWG5K3WPFHP096REG/Accademia_-_Arrivo_degli_ambasciatori_inglesi_presso_il_re_di_Bretagna_di_Vittore_Carpaccio.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out One of the wall-sized paintings by Vittore Carpaccio, 1497-98; Gallerie dell'Accademia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630354509921-QQV5QFO9FUT3ZFM2M1LC/1920px-Bottega_di_lisbona%2C_retablo_di_sant%27auta%2C_1522-25%2C_matrimonio_di_s._orsola_e_il_principe_conan_1.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Princess Ursula’s engagement to Prince Etherius from the Saint Auta Altarpiece commissioned in 1522; Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630360103813-LA2TPJRJ491V6123SUTD/1510_Martyrium_der_hl._Ursula_anagoria.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Ursula sculpture by an unknown artist, 1510; Germanisches National Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630358910147-O4GVQHF92GU2KL398TPC/Memling%2C_reliquiario_di_sant%27orsola_03.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ursula and company arriving in Rome, painted by Hans Memling, 1489; Hans Memling Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630357033661-LKQBXWMJNGS0ZF44095H/merici.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Angela Merici, founder of the Company of Saint Ursula, Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630357872066-C1OJ18X8X3J9R2GSF3VK/UrbainPact2.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The alleged pact between grandier and the Devil, presented as evidence during Grandier’s trial https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630358729704-DMD2100EDDQ3FA19OPPD/anonymous-the-martyrdom-of-saint-ursula-16th-century-spanish-school-anonymous.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 16th-century painting of Saint Ursula with her band of virgins being attacked by the Huns, artist unknown; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630355937443-JFKL55BOHX071RNWUJVN/bust+2.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Reliquary bust of one of Ursula’s 11,000 virgin companions by an unknown artist, c. 1325-49; Rijksmuseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633626487163-FL4HO1J18A97BRN9KKP8/empress+of+hell+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Virgin Mary, Empress of Hell, overcoming a devil; Spiegel Menslicher Behaltnis, 15th century. The Cleveland Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633626811509-BAJ5VTSD3WMUT1ZQVK7X/marriage+w+barbara.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Hans Memling’s Mystical Marriage painting, which includes Saint Barbara to the right. Note the broken wheel under Catherine. The Met. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633470875413-5O4LWG65PJVOOAQ1LO82/alexandria.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 16th-century illustration of Ancient Alexandria by painter Maarten van Heemskerck https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633649883367-LC6H17J6X8OLC05JN644/burial.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 15th-century Greek work showing Catherine entombed by angels, artist unknown; Philadelphia Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633389431171-13Q2GM91T79VXXOD35L4/siena+and+alexandria+painting.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Mystical Marriage painting by Ambrogio Bergognone (c. 1490) featuring both Saints Catherine of Alexandria (left) and Catherine of Siena (right), The National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633471802508-KV8O91VBH1NU9OT3L0NW/catherine+debating+50+men.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine in discourse with scholars about the nature of god, painted by Masolino da Pinacale, 1425-31; Basilica San Clemente https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633472457307-OL5JYYFU4VJ7ST3N38Y3/catherine+debating+scholars.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine disputing theology with fifty learned men painted by Pinturicchio, 1492-94; Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633473039768-ARQ2XXUZ8B265H9YDQO8/plato.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Roman copy of a c.370 BCE Ancient Greek bust of Plato by Silanion; Musei Capitolini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633389685572-B5IQRMGA62J40I7RALIY/mystical+marriage+adult+christ.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Barna da Siena, c. 1340, Museum of Fine Arts Boston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633626096455-VZ90TLOJKK6L5SS5DYNY/myustical+marriage+rct.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Paolo Veronese’s painting of the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, c. 1562-69; The Royal Collection Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633648360234-AU9RWBZZDP64LXDFAVQQ/il+braghetonne.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Daniele Ricciarelli, aka Il Braghettone by Nicolas de Larmessin, 1682 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633651863588-ODZ7I8Q7I8VW9B8K0I7H/catherine+the+great.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Catherine the Great when she was the Grand Duchess Ekaterina Alekseyevna; George Christoph Grooth, 1745. Hermitage Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633477232972-PNZ2UXCLS2VWHTKM5GV6/preti.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 17th-century painting of the death of Saint Catherine by Mattia Preti; MUŻA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633651032853-589GNDXS10GQ1142DCBQ/mandeville.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of John Mandeville from 1459, New York Public Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633629028947-NAJ5WP4ZKBA9R8YO5PK9/st+francis+myustical+marriage.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Mystical Marriage of Saint Francis to the Theological Virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity; painted by Sassetta, c. 1450; Musée Condé https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633652826059-EVC4W4VA85AELJGAPHGC/margeritte+bourgeoys.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Marguerite Bourgeoys by Pierre le Ber, Marguerite Bourgeoys Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633630112265-Y4JACPITLED0EYIQNK2Q/st+rose.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Rose of Lima’s mystical marriage to Jesus painted by José Antolínez, c. 1670; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633390210780-Z9X8M7LQDUJGUC7F05RA/last+judgement+before.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Uncensored detail of Saint Catherine and Saint Blaise before, copied by Marcello Venusti in the 16th century, Museo di Capodimonte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633628004999-70M6V1L7THYXOQ7N0MBE/mystical+marriage+vision.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Vision of a mystical marriage; Sassoferrato, 17th century, Wallace Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633651216054-ZTHE89O2NBMJQRTFGOX5/mandeville+stories.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Modern copy of an illustration of the wonders seen by Mondeville on his journeys https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633630344160-BCR9RFHYYKQPVH3BMQGO/catherine+of+siena.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Dominican layman, Catherine of Siena; Carlo Dolci, c. 1665. Dulwich Picture Gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633474648959-0Y67PE3D16M2Q4K45O0U/scholars+converting.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine converting the scholars by an unknown Flemish artist, c. 1480; Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633471076531-7N5X68FHVTWJM5JHP3PR/maxentius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Classical Roman bust of Emperor Maxentius, Pushkin Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633652972121-YDDT0SLY0ZV3LM7079EV/image-asset.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Contemporary prayer card of Marguerite Bourgeoys, 1942 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633648564321-H5J44XZCN1Z66WRP7NU6/last+judgement1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Michelangelo’s Last Judgement fresco, 1536-41, Sistine Chapel. This image shows the modern restoration that is now on view. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633476098775-4YIUHYDD04CPKCPOQ67Q/st+eulalia.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Eulalia, another virgin martyr who suffered the same fate as Queen Valeria. Painted by Bernat Martorell, c. 1400, Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633655890742-KN4UXJ96NH1M0738B7JK/holy+helper.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Pradella of an altarpiece created by Lucas Cranach at the Evangelische Marktkirchengemeinde Halle https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633472010503-I47VYJMQL30WEBM8FLWP/catherine+refusing+idolatry.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine refusing to practise idolatry; Masolino da Pinacale, 1425-31, Basilica San Clemente. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633474959290-6N2FDIGNA0W7QFO7CIFQ/faustina+visits+catherine.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Tintoretto’s 16th-century painting of Queen Faustina/Valeria and Porphyrius visiting Catherine in her cell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633628194006-D604LISJX11DXSA8KO5N/emily+dickinson.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Emily Dickinson, one of the most important American poets of all time, wrote a cycle of poems about a spiritual marriage similar in concept to the mystical marriage from Catherine’s legend. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633652236573-EJQC4I2M2C2VZ1G8PT6T/catherinette.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1920s photo of a Catherinette in her yellow and green hat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633476329069-IM1Q56E9YF0HGA9UMVFZ/valeria+maximilla.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A Classical Roman bust of Valeria Maximilla, wife of Emperor Maxentius, by an unknown artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633629742985-1H2FSHH8M66U0OKCNMIJ/john+the+beloved.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Detail showing John the Evangelist, the beloved apostle, in Jesus’ arms, from Giorgio Vasari’s Last Supper Painting at Santa Croce Basilica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633650011013-WRE05XUIKPCFCKBB1E5Q/mt+sinai+and+monastery.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Catherine Monastery on Mount Sinai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633651438620-OI0U35JIADA1W8HJPHWS/hypatia.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Hypatia from Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Teachers: Hypatia, by Elbert Hubbard, 1908 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633627735145-AC28HDTX86PNUEZBGS27/mystical+marraige+adult+1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine in a mystical marriage with an adult Christ from Guillaume Vrelant’s Vie de sainte Catherine, c. 1457-67; Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633649755478-Y0BB8NOXFKH3JPCJF2HB/angels+burial+catherine.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Angels burying Catherine on Mount Sinai, painted by an unknown 15th-century French artist; Musée Magnin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633475595426-SJKINEBSMPBESAO0W736/catherine+tortured+by+a+wheel.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine and the wheel painted by Guadenzio Ferrari, c. 1540; Pinacoteca Brera https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633651557448-A6VISYWLONUIV9CEPXI1/hypatia+teaching.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Hypatia teaching in Alexandria by Robert Trewick Bone; Yale Center for British Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633471232985-U06LMF704KSRRX7Z77PC/catherine+conquering+maxcentius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine triumphing over Emperor Maxentius; Claudio Coello, c. 1664-65; Meadows Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633475738673-M6E33VEM64LW6Y2MCYO3/martyrdom+landscape.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Martyrdom of Saint Catherine painted by Luca Signorelli, c. 1490. Note the wheel destroyed by angels, at the far right. The Clark. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633477025427-IS10GCKZ243KIG2M44WZ/guido+reni.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine’s death painted by Guido Reni, 1607; Diocesan Museum of Albenga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633650592475-W69F9D6L4W53GU0HCZQ7/relics.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catherine’s skullcap (left) and left hand (right) at the Saint Catherine Monastery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633390461919-5ZS8TU2WRSXTH2CI4ANF/last+judgement+after.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Censored Saint Catherine and Saint Blaise detail from Michelangelo’s Last Judgement fresco, Sistine Chapel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633629345865-JB36BL90VADGQQG5YVLY/jesus+and+john.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out John the Evangelist collapsed in front of Jesus upon hearing the news that one of the apostles will betray their leader. Painted by Valentin de Boulogne, 1625-26; Palazzo Barberini. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633647663363-ZHLWFAXVYQ3N8HSGAVBQ/queen+catherine.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The fashionable Queen Catherine painted by Lorenzo Lotto, 1522; National Gallery of Art. Note the spiked wheel she rests her arms upon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633626384359-DIEZGVKS62BE9N1V5WVO/empress+of+hell+1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Mary the Empress of Hell beating the devil in the shape of a beast from the Martyrology of Notre-Dame des Près, Valenciennes, BM, 838, f.097v, 1275-1300, Arras, France; Institute for Research and History Texts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633649629211-DZSJF41DNGILB7WY6FK3/angels+carrying+catherine.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Angels carrying Catherine’s body to Mount Sinai, painted by an unknown artist from Cologne, c. 1470-80. Städel Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633475904632-YX7CVTXTQMEZAEJN460T/faustina+death.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The death of Queen Faustina/Valeria by Masolino da Pinacale, 1425-31, Basilica San Clemente. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633476878732-MEMOV11OBZCA0AJUU2P3/guercino+catherine.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Catherine by Guercino, 1653; Hermitage Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633656079621-I2AFMP411GY3W1PBUJOI/bejewlled.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 15th-century bejewelled Saint Catherine statuette made by an unknown French artist, The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633474415665-Q3CAEKNDONTGFFWALVS6/sybil.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Octavia Minor (sister to Emperor Augustus) as a sybil; 1st century, artist unknown. National Archaeological Museum of Naples. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633655390398-KBNMUUQ55FCX68F1LZDV/joan+of+arc.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Joan of Arc hearing the voices of Saints Barbara and Catherine of Alexandria and Michael the Archangel, painted in the 19th century by Léon-Francois Bénouville https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633651691782-1PM6LBHUYRNNM3CRS90Z/hypatia+death.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The death of Hypatia by a 19th-century artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b7d8ec36-59f0-4926-917f-76b629917654/niceaea+aquilina.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The legend of Saint Christopher by Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, c. 1505. Note Nicaea and Aquilina in the top row. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d5e85734-3f5c-4e3b-acb5-b47c0d543356/lotto.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A giant Christopher towering over Saints Roch and Sebastian, painted by Lorenzo Lotto. Santuario Pontificio della Santa Casa di Loreto. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c44dc27c-f1a0-4ef4-8c70-551f4e603291/IMG_4076.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Martín de Soria’s painting showing Reprobus meeting the Devil and meeting King Dagnus. Note the converted (beheaded) soldiers in the bottom panel. Painted c. 1450-87. Art Institute Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f1484adb-c8e4-4fcd-a49b-1fea779f4872/mendes.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sam Mendes is often photographer wearing his Saint Christopher pendant https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4a67a265-5a17-4fb2-99f9-9fb753ab6757/life+on+mars.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Officer Sam tyler’s badge, Saint Christopher medal, loose change, and watch from the TV show, Life on Mars https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ddb779a0-fcb5-4569-99c1-842bf8428b1e/memling.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Moreel Triptych by Hans Memling (1484) showing a human-sized Saint Christopher at the centre surrounded by other saints and portraits of the patrons/donors. Groeningemuseum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3e17a198-6dd1-40c0-ab98-77b6ddc371e8/tiziano+chris.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Titian’s 1523 painting of an attractive, muscular Saint Christopher who starts looking more and more like a jock. Palazzo Ducale. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/90c75232-3118-4e6b-bb77-e3e94984bf3c/atlas.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Bronze sculpture of the Ancient Greek god, Atlas, atop the Frankfurt (Main) Hauptbahnhof, built in 1888. Atlas is accompanied in this group by allegorical figures representing Iron and Steam. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/14de81bc-4434-4f3b-b004-f804c77537b9/julian+murder.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Julian murdering his parents, painted by Antonio della Cornia, 15th century. His wife looks on in horror. Note the figure of Christ in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3c258ec7-4d42-4e01-9c53-5190551984f8/hagrid+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Albrecht Dürer’s 1511 woodcut of Saint Christopher, typical of German depictions in which Christopher looks like a wildman with a great big beard. National Gallery of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d817f2a0-b0f0-4eb6-a94a-138ece27da7a/dopg+head+4.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 17th-century icon of a dog-headed Saint Christopher by an unknown artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3bff3670-d95c-4680-92ac-9b7ff55263ab/dog+head+1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 17th-century icon featuring Christopher as a cynocephalus, Ikonen Museum. The saint next to him is Saint Stephen . https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/57fbd2bd-8408-4839-9de0-839bcdc467e8/julian+boats.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Julian (right) ferrying people across a treacherous river by Cristofano Allori, c. 1615; The Green Bay De pere Antiquarian Society. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b90d34e6-89b7-4538-a97f-b62976a41f69/chris+evans.gif Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Chris Evans wearing a medal of his namesake around his neck from his Tumblr account https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/62245c0d-3c79-4c04-afeb-bc9939c70ff4/legend+sheet+1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The legend of Saint Christopher by Hans Leonhard Schäufelein, c. 1505. This sheet shows the transformation of Reprobus into Christopher. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/eb6dbc48-9194-4325-941d-2dc68dc3a446/mongoose.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Faithful Hound archetype in India featuring a woman and a mongoose from the Panchatantra fable engraved in the 8th-century Virupaksha temple at Pattadakal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ea6e9e60-0b39-4940-a25d-b9df9fe73059/Saint-Christopher-Orazio-Borgianni-oil-painting-2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 16th-17th-century painting of a clean-shaven, short-haired Christopher by Orazio Borgianni https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/969708f2-edf6-495b-ac79-719e399f37f1/arested.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Detail from an icon featuring a dog-headed Christopher arrested by the Emperor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/548c037f-cc57-44bb-bd38-82b5167da42b/Schedel%27sche_Weltchronik-Dog_head.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Cynocephalus from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493. Cambridge University Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4cb8173d-7b1f-435f-8c63-99ebbec7383a/chris+baking.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century icon from Vetka showing Christopher on the iron ‘chair’. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/51b7d558-4596-4cb3-96d7-c7e80b1c0c1c/morgan+library.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Christopher with a bushy beard in a book of hours from Bruges, c. 1520; artist unknown. The Morgan Library & Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/35c4b34b-9fe7-4518-99cd-e7fccb3f970b/skull.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A relic of Saint Christopher’s skullcap at the Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7c45a87b-2f89-457f-a051-73719fa8e5d0/Jan_Mandijn_-_Landscape_with_the_Legend_of_St_Christopher_-_WGA13917.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A Bosch-esque painting depicting the legend of Saint Christopher. Note the hermit in the tree at the left and Christopher’s head hanging from the tree. Painted by Jan Mandijn, c. 1550. LACMA. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dfb34f76-1c2a-41a0-bd1a-4f08cefb0fef/guinefort+pin.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Contemporary Saint Guinefort pin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0161b257-50c2-4f86-b250-95651d9ce753/menas.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Menas flanked by camels on the ivory Grado Chair made in the 7th or 8th century by an unknown artist. The Met. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7c9e3d0e-52d4-496f-bdf3-c005ee264165/martyrdom+greek.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century Greek icon showing various scenes from Christopher’s legend. Icon Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/59c2c620-4dda-4b8b-aeec-e57d29f6925f/holy+helpers.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Fourteenth Holy Helpers by the workshop of Lucas Cranach, c. 1525-30. Christopher is easy to spot. Royal Collection Trust. Saints Margaret, Catherine of Alexandria, and Barbara are also in the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/570ab893-70a0-44a8-b152-94e5d952827f/mermaid.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lucas Cranach’s Saint Christopher with a mermaid in the river - and the hermit who leads him to Christ. Painted between 1518-20. Detroit Institute of the Arts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6addf189-e792-40c1-8817-1b54f2461c10/egyptian+gods.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Wall painting from the Tomb of Horemheb (c. 1320-1292 BCE) showing animal-headed deities. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d70a1423-2a65-4efb-99e6-49920417353a/charon.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Greek red-figured lekythos showing the boatman Charon, welcoming a soul into his boat, c. 500-450 BCE. Ashmolean Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/39bb1e4b-0c56-4905-9ab1-7138b2328b3a/6FA6628C-257B-4AD9-8E36-9535AF625A70.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Christopher looking a bit like Hagrid carrying a baby Harry Potter in a sculpture by Hans Leinberger, c. 1525; Munich Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4b07212d-d5f2-4edb-b21e-b74fe52ec185/globe+chris+3.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out An epic 16th-century painting of Saint Christopher featuring a detailed globe, attributed to Jan van Amsel. Christopher appears twice in the painting. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/86978322-dd76-4440-96f3-6e19d2d370b0/steve+mcqueebn.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Steve McQueen making Christopher medals cool https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/83d5ed5c-8846-44c4-868d-fe359ce54719/decius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Roman bust of Emperor Decius, artist unknown. Capitoline Museums. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/95b0dc11-3af4-48eb-8f16-7abaf43740ba/nicola%CC%81s-borra%CC%81s-saint-julian-the-hospitaller.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 16th-17th-century Saint Julian altarpiece with scenes from his hagiography; attributed to Nicolás Borrás. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ccd417c7-19e5-4618-b0a1-a968db35db2e/jason.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Jason carrying Hera in disguise across a rover, illustrated by Charles Kingsley in the 1901 publication, The Heroes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0931dfcb-c26e-4fab-820f-a6c1731aad74/Screenshot+2022-02-07+at+08.32.13.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Julian killing the stag that curses him. The image comes from a French medieval manuscript by an unknown artist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f8fd981f-d4f8-4ac7-84c6-916c6c2fce00/jayne.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Jayne from Joss Whedon’s Serenity and his Saint Christopher medal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cb280dea-eb00-4667-80d2-3bbef45f1f88/arrows.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century icon from Vetka arrows stopping in mid-air, one turning to blind the Emperor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/55f22d80-fe5e-4459-bc2e-439c97d35e35/14.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 15th-century German altarpiece predella of the Holy Helpers. Can you spot Saint Christopher and Saints Margaret, Catherine, and Barbara? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fee5350f-967f-4e4b-a7a6-3139e42ebe08/tetramorph.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out An image from the Landévennec Group showing the Gospels personified as animal-headed figures representing each of the evangelists, Bodleian Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/54078ebd-c853-41dc-a3fe-855a37a85f1e/satan+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Detail from Martín de Soria’s painting showing Reprobus meeting the Devil. Painted c. 1450-87. Art Institute Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/82aa3284-90df-47ee-a196-b49196cb6555/visions+of+exekiel.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A medieval manuscript showing the Vision of Ezekiel in which the evangelists are depicted as animal-headed beings. Matthew has the head of a human with wings of a bird. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bead47c0-caed-4396-b77b-cde7e10c00af/julian.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Julian from a fresco by Domenico Ghirlandaio, c. 1473, at the Chiesa Parrocchiale di Sant'Andrea https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/76915cdf-86b3-4ac2-91a7-8deb545b24d4/canaanites.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 15th-century depiction of a legendary Battle of the Waters of Merom, a skirmish between the Israelites and Canaanites. BNF Gallica. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4cc57371-eee3-474b-b778-eb305b36d33f/globe+chris.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Painting featuring a globe, painted by an unknown artist c. 1562, Kunstmuseum Basel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a6a97f61-bb03-4188-a7c8-ce7c889d3a6c/globe+chris+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Domenico Ghirlandaio’s painting of Saint Christopher with a globe, c. 1472-75; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/48178ebd-41b6-4338-9bc2-c82366d8ee07/bellini.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A normalised Christopher by Giovanni Bellini, from the Polyptych of San Vincenzo Ferreri, c. 1464-68. San Zanipolo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4b227fca-72c1-4a18-95cf-6a02a8ad155b/satan.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Martín de Soria’s painting showing Reprobus taking leave of the king who’s afraid of the Devil. Painted c. 1450-87. Art Institute Chicago. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/75950af8-1280-4a0f-9fd8-4a5aadeaa053/julian+boat.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Julian (far right) in his boat with Saint Paul on bottom left and Saint Margaret with a dragon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/258da0bd-6109-487a-9435-75749d0e0cd8/muscle.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Jacob Jordaens’ 17th-century muscular Saint Christopher, Ulster Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f39f3456-b2d6-4bf2-9fc2-ca0a3ed0f1c3/blake+lively.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Blake Lively surfing in Mexico wearing a Saint Christopher necklace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d9fa30e5-35f4-4427-9000-6d9b86061fc4/dog+head+3.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Russian icon of Saint Christopher the cynocephalus as a warrior by an unknown artist. Yegor'yevskiy Istoriko-Khudozhestvennyy Muzey. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6b98b423-ab5f-4bc3-b7af-5b28cb5413eb/charon+19th+century.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Charon ferrying souls across the River Styx painted by Alexander Litovchenko in the 1800s. The State Russian Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5097f129-5309-4da7-8a17-6b8f2e704993/surfer+tee.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Christopher, the patron saint of surfers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c0e3659d-e1c0-4999-a17b-d9f4fec12b6f/outsiuders.