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Webb Takes a Stunning, Star-Filled Portrait of the Pillars of Creation (Full View)
Webb’s NIRCam view of the Pillars of Creation combines six near-infrared filters. Visible colors represent infrared light; stars and warm-edged clouds fill the Eagle Nebula scene.
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Webb Takes a Stunning, Star-Filled Portrait of the Pillars of Creation (Full View)
Webb’s NIRCam view of the Pillars of Creation combines six near-infrared filters. Visible colors represent infrared light; stars and warm-edged clouds fill the Eagle Nebula scene.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI; J. DePasquale, A. Koekemoer, A. Pagan (STScI).
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Pillars of Creation (MIRI Image)
MIRI observes longer infrared wavelengths. Its three-filter composite emphasizes the Pillars’ dust structure, with fewer stars visible than in the NIRCam view.
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Pandora’s Cluster (Abell 2744)
A modern view of the distant universe: Webb’s near-infrared panorama of Pandora’s Cluster, Abell 2744. The cluster’s gravity magnifies and distorts the light of galaxies behind it.
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Webb mirror covers being removed at Goddard
Technicians uncover Webb’s gold-coated mirror segments at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in April 2016, before installation of its science instruments.
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Asteroid Bennu
Bennu, photographed by OSIRIS-REx. The mosaic shows a surface covered in boulders.
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Evening at Lourdes
Evening at the sanctuary in Lourdes. This is a photograph of the place, not of the reported recovery.
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Inside St. Peter’s Basilica
Inside St. Peter’s Basilica, Rome. Architecture as context for the Catholic tradition.
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Returned Bennu material inside the opened TAGSAM head
Bennu material inside the opened OSIRIS-REx sampler head at NASA’s Johnson Space Center, published in January 2024. This is the mission’s collection hardware, not Robert Macke’s research instrument.
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Jason Dworkin holding a vial of returned Bennu material
NASA project scientist Jason Dworkin holds a vial of returned Bennu material in this video frame published in January 2025. A view of the wider mission collaboration.
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The Grotto of Massabielle at Lourdes
The Grotto of Massabielle at Lourdes, photographed on 15 August 2012. This view provides location context; it does not document Antonia Raco’s recovery.
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Lourdes basilica viewed from the esplanade
The Rosary Basilica at Lourdes, seen from the esplanade on 27 August 2019. This view provides location context; it does not document Antonia Raco’s recovery.
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Beyond the Horizon
AI-generated illustration of an anonymous person standing on a mountain ridge beneath an immense twilight sky.
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Light carries a story
AI-generated illustration of an anonymous observer at a telescope in a dark observatory.
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WMAP nine-year cosmic microwave background map
WMAP’s nine-year map shows tiny temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background, with the Milky Way’s signal removed. The colors visualize microwave measurements from about 380,000 years after the Big Bang; this is neither an optical photograph nor a view of the universe’s absolute beginning.
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Why does the Vatican have an observatory?
The Vatican Advanced Technology Telescope on Mount Graham, Arizona, photographed in 2010. The dome houses the telescope; adjoining rooms support the observers who use it.
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Galileo: what happened, and what should Catholics learn?
Galileo’s lunar illustrations in Sidereus nuncius (1610) show the shifting shadows and uneven surface he observed through a telescope. These are historical drawings, not photographs.
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The sister who saw the future of computing
Sister Mary Kenneth Keller at her doctoral graduation, in a photograph published in the Wisconsin State Journal on June 8, 1965. Her documented doctorate anchors a career often obscured by computing legends.
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How should Catholics read Genesis alongside science?
William de Brailes combined the first two days of Creation into this Bible illumination around 1250. The page is a medieval visual reading of Genesis, not a scientific account of cosmic history.
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Saint Albert the Great and the habit of looking closely
An illuminated manuscript in the Eisenbibliothek brings together Aristotelian works and Albert the Great’s writings on minerals and the natural world. It records a tradition of study rather than a modern laboratory method.
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Do laws of nature leave room for miracles?
Rembrandt’s Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee (1633) interprets a Gospel miracle through paint and light. The artwork illustrates the theological question; it is not documentary evidence for the event.
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The priest who learned to read starlight
A plate from Secchi’s Le Soleil (1870) compares the spectra of stars in his classes III and IV. These engraved bands preserve a historical classification; the explanatory diagram below uses a simplified modern example.
Credit: Pierre Dulos / Angelo Secchi, courtesy of Science History Institute
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What happened before the Big Bang?
WMAP’s nine-year map shows tiny temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background, with the Milky Way’s signal removed. The colors visualize microwave measurements from about 380,000 years after the Big Bang; this is neither an optical photograph nor a view of the universe’s absolute beginning.
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How do we know Earth is billions of years old?
Western Australia’s Jack Hills, seen by Landsat in 1999, contain rocks bearing exceptionally old zircon grains. A landscape image locates the evidence; the ages themselves come from laboratory measurements of minerals.
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The sisters who helped map the stars
An open volume of the Helsinki portion of the international Carte du Ciel catalogue makes the measuring work tangible: rows of observations became a mapped sky. The Vatican sisters contributed to the project’s separate Vatican catalogue; this is not their own volume.