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Publicity shot from the 1983 film The Outsiders, based on the 1967 book. Matt Dillon’s character, Dally, wears a Saint Christopher medal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3e3662a3-cf29-4f36-8999-e17e9a46b3f9/cynocephali.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Parisian copy of a manuscript based on Marco Polo’s 1299 Book of Wonders made c. 1410-14. National Library of France. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/450027ca-e05f-4877-9f87-59a4e645d3e3/anubis.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Egyptian statuette of Anubis, the dog-headed god of the dead, c. 332-30 BCE. The Met. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9617c1d3-6211-4aa1-9f0c-4936d3ef12a8/gelert.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Statue of Gelert, the Welsh version of the Faithful Hound. Beddgelert. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b125a844-7e6f-4f87-a327-d8028d12367d/st+paul+conversion.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Saul converting after a vision and falling off his horse - and becoming Saint Paul, painted by Caravaggio, 1601; Santa Maria del Popolo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/76d1978c-851e-4e52-b29d-6357f1c1746c/francia+9.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Cecilia giving away her possessions to the poor, painted by Francesco Francia (1504-06) from the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/00381a91-e9cc-4482-bb31-7ae6e89eecef/saraceni+martyrdom.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Martyrdom painting, Carlo Saraceni, c. 1610; LACMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0baef6aa-5535-4b42-b2bc-2ef0ec492e02/raphael.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Ecstasy of Saint Cecilia by Raphael, c. 1514-17; Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fe204935-31a4-4a17-aa59-63ec8837b649/4499D596-8440-47D3-AF2E-72C92774C703.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Cathedral Basilica of Saint Cecilia in Albi, France, claims to have Cecilia’s skull. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2f210ac8-4921-4fc9-b951-9a5e9778a476/hairshirt.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out A 19th-century hairshirt or celice, worn by the Penitenties of Durango, Mexico; Natural History Museum of LA County https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/04a1eff6-c46f-4776-ac7f-4846561bf36d/saint-cecilia-sculpture-2272ne02a-16-12-16.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 15th-century alabaster statuette of Cecilia playing a portive organ, attributed to Gil de Siloe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ee991d24-a86f-4d8a-a195-b85c1a2f51e7/organetto.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portive organ or organetto from the 15th-century Saint Bartholomew Altarpiece; Alte Pinakothek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/87cd6aaa-424e-415a-ad92-fc094463450d/bona+dea.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Roman statuette of Bona Dea, the Good Goddess, artist unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/28105fed-f429-4722-acef-b55b1e23ac22/vulcan.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Vulcan, a Roman deity who is blacksmith to the Olympian Gods and Venus’ husband. Sculpted by Bertel Thorvaldsen in 1861 Thorvaldsen Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/410385bf-092c-4d57-a297-3d98e7e87f53/pope+paschal.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 9th-century mosaic of Pope Paschal I from Santa Prassede https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9e373421-5726-481f-baf5-78847fe82bab/0-Salvatierra-Muse-Euturpe-130-50-%26-18c-Prado.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Muse Euterpe, Ancient Roman marble (130-50 CE), Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/56163d2e-af7b-4507-afda-8d52bc08cb00/francia+7.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Cecilia debating Almachius, painted by an unknown artist (1504-06) from the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/adb2eb9d-e1ed-4128-af84-7c2add1fd24d/honthorst+david.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Before Cecilia became the patron saint of music, King David was the Christian figure who presided over music. Painted by Gerard von Honthorst, 1622; Centraal Museum Utrecht. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e90ff130-0894-4b99-a16e-e504e4307a5e/cecilia+sculpture+maderno.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Stefano Maderno’s 1600 sculpture of Saint Cecilia under the ciborium at Saint Cecilia Church in Trastevere https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ec90f00b-73b3-412a-8699-1be5127547d3/delahaye.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1917 photograph of Jesuit scholar Hippolyte Delahaye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/90ce5d80-7929-43ff-ba8f-5eff8e973f14/muses.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Muses, on an Ancient Greek bowl https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2c715c95-88e1-4a3c-94fd-fe62a5055595/bernardo+daddi.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 14th-century painting of Cecilia’s martyrdom by Bernardo Daddi, Museo di San Matteo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/69838af8-380b-4f3d-9ea6-f58398a05f8e/charleston+ad.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out An ad in the American General Gazette on 10 October 1766 for a Saint Cecilia concert in Charleston, South Carolina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f126c08e-f6da-444d-b2c1-eeb549afc434/stefano-maderno--the-virgin-martyr-st-cecilia.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Stefano Maderno’s 1600 sculpture of Saint Cecilia’s body as it was found in an incorruptible state. Saint Cecilia Church in Trastevere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/43c113b7-9d84-4f84-bb02-e44cae35d65c/medieval+ceilia+bw.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Illuminated letter C featuring Cecilia with an organ. Note that she isn’t playing the instrument, but looks upward towards Heaven. From an antiphonary by an unknown artist, c. 1260; Archivio Storico Arcivescovile Ravenna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/403cab16-fef7-481c-8843-e8b14574398e/ravenna+mosaic.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The earliest surviving depictions of Cecilia are indistinguishable from those of other virgin martyrs. Created by an unknown artist, c. 526 CE, Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/468cb34c-43d9-4737-bc93-065d3516363e/daddi+valerian.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 14th-century painting of Cecilia converting Valerian, painted by Bernardo Daddi, Museo di San Matteo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/86154beb-a589-4afa-ba47-3300d7860e91/mehmed.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Portrait of Mehmed II by Gentile Bellini, c. 1480, National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cd56f708-bc45-4e64-9aa3-084d9a8904c6/king+david+panel.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Grinling Gibbons’ wood panel featuring King David at his harp and Saint Cecilia playing the organ at top, c. 1670, Fairfax House https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/612d672e-5ba8-4cc4-80a8-b44cabe696a0/francia+5.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Cecilia’s husband Valerian and brother-in-law Tiburtius, painted by Amico Vespertini (1504-06) at the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3a9c4090-23f4-4071-b545-5e6f63d868a0/valerian+and+tiburtius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Cecilia and Valerian about to be crowned with chaplets while Cecilia’s brother-in-law Tiburtius enters the room. Francesco Botticini, 15th century. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0b41042a-cb99-4d50-838d-b1cb7685180b/trastavere+illo.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Eye-witness illustration of the alleged body of Saint Cecilia from 1599; artist unknown, Vatican Library. Compare it to Maderno’s sculpture below. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/40839ef2-52ab-457f-ac76-062f0af93040/chaplet.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century photo of a youth wearing a chaplet of bay laurel leaves by Wilhelm von Gloeden https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fb3fa33d-a7ea-4004-a1c6-03918395092c/astolph+coin.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 8th-century coin found in Ravenna with a portrait of Astolph King of the Lombards https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c51a6d83-77b3-442c-8a06-853788441974/francia+8.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Almachius attempting to kill Cecilia in a dry bath, painted by an unknown artist (1504-06) from the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/56305c65-492f-4e21-b19a-98aa5b3d0499/francia+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Valerian meets Bishop Urban, painted by Lorenzo Costa the Elder (1504-06) from the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. Urban is seated. Saint Paul is in white, holding a book. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/89d1421a-0b4e-4b44-972d-8c42f8e278f1/conca.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sebastino Conca’s 18th-century Saint Cecilia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3e30af81-9167-4d62-91e9-2cb852033b01/francia+1.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The marriage of Cecilia and Valerian by Francesco Francia (1504-06) from the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. Note the wedding band on the hill above. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/07bddb4f-31b0-4988-97b9-a02630645adc/gentileschi.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Orazio Gentileschi’s Cecilia playing a spinnet, c. 1618-21, Galleria Nazionale dell'Umbria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/947ab4df-d941-48a8-abd0-a8676fb91742/praetextus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Catacombs of Praetextus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/06e7e281-b65f-407c-a6cb-76424c838338/reni.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Guido Reni’s Saint Cecilia holding a violin, 1606, Norton Simon Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/03a94945-1fa9-4683-a013-4661612fb20f/bona+dea+stone.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Ancient Roman stone with inscription referring to a Bona Dea shrine. The stone is now part of the structure of the Saint Cecilia Church in Trastevere. From Mourning into Joy by Thomas Connolly. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ac343a6f-276f-4c29-a0ca-27069370119e/elena.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Blessed Elena Duglioli dall'Olio, 1814 etching from Bologna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/61599a69-2f7d-437e-a3fa-83dcc74eac26/magdalene+hairshirt.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Mary Magdalene wearing a hairshirt from the 1430 Winterfeld Diptych by an unknown artist, National Museum in Warsaw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d5a7ea94-7731-41bc-85c7-51d45b0c7b88/hand.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Basilica of San Giacomo Maggiore in Bologna has a relic labelled as one of Cecilia’s hands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0474fdba-c6bd-49b7-b2a5-21202502d9e1/Gentileschi-I-martiri-Cecilia-Valeriano-e-Tiburzio-visitati-dallangelo.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Orazio Gentileschi’s martyrdom painting, 1606-07, Brera Pinacoteca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/21d435da-7209-42cc-a98d-34dc15f5e28c/caravaggio.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Orazio Riminaldi’s Caravaggio-esque martyrdom of Saint Cecilia, c. 1620-25, Palazzo Pitti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/42b5e8fa-905d-4ea4-b889-f7e0359b951e/calixtus.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Inside the Catacombs of Calixtus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7dfb16fe-ff8a-4d1e-bedc-b6b3aeea21a8/artemisia.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Artemesia Gentileschi’s painting of Cecilia playing a lute, 1620, Galleria Spada https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d6c9fb02-1bb0-4855-8ea5-321666cf9061/v%26a+cecilia.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Initial C from a 15th-century Italian choirbook with Cecilia playing a cithara; V&A. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c2792754-20ed-478c-8cce-26486b53d83e/francia+6.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The burial of Valerian and Tiburtius, painted by Amico Vespertini (1504-06) from the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0e96555d-e74e-4c5f-82e3-ce29e0f0c815/sfondrati.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 17th-century funerary monument to Cardinal Paolo Emilio Sfondrati by Giralomo Rainaldi, Saint Cecilia Church in Trastevere https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f7bf5acf-3e71-4acb-bfe4-cb27d33ec694/francia+4.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out An angel crowning Cecilia and Valerian with chaplets , painted by an unknown artist (1504-06) at the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/86344bd9-51b8-4515-9b40-b209a87641a0/francia+3.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Valerian’s baptism painted by an unknown artist (1504-06) from the Oratory of Saint Cecilia at San Giacomo Maggiore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e7df760e-8dff-4e13-a5b5-a6efb4543bdb/john+baptist+hairshirt.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saints Sebastian and John the Baptist (wearing a hairshirt under the pink robe) from the Polyptych of the Misericordia by Piero della Francesca, 1445-62; Museo Civico di Sansepolcro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f8c7c260-c982-4623-be73-fe0d9ae84148/odin%27s+ravens.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Odin with his ravens, Huginn and Muninn, from an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9e234ae6-a998-420d-921f-a1ddb001eff7/griffoni.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy from the Griffoni Polyptych painted by Francesco del Cossa, 1471-72; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/72b15729-0373-41ba-a210-3045c5e2559c/lucy+donkey+chidlren%27s+book.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Contemporary children’s book illustration by Bernardelli Curuz Federico of Saint Lucy and her flying donkey delivering presents on the eve of her feast day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cd929c28-462d-458b-8fcd-5e397159fc5f/fresco+eyes.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 14th-century fresco of Saint Lucy in Parma, Italy with votive eyes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/97b20aab-140c-457e-81b5-fe7508b17c0c/ravenna.JPG Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 6th-century mosaics of virgin martyrs by an unknown artist. Saint Lucy is the second from the right, next to Saint Cecilia. Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d86d74d6-b5ee-4dbf-88d3-ab7c3cd8e7de/zurbaran.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy with eyes on a plate, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán; National Gallery of Art, Washington DC https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7dc9565f-7767-42b4-a7fa-5fe94340fb26/dandolo+coin.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Enrico Dandolo, Doge of Venice, on a 12th-century Venetian coin (left) next to Saint Mark, the city’s protector https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/886dcfde-b378-4b7f-9380-f320f27ac0d3/slepnir.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The Tjängvide image stone showing Odin astride his eight-legged horse Sleipnir; made in the Viking Age, artist unknown. Swedish History Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/34ac347d-aeb1-4c6f-9bad-8706215e12bb/freyja.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 19th-century engraving of Freyja and her chariot pulled by cats https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a2d41862-6f91-4bff-88b1-00f774674ca6/agatha%2Blucy.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saints Agatha and Lucy with plates holding votive breasts and eyes, Guidoccio Cozzarelli, c. 1480 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/be1fbf74-0fc3-41af-aca4-0b34e8c0a333/griffoni+polyptych.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Griffoni Polyptych painted by Francesco del Cossa, 1471-72 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0f8707a7-d0c3-4b30-b1ef-118b24375d41/eyes+in+lamp.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy with votive eyes floating in the oil of her lamp; Cosimo Rosselli, c. 1470. San Diego Museum of Art. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d1b4e548-acfd-4bf3-a72f-db9122989357/santa-lucia-reliquia-2.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy’s bone in a reliquary case at Santa Lucìa alla Badìa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0f6c9932-74fa-4244-841b-2adc30868781/zurbaran+agatha.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Francisco de Zurbarán’s Saint Agatha with her breasts on a plate, 1630-33; Musée Fabre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e851961f-d64a-4a70-965d-7c4829f07b6a/lamp+no+eyes.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy with her lamp, painted by Jacopo del Casentino, c. 1330; El Paso Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d937cef2-2e25-4354-a7f7-204d736fc4df/lucy+body.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The body of Saint Lucy at San Geremia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6a7bc7fb-85d2-460e-8f1b-1500e36eab2e/giovanni.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy painted by Giovanni Do in the 17th century, Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ce9f1d7f-d6a1-4545-a6e2-7638383a37be/aquinas.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Thomas Aquinas painted by Carlo Crivelli in the 15th century, part of the Demidoff Altarpiece; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e4f7ed10-5305-405b-9dee-8e38e15953cd/wise+virgins.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out William Blake’s 1822 illustration of the five wise and five foolish virgins, Tate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c1fd6f79-eae3-41cd-a12b-b2c19dffeea9/milagros.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Contemporary Mexican votive eyes (milagro) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8eef1f6f-ab0e-4d39-9808-4b8781fcde07/st+peter+healer.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Peter healing Agatha’s wounds, painted by Giovanni Lanfranco, c. 1614; Galleria nazionale di Parma https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/97a83cb5-3d55-4a0a-b088-07905e66691a/gregory+xiii.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 16th-century portrait of Pope Gregory XIII by Lavinia Fontana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ea2b1b74-063b-41d8-8aa8-09750726e45b/beheaded.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lucy’s beheading, painted by Menologion of Basil II, 976–1025, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bb62b58c-1271-4b62-a500-85526b7829c1/lotto+lucy.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lorenzo Lotto’s painting of Lucy’s legend with a close-up of Lucy before Paschasius, 1532; Civic Art Gallery and Contemporary Art Gallery in Jesi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/12ef3d81-a8f2-4071-8529-6eadbebc161c/odin%27s+hunt.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Peter Nicolai Arbo’s depiction of Åsgårdsreien, Odin’s Hunt, 1872; National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/80c862d9-3777-4419-b5f3-0a7ea7ed2105/Origen.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Engraving of Biblical scholar Origen of Alexandria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d7bddb2f-dcb0-4b42-a914-261033c0fa01/sack+of+constantinople.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Entry of the Crusaders into Constantinople by Eugène Delacroix, 1840; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f33f4c56-7358-494d-ae13-2230d7aed8dc/haakon+the+good.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 1860 painting of King Haakon I or Haakon the Good by Peter Nicolai Arbo, Art Museum, Drammen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c9fa9cba-b83d-4a1f-8eca-d4f6a687b9eb/caravaggio.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The burial of Saint Lucy by Caravaggio, 1608; Sanctuary of Santa Lucia al Sepolcro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0c9f06cb-13f3-435c-82b0-b74604ebf23e/lucifer.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Le génie du mal or ‘Lucifer’ sculpted by Guillaume Geefs, 1848; Liège Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b732aef6-e3da-440a-8840-e6673b168e79/gregory+the+great.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Guercino’s painting of Pope Gregory I aka Saint Gregory the Great c. 1626, National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a8adb231-6d46-46c3-886a-64afe00cf060/no+eyes.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Niccolò di Segna’s Saint Lucy, 14th century. Note the dagger in her hand, jar of oil, and absence of votive eyes. Walters Art Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dc191ed5-4798-4fab-b0d2-63867445b478/lucifer+angel.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Classical depiction of Lucifer, the personification of Venus, in an 18th-century engraving, British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cee05fe4-9866-469b-802e-1b140dff72bb/postcard.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 20th-century Santa Lucia Yule postcard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/175d860a-7aca-4a51-9cd9-488cf3ea2023/Jacopo_Filippo_%28Jacques-Philippe%29_Foresti_%281434-1520%29_dit__Philippe_de_Bergame_.png Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Engraving of Biblical scholar Jacopo Filippo Foresti da Bergamo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/70901e82-7a83-4a9c-8f62-3b1f9e9e6b61/sol.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out The sun god Sol on an Ancient Roman silver plate https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7464d287-6558-4d3e-a4a2-9813d00f9fba/lucy+dagger.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy from the Missal of Eberhard von Greiffenklau (1425-49) depicted with the dagger lodged in her neck; Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db092c06-3d95-4364-8b3e-299ad18e70c7/bulls.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Paschasius attempting to move Lucy with 1,000 yoke of oxen; Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani in the 14th century, The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a94bf518-95c9-4df0-a4b0-faa24ee40827/lucy+giving+wealth+away.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lucy and her mother giving away their wealth, painted by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani in the 14th century, The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c03afeec-c6ec-4933-ba46-e07bf3dec633/draugar.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Contemporary illustration of a draugar at large on the Winter Solstice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/aab37462-c6be-4d79-b8aa-0f9669b8a93f/mantuanus.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Poet Baptista Mantuanus in an engraving at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8fecd480-c8e5-45f8-8368-e36de11ec90a/lucy+and+paschasius.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Lucy summoned before Paschasius, painted by Giovanni di Bartolommeo Cristiani in the 14th century, The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/703d8b78-8633-4ce7-96cc-9d3f76b27ae1/sigebert.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sculpture of Sigebert of Gembloux by Jean Hérain and the architect Théo Florange, erected in 1910 on Place Saint-Guibert in Gembloux, Belgium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/62dde9cc-2cd1-4620-87a0-b2d3df85e7ac/zurbaran+2.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Francisco de Zurbarán’s Saint Lucy with her eyes on a plate, 1636; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Chartres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ef2a2930-711f-40f9-b70b-f338a243d7a1/crivelli.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Saint Lucy with a plate of votvie eyes from a 1478 altarpiece by Carlo Crivelli, National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/04244c6b-f2cc-40b6-8606-b9b3a39f1290/votive+eyes.jpg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out 6th - 7th silver votive eyes from Syria, Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d2be4f8f-f735-4911-b513-af9e7ffb7f07/sinterklaas.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Early 20th-century Dutch daguerreotype of children with Sinterklaas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4810e331-efc8-4b0a-9c74-17eafcc4870e/dandolo+crusade.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Jean Leclerc’s painting of Dandolo recruiting for the crusade against Constantinople, 1621, Palazzo Ducale https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1b037c39-166c-4c83-a0b6-1fd4f6ac3c1b/Domenico_Veneziano+altarpiece.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Domenico Veneziano’s Virgin and Child altarpiece with Saint Lucy on the far right. 1445-47, Uffizi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7fed149a-c089-4985-82ff-f1c7298699f6/master+of+legend.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Three scenes from Saint Lucy’s legend by the so-called Master of the Saint Lucy Legend, c. 1480 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/24af5ba6-0c71-4ea0-8f7b-bd45a208fcea/agatha+torture.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Sebastiano del Piombo’s painting of the martyrdom of Saint Agatha, 1520; Uffizi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e353fbed-8f04-47e5-aac8-8986f2a1a2b3/st+nicolas.jpeg Season 1 Martyrs - Make it stand out Panel from the Saint Nicholas altar of Jánosrét (Lúčky), c. 1480-90, artist unknown. Hungarian National Gallery. https://www.saintpodcast.com/home daily 1.0 2024-07-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/296d7625-406c-4ed9-8d91-b22aeebd1586/bonus+03+card+agatha+and+agnes.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630100379359-B3BFIV47M35RHEZ43SK9/ep+3+st+margaret+no+top+banner.png Home Declared apocryphal in the 5th century, but her legend and popularity persist. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f195d194-07c7-4a55-9b5e-7d39b6b8a7f0/bonus+04+menghi.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3ba23eb6-b4de-4fd4-8e59-42f5b47e076d/patreon+01+card+dominic+savio.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1633396015528-DMJLCW7P7IRPUU19EFEW/s01e06+card+ursula.png Home A saint whose religious order of nuns was scandalised by demonic possessions and a witch trial. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c9b48a4d-8260-423a-99ed-76dd6025acd8/s02e03+card+hildegard.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630101023900-KHKX39DFL6RXBZDAR6PH/ep+5+st+lawrence+no+top+banner.png Home A deacon who was roasted alive. His last words were, ‘Turn me over. I’m done on this side.’ https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8215c0dc-b730-4728-88c5-fed1763e7b12/bonus+08+new+scholastica.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9f632b8c-36e0-4944-922a-0bdbcb4c1338/bonus+07+card+benedict.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b3b36146-c591-4d42-bae8-a15af4a2c274/special+05+card+milk.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/228aa179-dc96-48b9-915b-37922a552c8f/special+01+card+jarman.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1215f2be-7d9a-4f5c-b78c-fcd7a7ded2c6/special+02+card+stigmata.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a358c423-0047-4d12-8c7e-dc243a241448/special+04+art+of+francis.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/be18a7f1-548f-45f9-b2de-d7029fb10ca2/s01e08+card+christopher.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a3b591ec-1200-4f53-b38d-63c38dc94f5b/s02e00+intro+card+2.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630100765065-UF5J06ZTQFD52D0DK1TN/ep+4+st+barbara+no+top+banner.png Home A princess killed by her own father - and the inspiration behind the fairy tale, Rapunzel. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f788dd32-0606-4f04-93f9-3ad697bd01e8/s02e01+card+anthony.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db94b75b-0a35-4374-8741-53ee2b4d69fb/s02e02+card+peter.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e5ec193a-cad8-4d91-bef4-21c61db8dc9d/s02e04+card+francis.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/48608d72-1f9d-4f7b-bb00-6437eaa0dba3/s01e10+card+lucy.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630100160400-QT4YO809DS2IH2VSHBRX/ep+2+st+sebastian+no+top+banner.png Home A middle-aged warrior transformed by painters into a muscular youth - and a gay icon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/35d26068-0e76-42c4-a629-a29bc8d713ca/s01e09+card+cecilia.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c1b92e89-e2ab-4146-9733-f729a2868920/bonus+05+card+elisabeth+of+schonau.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c427fef5-e906-4629-bb09-d4ee65573980/s01e07+card+catherine.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e4c57ea5-760d-451a-b98e-c892a5b37b72/special+03+card+sin.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/63023305-a6e0-4df2-bcce-e33498d90fc2/coming+soon+website+image.png Home - WHAT’S NEXT? Saint Podcast season 02, Mystics launches this year. Tune in for the introduction episode, available very soon. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db658909-efe6-4276-bea5-5c8b70583bee/special+06+card+nicholas+part+ii.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8225f021-61e1-4746-be41-e345add6b202/Screenshot+2022-11-11+at+21.37.35.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630099968461-ROEVV69WDVMO8HXKMJCQ/ep+1+st+stephen+no+top+banner.png Home The first martyr. His body parts and bones changed the face of Christianity forever. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/398cb5b5-20c1-4af8-b002-f1c70df11f54/bonus+02+card+bernard.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4ec8b226-53ea-4dda-8d19-e90e69956884/s02e05+card+clare.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/00a31417-4f61-4946-89d8-5627e2cbfe5d/bonus+06+card+valentine.png Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.saintpodcast.com/about daily 0.75 2023-05-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0a5af5a6-c75f-4b0c-b4b7-2e4e13065057/Screenshot+2022-11-11+at+21.37.35.png About Saint Podcast is a history and culture podcast that explores the legends of the saints. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1629567962913-GNWRYSGE2G3GWLQMFYHP/24232620_10154787178341612_7889105163324487390_n.jpg About - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.saintpodcast.com/contact daily 0.75 2021-09-08 https://www.saintpodcast.com/events daily 0.75 2024-05-04 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ec1ff0c0-6075-4666-96ba-45ef9c9c94be/Bronzino_-_Saint_Sebastian_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/10d492b6-47e3-444f-9ce0-c10be1bc14dd/spinello-aretino-exorcism-of-st-benedict.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a557a4ec-544d-40f6-b297-81617ceefe5f/Bicci-di-Lorenzo-Saint-Nicholas-Resuscitating-Three-Youths.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/30669561-d9d0-410c-8fdc-72dd5ae81959/Maddalena_penitente_-_O._Gentileschi_%28private_collection%29.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f3462225-1d7d-4d5a-a1e7-b4c08d3eef1c/wilge-wellcome-1.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c15f767b-4bb9-41d6-bce4-2f70827c27ac/IMG_7607.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2f64167a-17cf-4d10-b2da-3054e1fc5ada/25550AB.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c3dd0ee3-af5e-4bca-b035-1ed5cfe14ce0/st+lucius.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/87682e4a-2616-4e43-ab83-3a5bccad7556/Tizian_009.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7cbf795f-d2f5-4cf8-ae28-c3d9d0aa8f86/Saints_Sergius_and_Bacchus_7th_century_BC.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4e14dba4-2c83-402e-bcbc-047821cfc460/The_Martyrdom_of_Saint_Ursula-Caravaggio_%281610%29.jpg Events - Make it stand out Caravaggio, c. 1610 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ba45df59-0935-422b-b2cb-0028103425a9/3078492517_2096fcd0f3_o.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1d4c92cb-bb91-41f1-8413-57f461d2c214/the-exorcist-can-and-_39_t-just-be-a-run-of-the-mill-priest-photo-u1.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f766b730-223a-4eee-a630-111175ba3cc4/tumblr_pv60dbWQgm1rqqedro1_r2_1280.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cd83583e-9344-40e7-b564-2ad306997658/signs-you-have-stigmata-u2.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c94a6b86-1021-48ca-97db-d1e3d9eea073/the+devils+still.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9d8fb7e5-9412-4cd2-a8c5-c6b75bf51a0f/6D10383D-9CF1-445C-BDA1-DE4A416557A5.jpg Events - Make it stand out The Devils, Ken Russell, 1971 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/620868a5-bd07-442f-9a23-0333a3728861/Girolamo_di_Benvenuto_di_Giovanni_del_Guasta_-_Saint_Catherine_of_Siena_Intercedes_with_Christ_to_Release_the_Dying_Sister_Palmerina_from_Her_Pact_with_the_Devil_-_1947.25_-_Fogg_Museum.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8f474550-a222-4ad2-841a-4b2c572fd78f/LevackMariazell..jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d58e3ebe-2fd3-44c8-8c25-7bbcd0a2ed5c/Sebastiane-605409286-large.jpeg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1630229382792-SGNQ9QEH67DE06RA8TVZ/morbid+ursula.jpeg Events - Saint Ursula and the Cult of 11,000 Virgins An illustrated Zoom lecture about Saint Ursula and the extraordinary women she inspired in the Rhine Valley - where she and her entourage of virgins were martyred - and beyond. Hosted by Saint Podcast creator and producer, Eric Huang - courtesy of our friends at Morbid Anatomy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6bcb539b-d533-4165-8069-67a07a7ea03e/Giuseppe_Bazzani_-_The_Ecstasy_of_St_Therese_-_WGA01527.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2612e45c-689d-4b3d-90fa-9f4d602a0c7e/saint-catherine-receives-the-stigmata.jpg%21Large.jpg Events - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.saintpodcast.com/season-2-mystics-1 daily 0.75 2023-12-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4d530a3d-05b0-4cf2-a9f9-f07a7900054c/Saint_Agnes_of_Bohemia_Gives_the_Grandmaster_a_Model_of_the_Church.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Agnes of Prague gives the Grandmaster a model of the church, painted by Nikolaus Puchner, 1482; Saint Vitus Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f529d710-7fe7-4ce8-89a3-8d7f863253d2/renunciation-of-worldly-goods-and-the-bishop-of-assisi-dresses-st-francis.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Bishop Guido covering up a naked Francis, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1452; San Francesco, Montefalco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6f135b1e-786f-4a33-b4e8-0038c92d4788/Screenshot+2023-05-18+at+15.20.56.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis tonsures Clare at Portiuncula. Note the crucifix. Painted by Giovanni di Paolo, 15th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bcc46fe3-4af9-460e-af28-126f42f2a5d9/Screenshot+2023-07-02+at+16.39.12.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Bust of Holy Roman Emperor, Frederick II, by an unknown artist, c. 13th century; Museo Provinciale Campano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/089ab951-8ee4-43e9-b7e7-75ea0de70e35/Pope_Innocent_III.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Innocent III, an illustration is from The Lives and Times of the Popes by Chevalier Artaud de Montor, originally published in 1842. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6fc5620b-51a5-4ec7-b49f-f92ec8675532/palm.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Bishop Guido hands Clare a palm frond on Palm Sunday, painted by an unknown German artist, c. 1360; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8afc5ea4-09f9-4dbc-b4d8-c1b757292bfe/Gregory_IX.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Historiated capital featuring Pope Gregory IX aka Hugolino. From manuscript M III 97, 122rb, ca. 1270; Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8f9a5944-d00c-4d7d-80c3-ff63106bac99/1024px-Theofried_von_Echternach.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out An image of Theodoric of Echternach from the book, Kulturgeschichte Europas - Von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart by Georg Westermann https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/835afc00-8732-4317-96c7-aeaded308684/antony+and+devils.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Anthony of Egypt tormented by devils, a copy of an engraving by Martin Schongauer painted by Michelangelo, c. 1487-89; Kimbell Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bfc1d26a-ce2c-4aa6-98e3-0424120f4898/crivelli.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Carlo Crivelli’s Saint Peter of Verona, 1476; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/772ac81c-90d0-4c50-935a-585b81e0f5d5/cloud.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Peter and the miracle of the cloud from a fresco by Vincenzo Foppa, c. 1468; Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b68743b2-4c3f-4083-b388-5041c2c59b03/Giotto_di_Bondone_-_Scenes_from_the_Life_of_Saint_Francis_-_4._Death_and_Ascension_of_St_Francis_-_WGA09307.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The death of Saint Francis, painted by Giotto, c. 1325; Basilica of Santa Croce https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/eeadf27e-8991-42fb-85ff-efbbf0aaabb7/bosch+anthony+detail.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Detail from the central panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s Temptation of Saint Anthony triptych, c. 1500-1525; Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga. Note the city on fire in the background. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9d1be484-b348-47fa-ae16-e9e71102eaee/IRHT_094617_2_P.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Perceval meets with his anchorite aunt in an illumination from Prose Tristan, c. 1450-1460, via Initiale, Catalog of Illuminated Manuscripts. Note the anchorite’s cell with barred windows. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/22101510-ef0b-4786-af2b-9522d2ccf1a8/giotto-francis-points-to-death_orig.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis points to the figure of Death, painted by Giotto before 1337 in the Basilica of Saint Francis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/499a2d6f-37c1-40dc-8555-438f680321d7/Cat121.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis receiving the stigmata by the Master of Staffolo, c. 1420; Philadelphia Museum of Art. Brother Leo is on the right. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/99b2fc76-06be-43a4-8fa1-5cc9f954433b/healing.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Antonio Vivarini’s painting showing Saint Peter performing a miraculous healing, 1450s; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e682de76-d45b-4f3f-9274-8855df4e179b/elisabeth.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Engraving of Elisabeth of Schonau from the Austrian National Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3130aa5f-45f0-4543-81af-879b2691585d/a+and+p+3.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Anthony and Paul painted by Diego Velázquez, c. 1634; Museo del Prado. Note Paul’s death in the background to the left with lions in attendance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/38ef0d5c-901c-45a9-9117-2a18870aa939/Heinrich_%28VII%29_Huldigung_Wuerzburg_1234.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Henry VII of Germany shown here receiving homage from Würzburg in 1234, from the 16th-century Bishop's Chronicle by Lorenz Fries https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/32fcfbdb-a5a9-401e-b22c-9d3dbd66b428/palace+dream.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis’ vision of glory from a fresco by Giotto, 1295; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dde93f42-ae38-46c8-8dc2-e9be0511b0ec/Pope_Innocent_IV_sends_Dominicans_and_Franciscans_out_to_the_Tartars.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Innocent IV sends Dominicans and Franciscans on a mission to convert the Tartars, from Vincent of Beauvais’ 15th-century Le Miroir Historial (Vol. IV), illustrated by the Master of the Cité des Dames; Bibliothèque Nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/10ca17d0-b3fe-4cd9-a28f-b77046f5b904/Excommunication.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century manuscript depicting the excommunication of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II by Pope Innocent IV; author unknown; Bodleian Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f71117a4-7055-40ef-80a7-350af01ef7a9/Sassetta_001.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis turning his back on the pursuit of material wealth and power - and renouncing his earthly father by Sasetta, 1437-44; National Gallery, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/205a5b55-cef9-42a5-bf14-5eee3fd0c5fc/athanasius.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Icon of Athanasius of Alexandria by an unknown artist, Varna Museum of Archaeology https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1493eb4e-c141-4531-b3d4-db728e155d69/6gregor.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Gregory IX (formerly Cardinal Hugolino) by Raffaello Sanzio, 1510-11; Stanza della Segnatura at the the Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5276583f-0c10-463a-9974-58f0848a3679/barnard+portuguese.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 17th-century painting of Saint Bernard receiving wisdom via the breastmilk of the Virgin Mary, and a young John the Baptist, artist unknown; MNAA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c0443f6a-920d-4828-bdf8-d1715187e426/ChiaraAssisCos.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The body of Saint Clare inside a wax effigy at the Basilica of Saint Clare. The skeleton can be seen from the other side, accessible only by the Poor Clares themselves. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a0bc6c72-5bd4-43f1-b4d9-f630f88dadcd/7ea63c4fdd5c43f2c09897c90ec5ffdd.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis before Pope Innocent III https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/37165fd2-0de2-45f9-9e79-8a0ffa4c35df/nat+gall+painting.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona and Father Dominic, painted by Giovanni Bellini, c. 1505-07; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/067c4750-1f01-44fc-a316-e10b876c0378/menghi.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Title page in the 1727 edition of Girolamo Menghi’s Flagellum Daemonum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cc1c7bfc-fb0a-4681-94c7-71ecc7e2b522/B54DD531-927B-4B20-A760-9331B9A47DE3.JPG Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea depicted in a 1590 fresco by Speranza in the Sistine Chapel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1cacf57d-15ff-489d-86c5-48c89a701dfe/tetramorph4.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Tetramorph figure of the four evangelists based on Ezekiel’s vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2d035157-d7bf-4f8d-bb99-d27c0d2bd531/De_Grey_Hours_f.57.v_St._Anthony_of_Egypt.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A medieval book of hours likely created for the De Grey family of Ruthin, c.1390; National Library of Wales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fa89454a-cb71-4867-82e8-3dce91cf0b54/familiars.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Witch pictured feeding her familiars with blood, in A Rehearsall both Straung and True, of Hainous and Horrible Actes Committed by Elizabeth Stile (1579); British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f6c72f54-d4c7-48ef-8659-0f8d7a9e5149/relics.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The skull and leg bone of Saint Anthony at the Church of Saint Trophime https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2bc4d040-4ad1-42c5-9aff-ecb7322ba770/Illuminated.bible.closeup.arp.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out An example of rubrication: red lettering in Medieval manuscripts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3dfb009b-7d8a-4f14-b68b-ed485475dc1b/Sassetta%2C_Pope_innocent_III_Accords_Recognition_to_the_Franciscan_Order.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Innocent III accepting the rule from Francis, painted by Sassetta, c. 1337-44; National Gallery London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5788ecfc-cf51-4975-9e91-8e8ec703c0b6/coltello-san-pietro-verona.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The falcastrum wielded by Carino; Santuario di San Pietro Martire di Seveso https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e522d3c3-d517-4bd1-af67-20424808afdf/consolamentum.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Franciscan Friars witness a Cathar Consolamentum, a baptism rite, in horror; 2nd half of the 13th century, Bibliothèque Nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c2b46baf-9cfd-4c19-8e8a-c6ea9dece5ec/187536_the-gerasene-demoniac_lg.gif Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 19th-century woodcut of the Gerasene demoniac from ‘Volks-Bilderbibel Oder Die Ganze Heilige Schrift : Des Alten Und Neuen Testaments, Nach Der Uebersetzung’ by Martin Luther, published in 1853 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/19e97755-f02f-498e-9d32-5e8f045adfd9/bosch+central.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Central panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s Temptation of Saint Anthony triptych, c. 1500-1525; Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0f9ff115-281f-49ee-b5e9-6bb92546dca1/paul+death+2.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out An engraving of Anthony discovering Paul is dead and being lead to Heaven by angels, Bernardino Passeri, 1582 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d53e5105-4b12-4352-b8d5-a332890f3f9c/crivelli.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis painted by Carlo Crivelli in 1476 for a polyptych at San Domenico. Note the raised, nail-like stigmata wound on his hand. National Gallery London. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ca25f8d8-b45e-4f48-9acc-d67109e459ab/rule.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The oldest surviving copy of the Rule of Saint Benedict, from the 8th-century, Bodleian Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db2d7192-698f-4f12-99cb-0f5dd361541a/raphael+ezekiel.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A romanticised depiction of Ezekiel’s vision painted by Raphael, c. 1518, at the Palazzo Pitti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/66340d7c-d042-41fc-80b5-a07a9c6f59f9/Bernard_of_Quintavalle.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 19th-century print of Bernard of Quintavalle by an unknown artist https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8d0b2806-f1ec-404a-996f-c00f01b993c8/doctors.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Four Doctors of the Church (Saints Augustine, Gregory I, Jerome, Ambrose) painted by Pier Francesco Sacchi, c. 1516; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/414dd9ee-219d-43df-ae3c-21097a2955f0/Meister_des_Sakramentarium_Gelasianum_001.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Frontispiece and incipit from an 8th-century edition of the Gelasian Sacramentary from Germany; Vatican Apostolic Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ea9c4295-5444-475a-8c8f-8a75d7f296d6/saracen.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Painting of Saracens and Crusaders in the style of Théodore Chassériau, c. 1846; Art Institute https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6c4bde6d-1c4c-4827-a8bb-c28d62bc6407/witchcraft.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Witches presenting wax dolls to the devil, featured in The History of Witches and Wizards (1720); Wellcome Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/728f3001-7d4f-45e6-b115-c03a4922a7d8/padre+pio+stigmata.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Padre Pio with stigmata on his hands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/02bac684-d689-4e24-85ad-ddc630cb2d5b/centaur+%2B+paul.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A panel by Vitale da Bologna, c. 1340, that shows Anthony meeting Saint Paul the Hermit. Note the centaur at top. Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f0f0a74a-f47b-4542-a999-4081e33dbc74/old+centaur+with+clohtes.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Benedetto di Montagna’s 16th-century painting of Anthony and the centaur https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3064a06d-a652-48e4-a4e6-ce12eb53a394/joan+of+arc.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Bronze sculpture of Joan of Arc by Emmanuel Frémiet, 1874; Paris https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/15d92dc5-6df4-424c-a4b4-682030d62f77/1372px-Giotto_di_Bondone_073.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis before Pope Innocent III, Giotto, c. 1296-98; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c3db4cc3-7c05-49bb-96e7-67cd5e225b5f/ophanim.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Ophanim from a 19th-century print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a7154ec7-ea1d-4a78-ba78-96eabe533440/Lorenzo_Lotto_-_Madonna_and_Child_with_St_Peter_Martyr_-_WGA13648.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Peter of Verona with the Madonna and Child and a donor, painted by Lorenzo Lotto in 1503; Museo di Capodimonte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b6a0617d-d2a9-4e9b-90ce-0bd0aabff82f/scivias+5.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 20th-century copy of an image of The Five Virtues from Scivias, reproduced in Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images by Sara Salvadori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f660861e-9dcc-47c9-9656-4a36b0e27e3e/burning+lepers.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Detail of the burning of lepers, at the beginning of chapter 7 of the French ‘Philip V' book. Attributed to the Follower of the Virgil Master, 13th-14th century; British Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5561fdf2-8f64-4b27-8054-8a5a85030e9c/bernard+lacta.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Alonso Cano’s painting of the miraculous lactation of Saint Bernard, c. 1650, Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9b20472e-64f7-47c9-8d4f-c614ff39266c/Interior_of_Santi_Giovanni_e_Paolo_%28Venice%29_-_Honorius_III_by_Leandro_Bassano.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Honorius III painted by Leandro Bassano in the 16th century, Santi Giovanni e Paolo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0230a70c-65fa-435c-9e88-9fc305ad9128/fourth-lateran-council-granger.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A page from Matthew Paris' Chronica Maiora, written about 1255, showing the Fathers of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 and stating the number of Archbishops, Bishops and Abbots present. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c1bcdbfa-3140-4893-9095-303e6d42719a/ag-obj-38015-0001-pub.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The vision of Pope Innocent III, painted by Fra Angelico, c. 1395–1455; Yale University Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/994e7264-9a53-4b6b-b4d9-b173a6ec4e2d/ITA_SM_Antiqua_JPEG_img-02.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out More frescos from the Santa Maria Antiqua church in Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/00569112-36ce-40ce-887a-302eb2716d7f/hermit.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Anthony of Egypt, the Father of Hermits, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1640. Note the Greek letter tau at top left, one of the saint’s attributes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a29463ca-200f-4d87-aae8-da418678b968/body+carino.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The body of Carino is kept under this contemporary sculpture at Chiesa di San Martino https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/98a39057-9332-4602-b798-4861e4bb19b0/910px-StBernardFS.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A print of The Lactation of Saint Bernard of Clairvaux by the Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, c. 1480-85 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e7b14888-c151-4b4f-805b-9d88afa221ce/temptation+2.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Félicien Rops, The Temptation of St. Anthony, 1878, Royal Library of Belgium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c1aaea37-6390-46dd-b231-44cbbf6e9635/993px-Death_of_Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_flemish_16th_century.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The death of Saint Francis by an unknown 16th-century Flemish painter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3ae470e3-cb24-4145-91d5-08b207ca0444/st-hedwig-holy-card-1.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary prayer card of Saint Hedwig of Andechs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4816cb7b-1b0e-4786-9326-f8d88b2efc24/Communal_fight_in_Bologna_%28Sercambi%29.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Illustration of a 14th-century battle between the militias of the Guelf and Ghibelline factions in the Italian commune of Bologna, created by an unknown artist c. 1400 from the Croniche of Giovanni Sercambi of Lucca written by Giovanni Sercambi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/69eb2513-5eed-4466-b126-07765594873c/Vincenzo_foppa%2C_cappella_poritnari%2C_miracolo_della_falsa_madonna.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Peter of Verona exorcising a statue of the Madonna and Child; from a fresco by Vincenzo Foppa, c. 1468, Basilica of Sant'Eustorgio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9f5969d1-ec26-4ba4-b53b-21c7b3871c39/icon+accurate+animals.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary icon showing a more accurate depiction of the demons in animal form as described in Life of Anthony https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ae0bd03b-fe5d-45c9-b67a-531799391b00/black+and+white.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Ambrogio Bergognone’s Saint Peter of Verona with a kneeling donor, painted c. 1485; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/81c1ad86-cc81-47e1-9629-5072e4b89ade/taxil-hacks-le-diable-au-xixe-siecle-p793-a76cd1.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 19th-century print of the exorcism of Nicole Aubrey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9fd6f06a-02de-4676-9b0b-2ea5db265aa7/devil+limbourg.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Anthony of Egypt attacked by the Devil and demons, from the Limbourg Brothers’ Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry manuscript, c. 1412-16; Musée Condé https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/31ecbbb3-22be-4c27-ada0-59259b068069/monk+virgin.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The Virgin nursing a sick monk from The Miracles of Notre Dame by Gautier de Coincy, 12th-13th century; Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ba137652-194a-4eed-bb43-01a3bd42dbe9/Giovanni_di_paolo%2C_santa_chiara_salva_dei_naufraghi%2C_1455_ca._02%2C3.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Clare rescuing sailors from a storm, painted by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1455 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/deb7931e-8ec8-4a5c-b82a-0081a3e16747/friar-angelo-ferretti-as-saint-peter-martyr-lorenzo-lotto.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A portrait of Friar Angelo Ferretti as Saint Peter of Verona, painted by Lorenzo Lotto in 1549; Harvard Art Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fac89883-a0d8-4018-accf-470add19574b/Screenshot+2022-08-29+at+10.43.50.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out An illustration of various Benedictine habits from a 1780 print https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f585b005-b3ab-43f5-bfdc-311cefaf2180/Elia_da_Cortona.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Copy of a portrait of Brother Elias, also known as Elias of Cortona, by the painter Giunta Pisano, from a biography in the Magazzino toscano d'instruzione e di piacere, 1744 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/931ab9f9-2750-41c3-b715-8575ac84ba16/Hl_Antonius_c1460s_ubs_G_0021_I.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Anthony of Egypt in Antonine robes with a tau-topped cross in a 1460s woodcut from the University Library of Salzburg, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1a10fa8f-e5f5-42ea-89c9-ecbcddc7023e/temptation+1.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Paul Delaroche’s Temptation of Saint Anthony, painted c. 1832; The Wallace Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/83c891d1-00fe-457f-85ba-1247d40cb3ee/IMG_6465.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 20th-century copy of an image of Synagogue from Scivias, reproduced in Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images by Sara Salvadori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fbffdf04-e0af-48d7-ba63-e4f4cfd379f8/4pfs20ram4_Serra_for_spread.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary mural of Father Junipero Serra, an 18th-century Franciscan and priest who founded many of the missions in Mexico and California. His canonisation met with fierce controversy. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/029c8c46-8d6a-4018-9ba9-895663528d86/horned+centaur.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Anthony and the centaur - or maybe satyr - from a page in John Mandeville, Voyages. Paris, c1410-1412; Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/57050ae5-dd0a-4abe-bdf5-1fc60fd60eae/paul.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Jusepe de Ribera’s painting of Saint Paul the Hermit, also known as Saint Paul of Thebes, in his cave, 1640; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/31bb8444-8c19-4e65-aa58-6adbf213f47a/095BD89F-3F02-4274-9812-F903710825BB.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary piece depicting a young Hildegard meeting Jutta, Eibingen Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c774d5cf-c0a8-47be-92e7-b711ec0df06e/bosch+right.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Central panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s Temptation of Saint Anthony triptych, c. 1500-1525; Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/09a6dbc6-69e2-4f6f-8cb5-b1c26aeeac76/roland.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century Spanish translation of a French-Italian edition of the Song of Roland; Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c6b5ecf0-539f-4aa3-b837-83e8ef7e9c11/san+damiano.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Fresco likely by Giotto showing Francis at San Damiano, 1296-98; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/69227035-8efa-46f2-887d-bb2f8f9f8a41/padro.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis supported by an angel, painted by Orazio Gentileschi, c. 1607; Museo del Prado. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d978cdb5-562a-4c35-bdb7-b210f7cb36a8/nicole+aubrey.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 15th or 16th-century woodblock print of the exorcism of Nicole Aubrey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b3ca41d3-3fdf-4ad5-bd37-468905b39da1/Screenshot+2022-12-15+at+18.01.11.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis with Saint Clare painted by a follower of Federico Barocci, c. late 1500s-early 1600s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/68e0b6d4-ef8c-46e2-9824-81544952893e/Screenshot+2022-12-17+at+09.29.25.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Giotto’s painting of Lady Poverty with Francis (in black) and Christ between them, c. 1330; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b674d1a5-8360-44fc-9109-3ed3b954de95/Andrea_di_Bonaiuto_fresco_01.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Andfrea di Bonaiuto’s 14th-century allegory of the triumph of the Church and the Dominican order. Saint Peter of Verona appears several times in the fresco along with Saints Dominic and Thomas; Santa Maria Novella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d038fb85-e2e8-48f1-9158-6ba772fa7b2f/horoscope.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The horoscope of the Persian Timurid ruler Iskandar Sultan, 1411; Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/af251e2a-7a4a-4ed4-a9fb-cac336d35716/N-2862-00-000019-wpu.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Benedict admitting Saints Maurus and Placidus into the Benedictine Order; Lorenzo Monaco, 1407-07, National Gallery London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0d34df55-753a-4f4d-8709-6ab4505a41da/peter+exorcist.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saints Marcellinus and Peter the Exorcist, painted by the Master of the San Lucchese Altarpiece; National Galleries Scotland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/eb79e2bc-26b1-4201-a6b4-9325592ca449/pope-eugenius-iii-bernardo-paganelli-mary-evans-picture-library.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 18th-century engraving of Pope Eugenius III from the Mary Evans Picture Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f81cd175-20d3-47e1-8248-7397367c22ae/italy-Assisi-portiuncula-interior-1200x800.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Interior of Portiuncula, Papal Basilica of Saint Mary of the Angels in Assisi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/10ad1dcb-eeae-4af8-821a-49a5de3f11de/gold+2.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Anthony tempted by gold, the Master of the Osservanza Triptych, c. 1435; The Met. The gold was depicted in gold paint at the bottom left. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0e611eb6-6904-46c3-8b66-02b4d038a240/brother_sun_sister_moon_poster.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Poster for Franco Zeffirelli’s Brother Sun, Sister Moon, 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f91f8d1a-138c-49b8-b8e5-68f4e0b56ff0/IMG_6463.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 20th-century copy of an image of The Exit of the Soul from Scivias, reproduced in Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images by Sara Salvadori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b30df488-4c7d-4006-8178-534c2842d328/Antoni_Viladomat_-_Saint_Francis_and_Saint_Clare_at_Supper_in_the_Convent_of_Saint_Damian_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis and Saint Clare having dinner at San Damiano, painted by Antoni Viladomat i Manalt, c. 1724-33; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/47076459-d9d2-430c-a9f8-348878385e31/1920px-Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_in_Ecstasy-Caravaggio_%28c.1595%29.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Caravaggio in ecstacy, painted by Caravaggio in 1594; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/abb49408-7f69-47e3-b78a-5ad2ed9a964b/Benozzo_Gozzoli_-_Scenes_from_the_Life_of_St_Francis_%28Scene_10%2C_north_wall%29_-_WGA10241.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis meets Al-Kamil, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1452; Museo di Montefalco. Note the embers Francis stands on. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e9196d2c-7d6e-485b-80e8-0a2fac72eb5d/cathar+expulsion.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 15th-century illustration of the expulsion of the Cathars from Carcassonne during the Albigensian Crusade in southern France; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3bd71a97-1a14-4608-804f-067fdbd2bd6b/Constantine-the-Great.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Bronze of Emperor Constantine by Philip Jackson, 1998, in York https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0a4b9109-0688-45a0-9826-f08de2d279a6/padre+pio+incorrupt.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Padre Pio’s incorrupt body at San Giovanni Rotondo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/73344e51-3109-4ddb-9e18-8fb790f5d998/Giotto_-_Legend_of_St_Francis_-_-11-_-_St_Francis_before_the_Sultan_%28Trial_by_Fire%29.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Giotto’s painting of the trial by fire, 1295; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f8dcfb14-9d99-4451-9021-1fc46afebc13/il_fullxfull.1711986444_q6ll.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The contemporary image of Saint Francis, a handsome young man with animals https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2cedd5b9-2d1d-4924-8427-1c1264726c06/Al-Kamil_Muhammad_al-Malik_and_Frederick_II_Holy_Roman_Emperor.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Illustration of Frederick II meeting Sultan al-Kamil, from the 14th-century Nuova Cronica; Vatican Apostolic Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7a8ae3bf-5049-42f4-9fe2-dbb808c49777/VaclavGelnhausenovekodexu.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out King Wenceslaus I of Bohemia from the 15th-century Codex Gelnhausen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d39a77e5-39a6-4022-b25b-ec95d3e7bb51/Hildegard-and-Richardis-from-Biblioteca-Statale-Lucca-500x397.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 13th-century illustration showing Hildegard of Bingen recording a vision on a wax tablet with Volmar to her left and the beloved Richardis to her right; Biblioteca Statale, Lucca https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ad073eae-1011-4c00-9c3b-14fe889a03db/Dolci_Saint_Paul_the_hermit.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Paul the Hermit painted by Carlo Dolci, before 1648; National Museum in Warsaw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a3521567-45f0-4d05-a407-beb4828017d5/apocalypse.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Papyrus fragment of the Apocalypse of Peter, c. 2nd century; Coptic Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1f3a2fbf-80e1-4dd4-a524-98f69eef1e73/add_ms_16979_f021v.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 12th-century edition of the Rules of Saint Benedict from the Necrology from the Benedictine Abbey of St Gilles; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1b296ae9-2b51-486f-987d-ae07d32c8717/618px-Francisco_de_Zurbara%CC%81n_-_Saint_Francis_-_38.1617_-_Museum_of_Fine_Arts.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis in prayer by Zurbarán between 1640-45; Museum of Fine Arts Boston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e012bfd5-baa5-4816-8efe-87082cbceab4/bosch+left.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Left panel of Hieronymus Bosch’s Temptation of Saint Anthony triptych, c. 1500-1525; Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e411dfb5-0955-425c-9140-7c45302d84a6/2-bosch-student-the-temptation-of-st-anthony-the-pig-and-the-art.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A painting by a follower of Bosch showing Saint Anthony’s demon-fighting pig and the Greek letter tau on his cowl; 1500-25, Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2668646d-134b-4dd3-9e59-9cad7263adeb/leper.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Medieval depiction of a leper by an unknown artist. The man is Job, who sits on a dungheap while tormented by the Devil, an allegory of the disease and its cause: sin. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/632e86db-ce98-43d3-bcc7-cc49ea68bab0/holy+roman.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A map of internal divisions within the Holy Roman Empire during the time of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bb65314a-006a-4ce5-bc97-352d70831f4a/190270.p.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century fresco of Christ exorcising demons by an unknown artist, Visoki Dečani Monastery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9f44765a-0b3f-43a7-b2e5-0d1edf360c17/Troubadours_berlin.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century image of German troubadours, artist unknown; Archiv für Kunst und Geschichte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/73b122d9-5acf-40f8-81e4-afdb374dd360/Leopold_VI%2C_Duke_of_Austria.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The seal of Duke Leopold VI reproduced in a publication from 1891 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/56825f6e-1937-4f3d-8dfc-8bdcb8901b44/anthonycentaur1.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Anthony meeting a centaur, painted by Francesco Guarino, 1642 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/70cf8f7a-5ff4-4ba4-b0f9-7c2b5e0e30e8/Abraham_Janssens_-_St_Jerome.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Jerome by Abraham Janssens, 1600s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/43181fe7-7c41-40ed-8ba1-4e55c5e31e55/Piantina_Perugia_old.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century map of Perugia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/16302ea5-efee-490c-944d-b1acaa48d5bb/cherub.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Four-headed or tetramorph cherub from the Monastery of the Holy Trinity, c. 15th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2c6d49ca-d824-435e-9fed-42d43b4822de/st-francis-mourned-by-st-clare-1300.jpg%21Large.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Clare mourning the death of Francis, a fresco painted by Giotto in 1300 at the Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/50018f21-d9df-4e92-872a-5fb033e347c4/Screenshot+2022-03-31+at+16.20.45.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 16th-century painting of Saint Anthony with his pig, painted by Jan Wellens de Cock https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5310848d-9494-4747-9d89-cdb54adfddd6/catherine+of+siena.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Catherine of Siena, one of four female Doctors of the Church; painted by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1460, The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f9d73917-5f24-4c1e-bb14-b70148df49d3/seraphim.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Seraphim fresco from the Hagia Sophia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1c68d935-9605-442e-a779-520423aacfbc/padua.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The other Anthony, Saint Anthony of Padua. Painted by Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, c. 1660; Museo de Bellas Artes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4cda28a8-8fe2-403e-b2c3-63ec4c8f1172/attacked+again.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Another painting of Anthony tormented by demons; Cenni di Francesco, 14th century, Getty https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7519ae71-6c43-4e38-9551-5c4a260282a1/ezekiel+print.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 17th-century engraving depicting Ezekiel’s vision and the various ranks of angels https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/acae1579-3604-4369-821f-cd92717f4b75/Sassetta_002.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The mystical marriage of Saint Francis with allegorical figures of Chastity, Poverty, and Obedience, 1437-44; Musée Condé https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5b1a950c-72be-4805-bc55-5d4187d33f7a/Roman_de_la_Rose_f._28r-author-scribe-1.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century illustration of a scribe from the Roman de la Rose manuscript https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3ff3bf13-d46b-4518-a659-9f7224cbe726/Gregory_IX.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Gregory IX in a manuscript miniature c. 1270; Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3df6f594-5abb-46df-a7cf-043f5616b771/death.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The death of Saint Anthony of Egypt, painted by Antonio Viladomat Y Manalt; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/68af4fb0-d8db-4165-bac6-aa485c3fbea7/white+centaur.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Belles Heures of Jean de France, duc de Berry, 1405–1408/9, by Herman, Paul, and Jean de Limbourg French; The Cloisters https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8436c4dc-6e27-4b33-b182-204b946a3bc9/paul+death.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francisco Camilo’s depiction of the death of Saint Paul the Hermit, c. 1649; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f5bfc741-d892-46ac-b2aa-57857d14ad04/Peter_Paul_Rubens_-_Saint_Francis_-_1983.372_-_Art_Institute_of_Chicago.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis painted by Rubens, c. 1615; Art Institute Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/001f7a3d-47c6-4085-87bf-9db0937efe0a/IMG_6481.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 20th-century copy of an image of The End Times, reproduced in Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images by Sara Salvadori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/05b223c7-9055-408b-8ae6-0eb7fb0c984e/demons.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis casting out demons, painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1452; Museo di Montefalco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7780f2ec-2002-43f7-9814-25b9d1485894/gerasene.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 6th-century mosaic of the exorcism of the Gerasene demoniac from the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare Nuovo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c5ad48e5-a860-48d1-9030-6fd439707828/st-francis-video-webpage.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Legendary 12th-century missal consulted by Francis, Peter, and Bernard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/643b4b8e-c3e5-405c-92aa-316e1ed64e91/attacked+blue.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Demons tormenting Anthony from a manuscript c. 1490-1521 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/37ca4a3a-4c46-4d84-b583-b6f27fb92880/augustinian.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Habits of Augustinian nuns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/19a9712f-de7b-4075-8acc-64bffbc169f1/PS4_37.424_Fnt_DD_AT19_6673-tms.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis and the seraph painted by El Greco, c. 1585-60; The Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5f145dd5-35bf-4b37-9600-6947be76e5c1/istockphoto-522578019-612x612.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The ancient fertility god, Dagon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5ce23ffb-1617-462d-8265-6e5fae1bbc02/Arredondo-santa_clara.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Clare repelling attackers with the eucharist; Isodoro Arredondo, 1693; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4019df18-052d-4638-a29d-a8cb74fa1b0e/Jan_Siberechts_-_Saint_Francis_Preaching_to_the_Animals.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Jan Siberechts’ Francis preaching to the animals, 1666; Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9a66bd49-b9e5-4bba-94be-eddfa698267d/Saint-Francis-Meets-Pope-Innocent-III.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Innocent III and Francis meeting, a still from Franco Zeffirelli’s Brother Sun Sister Moon, 1972 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b61a07e2-452f-41f3-9a77-b3b25ca99509/honorious3.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis before Pope Honorius III, painted by Giotto, before 1337 at the Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6c9d8f6a-402d-4d8d-b886-617857a623b4/ItalianSilkDamask.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century Italian silk damask swatches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/be8b4735-0f62-47b9-8c19-c11037f070ad/anthony+attacked.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Anthony attacked by demons, painted c. 1520 by an unknown artist from the Upper Rhine; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4a99fa86-c39e-4a42-b837-dda792891332/Saint_Francis_of_Assisi_Receiving_the_Stigmata_Turin.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis receiving stigmata by Jan van Eyck, c. 1430-32; Galleria Sabauda. Note the wounds on Francis’ feet. Brother Leo is asleep. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3efb205d-2f7d-41e4-9141-db96f1b18688/richardis.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Hannah Herzsprung as Richardis in Margarethe Von Trotta’s 2009 film Vision: From the Life of Hildegard von Bingen. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e5f4673d-d965-4566-892b-efac101b20a9/Shahname_-_Mani_death_%28cropped%29.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out An illustration of the death of Mani from a 1315 copy of the Demotte Shahnameh, artist unknown; Riza Abbasi Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/549bdd2d-bcdd-4315-8d6a-5ca3d9a323c9/carino.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Carino dispatching Peter while Father Dominic attempts escape, painted by Domenichino in the 17th century; Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cdd1ea2d-be45-46ca-b8ef-58b2c8aec985/gold.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Anthony tempted by a pile of gold, painted by fra Angelico, c. 1435-40; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e1e29968-ffd6-4a3b-9317-8b88543eeae0/francis+giving+away+cloak.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis giving away his mantle, a fresco by Giotto from 1295; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0f398770-b142-4f61-82be-912d13854c84/barcelona+altarpiece.JPG Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 14th-century altarpiece of Saint Peter of Verona painted by an unknown artist; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8baeeaa1-5805-4caf-b2fd-da22767373ed/4d0b7e151832d75cb224681e574d9624--saint.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary prayer card of Saint Anthony the Great aka Anthony the Abbot. Note the presence of his pig. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bfc51a4d-26b9-4724-aa63-cd7151d7d7ae/Table_with_was_and_stylus_Roman_times.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Modern Roman-style wax tablet and stylus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d05e9c2c-26b7-4052-9a55-7f23b91d237a/Chegada_de_Santa_Ine%CC%82s_de_Assis_ao_Convento_%28c._1697%29_-_Anto%CC%81nio_de_Oliveira_Bernardes.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Clare’s sister Catherine dragged away by their uncle Monaldo, painted by António de Oliveira Bernardes, 1697; Igreja de Santa Clara in Évora https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ee14110a-156f-43ec-9209-8bdd5f509092/Umiliati.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The Humiliati accepting the Rule of Saint Benedict, painted by Simone di Crocifissi, c. 1200; Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/822d389a-92d6-40ff-a5b4-730eddc512bc/Heilige-Berg-Andechs-Kloster-Andechs-nach-einem-Stich-von-Merian.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary postcard of an engraving showing the monastery at Rupertsberg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7fd41541-7139-4482-8d80-297a338d291d/dominicans+and+heretics.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Fresco created between 1366-67 depicting Dominican friars combating heresy, likely confronting Cathars; Cappellone degli Spagnoli, Santa Maria Novella https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8524c8e1-0a4b-4903-8d71-3d8e74c88a64/holy+roman+empire.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The extent of the Holy Roman Empire (demarcated by the red line) in Saint Peter of Verona’s lifetime https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d83aa7fc-6d0b-4c21-89f6-fda8fedb19bd/wierd+stuff.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Illustration of Saint Anthony of Egypt’s travels as a hermit, including a centaur with an ape’s torso and head; created by Vincent de Beauvais, 1463 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a3bbf9bf-eff6-43d5-bd88-77e9f184ea52/satyr.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Anthony meeting the satyr, a detail from a manuscript kept at the Skete of Saint Demetrius at the Vatopedi Monastery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/42331d27-3561-4100-8efb-a5b2674f0b0d/ergotism.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Temptation of Saint Anthony from the Isenheim Altarpiece by Matthias Grunewald, 1512-16; Unterlinden Museum. The man at the bottom left has symptoms of ergotism, commonly called Saint Anthony’s fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fe53d000-24d9-405e-9c29-0e101f4827ac/ezekiel+engraving.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Engraving by Sante Pagnini, 15th century, another interpretation of Ezekiel’s vision https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8116c41b-c681-470e-80f6-793111d14c13/Pope_Alexander_III.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 15th-century illustration of Pope Alexander III from the Nuremberg Chronicle, c.1493 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dd83f979-f03d-46d5-815e-775cd2a60851/demons+with+god+coming.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out God coming to the rescue from a c.1470 edition of the Golden Legend at the British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1cc01531-b98c-4c6f-8bd8-450437ef1504/St._Benedict_delivering_his_rule_to_the_monks_of_his_order.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Benedict hands his Rule binding all monks in his order to Saint Maurus, from a 12th-century manuscript at the British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7125b112-2d3c-4c25-8e9d-675b58317c5c/2fb43ee0-b4bb-4fea-9868-f265225b18c4.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The death of Clare painted by the Master of Heiligenkreuz, c. 1400/10; National Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/39329f3d-0e93-4cbc-b988-2c06d1b7f5ac/cup.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Anthony of Egypt tempted by a cup held by a claw-foot demon. The miniature is part of a 15th-century book of hours created by Lieven van Lathem. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c53612bc-004f-4889-aa71-ce6da20437ea/anchorite.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The enclosure of an anchoress by a bishop from an illumination from the Pontifical (MS 079), p.200, c. 1400-1410; The Parker Library, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1693750d-0ff0-4908-9357-dad5a7b6026a/frederick+ii.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Bust of Frederick II, king of the Kingdom of Jerusalem, Kingdom of Naples, and Germany, Holy Roman Emperor, c. 13th century; Museo Provinciale Campano, Capua https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/da7164bb-e25b-4a2f-ac74-cbbfaa9b1268/Pope_Celestine_IV.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A portrait of Pope Celestine IV from the 1911, The Lives and Times of the Popes by Chevalier Artaud de Montor https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d8de1551-3b23-4698-ae73-ca8499b3b101/Giotto_-_Legend_of_St_Francis_-_-19-_-_Stigmatization_of_St_Francis.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Giotto’s depiction of Francis receiving the stigmata with Brother Leo on the right. Painted before 1337 in the Basilica of Saint Francis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1e148156-25bd-4af1-aacd-a04073039710/dominicans.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Dominican Blesseds from an altarpiece made for the high altar of San Domenico, Fiesole, by Fra Angelico, c. 1423-24; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8985bdcd-7998-4dbd-8ded-0fa2c53fac10/Konrad_von_Marburg.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Conrad of Marburg from a 13th-century church window at Elisabeth Church, Marburg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/622f5165-f962-46e1-b5af-a8bc81b90ba4/928px-Arius.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Arius from a 16th-century book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/adb8c317-0733-4922-aa0d-084e6c146cb3/2623BFE3-3A4D-4840-86EF-6FF88CACCB58.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Clare (top right) stopping a wolf from attacking a girl, painted by Giovanni di Paolo, 1453/62. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a1ffb8d8-7104-4f10-ace6-07aee128ed02/Fr_Chapelle_Notre-Dame-de-Lhor_Saint_Anthony_the_Great_stained_glass_-_pig_detail.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Close-up of stained glass at Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Lhor, showing Saint Anthony of Egypt’s pig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9457d51c-5875-4ca8-8a55-a2d2e0e23e29/Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Cripples.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The Beggars by Pieter Bruegel the elder,1568; Louvre. The beggars in this painting may be victims of ergotism or Saint Anthony’s Fire. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/add2ce1b-9a8d-43c4-abcd-24331d2f46a8/Guibert_de_Gembloux.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Engraving of Guibert of Gembloux, an aristocrat, soldier, hermit and founder of a monastery at Gembloux https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/262e30f3-6695-4026-8c64-d2d7d7ac4e92/Pope_Innocent_III_%28Monastery_of_Subiaco%29.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Innocent III from a mid-13th-century fresco at the Monastery of Sacro Speco of Saint Benedict https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/612268b5-34a6-45e7-9b81-e4e038133c5d/vasari.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Giorgio Vasari’s 1570 martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona featuring Carino and his assistant Poro (aka Il Magnifico’) dressed as Roman centurions; Kunsthistorisches Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d56688c4-e542-4dbe-b52d-17eb74750e4e/sketch.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Anthony of Egypt asking the centaur for directions, illustrated by Palma Il Giovane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b958f84c-2bca-4754-9281-67abd4463c73/OttocarusPrimus.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary carving of King Premysl Otakar I from the Saint George Convent in Prague https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/08121294-1f39-4233-916a-995e8fed1ef3/bosch.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Hell painted by Hieronymus Bosch after 1490, Gallerie dell'Accademia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f1f590e0-cc64-404c-a092-a4435c3aeb00/2560px-Galileo_before_the_Holy_Office_-_Joseph-Nicolas_Robert-Fleury%2C_1847.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Galileo standing before the Inquisition in Rome, painted by Joseph-Nicolas Robert-Fleury in 1847; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/568fda3d-7467-4b2c-b561-1791a0dcc3fb/Galerius_Bust.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Classical porphyry bust of Emperor Galerius Valerius Maximianus by an unknown artist, Egyptian Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/836ec9a6-bd7c-4099-9712-b337bd9015d8/1600px-Saint_Francis_preaches_to_the_animals.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Francis preaching to animals, painted by an unknown artist, 1626 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5b39c37d-0885-4f9d-8e62-e010875f6ada/800px-Benozzo_Gozzoli_San_Francesco.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Innocent III’s dream (left), Francis and his brothers before Innocent III (right). painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1452; Museo di Montefalco. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d31c035f-2393-4810-ae3a-39d5ed80cd8b/Bartolomeo_della_Gatta_001.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out An unusual painting by Bernardo della Gatta showing Brother Leo aware of the seraph - and an owl on the left. Painted around the year 1487, Church of Sant'Angelo al Cassero. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/082ad504-b393-43fa-a097-b82ad5a985ae/padre+pio+young.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Photo of Padre Pio as a young man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6228249f-2fc1-4d77-86ba-6f9bc0c75dc9/bologna-university-hulton-archive.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Engraving of Bologna University from the Hulton Archive https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/54e8dad1-c317-4a63-a55c-67e95907defd/220px-PIERARTLOUVIERS0003.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Engraving of the exorcism of Madeleine Bavent in Louvier https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0e78f043-6205-4fef-bf53-39cbe470bb35/Sermon_on_Mani%27s_Teaching_of_Salvation._Cathayan_Manichaean_silk_painting%2C_13th-century.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 13th-century Chinese Manichaean silk painting depicting the sermon on Mani's Teaching of Salvation, artist unknown; Museum Yamato Bunkakan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/52764443-d5c8-418e-9cb8-fa1d72147171/arthur.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Text page from Lancelot, English, 2nd half of the 13th century: British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ac5819ca-fd06-4944-b020-97389e6a3f0b/hildegard+and+volmar.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 20th-century copy of an image of Hildegard and Volmar from the introduction of Scivias, reproduced in Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images by Sara Salvadori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/39693120-ce21-42ed-ae93-6d8af791541a/405E68C8-650E-4C77-914A-AE82FFE66943.JPG Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The incorrupt remains of the Blessed Thomas of Celano at the Church of Saint Francis in Tagliacozzo. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d24ceb64-e7bb-4456-aa1a-9e88c455e5ab/1024px-Kruis_san_damiano.gif Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The crucifix at San Damiano said to be the very one that spoke to Francis, created by an unknown Umbrain artist c. 1100; Basilica of Saint Clare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7ca1be1e-16d2-46a8-a37f-a338a7c2e229/temptation+3.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Louis Gallait’s Temptation of St. Anthony, 1849; Royal Collection Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f27464ee-87d7-4aa1-a2a4-c8f02e2b28c6/Cappella_Sassetti_Test_of_Fire.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The trial by fire painted by Domenico Ghirlandaio, 1482-85; Cappella Sassetti https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0f710c31-8315-4363-bd75-b34890097c78/theresa+transverberation.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Theresa experiencing transverberation, painted by Josefa de Óbidos, 1672; Igreja Matriz de Cascais https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c76dd7e6-3625-48ec-a07d-99565f13b7cf/Basilios_II.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Replica of of the Psalter of Basil II depicting Emperor Basil II aka The Bulgar Slayer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/504c52db-8d5e-4c57-aa1b-0cce57f5306d/NG_NG_NG1147-001.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A group of Poor Clares, painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, c. 1336-40; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a458bd1d-c105-4357-a9db-2f0361f5e9d1/main-image.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Engraving by Cornelis Cort after Girolamo Muziano, 1567; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/99e2044f-9708-47b4-9bc6-35cc25f6d996/a+and+p+2.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Jan Wellens De Cock’s painting of Saint Anthony of Egypt and Saint Paul the Hermit, c. 1520; National Museum in Warsaw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8336030b-fbec-4ac4-b93e-94fa0d694de5/Cappenberger_Barbarossakopf.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Gold bust of Frederick I, c. 1160, from the Capenberg Monastery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/099ee1ba-d38f-48be-b212-efdb245235c7/Screenshot+2022-03-31+at+16.01.02.png Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 8th-century fresco at Santa Maria Antiqua https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/410376be-fa6b-41d0-a922-e925160dbfd7/scivias+6.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 20th-century copy of an image of The End Times from Scivias, reproduced in Hildegard von Bingen: A Journey into the Images by Sara Salvadori https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8cee30cd-6651-4dbf-8c17-6367e267802b/07scenes_of_St_Francis_life_-Benozzo_Gozzoli.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis preaching - to humans and birds - painted by Benozzo Gozzoli, 1452; Museo di Montefalco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/79fbed79-3cfa-4f85-93f4-b45637a3abaa/Antoni_Viladomat_-_Saint_Francis_and_Saint_Clare_at_Supper_in_the_Convent_of_Saint_Damian_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A likely fictional scene of Clare and Francis and their followers having super at San Damiano, painted by Antoni Viladomat, 1723-33; Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ce09ea64-f9d7-4a54-a2b6-bdedb306659e/hildegard-von-bingen-litterae-ignotae.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out A Medieval copy of Hildegard of Bingen’s secret language, lingua ignota https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/12a427a5-c6fe-4f9b-8737-6c2c6e8d5375/giotto+naked.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Giotto’s fresco depicting Saint Francis renouncing his worldly goods, including his clothes; 1295, Basilica of Saint Francis of Assisi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ec2b18f3-bdd3-40bf-9891-38ec58b4c7bf/comic.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Francis meeting the young aristocrat, Chiara - and her transformation into Clare - in the 1997 Marvel comic book, Francis, Brother of the Universe: His Complete Life’s Story https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/52b43adf-17c3-45e6-ae13-e3283df467b9/alexander+alexandria.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Pope Alexander of Alexandria from a 1675 book, Chronologia Summorum Romanorum Pontificum, by Giovanni Giacomo de' Rossi; The British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/01a7dc57-6852-483e-a068-32c3268c146f/cathars.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 15th-century illustration showing the expulsion of the Cathars from Carcassonne during the Albigensian Crusade in southern France; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/70113ebf-ba62-4ecb-9d7d-47565322cc8f/ammon-1.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Amun or Ammon’s death with Saint Anthony at the right foreseeing Amun’s soul rise to Heaven. The miniature is from a book dating to 985 CE at the Vatican Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7e04dadd-6602-4635-bf26-a0a64b581d08/Konstancie_Uherska_Porta_Coeli.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Queen Constance of Bohemia on the portal of the 13th-century Cistercian Abbey of Porta Coeli in Moravia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c3fc2bec-ad00-4df8-a839-b6451b992bd2/Simone_Martini_047.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Clare of Assisi, detail from a fresco by Simone Martini, 1322-26; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2a5e5d1b-c3ef-4fe2-b414-0094c33bfeb0/louvier.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Contemporary illustration of the exorcism of Madeleine Bavent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8f7128e2-a074-473d-a29a-3a5e722c8de5/Simone_Martini_046.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Elizabeth of Hungary painted by Simone Martini,1322-26; Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6d482fc4-ada7-4a41-85cd-37f8690a99b0/Jesus_as_a_Manichaean_Prophet%2C_13th_century.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out 13th-century Chinese painting of Jesus Christ as a Manichaean prophet. The figure can be identified as a representation of Jesus Christ by the small gold cross that sits on the red lotus pedestal in His left hand. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6154310e-e380-47a7-a0af-0b1573659d90/dealer_handofglory_superhighres_1577967284988-3654179817.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Walnut Ouija table, c. 1870 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b469dd2f-e226-4a27-beb7-48a1e3a1df13/serapion.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Serapion of Antioch by Andrés López, 1786; Iglesia del Carmen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9d0881c8-42c8-4f5f-a6bf-c56b2e4e0830/peter+skull.jpg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out The skull of Saint Peter of Verona is kept at the Basilica of Saint Eustorgius in Milan, where it’s on view on the Sunday closest to his feast day, 29 April. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/87bae892-659f-4da2-b6df-88171d9f4343/centaur+and+monster.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out An illustration entitled, 'Egypt' from Secrets de l'histoire naturelle (c. 1480-1485), illustrated by Robinet Testard; Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4233a8dd-3993-4a6a-a575-5556fa423a35/god+saving+anthony.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out God coming to Saint Anthony of Egypt’s rescue, painted by Annibale Carracci, c. 1598-1600; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a6918558-a67e-451d-87de-d041c9b88381/SaintDominic.jpeg Season 2 Mystics - Make it stand out Saint Dominic painted by Claudio Coello, c. 1685; Museo del Prado https://www.saintpodcast.com/bonus-episodes daily 0.75 2024-08-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d76eabd7-5242-4ccd-816f-c20614bc0fb3/3-and-10-hearts.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Early 16th-century playing cards in the suit of hearts; Germanisches Nationalmuseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cba5fc90-05b9-46a7-bdbf-b82e675974b8/il_570xN.4149555777_n5es.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Heartstopper-inspired Valentine’s Day card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/43cb3247-90c1-4663-aec4-870e57f98c14/Fornarina.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of Raphael’s lover, ‘La Fornarina’, 1518-19; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Antica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/15efd83f-a002-4a59-8ec1-a32f6ec38dca/Fouquet_Madonna.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Right wing of the Melun Diptych, c. 1452, Jean Fouquet; Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/90a01b56-a414-474a-9eed-65dd424816d3/Christine_de_Pisan_-_cathedra.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Christine de Pizan (sitting) lecturing to a group of men standing, from a compendium of Pizan’s work published in 1413; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b191ed6b-177c-40d2-a3a8-58a6183a3fad/Michelangelo_Merisi_da_Caravaggio%2C_Saint_John_the_Baptist_%28Youth_with_a_Ram%29_%28c._1602%29.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Cecco as Saint John the Baptist, c. 1602, painted by Caravaggio; Musei Capitolini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/121a58b5-22ae-4cb4-bb06-8f3d12ee510b/san-valentine-en-iglesia-san-anton-madrid.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Valentine’s relics at the Church of San Antón in Madrid https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/de99f7ca-7ea1-4c1f-b0ed-b5bb2d865ef8/Screenshot+2023-02-24+at+09.20.12.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A copy of Fra Bartolomeo’s scandalous Saint Sebastian painting, c. 1514 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5c307df7-ec4c-44e0-b2f5-a35d1462e6cd/madonna-with-the-parrots-1533.jpg%21Large.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Madonna with the Parrots by Hans Baldung, 1533; Germanisches Nationalmuseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d66460fb-891b-4324-b80b-a51b24fb8d14/bosco+oratory.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Don Bosco and the boys at the Oratory, 19th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0fbea6e8-c5c5-4a4d-a25b-ffd76e7cab0e/main-image.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Late 19th century Valentine’s Day card; British, artist unknown; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2377b2d6-b0c9-4228-955a-cecedc039ff7/rap%5Bhael+lactans.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The Niccolini-Cowper Madonna by Raphael, 1508; National Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2dc18af9-fa15-44bc-8a81-45397c9be760/peter+and+agatha.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Pacecco de Rosa’s 17th-century painting of Saint Peter and Agatha https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e3c281bd-f429-4fb7-b3c5-f3cff0ed61f9/Sant%27Ambrogio_Cript_in_Basilica_of_Sant%27Ambrogio%2C_Milan.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The crypt in Sant'Ambrogio Basilica with the skeletons of Saints Gervais and Protais, as well as Saint Ambrose. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/85617239-61ef-45c1-8691-0751c3d6e75c/v+day+card.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A love token for Sarah Newlin from 1799; American Folk Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2c0ee608-626a-454b-9348-01dacd80e63e/1598px-Muenster_Braun-Hogenberg.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out View from the south-west of Münster in 1570 engraved by Remigius Hogenberg. On the left is the Überwasserkirche, in the centre is St. Paul's Cathedral and to its right St. Lamberti, and on the far right is the Ludgerikirche. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/64e78556-fa10-4875-b656-2952a7ab0b28/p03bd6bz.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Satan and his demons in Hell from a mural created by Coppo di Marcovaldo, c. 1260; Florence Baptistery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a5f6bbe7-e141-4cf3-9f6c-46d7e171a613/philipe+quentin.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 17th-century painting of a young Bernard by Philippe Quantin, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/12a8f37d-2199-442e-81c3-e06a2ae5bf3b/goldene+kammer.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The Goldene Kammer at the Basilica of Saint Ursula https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a5a06618-ddf1-4ed4-a679-8e3f0c712af1/Carl_Wilhelm_de_Hamilton_-_The_Parliament_of_Birds.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 16th-century painting inspired by Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls, painted by Carl Wilhelm de Hamilton https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ec2ce7f6-bedf-49ad-9607-cfa09a447185/1599px-Judith_Beheading_Holofernes-Caravaggio_%28c.1598-9%29+%281%29.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Fellide, a sex worker and possibly Caravaggio’s lover, painted as the Biblical hero Judith, c. 1598-99; Palazzo Barberini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/993f776e-782c-4963-ae76-1893f1357b97/milk+purgatory+2.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Painting by an unknown Marchian artist, 1498; Constantino Barbella Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a1e78375-31fb-4fd5-9def-cb630707c4e0/Edward_Burne-Jones_Cinderella.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Edward Burne-Jones’ Cinderella, 1863; Museum of Fine Arts Boston https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/af5e3320-c80c-43e3-af41-365729f09b92/Michelangelo_Merisi%2C_called_Caravaggio_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_in_the_Wilderness_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out John the Baptist painted by Caravaggio, c. 1604-05. It is thought the model for the saint is Cecco, one of Caravaggio’s lovers; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b48d663f-eb0d-48dd-b30c-b5ec2351ec35/anthony+and+paul.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Anthony of Egypt and Saint Paul the Hermit by Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo, c. 1515; Gallerie dell'Accademia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bdd7493f-0668-4f2d-9d74-836efd32fbb0/N01961_10.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out An angel rushing to Saint Agnes’ aid with a ‘white shining garment’ while languishing in a brothel. Painted by Frank Cadogan Cowper, 1905; Tate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/331a8831-003b-4430-bb10-79504d8d1d60/Vision_of_St._Benedict.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict’s mystical vision, painted by Giovanni del Biondo, 14th century; Art Gallery of Ontario https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1ec98632-88fc-46a5-a6bc-2a5fcae871f7/610px-Pedro_Machuca_-_The_Virgin_and_Souls_in_Purgatory_-_WGA13802.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out An image of Purgatory and the salvation of the Virgin Mary’s milk, painted by Pedro Machuca, 1517; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/25d806d5-e781-4f08-95f9-d3d91bcb3592/ursula+companion.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Reliquary bust of one of the companions of Saint Ursula, likely Belgian, c. 1520-30; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1d117be7-67c4-49c5-bd40-d666a15affce/mpb0b4.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 15th-century Madonna Lactans painting by Rogier van der Weyden; Museum Mayer van den Bergh https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c6984c91-7a57-4266-9e9e-fbceff1d265a/10+-+St.+Scholastica.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saints Benedict and Scholastica at their last meeting, painted by an unknown artist of the Umbrian School; Monastery of Saint Benedict https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/46474f09-b547-44d0-9e17-0fae04642376/peter+agatha.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Giovanni Lanfranco’s painting of Saint Peter and the angel tending to Agatha’s wounds, 17th century; Palazzo Corsini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3ea55660-222a-4ce5-a98f-d1d5e0628629/fulbert-of-chartres-70ebebae-b44b-49be-91e1-353012fd95a-resize-750.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 12th-century stained glass window of Fulbert of Chartres, Chartres Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2328c72d-1eb9-4847-8c7d-9f5d9fbcac01/compendium.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1590 edition of Menghi’s Compendium of the Exorcissal Arts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/60c466aa-ef0b-487e-9a18-c95c855ce236/1356px-San_Benito_destruyendo_los_i%CC%81dolos_%28Museo_del_Prado%29.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Juan Rizi’s depiction of Saint Benedict destroying a sculpture of Apollo, painted before 1662; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/af435d57-06a7-43ab-9605-f3b10775ea90/1000.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Valentine's greeting card from 1810; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5db6fe09-b370-4848-939a-c03e5e30e07a/1280px-E%CC%81glise_de_ste_hiltrude_liessies.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Liessies Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2de98c35-67ff-412a-b011-88c5a2417539/Quetzalco%CC%81atl_5.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Pre-Columbian depiction of Quetzalcoatl from the Codex Borgia; Vatican Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/77f283bd-e44f-437d-b197-bc9dc2c4afdf/anne_anderson_little_mermaid_foam.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Early 20th-century watercolour of a secular virgin martyr, the Little Mermaid, by Anne Anderson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e37f1e9b-0a66-4b83-a396-9d8be1580a44/belvedere.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Mid-2nd-century Apollo Belvedere by an unknown artist; Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/861e0792-1fd9-48b2-9155-764776e44d8c/St_Sebastian_3_Mantegna.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian by Andrea Mantegna, 1490, Ca' d'Oro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bd64bfdc-690a-4520-9bd6-5a6389c71aca/milk+in+the+eye.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Mary’s milk shooting like divine rays of light into Bernard’s eyes, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ee17cfbe-0e7a-4572-9bb8-50436dfafa63/demons.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Lucifer from Livre de la Vigne nostre Seigneur, c. 1450-1470; Bodleian Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/29be325c-70af-4efa-89a5-ea121908ec25/lactans.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The lactation of Saint Bernard painted by Josefa de Óbidos, c. 1670 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0abf04ec-f667-4ffe-a693-a51c144da0f9/Macip-santa_ines.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The martyrdom of Saint Agnes painted by Vicente Masip, c. 1540-45; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9cbfd866-f858-4db3-85c8-cf33d77a66ee/Gregorio_De_Ferrari_-_Death_of_St_Scholastica_c_1700_-_%28MeisterDrucke-839079%29.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The death of Saint Scholastica painted by Gregorio de Ferrari, c. 1700; Diocesan Museum Genoa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4caef0cb-ccf1-4b1c-9ad8-c7c830078bf4/Shakespeare.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of William Shakespeare by John Taylor, 1610; National Portrait Gallery, London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/414dce6a-d749-4c02-ab3f-e2ceed8b2230/m7.024r.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Sacred heart from a French book of hours, 1490-1500; Morgan Library and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3fadd284-0b4f-4ce2-85ce-2a296f4b12be/Claudius_Gothicus%2C_Worcester_Art_Museum.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Marble bust of Emperor Claudius II by an unknown artist, c. 268-270 CE; Worcester Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/05b73cb1-3cff-4bac-b729-dd9b3c69ed3f/Fe%CC%81lix_Castello%2C__Teodorico%2C_rey_godo_%2C_1635.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out King Theodoric the Great painted by Felix Castello, 1635; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f47304d6-144d-4118-95c5-66a0adb67c21/index-librorum-prohibitorum-1681.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1681 edition of the Index of Forbidden Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9dedc82d-e7f8-4f8b-8d62-3cca480ed6d1/Lorenzo_Monaco_-_Altarpiece_of_the_coronation_of_the_Virgin_Saint_Benedict_of_Nursie_resurrecting_-_%28MeisterDrucke-999806%29.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Benedict resurrecting a monk, from the Altarpiece of the Coronation of the Virgin by Piero di Giovanni dit Lorenzo Monaco,1413 Florence; Uffizi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f6a6fd24-0c89-4608-84d3-f28be5984d4a/thierry.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of William of Saint-Thierry by Ryckel, Joseph Geldolph van, 1581-1642 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d8620df9-7d50-4582-a125-5860546d2764/Cristofano_Allori%2C_Saint_Catherine_of_Siena.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out La Mazzafirra as Saint Catherine of Siena, c. 1625; Musée de Picardie https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/18132040-c774-4422-979c-4825e7703952/2560px-Storie_di_s._benedetto%2C_13_sodoma_-_Come_Benedetto_libera_uno_monaco_indemoniato_percuotendolo_01.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict performs an exorcism, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/49aad89b-ce2f-402f-861c-5b42bba8f3b5/statue.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary statue of Dominic with Don Bosco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c0b5b79f-ea1a-415c-a366-32d534cda0cb/Basil_of_Caesarea.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Bishop Basil of Caesarea, 11th-century mosaic at the Hagia Sofia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bd885997-03cd-4d27-84ff-bb0c4d7fcd8e/Come_benedetto_ai_prieghi_di_alcuni_eremiti_consente_di_essere_loro_capo.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict agrees to be abbot, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6c31345b-b7ed-444c-8b9a-81c0e5a06e95/Paston_valentines_day_love-hst_tl_1400_add_ms_43490.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out This is probably the oldest surviving Valentine's Day letter in the English language. It was written by Margery Brews to her fiancé John Paston in February 1477; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7874754e-4ed5-4fb8-b27b-147de80a5597/lucy+and+agnes.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saints Lucy and Agnes carrying their attributes (which likely originated as votives) on plates; artist unknown, Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/100ffdd7-3cea-4299-a3e4-f0b866571877/st-t-of-avilas-trans-heart.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1672 painting of Saint Teresa suffering from transverberation, created by Josefa de Óbidos; Igreja Paroquial de Nossa Senhora da Assunção https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5a9a9d8e-5542-4d48-868e-2c8c940d06ae/1280px-Magdalena_penitente%2C_por_Tiziano.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A penitent Mary Magdalene painted by Titian in 1533, an example of a depiction that would’ve come under criticism due to Bishop Paleotti’s De sacris et profanis imaginibus; The Uffizi Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bb623b45-ae85-47a2-bf4f-033fbbf21501/Jo%CC%88rg_Breu_d._A%CC%88._002.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Bernard and Cistercian monks at work, painted by Jörg Breu, c. 1500; https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2d64fe12-f41b-4283-971a-d4a3043d41a4/800px-Eros_Farnese_MAN_Napoli_6353.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Roman copy of a 4th-century BCE Greek sculpture of Eros; Naples Archaeological Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/124ef65e-c39e-46ae-a4b5-ad2c4e880f7c/Elisabeth_von_Scho%CC%88nau+engraving.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Engraving of Elisabeth of Schönau with her angel guide from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/494771b1-2898-4ad5-b041-ef03c8c97e34/court+of+love.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Frontispiece miniature showing the Court of Love with Charles D'Orléans kneeling at the lower right, from a collection of Charles D'Orléans' poems, c. 1483; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/07dfb371-f4ed-4ae6-9b53-884cc31c0992/Sodoma_-_Life_of_St_Benedict%2C_Scene_11_-_Benedict_Founds_Twelve_Monasteries_-_WGA21572.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict founds twelve monasteries, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2d6f6e84-0067-4bc4-99db-82e8fec4df7b/1024px-Folio_113v_-_Purgatory.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Printed image of a fiery purgatory from the Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c. 1412-16; Musée Condé https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/42965537-c1dd-4c7f-807a-8915b254d8c1/87bca47a7266008d4c5ce506ddb04769.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict tempted to sins of the flesh by the Devil, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/84812914-b055-41ce-83d5-0e4251daa62b/6e49c28a-a71f-4131-ba72-e244a43f575e.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian, 1617-19, one of many erotic works of art kept by 16th- and 17th-century kings of Spain in a private viewing room; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8f6064e0-8baf-4230-be56-d61b426b748b/Agne%CC%80s_Sorel_-_anonyme_XVIe.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 16th-century portrait by an unknown artist of Agnes Sorel, King Charles VII of France’s lover, and the model for the Jean Fouquet Madonna Lactans above https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5257c7cf-bbdc-4390-b3a8-352ad2268614/Cristofano_Allori-selfportrait.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Self portrait of Cristofano Allori, 1606; The Uffizi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bcb6abd3-1949-471d-8241-e945fb127931/Gregory_of_Nyssa.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 14th-century Greek icon of the bishop Saint Gregory of Nyssa by an unknown artist at the Chora Mosque https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0fbc37be-87a5-4c29-810c-6c6cf3795a6f/cherubim-ezekiel.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 16th-century fresco from Meteora Greece, showing a tetramorph cherub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d3e3f5ed-8ba7-4be2-ba49-438316a682bf/14monkey_witchl_witchcraft.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A page from A Treatise on Witchcraft (1793) by Ebenezer Sibly; The Clark Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/056db305-727b-401b-985c-a8e6632c625f/Cecilia_Raphael.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out La Fornarina as Saint Cecilia, painted by Raphael c. 1514; Pinacoteca Nazionale di Bologna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ca73c24d-bbe3-400e-99ae-4fd8c5f3f320/aec9fad6a115fd4dcb8eedd87469382c.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1950’s Vogue Valentine’s Day shoot with Marilyn Monroe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/41169083-516c-452e-aff4-585a123da41f/coffin+1.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Dominic’s resting place at the Basilica di Santa Maria Ausiliatrice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/261df90c-d914-4f79-a590-165b661e8827/N-1120-00-000025-wpu.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Jerome by Giovanni Battista Cima da Conegliano, c. 1459-60; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5a1aac87-4579-4d27-8a30-e8d098026ee8/antonio+palomino.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A young Saint Bernard painted by Antonio Palomino, c. late 17th - early 18th century; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d86abe74-46c2-4072-bf7c-f85b66280c40/Jean_Baptiste_de_Champaigne_%281631-1681%29_%28attributed_to%29_-_Saint_Benedict_and_Saint_Scholastica_and_Two_Companions_in_a_Landscape_-_290251_-_National_Trust.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Scholastica and her brother with companions; attributed to Jean Baptiste de Champaigne , painted between 1651-81; Calke Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f7a804fc-c4f9-48be-93cc-06fb76a8a086/Screenshot+2023-10-05+at+14.55.10+%282%29.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Romulus Augustus from an 18th-century(?) engraving; Getty Images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/72706f4f-f1ac-4a8c-b02b-154fa8895a43/764px-French_19th_Century_after_Jacopo_Sansovino%2C_Bacchus_and_a_Faun%2C_19th_century%2C_NGA_41710.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century French copy of Jacopo Sansovino’s 1515 Bacchus which was the model for Fra Bartolomeo’s Sebastian painting; National Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6aebb370-ec4d-406b-b9e9-5af32817fef3/Klosterkirche_Elchingen_10.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saints Benedict and Scholastica taking their refection together in 17th-century (?) fresco at Elchingen Abbey, artist unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6e012f4f-4629-4082-9d76-b41985ddda71/220px-San_Bernardo%2C_de_Juan_Correa_de_Vivar_%28Museo_del_Prado%29.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Bernard the Benedictine monk painted Juan Correa de Vivar, c. 1540-45; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bfd7e58b-8954-47e2-9107-d8cd8fe9caa7/Judith_with_the_Head_of_Holofernes_by_Cristofano_Allori.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Cristofano Allori’s fiery lover ‘La Mazzafirra” as Judith with the head of Holofernes, 1613; Royal Collection Trust https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a093dd32-7d2e-4758-9fe7-61ec166eb6e6/lippi.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Bernard from a larger work comprised of eighteen panels, painted by the workshop of Fra FIlippo Lippi, c.1447-1469. Note the demon on a leash. The Met. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/53e00009-f7bb-436b-a734-2153da7c8bbf/Coin_of_Odoacer_at_the_British_Museum_%28obverse%29.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Odoacer on a 477 coin; British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/14e33dcd-1379-4fb1-ad06-b482ee00b6bc/domenichino.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Agnes’ death painted by Domenichino, 1621; Pinacoteca Nazionale Bologna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/03ff8442-0f67-46cc-9ed7-1d52b80f8c95/Eros-Piccadilly-Circus-0138.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The archer-god of unrequited love, Anteros, atop the Shaftesbury Memorial Fountain, popularly but incorrectly called Eros; Alfred Gilbert, 1885–1893 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8b45c2d8-8de4-4ea3-829f-85973e5cefa0/zurbaran.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Benedict holding the poisoned wine, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán c. 1640-45, The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/47908de9-eee4-4b8c-9fce-1ac134d84de0/Milk-of-the-Virgin-Mary.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Medieval historiated capital showing the Virgin Mary healing a monk with her milk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/53658048-c9da-4aa3-8e27-340fc938853c/dialogues.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Dialogues by the saint and pope, Gregory the Great, c. 1320-1330 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ca0a917a-b86a-47f0-bd8f-a07f50b6e10e/Sodoma_-_Life_of_St_Benedict%2C_Scene_5_-_The_Devil_Destroys_the_Little_Bell_-_WGA21568.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The Devil interferes with Benedict and Romanus, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8eb5e49a-ac0a-4d43-8dd2-50117d2c3bb7/da+vinci+lactans.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Madonna Lactans by Leonardo da Vinci, 1490s; Hermitage Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/082403a0-6a6b-4256-a19a-979f60062025/Alessandro_Turchi_-_Saint_Agatha_Attended_by_Saint_Peter_and_an_Angel_in_Prison_-_Walters_37552.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Agatha attended by Saint Peter and the boy (an angel), painted by Alessandro Turchi, 1640-45; The Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5ac68570-9d20-43f0-96c4-5d28b9635f49/640px-Carracci-Purgatory.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Ludovico Carracci’s painting of Purgatory, c. 1610; Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b4bc14c1-bd6c-42c5-999f-2246104c19d9/1548846892208762-10.San-Benedetto-Vino-avvelenato.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict blessing the poisoned cup of wine, attributed to Niccolò di Pietro in the early 15th century; Uffizi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8bff9e34-72c0-47af-bb88-60b328eb4383/rila+monastery.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century fresco of demons spreading disease; Rila Monastery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/51726965-f02a-4f72-b884-4162c3a929ba/1551705367738095.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 16th-century Madonna Lactans by Joos van Cleeve https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7168a702-8ff4-4b2b-b780-99afcc0ca014/C_015__Preaching.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Bernard preaching the Crusade at Vezelay, a 19th-century painting by Émile Signol; Palace of Versailles https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/78307696-cb3b-4eab-ace5-9b18c799ec77/flagellum.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1697 edition of Menghi’s Flagellum Daemonum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/25570e0a-cb85-4a63-8d32-f2c03043ad89/Sodoma_-_Life_of_St_Benedict%2C_Scene_12_-_Benedict_Receives_Maurus_and_Placidus_-_WGA21573.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Benedict receiving the oblates Marus and Placidus, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/06d2bb3f-f588-41a5-9dff-d32f5cfc6191/Leonardo_da_Vinci_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_C2RMF_retouched.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint John the Baptist by Leonardo da Vinci, c. 1513-16; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1fa6a26c-5364-4012-b6b4-c5e013c120f1/agnes.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Agnes by the studio of Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1640-1660; Museo de Bellas Artes de Sevilla https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/47de201e-16ad-4c8c-b79d-6e3ee6ef3b73/with+christ.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Francisco Ribalta’s painting of Saint Bernard embraced by a sculpture of Christ from a crucifix come to life, c. 1625; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/51c4dd43-9f46-4168-a2a8-b8e81dfbdbff/demons1.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Late-15th-century illustration of demons, artist and source unknown https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5d4104bb-1e2f-41bf-bd3f-4de3be2c95e7/Sodoma_-_Life_of_St_Benedict%2C_Scene_1_-_Benedict_Leaves_His_Parent%27s_House_-_WGA21564.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Fresco by Il Sodoma showing Benedict leaving his parents’ house with his servant Cyrilla, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e5488de1-6e23-45b0-9634-0a4492586759/6b935ee9d7132d6fe824bbaf20c2cf9c--lady-madonna-san-bernardo.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedictine nuns from a Medieval manuscript https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3a186c11-3aa5-4eea-9782-c7bab5d3bd9b/Heilige_Hiltrude_S._Hiltrvdis_Virgo_%28titel_op_object%29%2C_RP-P-OB-6798.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Engraving of Saint Hiltrude of Liesse attributed to Theodore Galle, after Peter Paul Rubens, 1617 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/41112a7d-ec40-44f9-ac8b-19a31dfff470/virgin+martyrs+with+mary.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The Virgin and Child surrounded by virgin martyrs, painted by an unknown southern German artist, c. 1505-15; Art Institute Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b8be8097-27ca-400d-b296-739ea2a57634/064065-000.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Anthony of Egypt painted by Joan Desí, c. 1500-03; Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/748d8194-6548-4c26-898f-81d0dea0e456/Charles_VI_le_Fou.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 16th-centuyr portrayal of King Charles VI of France from Recueil des rois de France by Jean de Tillet; Bibliothèque Nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8acbe70b-a657-4f36-8466-7e53d331296a/RAFAEL_-_Madonna_Sixtina_%28Gema%CC%88ldegalerie_Alter_Meister%2C_Dresden%2C_1513-14._O%CC%81leo_sobre_lienzo%2C_265_x_196_cm%29.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out La Fornarina as the Madonna in ‘the Sistine Madonna’ by Raphael, c. 1513-14; Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dad692b3-f738-42a0-b08b-679a0eb07163/Ecstasy_of_Saint_Teresa_September_2015-2a.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Bernini’s Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, c. 1645-52; Santa Maria della Vittoria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/417aa224-87e3-471b-a3b0-3b1c56f424fa/Gianlorenzo_bernini%2C_san_sebastiano%2C_1616-17_%28museo_thyssen-bornemisza%29_01.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Bernini’s Saint Sebastian from 1617 influenced by Classical sculptures of Apollo; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ec8e01f0-1eeb-4f95-971f-6e52d0b86e5a/mandrake.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Robert Bateman’s painting of witches safely pulling mandrake using string, 1870; Wellcome Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4c700e7a-b491-419d-8768-bc2de877383f/Screenshot+2023-09-26+at+07.24.32.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Benedict by Sano di Pietro, c. 1470; Birmingham Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db6c0aa1-5eb9-4ad8-94d5-8c63db50b215/2880px-Sant_Apollinare_Nuovo_North_Wall_Panorama_01.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Panorama of the 7th-century North nave wall mosaics at Sant Apollinare Nuovo. The 22 virgin martyrs are at the bottom. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d9ed06a3-8653-4610-964c-16fa16661742/Matthias_Stom_-_St_Gregory_-_WGA21806.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Pope Gregory the Great painted by Matthias Storm in the 17th century; Kunstmuseum Basel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2c931d03-acba-4fe7-af4f-4cadabe60411/heart+book.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 15th-century chansonnier cordiforme (heart-shaped book) belonging to Jean de Montchenu; Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bcd56ed8-73a8-434d-b8a5-88d29e7aae73/Sodoma_-_Life_of_St_Benedict%2C_Scene_6_-_A_Priest_Shares_His_Easter_Meal_with_Benedict_-_WGA21569.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict shares an Easter meal with a visitign priest, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d399adcb-391f-49ad-b945-50eccd9087d2/rapunzel.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Early 20th-century watercolour of the fairytale virgin, Rapunzel, by Florence Harrison https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fd7e5bf7-b068-47c3-ac1e-62d9f7e3a4fd/circe.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out John William Waterhouse’s Circe Offering the Cup to Odysseus, 1891; Gallery Oldham https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e62f8a58-c72f-49d6-b493-b0d08d6664c1/Mosaic_of_Justinianus_I_-_Basilica_San_Vitale_%28Ravenna%29.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Mosaic c. 547 of Emperor Justinian I from the Basilica of San Vitale, Ravenna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cb48fe51-f29f-4e65-a1b6-cc8fcf157ad4/saint_medard_of_noyon.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Medardus in an 18th-century (?) engraving https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8f6567cd-88e1-47c8-aa05-69304a5fb187/Reproduction_of_Mural_from_Structure_I%2C_Calakmul.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Reproduction of a prehispanic mural depicting a ceremony of maize brew with cacao; Calakmul Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/54772ba9-9092-431c-801c-de53f42a66c6/van+eyck+ghent.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Jan and Hubert van Eyck’s Adoration of the Mystic Lamb (the Agnus Dei), also known as the Ghent Altarpiece of 1432; Saint Bavo Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5e7bc010-dfa3-46f8-b229-bf2fbe3ee1b2/Come_romano_monaco_da_lo_abito_eremitico_a_benedetto.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A monk gives Benedict a habit, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2f5b6f01-6619-499c-91fe-ed976a0b32b3/AKG31376.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Venus und der Verliebte by Meister Casper , 1485: amn allegorical depiction of the power women have over men’s hearts: Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b0501acf-0e61-4f9b-94aa-947f8e846c7f/foot.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A hand and foot from Saint Agatha, Duomo di Catania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5db57fe4-77c1-4c8b-9aab-d46ebbcdc02b/Jean_Baptiste_de_Champaigne_%281631-1681%29_%28attributed_to%29_-_Saint_Benedict_and_Saint_Scholastica_and_Two_Companions_in_a_Landscape_-_290251_-_National_Trust.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out An imagined meeting between Benedict and Scholastica attributed to Jean Baptiste de Champaigne, c. 1651-81; Calke Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bb74e50c-13ba-4d42-9cbc-30f801a33cc6/12d925b9d28518c816e0957a3318736c.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1970’s Hallmark Valentine’s Day card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4a062858-6081-4bd2-9096-b9db0bad9422/risen-christ-1.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A muscular and youthful Christ by Michelangelo, modelled after Classical sculptures of Apollo, 1519-21; Santa Maria sopra Minerva https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dd28d9af-2ba8-4841-b6b4-b07636aa71d0/demons_album_alb3401798.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out An illumination of Apuleius observing demons, featured in a 15th-century edition of Saint Augustine’s City of God https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c6297b15-fca2-468e-b361-94594ca9557e/873-f1v-2.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 14th-century edition of Dialogues https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e004f095-e60d-482c-8a94-1b15195e560a/220517.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Fra Angelico’s painting of desert fathers, c. 1417-23; Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8b41a73a-f9d1-4f12-a9c2-373986ae287a/hans.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Hans Baldung Grien’s Eve (right) and Venus (left), both painted c. 1525. Eve is at the Museum of Fine Arts in Budapest. Venus is at the Kröller-Müller Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/23bb6260-c7c4-4359-9b6a-6db3c1e19dd7/mount+capuccino+turin.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century postcard of Turin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/03a0dd5e-87ee-4a61-99d4-8c1f2aadb99a/Claudius_crop.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Bust of Emperor Calaudius I by an unknown artist, c. 41-54 CE; National Archaeological Museum, Naples https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d32cd941-09d2-47d8-8178-7a5689d8bd9d/markayte.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Alban's Psalter with a woman thought to be Christina of Markyate, created between 1120 and 1145; Hildesheim Cathedral Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/259cc8c4-b9f8-4ad0-b5d4-bddbfcc24a65/41_00039179_joerg-breu_death-of-saint-bernard-of-clairvaux-.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Jörg Breu’s death of Saint Bernard, 1500; Zwettl Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7171d806-3c4d-4cdd-b75d-188cdb7d40bb/Francisco_de_Zurbara%CC%81n_031.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Agatha painted by Francisco de Zurbarán, c. 1630–1633; Musée Fabre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/11fbb67b-0eb5-4615-ae89-072c02f87864/agnus+dei+1.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Agnus dei, the lamb of god, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán 1635-40; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7c09ebe8-50e7-4bb6-bd8c-67cf5907b7e9/GettyImages-524921126-scaled-e1671734934230.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century cherubs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/76136710-d6bf-4ec9-81c3-70229c9b708d/Camasei-lupercales-prado.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The Roman feast of Lupercalia imagined by Andrea Camassei, 1635; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9cec97cd-0278-4653-a10f-116067e0b307/Kaiser-Lothar-Sarkophag.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Sarcophagus of Lothair III, his wife Richenza, and their son-in-law Henry in the monastery church (Kaiserdom) in Königslutter https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d783f4b8-00c2-426c-989f-12632e73f3c7/salesians+us.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century photo of Salesians in the USA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6c0b41e9-05ac-433c-a537-d2eb8b345ef4/9780a5cf-ad21-49af-8413-b6cb2f6717d5.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict’s vision of Scholastica’s death, a fresco at the San Benedetto Monastery in Subiaco https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cc540cb4-b2a7-4595-a685-4d08d2c7a67b/9789004391352_webready_content_m00052.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of a 67-year-old Benedictine nun by an unknown artist, 1656 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f32caefe-be79-41c3-9b8b-c104b7da702a/Masolino%2C_madonna_dell%27umilta%CC%80_monaco.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Masolino da Panicale’s Madonna Lactans, c. 1435; Alte Pinakothek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/24760955-64a0-4df1-8ac4-98ca8df0a78b/T09261_10.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out John Warwick Smith’s 19th-century painting of Monte Cassino, Tate Britain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/593c2ad2-28eb-49d6-b039-1fa7737b2bc5/dominic+with+bosco.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Dominic with Don Bosco from a contemporary devotional image https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4b1a6233-9afb-46a5-a0de-5fb763155b08/Jean_II_Restout_-_The_Death_of_St_Scholastica_-_WGA19319.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The death of Saint Scholastica by Jean Restout, 1730; Musée des Beaux-Arts de Tours https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7788ed82-a089-4046-9a77-d6a079c4d3c0/Kleinmariazell_-_Altar_Scholastica_2.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Johann Baptist Wenzel Bergl’s painting of Saint Scholastica’s death, 1765. Note the dove flying to Heaven. Basilica of Kleinmariazell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5250734d-4a4e-4795-bc48-fbc20a500543/butler.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1928 edition of Butler’s work that linked Saint Valentine’s feast day with pagan customs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0ca75faf-8233-4761-975d-69b96c92ceb1/55581104237d1679820e4ffbf919dad5--special-delivery-valentine-day-cards.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Valentine’s Day card from the 1920s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/85f29029-760c-4650-a507-8f04992b14b7/cupid-valentine-series-no-1-1909-antique-postcard-2-800x505-1.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1909 Valentine’s Day card with a cherub https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fa7edf19-9369-49c5-ba5c-03d7ce52a2cd/Armand_Bouthillier_Rance.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Late 17th-century portrait of Armand Jean Le Bouthillier de Rancé founder of the Trappists by Hyacinthe Rigaud; La Trappe Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cdf12bf6-64a1-461e-ac55-f4d05312bf73/cupid.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 2nd-century CE Roman sculpture of Cupid; British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9f5dda14-0b4a-46c8-ba78-62b829437efd/Screenshot+2022-04-20+at+07.59.24.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Detail of a 15th-century tapestry depicting the heraldic banners of Crusaders embarking for the Holy Land https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a99d13d7-6618-4c98-8ba4-7912e4660192/Santa_Giustina_%28Padua%29_-_St._Maurus_the_Abbot_by_Valentin_Le_Fe%CC%80vre.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Maurus painted by Valentin Lefebre, 1673; Abbey of Saint Giustina https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/47549179-f62d-4cf3-81dd-96964c1aa745/b44fcc4b-a6bf-47d2-9652-50bf0905f8bf.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The death of Saint Benedict from a late 14th-century choirbook; National Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/88ae1e6e-e69e-4d32-8c89-47b8f88d9708/Caravaggio_-_Cupid_as_Victor_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Cecco painted as the angel-like Cupid, Caravaggio, 1601; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/47f61c17-ec66-46d8-97e6-72935e0e0b50/Young_Sick_Bacchus-Caravaggio_%281593%29.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Self-portrait of caravaggio as a sickly Bacchus, c. 1593; Galleria Borghese https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ffc6f429-5251-445c-9e04-b805210fdb2e/hair+shirt.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary hair shirt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/02bc7f88-dd3c-4397-8885-a93faf910970/Kloster_arnsburg_zisterzienser_klosterkirche_aufriss_langhaus_dehio_1888.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1888 architectural drawing of the rational principles of Cistercian architecture, Bildarchiv Foto Marburg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8011a99f-0f67-4f10-8079-9aadaa024bb0/emmerich.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A portrait of Anne Catherine Emmerich by Gabriel von Max, 1885; Neue Pinakothek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7b1d7be8-c973-400f-a27f-d2bd9b165b46/671_06_2.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Ceramic tiles showing La Chocolatada (a chocolate house) in Barcelona, 1710; Museu de Ceràmica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b43327f8-fc39-410e-b3e5-63db915a8f92/1024px-Ritratto_del_cardinale_Gabriele_Paleotti%2C_Pinacoteca_Domenico_Inzaghi.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 17th-century portrait of Gabriele Paleotti by an unknown artist; Domenico Inzaghi Civic Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fa7710dd-1469-4896-9004-2681beb65448/Bridge_Over_the_River_Itchen%2C_Winchester_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1314014.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Swithun’s Bridge in Winchester, UK https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e781e517-67d9-445b-aa1a-ce9e3a7646d1/Screenshot+from+2013-10-24+14_57_24.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Medieval illumination depicting Elisabeth of Schönau in a visionary trance https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/72990c7a-b33b-4bf3-a948-8eb1745e176b/marguerite.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 15th- or 16th-century French copy of Marguerite Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Souls; Musée Condé https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/27318266-c371-4a65-b29e-51265cb489fb/milk+woodcut.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Engraving of the miraculous lactation by Master I. A. M. of Zwolle, c. 1480-85 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a9cca1f8-f4c7-4f71-8851-cd2b27446bf2/relics+agatha.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A reliquary holding one of Saint Agatha’s breasts, Duomo di Catania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/aa0fad55-829b-492f-9542-72fb70934b7a/heart-shaped-chocolate-box.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The first Valentine’s Day chocolate box; made by Cadbury in 1868 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6807a974-9133-4f01-960b-ff64e29fac67/bernard+milk.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Bernard and the mystical milk painted Juan Correa de Vivar, c. 1540-45; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/879a6265-fe0d-43c5-b0ca-7899645c9f2f/el+greco.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Bernard painted by El Greco, c. 1577-79; The Hermitage Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/99b0c211-095e-4fef-9c65-a8dd182cf382/Schoenau_kirche_004.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 16th-century altar dedicated to Elisabeth of Schönau at Schönau Abbey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c3ee3852-f09d-4353-9f92-4df007dc2665/1940s-vintage-superman-valentine-sold-for-17-1-719x1024.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1940s Superman Valentine’s Day card https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c3954d58-932f-4583-8a9a-ff2b48bb6169/Screenshot+2023-10-05+at+16.04.52.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 12th-century mosaic of Saint Pachomius at the Duomo in Monreale, Sicily https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b71bed9c-4125-4862-9e59-3566f1c6dbf4/witch.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Witches with wax dolls and the devil, The History of Witches and Wizards (1720); Wellcome Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6300afd7-e75b-4429-a3c3-94fa4ec78c63/960px-Valerianus_Ny_Carlsberg_Glyptotek_IN3387.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Bust of Emperor Valerian by an unknowns artist, c. 253-260 CE; Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a27df33d-a1ba-45f7-8976-e635363c9ed9/valentine+card.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The earliest surviving printed Valentine’s Day card, sent by Catherine Mossday to John Fairburn in 1797; York Castle Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f8f00009-6e38-411c-9138-9057e22dcdea/bosco+photo.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century photo of Don Bosco at the Oratory with students https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cefc5eaa-f59c-41bc-a6dd-149d1597d304/paolo-guidotti-the-martyrdom-of-saint-agnes.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Paolo Guidotti’s martyrdom of Saint Agnes, late 16th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/313f4d87-3df7-43a4-9bdf-0a3f5b326180/salesian.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary devotional image of Dominic Savio (front holding book) and other young saints with the Virgin Mary above them. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/052a5158-7180-440b-947f-537c00d5f7d5/John_the_Baptist_-_Salai.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Self portrait by Salai, c. 1510-20; Pinacoteca Ambrosiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b96f304f-bb7c-417b-b0b7-f2038d1664b4/Screenshot+2023-03-12+at+10.10.11.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c3ba6efe-fc78-48c2-b2ad-0738720b1d3d/Nuremberg_chronicles_-_colonia.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Woodcut of Cologne from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/51aeb7b8-0a19-4d3d-a6f4-3c82fd7d00f6/lactans.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Madonna Lactans by Lippo Memmi, 1340s; Staatliche Museen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e47c4543-1e51-44e0-bd60-33f9ef926ddf/prayer+card.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary prayer card of Dominic Savio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c34a3e96-507b-43ec-b254-9ebe57715cb9/Sodoma_-_Life_of_St_Benedict%2C_Scene_3_-_Benedict_Repairs_a_Broken_Colander_through_Prayer_-_WGA21565.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Benedict repairing the sieve or colander, painted by Il Sodoma, c. 1505-08; Abbey of Monte Oliveto Maggiore https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d4126946-31bd-4ea6-92e4-df6aacc2c522/the-damned-in-hell-from-the-verdun-altar_u-l-q1kxfik0.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The damned enter the Inferno in an altarpiece by Nicholas of Verdun, late 12th century: Cathedral of Tournai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/52e18234-cbb5-4e32-9c84-8aaadf162888/KarlVII.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of King Charles VII of France by Jean Fouquet, 1444; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fb50f763-658b-4832-93af-c27d0c557c3e/Chocolate-house-london-c1708.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century lithograph of White’s Chocolate House in London as it appeared in the early 1700s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2dd05c16-51fb-4bc3-b4e2-cc2b5b9b57bf/Rubens%2C_Maria%CC%88_Himmelfahrt_%28Antwerpen%29.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The Assumption of Mary - taken into Heaven body and soul - painted by Peter Paul Rubens, 1626; Onze-Lieve-Vrouwekathedraal https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/300397a0-9696-4bf0-a420-d58b746809d7/immaculate.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The Immaculate Conception of the Virgin MAry painted by Francisco Rizi, 17th century; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/82643b9c-59a5-4907-a9f1-a80f70411427/prayer+card.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary Saint Valentine prayer card showing a handsome 20-something https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e50bf87c-fd88-4134-bd23-bc297bc2288d/Valentin_Metzinger_-_Sv._Valentin.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Valentine painted by Valentin Metzinger in the 18th century at the Franciscan Church of the Annunciation in Lubjubljana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f045265e-75af-4ae7-acc3-aca3beb6ea86/agnus+2.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 14th-century agnus dei plaque from Catalonia; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d456b2f0-760c-4d36-b85c-1b43ad1065b3/1280px-John_Everett_Millais_-_Ophelia_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Ophelia painted by John Everett Millais, c. 1851; Tate Britain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0cc2a9e4-3fe5-44d1-ab34-092ce3d047e9/Figurengruppe_Schloss_Stainz_Hl_Gelasius.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Baroque-era sculpture of Pope Gelasisus on the grounds of Scholss Stainz https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/161cdfba-3f00-41f7-9581-e3fb2ce340c7/valentines-skull.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Valentine’s skull at Basilica di Santa Maria in Rome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dcce0645-b156-4b78-9635-83dd5e57c777/agatha+relic.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Head relic of Saint Agatha, Duomo di Catania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/82b84ade-5e5b-425d-ba1a-ffbe4275a991/milk+2.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The mystical milk painted by Alonso Cano, c. 1645-52; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4095b0c7-ef2f-4151-a28a-cba35cd0630c/John_Cassian.jpeg.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary icon of Saint John Cassian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1ba2fc8f-1c14-4248-8ff3-82e52983c476/pope+pious.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century photograph of Pope Pius IX https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/673b3813-f478-46e9-a33c-577fba223e6c/familiar.png Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Woodcut of a witch and familiars; Museum of Cambridge https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e0291d39-ee29-4396-991b-532bf2d3e8f4/50s+angels.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1950s Valentine’s Day angel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a2e8e793-7ae6-4306-9411-c8fb8f9bc7a3/velasquez+baptist.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out John the Baptist as a Bacchus-like figure by Diego Velazquez, c. 1622; Art Institute of Chicago https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b29d2ddc-cdbb-449b-acee-1d58a5668668/sabbath.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Francisco de Goya’s painting of a witches’ sabbath, 1821-23; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5f4e7a3d-ffd4-4697-b147-5053152b2b0c/Maya_Hieroglyphs_Fig_05.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1915 drawing by Sylvanus Morley of a hieroglyph depicting the Mayan deity Ek Chuah https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/39c5765e-628e-416b-be3d-2fae64971a08/arms+feet.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Agatha’s arms and legs, Duomo di Catania https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7c6a8dc7-4ac5-4aef-b2cf-0bf944e52da0/Charles_Ier_d%27Orle%CC%81ans.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Charles, Duke of Orléans - the writer of the first Valentine - from a 1473 copy of Statutes, Ordonnances and armorial of the Order of the Golden Fleece; National Library of the Netherlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/97f5dd51-212f-46cf-8e67-a82ca6682bf6/jean+fouquet.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Jean Fouquet’s Madonna Lactans, c.1452-58; Royal Museum of Fine Arts in Antwerp https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4d38629c-ab7f-49fa-a44b-329c84fd32dc/Michelangelo_Merisi%2C_called_Caravaggio_-_Saint_John_the_Baptist_in_the_Wilderness_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out An older Cecco as John the Baptist, painted by Caravaggio c. 1604-05; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9351417e-282f-4b26-863d-12a4e05fe863/lactation.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Jan van Eeckele’s 16th-century lactation painting; Musée des Beaux-Arts Tournai https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/89197ade-5a92-4b3e-b585-3310d4055d0a/christ+2.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 17th-century painting by a Castilian artist showing Christ from a crucifix coming to life to embrace Bernard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/97c65443-cae0-4e39-a3b8-e829357de171/Raffaels_Angels.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Raphael’s angels from the Sistine Madonna painting, c. 1513-14; Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/891f5ef0-a1cc-475e-ad4f-efa23e4e20bb/132_01_2.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A woman preparing xocolatl from the 16th-century Codex Tudela; Museo de América https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ad3c9889-f8aa-4063-86f8-c90e9b9ee65d/27529233684_647c26e1b0_k.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Scholastica and her brother at their last meeting, painted by an unknown Umbrian Master, 15th century, Upper Church of Sacro Speco Monastery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5d1fa878-240a-4c27-ae90-ceb6d478ef6a/milk+old.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Flemish lactation painting by an unknown artist, c. 1480; Grand Curtius https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/51b10842-ed81-41e3-b62b-1c14e9c3dc97/Caravaggio_-_Saint_Catherine_of_Alexandria_%28post-restoration_image%29.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Fellide as Saint Catherine of Alexandria by Caravaggio, c. 1598; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7878e3e9-3be1-495a-b19b-7eef743e3868/Bernard_Aleidis_Tescelin.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Stained glass window, originally from Cistercian abbey Mariawald, showing Saint Bernard with his parents Aleth and Tescelin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d2d4d130-9787-460a-9fab-7cad8ffffe53/Francis_Douce.jpg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1803 engraving by James Barry of Frances Douce who incorrectly linked St Valentine’s Day with Lupercalia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1f5cc6c7-d914-4b4f-9131-8b4e352208a4/raphael.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Self-portrait of Raphael, c. 1506; Uffizi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/14247e80-78c8-40e7-a4a8-7f50aa72d4b9/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Mary_Magdalene_in_Ecstasy.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A Venus-like Mary Magdalene in divine ecstasy, painted by Artemisia Gentileschi, c. 1611-20; National Gallery London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/28c68263-eddf-4972-85ec-009cf242e1f1/The-Parliament-of-Fowls-harley_ms_7333_f129v.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out A page from a c. 1425-75 edition of Geoffrey Chaucer’s Parliament of Fowls; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1631e07a-ba31-4edd-bc73-d206bec44453/milk+purgatory.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Pedro Machuca’s painting showing the Virgin Mary expressing her milk to comfort souls burning in Purgatory, 1517; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c20d4f10-332d-4879-9c45-8f12b1951b84/Marquis_de_sade.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of a 20-year-old Marquis de Sade by Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, 1760 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/99729524-2a79-46b5-9b71-570aac2fc838/dc448fa726f6374cf22f707e3ddce4ed.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 15th-century painting of the Virgin and Child surrounded by virgin martyrs, painted by an unknown artist from Bruges; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cb079eab-0d27-4f81-bb7e-29ebfbd20da4/terni.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out The body of Saint Valentine at the Basilique Saint Valentin in Terni https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d1680fac-ebce-4994-a2da-24d170459e14/daemonum.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out 1608 edition of Fustis daemonum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cbc72bed-afa5-4e76-9149-4f754d31fa67/peruvian+bernard+milk.jpeg Bonus Episodes - Make it stand out Lactation of Saint Pedro Nolasco painted by an unknown Peruvian artist, 17th century https://www.saintpodcast.com/special-episodes daily 0.75 2023-12-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2b2d9bc9-68c7-4dfb-a056-73b5bb4b38ee/machuca.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Virgin Mary’s milk providing comfort and salvation to souls in Purgatory Pedro Machuca, 1517; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/83d72e3d-cecd-4150-b5b0-7fe79520cbf1/1024px-La_Nourriture_de_Jupiter_-_Poussin_-_DulwichPG.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out An infant Zeus suckling at Amalthea, Nicolas Poussin, 1636-1637; Dulwich Picture Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1a2eb186-a82c-4ed6-8f21-7d8ed638b991/main-image.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A scene from Gerusalemme Liberata, showing Crusaders arriving in Jerusalem; designed by Domenico Paradisi, c. 1689-93, The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9a9e61fa-39df-4b8a-ad4c-5a7269931281/cruise.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Tom Cruise as Saint Sebastian from the Sep/Oct 2005 issue of Radar magazine, cover design by George Lois https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/636e9337-544f-4ddd-bbf7-1f43a081d69e/garden.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Late 16th-century valance depicting the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve’s expulsion; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c05fdf75-4a95-42dc-bb2d-9596fcda7a1d/The_Triumph_of_Death_by_Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Triumph of Death by Pieter Bruegel the Elder, 1562, shows the ravages of the Black Death; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dae562bf-ccfd-45cd-a864-de980b55c10a/Copertina-Grotta-Latte.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Milk Grotto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a98648d5-1669-461b-a1d1-bc1b14a6e2f1/suddenly+last+summer.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Sebastian from Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s 1959 adaptation of the Tennessee Williams book Suddenly Last Summer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9faffda2-70b8-4264-a602-110a64a41d10/FC4sZfAXEAMfolk.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century Christmas postcard alluding to pre-Christian Midwinter, Winter Solstice celebrations https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/794e5823-7c18-4315-9f19-bf4a57019cbc/8CA2F726-612D-493D-82F3-23FB9E96AB64.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Vita-retable showing eight stories from the poverello’s life, painted by a Tuscan artist known as the Master of Cross 434, c. 1250-60. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/356bcd44-4222-4df4-9617-9c9cb5ac973b/izs75b05ihsz.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Infographic of Mario stigmata https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a2044c79-2491-44aa-8ae2-ea6edd4c857d/Caravaggio_-_Sette_opere_di_Misericordia.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Caravaggio’s Seven Works of Mercy, c. 1606-07; Pio Monte della Misericordia. Note Charity on the right depicted as a woman breastfeeding her father. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4f2562ff-8ba6-44a0-9524-36ccb761d15a/3B7B059B-0358-4895-AA60-1DE485F2AE96.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Atalanta Fugens by Michael Maier, 1618. Photographed at the Wellcome Collection exhibition Milk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8ecf8780-74d4-46db-9266-958474a1eca8/C99252A3-9F89-43AF-9458-895B5DC5B20B.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out The entrance to the National Gallery in London’s Saint Francis of Assisi Exhibition https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/529c6517-11bf-4337-8a6f-4a5af25b637e/Oscar_Wilde_3g07095u-adjust.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Photograph of Oscar Wilde by Napoleon Sarony, c. 1882 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3c28220e-f2b8-4c65-aac8-99ad6f44fbf2/holy+wounds+1.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Illustration of the five Holy Wounds against a crucifix and the crown of thorns, Bodleian Library. Note the blood from the side-wound flowing into a chalice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7ef606ee-8f14-46f2-ab65-1d55119f76bc/Pilgrims_from_Canterbury.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Pilgrims from Canterbury from a 1455-62 copy of Lydgate’s Siege of Thebes from the British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/967c7d3b-7e25-4fc8-a666-14ec09c11387/Urbain_Grandier.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out An engraving of Urbain Grandier from the Mary Evans Picture Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6865425b-184f-4a10-9726-102e0732ce63/jarman_queer_hero-1920x720-1.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Close-up of Queer by Derek Jarman, 1992; Manchester Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9b7503e7-b562-4748-8100-289a3c65573d/Anna_Katharina_Emmerick_Saint_Visionary.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary devotional card of the Blessed Anne Catherine Emmerich showing stigmata on her hands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c3411abb-4b65-4c37-b1d4-4ab45bb0cc54/A726C15A-CB19-4B03-B31D-4CC7E23EE8B2.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Francis in divine ecstasy, painted by Caravaggio, c. 1595. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6f5d4304-5e92-4c12-bb46-e787c37966ab/Screenshot+2022-10-26+at+09.30.30.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Ms Opapo from Samoa with a bleeding side-wound stigmata, from a 2016 BBC and TV Samoa segment https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7a75db6d-2cfc-4ba7-a4e3-b610b84dc4d3/tv+special.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A still from Das Martyrium des heiligen Sebastian, a German-language TV movie from 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f3e859e2-4490-4b18-852a-d1465cc92c00/ClementedeTorres.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The mystical marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena, painted by Clemente de Torres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/05638e00-ebf6-4b82-a95d-54fe77357a33/Screenshot+2022-07-08+at+09.23.56.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Miniature Stories of the Saints by the Reverend Daniel A. Lord https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bd33a2b9-c511-455c-9706-d502b785db93/Raffael_040_%28crop%29.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Pope Leo X painted by Raphael in 1518; Le Gallerie degli Uffizi https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6e25acbd-db58-40a4-9f37-30e3e6ef9348/vagina+3.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Angels holding Christ’s side-wound on a shroud, from a 14th century Cistercian Book of Hours https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/47aec5c3-a207-4c7d-939d-f25a764c9214/catalunya.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Michael the Archangel with his scales, painted by Juan de la Abadía, 1480-95; Museu Nacional d’Art de Catalunya https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9d6215c6-f580-41cd-a0ac-47963a36c087/fra+bartolomeo.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Fra Bartolomeo’s controversial Saint Sebastian Painting, 1514 - now lost https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ddcc2b0c-6dd4-4819-a025-835a763dd8ba/hirst.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian, Exquisite Pain, Damien Hirst, 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/79848b16-ff5b-4df5-be05-46189710efc6/hiv+poster.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Charles Michael Helmken’s 1989 AIDS poster with Tanzio da Varallo’s Sebastian painting from 1620/30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/19cb6393-4130-4dbb-a36c-4dffa8645f43/Pr_Charcot_DSC09405.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Une leçon clinique à la Salpêtrière featuring Charcot and a ‘hysterical’ woman, painted by André Brouillet, 1887; Fonds national d'art contemporain https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c7c51b37-15c0-4c9a-ba6a-db3a263020bd/IMG_9038.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Francis, Brother of the Universe, published by Marvel Comics on 23 September 1980, written by Roy Gasnick and Mary Jo Duffy, illustrated by John Buscema and Marie Severin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b8bd4beb-5c6e-4055-9cef-46e01a94b9b1/morgana.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Punk legend Jordan as Mamea Morgana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9710f8b4-c369-4886-a7e4-670709a7c378/71vXdVezptL._AC_UF894%2C1000_QL80_.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Reproduction of the 1821 Old Sancteclaus with Much Delight by Arthur Stansbury https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3973ed0c-3f9d-4bc0-a927-d2dea3d1c41d/1927_12_03-2.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 3 December 1927 Christmas edition of the Saturday Evening Post featuring an illustration by Norman Rockwell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/02850a7a-bd60-444d-bbf8-e772eeeb5a15/Pietro_della_Vecchia_-_The_incredulity_of_St_Thomas.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out An unusual painting in which Christ fingers his own wound, Pietro della Vecchia; Palazzo Thiene https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/42e9d250-6ed2-4f79-849a-d25376d2b095/John+of+Laverna+1883+book.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out An engraving of the Blessed John of La Verna (a companion of Saint Francis’) suckling at Christ’s side-wound, from an 1883 book https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5f16a7cb-a58e-4d4d-80a0-875eba80b180/angelicol.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A painting of Saint Francis receiving his stigmata (left) and the martyrdom of Saint Peter of Verona (right), painted by Fra Angelico; Louvre https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2beced4c-10b8-4232-bd25-f2c731a6b76e/Virgen_de_guadalupe1.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The miraculous image, Our Lady of Guadalupe https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bf487da0-01c7-4da6-bb13-50296df9fe56/58734.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Engraving of the Virgin of Guadalupe in a maguey plant, José Guadalupe Posada, c. 1890-95; Minneapolis Institute of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/90ba25d5-60f4-4482-a6f6-447bbc391056/E375DCB0-B2CE-4AD2-B861-F405818596D6.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Francis receiving stigmata, painted by Sassetta, 1437-44. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/574e01d1-b33f-41cd-8b99-09455f249fd8/800px-Primitive_plow.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Drawing by A.B. Dodge showing Native Americans using the cattle introduced by Franciscans, from the book San Diego Mission by Engelhardt, Zephyrin (1920) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ac105607-c78c-4c67-aeea-5dc952bbdaf1/1200px-The_Ten_Commandments_%281956_film_poster%29.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Promotional poster for Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 The Ten Commandments https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8d2afcf8-b580-4f34-8ace-86348de21b68/lactation.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Lactation of Saint Bernard with Saint John the Baptist; Portuguese school, 17th century https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/63e44aed-7159-4dc4-a537-0e821a4e7816/mini+torah.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Miniature late 19th- or early 20th-century Torah only 6 cm in height; National Library of Israel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c5226e19-488f-47e8-8002-e593438fc86d/Christina_the_Astonishing_1630_prayer_card_Fasti_Mariani.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1630 prayer card featuring Saint Christina the Astonishing resurrecting https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/14f27b4f-0a31-4f8d-aaf8-d3d4dd047754/Sano_di_Pietro_001.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 15th-century painting of Saint Catherine suckling at Christ’s side-wound, Sano di Pietro https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/beeddcc6-ad50-4ea7-a7a4-55ccbc025841/Giotto_-_Legend_of_St_Francis_-_-13-_-_Institution_of_the_Crib_at_Greccio.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Giotto’s Saint Francis nativity painting, 1297-1300, at the Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b6707f70-859d-4720-8090-40c8dec13667/La_seraphique_Gemma_Galgani_%28HS85-10-31647%29.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1916 photograph of Saint Gemma Galgani by Jules-Ernest Livernois, British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/07a979be-2247-4139-8da0-ec918ec60e0d/1__gkY47c8sF0sG-zs3WzwkA.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Madonna and Child by Paolo di Giovanni Fei, 1370s; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/220774b5-cc24-4036-81f7-2648b3459238/Christina_von_Stommeln3.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Reliquary sculpture of the stigmatic, the Blessed Christina of Stommeln at the Parish Church of Saint Mary the Assumption in Jülich https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9e1f444a-2773-4bc2-9ca9-a46a446d6659/luther.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Martin Luther painted by Lucas Cranach, c. 1532; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/034aa693-1e46-4924-abe9-cea1906f00a3/8C78DB9D-62D6-4B42-B636-5876FF4B9538.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Francis giving away his clothing and receiving a divine vision, painted by Sassetta, 1437-44. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d834940a-cad2-417c-8cd5-b7c1413f179f/Saint_Jerome_Writing-Caravaggio_%281605-6%29.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Jerome painted by Caravaggio between 1605-06; Galleria Borghese https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a004759c-0c07-49aa-b9ae-37f748a09b5e/Aguamiel00.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Illustration from the Códice Borbónico (1530s) showing Mayahuel with a mature agave and fermented pulque https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/85c7a7a0-c8a3-41a8-9a30-f08b4c2abc1d/IMG_9042.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Francis and Clare, from Francis, Brother of the Universe, published by Marvel Comics, 1980 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/da655b50-0722-446e-961a-e1f36bf2f339/San_Francesco_consegna_la_regola%2C_Colantonio_001.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Francis delivers the rules that govern the Franciscan Order, painted by Colantonio c. 1445; Museo di Capodimonte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f9d70592-c07c-4986-aea5-1e0a2e56970b/catherine.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Catherine of Siena receiving stigmata, painted by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1447-65; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/44a70f94-556d-4955-9d26-07d13738ace0/woman+st.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Juul Kraijer’s Saint Sebastian, 1998 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/300408c1-e0e6-4b54-9c37-185de4695e62/DF16B29E-F17D-47A7-B3B4-D93A2D2EC157.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Gordon’s Makes Us Drunk, a video by Gilbert and George, 1972; photographed at York Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e4cd05d6-5fa6-4842-b508-9d7656a39fdb/Thedevils1971poster.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Film poster for Ken Russell’s The Devil, 1971 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f6be8189-7789-47ca-9818-8f9fb067040b/illo_png6.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Illustration from the 1862 edition of ‘A Visit from Saint Nicholas’ by Clement Clarke Moore, illustrated by FOC Darley https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/330cd038-c274-43af-83f6-b8dce6e007bf/Maria_Domenica_Lazzari%2C_a_girl_who_received_the_stigmata._Co_Wellcome_V0007062.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Engraving of Domenica Lazzari showing her stigmata by an unknown artist, c. 1840; Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/480cf6f1-fe05-4d09-bab6-fae5e40fc5d0/Angelico%2C_san_nicola_salva_la_nave.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Nicholas miraculously rescuing a ship, painted by Fra Angelica, c. 1437; Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cc4eac6f-e035-42c0-ad6a-aaa2025bdbe1/Sainte_Brigitte_e%CC%81glise_Macon.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 20th-century stained glass of Saint Brigid at Saint Joseph’s in Macon, Georgia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3cd92542-a1a1-4738-bfde-25b181549b2e/Maguey_agave_plant_with_blossoms.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Maguey agave plant (Agave americana) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8c7f408c-8202-4d89-8802-75f7ab63df4c/Crucifixion-nail-1-1.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Crucified Roman-era ankle bone found in Jerusalem https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e8c247be-3120-44db-b9a3-9fdb33fbdde3/Screenshot+2023-08-12+at+17.13.03+%282%29.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary image of Mayahuel created by MiCorazonMexica https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/66f2918a-bbb3-4c46-a443-cd552a114b22/Crivelli%2C_beato_gabriele_ferretti.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Carlo Crivelli’s painting of the Blessed Gabrielle Feretti - and his vision of the Madonna and Child emerging from a mandorla, 1480s; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9caa094b-3383-4b89-baa6-69b337531529/pio+young.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Padre Pio displaying his stigmata https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7ff9ef76-d7b9-4ec8-94ee-268a4ed5aec2/708089E2-AEC0-9191-5EF52879D365B921.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1964 Coca-Cola ad, illustrated in 1963 by Haddon Sundblom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a1747d0f-27e5-477e-b2c9-ca005bfa5aa9/holy+wound+gash.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 15th-century illustration of the Holy Wounds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/479e0530-34f3-4872-8324-d93331decd7e/C091A787-CE89-43FD-8711-A33D84D99A90.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Postcards collected by Ronald MacKeith. Photographed at the Wellcome Collection exhibition Milk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dfd5a21a-e244-44d7-ba0f-56c651cb36b7/04-ablassbriefe-01-en.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out One of many letters of indulgence issued in 1455 to fund Pope Nicholas V’s war against the Turks. The document was printed in Guttenberg’s workshop in Mainz. Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/535c19e4-a170-4031-93a8-7b9454aece75/Dante_Domenico_di_Michelino_Duomo_Florence.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Fresco showing Dante holding a copy of his Divine Comedy standing in front of the depictions of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory from the book. Painted by Domenico di Michelino, 1465; Florence Cathedral https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2292cda1-8cb3-476b-b8da-c0975d3b4264/Diocletien_Vaux1.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 17th-century marble bust of Diocletian, on display at Château de Vaux-le-Vicomte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0ed2c1cd-7d5c-4fe7-81cf-7b57e19f9f44/mary+hermit.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Mary Magdalene painted by Francesco Hayez, 1833; Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Milano https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0a046643-a8ce-4c62-b04b-ceea1734c1bb/vagina+1.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out The side-wound from Psalter and Prayer Book of Bonne de Luxembourg (before 1349) attributed to Jean Le Noir; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f9d784e6-34ba-4a85-bd27-f86ea58b2b95/sisters+manc.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out 2020 photograph of members of the Manchester house of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/944a780b-c80a-4200-abfa-162003727318/leyendecker.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1930s clothing ad illustration by JC Leyendecker featuring his partner Charles Beach who modelled as the business man https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2a2a7c0f-8c01-4487-addf-25899fdfb629/luther+engraving.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Engraving of Martin Luther by Robert Boissard, after Lucas Cranach, c. 1597; National Portrait Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f4e66879-a419-488c-8008-d61c806bf1ad/Roman_Charity_-_Pieter_Pauwel_Reubens.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Peter Paul Rubens’ painting of Roman Charity, 1612; Hermitage Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4aa34fa5-fb5e-4bc2-8cfa-aea95409a2e4/Der_ungla%CC%88ubige_Thomas_-_Michelangelo_Merisi%2C_named_Caravaggio.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Caravaggio’s painting depicting the Incredulity of Saint Thomas, 1601; Sanssouci Picture Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1dd413bd-f144-47c8-998f-39575e994e7a/02bay2.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The legend of Saint Francis, scenes 4-6, painted by Giotto, 1297-1300, at the Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db6a245c-1360-48b9-95be-4e971067e6c4/Saint_Nicolas_Heures_d%27Anne_de_Bretagne.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Nicholas resurrecting the three butchered and pickled boys, from the Book of Hours of Anne Bretagne, c. 1503-08, by Jean Bourdichon; National Library of France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2ecd95eb-2f44-4570-8812-bf5f7571b2a0/isis.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Statuette of Isis nursing Horus, dedicated by Ankhhor, son of Perechbanebdjedet and Heretib, Egyptian, 664-332 BCE; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/faf0d001-0523-40af-b3a0-ea7abe66928c/Web-Angela-of-Foligno.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The incorrupt body of the Blessed Angela Foligno at the Church of Saint Francis in Foligno https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c73f019d-c8d5-4885-93a6-14f50034d9cf/Cagnacci_Maddalena_svenuta.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Guido Cagnacci’s Mary Magdalene, 1663; Galleria Corsini. This is an example of devotional art to satisfy both sacred and carnal desires. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c6b29736-b2bf-4378-9af6-6fdedafd947b/Jean-Martin_Charcot.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Photographic portrait of Jean Martin Charcot, 1892; National Library of Medicine https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2556b1b9-ac3f-47bc-99a3-0e0498b8b3af/Artemisia_Gentileschi_-_Mary_Magdalene_in_Ecstasy.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Artemisia Gentileschi’s Mary Magdalene in ecstasy; c. 1611 or 1613-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/795d5ace-7a74-43fd-abf5-3de229b9bf15/birthb+to+church+2.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Jesus Christ giving birth to an allegorical female figure that represents the Church with God the Father as midwife - from the Bible Moralisée Codex 1179, folio 3v, at the Austrian National Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3bde1441-792c-4837-995e-37476f0bb98c/CouncilofClermont.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Miniature from Les passages d'outremer of Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont, c. 1474; Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/407f5d9e-3f95-4df0-8d7a-3359d4f6bce6/D8A0994F-1720-4D6B-9055-17BABE0CD459.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Francis and the wolf of Gubbio, painted by Sassetta, 1437-44. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/ad15866b-7693-4a22-aefe-8e4020375341/Raffaello_Sanzio_-_Crucifixion_%28Citta%CC%80_di_Castello_Altarpiece%29_-_WGA18608.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Crucifixion by Raphael (1502-03) with an angel collecting blood from the side-wound; National Gallery of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cd7562e8-7790-4368-8157-d96a0e35927b/520px-Fulbert_de_Chartres.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Fulbert of Chartres in a miniature in the Obituary of Notre-Dame de Chartres, martyrology and necrology of the chapter of Notre-Dame, 11th century; Bibliothèque municipale de Chartres https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/68d998da-ced5-44d0-b5f8-d5faee96cf21/torah+old.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A 12th-century Torah scroll, thought to be the oldest surviving Torah; University of Bologna https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b7d08d32-33fa-499c-bb22-b532d67eb961/St_Sebastian_c1660_Mattia_Preti.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Mattia Preti’s Saint Sebastian, commissioned by the nuns from the church of San Sebastiano in Naples, c. 1660; Museo di Capodimonte https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d49193bd-0c4f-4a7e-aa48-f545388cdef2/2BBACB3F-2A27-449C-838D-F9B5DC4A6F0F.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Maquette for Mother and Child by Henry Moore, 1952. Photographed at the Wellcome Collection exhibition Milk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2ab9362b-4ada-432e-b268-706a6e72d83e/Screenshot+2022-07-04+at+10.38.02.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Narcissus (Caravaggio) and Sebastiane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/28279f08-8a7b-4a95-8826-49cebc85b1a2/bronzino.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A fresco showing Saint Michael the Archangel defeating the Devil, painted by Bronzino, c. 1540-45; Cappella di Eleonora in the Palazzo Vecchio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6ff0c425-b186-46ab-9c3c-495806b22a34/616px-Merry_Old_Santa_Claus_by_Thomas_Nast.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out An elfin ‘Merry Old Santa Claus’ created by Thomas Nast, 1863 sporting a Midwinter holly wreath on his head https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d61bc640-dd23-49cd-9df2-f245f0a61b99/catherine+2.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Catherine of Siena receiving stigmata, painted by Domenico Beccafumi, c. 1515; Pinacoteca Nazionale di Siena https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d8985940-8d82-4ae4-a37a-ec817eae6608/Christmas_with_the_Yule_Log%2C_Illustrated_London_News%2C_23_Dec_1848.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1848 illustration of Father Christmas with a Yule Log by Alfred Henry Forrester from the Illustrated London News https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e839b2b8-9797-45e4-9789-b595ca512d27/worth.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Zara Worth’s Think of a door (temptation/redemption), 2022; York Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/252ddc3f-466d-4fd0-a583-a6f950122f22/milk55.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Medieval depiction of the Lactation of Saint Bernard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3560fdb0-975e-4d88-b049-51bdccbf01d6/holy+wounds+2.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The five Holy Wounds on a shield, Bodleian Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b630f651-a83e-4ab6-9aba-2e21b5426166/haring+sebastian.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Keith Haring’s Saint Sebastian, 1984 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/138017f9-254f-4298-b3d1-a15e0f7f9456/da+vinci+baptist+after.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Painting of John the Baptist by Da Vinci’s lover Salai (c. 1510-20) without any religious iconography; Pinacoteca Ambrosiana https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cee9d778-6111-4cfb-8d1d-22a7a9f2578f/1922_12_02.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 2 December 1922 Saturday Evening Post featuring cover illustration by Norman Rockwell of a very human Santa Claus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6f983d3f-c207-429d-b4e5-21a437ed9da8/Figure-1-web.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Belsnickel by Ralph D Dunkelberger in Alfred L Shoemaker’s, Christmas in Pennsylvania: A Folk-Cultural Study https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6716a70b-273e-4538-aeb2-d955074cc8b3/download.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Sebastiane and Justin played by Richard Warwick https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/de23a7ed-5159-45b0-a2d1-3dd531e984eb/Bronzino_-_Saint_Sebastian_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Bronzino’s sensual Saint Sebastian, c. 1533; Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f9ff08f0-a177-4ee9-997c-8a216223ab6e/560px-St_Nicholas_slaps_Arius.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 14th-century fresco from the monastery complex of Panagia Sumela showing Saint Nicholas slapping Arius https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/43c58fa1-5871-47aa-95cc-754e514afcbc/4AD5C633-F3D2-42DD-9684-7C54F0778869.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A penitent Mary Magdalene after Anthony van Dyck, 17th century, artist unknown; York Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2ec66d58-c929-48ee-bdfa-451b28cc57bf/sebastiane.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Antony and Adrian played by Janusz Romanov and Ken Hicks https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0b5ebc8d-5d2d-490d-b1d5-80946d90ffb0/Boschsevendeadlysins.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Hieronymus Bosch’s painting of the Seven Deadly Sins and the Four Last Things, 1485; Museo del Prado https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c4f7b166-ee1f-49a5-b51c-8979780b5af9/Lucas_Cranach_d.A%CC%88._-_Amor_beklagt_sich_bei_Venus_%28National_Gallery%2C_London%29.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Cupid complaining to Venus, painted by Lucas Cranach, 1526-27; National Gallery London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/49dc8696-e3b7-446d-8064-c139f6e1842a/A2B858EF-B3F6-43F9-9B99-DD991E0929D7.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Francis painted by El Greco, c. 1590-95. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0c47e744-7af1-4a93-8a2a-8a3c32836966/mishima.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Photograph of author Yukio Mishima as Saint Sebastian, 1968 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b9d8fed6-6b62-448c-9a97-a92164ca2c42/1D2096EA-3F03-4010-BF6B-839BF417FEE7.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A group of Poor Clares, painted by Ambrogio Lorenzetti, c. 1336-40. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/00b9e83d-ffa5-4e9f-a081-6b4b5ea19687/almond.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Miniature of ‘Almonds, Amigdale dulces’, from The Four Seasons, The House of Cerruti, https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/b62febfb-d082-4b4d-9a4e-f80be569e991/F073DD8A-E9EB-4E5B-85A0-E679B3E6918D.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Youth by Ron Mueck, 2009; photographed at York Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e08623d8-a492-462b-8678-186e270d76d0/D4DE1719-0CCC-4CA1-A80A-AB5D1B3F4105.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out It was just a kiss by Tracey Emin, 2010; photographed at York Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a0cbba8a-f5cb-4136-b784-680e5a16194b/pilgrim.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Pilgrim on the Camino Compostela Trail from a book of hours, MS M.19 fol. 165v, Morgan Library and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f10ddb5c-0937-4989-8b75-e97b643edc70/steen.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Jan Steen’s The Effects of Intemperance, c. 1663-65; photographed at York Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f77f6716-5d4e-48f2-ae12-c807a14c4257/holy+wounds+bloody+2.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Holy Wounds depicted as blood splatters from the Psalter and Rosary of the Virgin (from f. 27), c. 1480 - 1525; British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/749dd114-c8eb-4a6e-bbb9-36f0f4afbaa1/Pope_Gregory_IX_excommuning_emperor_Frederick_II_Vasari_1572.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Pope Gregory IX excommunicating the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, by Giorgio Vasari, 1573; Apostolic Palace https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d457092c-e3e7-490f-8f03-299178822a1e/Gautier_de_Coinsi.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Miniature of Gautier de Coinci from the 1327 Miracles de Nostre Dame; National Archives of the Netherlands https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/204367af-84f0-49ba-92e2-390f02227c7d/1280px-Conversion_on_the_Way_to_Damascus-Caravaggio_%28c.1600-1%29.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saul thrown off his horse by a divine light, painted by Caravaggio, c. 1600-01; Santa Maria del Popolo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1ed72e90-4ace-43b1-9735-58c1d116209f/village-people-1920.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Village People, 1978 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3fa3ff23-ddb9-4c2e-a2eb-fa05c070edc9/images.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Tony de Carlo’s Homage to Saint Sebastian, created in response to the AIDS crisis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/aead80a0-90f0-4ca8-aab4-3260aacc4b96/ED30BE17-9F31-4BBE-B7F4-1550E0A3E0E7.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Signage for the York Art Gallery SIN exhibition, featuring Mary Magdalene https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9599eb66-2ddf-42e1-b331-8719f4c74ae7/Screenshot+2022-07-05+at+20.49.53.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint John the Evangelist and Jesus + Justin and Sebastiane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/30f8a67d-d03a-488c-a20f-0bfe609973d5/Urban_ii_-_Roman_de_Godfroi_de_Bouillon.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Pope Urban II ordering the First Crusade, a miniature from the 14th-century Roman de Godfroi de Bouillon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/9cbfe49d-3d9f-42b8-95fa-f57683bc6c97/Capitoline_she-wolf_Musei_Capitolini_MC1181.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Lupa Capitolina nursing Romulus and Remus, 13th century; Musei Capitolini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/491ad21a-66e2-40a6-8ecc-e5aad4cbf179/moehrl.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Maria von Moehrl, with stigmata on her hands and blood-stained sheets from the stigmata on her feet; watercolour by L. Giuditti after L.G. de Ségur, 1846; Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dd8265c5-3f39-4b21-b2f1-355296d098a5/The_Rider_on_a_White_Horse_-_Queen_Mary_Apocalypse_%28early_14th_C%29%2C_f.37_-_BL_Royal_MS_19_B_XV.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Miniature from the Queen Mary Apocalypse depicting the opening of the First Seal. The horsemen of the Apocalypse are illustrated as Crusaders; created in the 14th century, artist unknown, British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bf183233-7a88-4a23-b494-b234754949df/Margareta_Ebner.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Margareta Ebner from Stadtarchiv Nürnberg E 17/II Nr. 640 by Martin Tyroff, c. 1750 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/98b48c62-edc9-45c8-9476-6d2cc6088dbf/Saint_Augustine_by_Philippe_de_Champaigne.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Augustine painted by Philippe de Champaigne, c. 1645-50; LACMA https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/62e6b40d-3e4e-40a5-809f-d1aa6f16c854/doubting+thom.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The apostle Thomas inserting his finger into Christ’s side-wound, painted by Guercino in 1621; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/439b7490-5d70-45c3-8a75-7dde4f6fbfe7/Screenshot+2023-08-12+at+17.40.12+%282%29.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Danielle Dean’s White, 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a65c6a7a-d737-440e-a382-3bd9ce207a44/Cornelisz._Haarlem_van_Cornelis_-_Christ_with_the_cross_and_the_chalice_-_M.Ob.20_MNW_-_National_Museum_in_Warsaw.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Christ with blood from the side-wound collected in a Communion chalice, painted by Cornelis van Haarlem, c. 1591-92; National Museum in Warsaw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/6d7c0bff-fb5e-41f8-8790-c2cad093ef38/06_14_DavidHoyle_cr_unspecified.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The canonisation of artist and performer David Hoyle by the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence in Manchester https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fe1a1b8c-9085-403a-b3a1-a71e9c30821b/William_Holman_Hunt_-_The_Scapegoat.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Scapegoat, painted by William Holman Hunt, 1854; Lady Lever Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a56b2cbe-1682-4861-bb0b-a732d85a0a42/Barend_van_Orley_-_Portrait_of_Charles_V_-_Google_Art_Project.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of the Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V, by Barend van Orley, c. 1515-16; Museum of Fine Arts Budapest https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/527ac98b-1405-4dd3-9e2f-605d83d1ae2b/James-Unsworth.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian painted by James Unsworth, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/05c6675c-d750-4de5-b05c-85cf95cd2c04/Patriarchate_of_Pec%2C_St._Nicholas_chapel_-_07_Nicholas_destroys_temple_of_Artemis.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 14th-century fresco from the monastery complex of Panagia Sumela showing Saint Nicholas about to destroy a statue of Diana/Artemis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2d03bf77-2120-4311-a293-be8bdfa88216/exhibition.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Installation view of Jarman’s Jordan’s Dance, 1977 (Photo: Luma Foundation/Andrew Brooks); Manchester Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c516ce9e-17d2-49f9-b5aa-1683959a1481/image-asset.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out 20th-century illustration of Yule Lads and a not-so-scary Yule Cat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db581089-70db-485b-bb0c-48008d79a856/2685235C-8D1C-4D36-BF96-7BC1FAA4576F.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Sculptures depicting SIN by artist from the Teenage Art School, 2022; York Art Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a50e0125-1bee-401c-ac0e-619c630743dd/897d703b5d4cc6f2e5e954c6ca5953e2.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Early 20th-century Saint Lucy day postcard, illustrated by Jenny Nyström https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c91dd47e-99bf-474c-8915-009c606664cf/temperancepic.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Early 20th-century photo of Christian temperance group advocating milk instead of alcohol; Greater Grand Rapids Women’s History Council https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/26ff6df4-f672-4150-85e8-ef1146903294/n-6606-00-000029-hd.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Charity of Saint Nicholas painted by Girolamo Macchietti, c. 1555-60; National Gallery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c2d9ebe2-d892-4b85-a910-b24912a64c43/Hathor.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Hathor, 1390-1352 BCE; The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cc1a659b-bff4-4f4b-91d2-c4db9b32147e/John_Calvin_Museum_Catharijneconvent_RMCC_s84_cropped.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Portrait of John calvin by an unknown artist, c. 1550; Museum Catharijneconvent https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f121f51d-a6fe-46d6-a4b1-4e8fac4166a5/GuidoReni_MichaelDefeatsSatan.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Guido Reni’s painting of Saint Michael the Archangel defeating Lucifer, c. 1630-35; Santa Maria della Concezione dei Cappuccini https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/32de22f0-ef01-4b85-a38c-06c017787b7b/9EEE2B6B-5393-43D7-AA96-ED78704087CA.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Francis renouncing his earthly father, painted by Sassetta, 1437-44. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/8002e6cd-93dc-4686-b90d-1e8321f55f44/Polyptyque_du_jugement_dernier_roger_van_der_Weyden_Beaune.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Michael the Archangel weighing souls; Rogier van der Weyden, 1446-52; Hospices de Beaune https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f4c0f738-2ca2-47be-8a41-622c5f6a5050/Milk-of-the-Virgin-Mary.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A monk healed by the Virgin Mary’s milk from the Neville of Hornby Hours, British Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/df6c8ab3-f3a2-4834-b615-584355626f52/Maurycy_Gottlieb_-_Jews_Praying_in_the_Synagogue_on_Yom_Kippur.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Maurycy Gottlieb’s 1878 painting of Jews praying at the synagogue on Yom Kippur; Tel Aviv Museum of Art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/715a3e04-3027-44b9-9f4c-17f65bc3cdc0/city+of+god.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 14th-century illustration from the City of God of Michael the Archangel weighing souls; Bibliothèque nationale de France https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/478650cb-3daa-4bda-b55d-ca6882757d0e/the-matrydom-of-st-sebastian-1996.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian by Pierre et Gilles, 1996. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2bb92e3f-1926-48aa-a460-39e3e3bc5a39/IMG_9040.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A young Francis sets off for the Crusades, from Francis, Brother of the Universe, published by Marvel Comics, 1980 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/7b3771a1-11d3-4b44-871e-ac353ca04c05/1930_12_20-1.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 20 December 1930 Saturday Evening Post with Santa illustration by JC Leyendecker https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/522dbffe-eafd-4019-a1af-4e6a9e4d6315/974px-Francesco_Vanni%2C_Santa_Caterina_beve_il_sangue_di_Gesu%CC%80%2C_1594_circa.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Francesco Vanni’s c. 1549 painting of Saint Catherine of Siena suckling at the side-wound; Convento di San Girolamo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/00568a7c-f665-46a0-8986-cb67f69f0604/Lidwinas_fall.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Woodcut from Johannes Brugman's Vita of Saint Lidwina, 1498 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e04cc224-7d9f-4da4-a7d8-362d89c2a59a/plague+saint.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Josse Lieferinxe’s 15th-century plague-saint Saint Sebastian, riddled with arrows, interceding on behalf of human beset by a pandemic; The Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/982e7d83-eb80-44f5-85be-bca176f7a8cb/Giotto_-_Sankt_Franciskus_stigmatisering.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Giotto’s fresco at the Basilica of San Croce of Saint Francis receiving stigmata from a crucified seraph, 1325 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0a0e38a1-7c83-4512-9642-28b2e5676d92/Last_JudgmentChrist_1.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Michelangelo’s controversial beardless, Apolline Christ from the Last Judgement fresco, 1536-41; Sistine Chapel https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/cb018c86-3910-4dff-ad29-fb939d161b8d/Screenshot+2022-07-27+at+07.47.34.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out St. Sebastian As A Minotaur by Loribelle Spirovski, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/df1f2b93-f42f-4c64-9b7e-e243edc78d8f/e9e8b52f968afee5799882121f2b9abe.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Star boys on an early 20th-century postcard, illustrated by Margot Ekstam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/aba3f228-1422-442d-b4c1-34012800896e/jesus+vagina+2.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Christ’s side-wound and Christ as the Man of Sorrows by an unknown French artist c. 1375; Morgan Library and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/fb3f4d49-001c-43c8-ba7e-987bf24415fe/Masopust_drz%CC%8Ci%CC%81me_10.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1910 illustration of the Midwinter Berchta with a companion by Čeněk Zíbrt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/aa5515da-b2fd-4c60-9a82-5d4b412e2929/Carita%CC%80_Romana_-_Tornioli.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Niccolò Tornioli’s painting of the same subject as Rubens’ above - but with the addition of a child, 1645-1650 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d63a9e13-3243-4333-a69e-c32a2ae14472/milky+way.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Milky Way created from a spray of milk, painted by Jacopo Tintoretto, 1575; National Gallery London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f62cfd9b-2960-4164-ae12-71e6f624d219/02bay1.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The legend of Saint Francis, scenes 1-3, painted by Giotto, 1297-1300, at the Basilica of Saint Francis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bc048784-febb-457d-ae49-3fe31f0e4562/fertile+holy+wound.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 17th-century icon, Sanok Historical Museum. The grapes become wine in the Communion chalice. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/2fc258f9-6d62-4be0-9da1-dcb99f20e6a6/Triumph_of_Bacchus%2C_by_Michaelina_Woutiers.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A Saturnalia-esque Triumph of Bacchus by Michaelina Woutiers, 1643-59; Kunsthistorisches Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db87f03a-b9c8-4eb8-b5ee-9e0c88e72fba/holy+wounds+blood+1.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Holy Wounds depicted as splatters of blood, Morgan Library and Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/3af93a40-62a6-441a-a62e-7fbf69da3102/medieval+sebastian.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Sebastian, the gruesome plague saint, by an unknown Bavarian artist, c. 1475; Wallraf-Richartz-Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/34b46232-485b-465f-8b86-fde00cea4fb4/I-m-a-Saint.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out I’m a Saint by Sue Dray 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a63a05e6-a81b-4c29-b0f8-3e230e5edcaa/Apollo+Belvedere.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Apollo Belvedere, a Roman-era copy of a Greek original; Vatican Museums https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4f423ac0-c0aa-46b4-adf3-1c82a079a692/Sebastian-by-Ric-Stott3.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Activist Jide Macaulay as Saint Sebastian by Richard Stott, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c12fb419-f47f-49e9-8887-5dc68aa9d78d/800px-Michelangelo_Caravaggio_035.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Caravaggio’s Nativity with Saint Francis and Saint Lawrence, c. 1600; Oratory of Saint Lawrence in Palermo https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/65cd9553-f94e-4bfb-aedc-b149df5bdad4/170422001.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 14th century icon by an unknown Russian artist; British Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/97fd3997-6e02-4318-be7f-0db1cc70bca9/B138B2F2-B336-4BB7-859C-03034D1583B7.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out A contemplative Saint Francis by Francisco de Zurbarán,1635-39. Photographed at the National Gallery exhibition, Saint Francis of Assisi. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1167d626-e723-4f83-b0cf-12e1169ea14e/Guercino_Martyrdom_of_Saint_Sebastian.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Guercino’s Saint Sebastian, 1600 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/a2281be5-9526-4e35-86bb-3c2e583f586e/La_Madone_au_Chanoine_Van_der_Paele.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Jan Van Eyck’s painting of the Madonna and Child with Canon van der Paele and a parrot, 1434; Groeningemuseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/76b93385-ae67-4be3-901d-8ef7c501dcba/Samudra-Manthan-The-Churning-of-the-Ocean-of-Milk.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Contemporary illustration of the Churning of the Ocean of Milk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/0aff559a-b6be-47bc-b041-0514457aafc1/Tal-Karmnu_After2.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Souls in Purgatory awaiting the Madonna’s milk; artist unknown, 17th century; Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Valletta https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/59b2c73d-592e-40f6-9d2d-85af930da7ce/carl+loth+john+the+baptist.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out A highly sensual 17th-century Saint John the Baptist painting by Johann Carl Loth https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/d3253b24-5063-448d-b7a5-0ee2e922d045/oignies16a_hughes_dubois.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Reliquary of the Virgin Mary’s milk, c. 1243-50; Musée provincial des Arts anciens du Namurois-Trésor d'Oignies https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/5a79acf8-ff23-4a48-8531-6d99b5879f7b/88DB1982-11DF-4EE7-82AD-CBDFDCAC8397.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Tree of Temperance, 1872. Photographed at the Wellcome Collection exhibition Milk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4c82d6f5-78fc-49b1-a4db-2418b7759b31/madonna-with-the-parrots-1533.jpg%21Large.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The so-called ‘Madonna with the Parrots’ by Hans Baldung, 1533; Germanisches Nationalmuseum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4de58c1a-ee40-4d88-b6a9-629baa587ea2/s-l500.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1976 poster for Derek Jarman’s Sebastiane https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/bd237195-030d-4cbe-b886-63450fa715b7/Cardinal_Albrecht_of_Brandenburg_%28DE_SPSG_GKI10219%29.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Cardinal Albert of Brandenberg painted by Lucas Cranach after 1529; Jagdschloss Grunewald https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/74a3174e-6dd6-4e69-853d-40f05208a587/reni.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Guido Reni’s Saint Sebastian, c. 1615; Musei di Strada Nuova https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/db4e0c48-f2ec-49c2-b86c-17ccd684840e/blood+splatter.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The Holy Wounds as blood splatters from the Loftie Hours, Walters Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/19772c6c-37f6-4dda-b1c8-dea118db44c4/holy+wounds+4.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 18th-century Holy Wounds plus the Eye of Providence, the Sacred Heart, the Immaculate Heart; Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/4fb66d4f-7828-49fe-8076-63c2b1ddc9c1/72E08587-0CF5-49DC-AF29-F84430FE044E.JPG Special Episodes - Make it stand out Etching of the Lactation of Saint Bernard by Andrea Scacciati the Younger after Bernardina Poccetti. Photographed at the Wellcome Collection exhibition Milk. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/443f316a-70ee-4ee3-8735-ec152135929d/Screenshot+2023-08-12+at+16.15.45.png Special Episodes - Make it stand out Left: Enthroned Virgin and Child, c. 1260–80. French, The Cloisters. Right: Bodhisatttva Guanyin, 16th century. Chinese, Ming dynasty (1368–1644), The Met https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/82a8fedc-a8ff-4471-af6e-b1dbd61664d1/St_Gemma_Blood_stained_garments_from_stigmata.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Handkerchiefs soaked with the fluid from Gemma Galgani’s stigmata at the church of Santa Maria della Rosa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/e66ecc4a-87cc-4a90-b7ae-75f102788535/santa-my-hats-off-to-the-pause-that-refreshes.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 1931 Coca-Cola ad illustrated by Haddon Sundblom https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/70b99d6a-407e-441d-8ff5-7d004ac3a483/birth+to+church.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The birth of the Church from Christ’s side-wound from a 13th-century Bible Moralisée (Vienna 2554) at the Austrian National Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/abeee6a0-44a3-40ab-a548-3d0f201c6861/giles.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Giles shot with an arrow intended for the deer companion whose milk he subsisted on, artist unknown, c. 1500; National Gallery London https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f24601d9-1612-4f76-a387-1ee28b525880/Batu_Caves_Kamadhenu.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 20th-century sculpture of Kamadhenu at Batu Caves in Malaysia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/06fcf7dd-7ab8-4493-831a-1bae6d75fa12/original-sisters.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out The founders of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, 1979 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/66f133cd-deb6-4e28-abb1-10ea05220bbe/severus.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Barney James as Severus https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/1c3d192c-9b50-44bc-b983-2af69fbb1d2d/Jarman-15.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out View of the Manchester Art Gallery’s Derek Jarman retrospective https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/f70f8f7b-d4aa-4478-88f0-dc5269d41ef1/medium_SMG00194054.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 19th-century statuette of a woman breastfeeding her mother-in-law, Wellcome Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/dec6768d-8591-463d-b3bc-c1c7274fdcb8/Tja%CC%88ngvide.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Odin and Sleipnir on the Tjängvide image stone, c. 700-900 CE; Stockholm City Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/c4ba3143-429d-4e75-9116-2f6e1cc1d5b6/ravenna+mosaic.jpeg Special Episodes - Make it stand out 6th-century mosaic at Basilica of Sant’Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna: one of the oldest surviving depictions of Saint Sebastian https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/6120f973e7e0290017f36b26/05959d43-c3f4-4b94-a494-2cba7d37eac8/2623BFE3-3A4D-4840-86EF-6FF88CACCB58.jpg Special Episodes - Make it stand out Saint Clare rescuing a child from a wolf, painted by Giovanni di Paolo, c. 1455-60. 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