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The church floor that became an astronomical instrument
Cassini’s meridian line stretches across the floor of San Petronio in Bologna. Sunlight projected through an opening high above it turned the church into a place for precise solar observations.
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A priest, a chemistry laboratory, and the road to synthetic rubber
Workers handle synthetic rubber at B. F. Goodrich in Akron, Ohio, in 1941. This later Ameripol production scene illustrates the wider industrial story; it does not depict Nieuwland’s laboratory or the manufacture of neoprene.
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Why would a good creation include animal suffering?
SUE, the Field Museum’s Tyrannosaurus rex, displayed with a replica skull. Fossils place predation and animal life deep in Earth’s history; this museum photograph is contextual, not a close-up of a diagnosed injury.
Credit: James St. John
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Adam, Eve, and human evolution: where do the questions meet?
Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve (1504), an engraving in the Morgan Library & Museum. This is a historical interpretation of Genesis, not a reconstruction of human evolutionary history.
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How did life begin—and how is that different from evolution?
A carbonate formation at the Lost City hydrothermal field. Modern vent chemistry offers a setting for origin-of-life research; the photograph does not show where or how the first life arose.
Credit: NOAA / Lost City 2005 Exploration
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Would discovering extraterrestrial life change Christian belief?
An artist’s interpretation of the seven TRAPPIST-1 planets, released in 2018. Their illustrated surfaces are possibilities, not photographs or evidence of life, and the orbital spacing is not to scale.
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech; background constellations courtesy of California Academy of Sciences/Dan Tell
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Is the universe fine-tuned for life?
The Hubble Ultra Deep Field reveals distant galaxies in a small patch of sky. Fine-tuning arguments concern the universe’s physical conditions. This image shows galaxies; probabilities and theological interpretations require other evidence.
Credit: NASA, ESA, and N. Pirzkal (European Space Agency/STScI) and the HUDF Team (STScI)
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Can a brain scan tell us whether we have a soul?
A series of structural MRI slices through a human head. These images show anatomy; they are not functional activation maps, pictures of thoughts, or tests for the existence of a soul.
Credit: Daniel Schwen
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Can an AI be a person?
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s Summit supercomputer in 2018. The machinery illustrates the computing infrastructure used for scientific and AI research; hardware and performance alone do not settle questions about consciousness or personhood.
Credit: Carlos Jones / ORNL (OLCF)
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Are we really made of stardust?
The Cassiopeia A supernova remnant, observed with Webb’s Mid-Infrared Instrument. Visible colors represent infrared measurements of dust and stellar debris—a view of the recycling of stellar material, not a claim that every element began inside a star.
Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Danny Milisavljevic (Purdue University), Tea Temim (Princeton University), Ilse De Looze (UGhent); image processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)
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Why does Easter move?
A page from a portable calendar made in 1456 sets out a method for reckoning Easter. It predates the Gregorian reform and shows the long history of using calendar cycles, rather than simply looking at the Moon, to determine the feast.
Credit: Paul of Kignin / Bibliothèque nationale de France, via Wikimedia Commons
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Can chance be part of providence?
Escherichia coli grown in culture, seen through a scanning electron microscope. This modern micrograph provides context for the bacterial mutation experiments discussed in the article; it does not depict Luria and Delbrück’s original cultures.
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What does the loss of a species mean for creation?
Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, preserved at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History and photographed in 2015. The museum specimen makes the loss of a species tangible: Martha died in 1914.
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What is a leaf doing with sunlight?
Light passes through a green leaf, revealing the branching network of veins that supports its living tissues. The photograph introduces the leaf as a working structure; the diagram below explains the chemical exchanges that a photograph cannot show.
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Does quantum physics really say what people claim it does?
Successive accumulations of individual electron detections build an interference pattern in Akira Tonomura’s experiment. These are laboratory records of quantum interference; the image does not show a human observer causing the pattern.
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The Shroud of Turin: what can the evidence actually establish?
Secondo Pia’s 1898 photographic negative of the face on the Shroud of Turin, reproduced from a museum print. It records the cloth’s appearance; a photograph alone cannot establish the cloth’s age or identify the person represented.
Credit: Secondo Pia / Musée de l’Élysée, via Wikimedia Commons
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Can prayer be tested in a clinical trial?
Albrecht Dürer’s Praying Hands (1508), a study for the Heller Altarpiece. This historical artwork evokes prayer as a human practice; it is not a picture of participants in the clinical trials discussed here.
Credit: Albrecht Dürer / Albertina, via Google Arts & Culture and Wikimedia Commons
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The Jesuits who listened to earthquakes
A Galitzin seismograph preserved in Tokyo’s National Museum of Nature and Science. This museum instrument provides a contextual view of the apparatus behind historical earthquake records, rather than a portrait of Macelwane’s own station.
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Why can mathematics describe the natural world?
The Foucault pendulum at the Panthéon in Paris, photographed in 2012, makes Earth’s rotation visible. It offers a striking example of mathematical physics; the article’s opening calculation concerns the simpler ideal model of a small swinging pendulum.
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Maria Gaetana Agnesi: a life of mathematics and mercy
Maria Gaetana Agnesi in an engraving by Ernesta Bisi after a drawing by Maria Longhi. The Rijksmuseum dates the print between 1798 and 1859; it belongs to the historical portrait tradition through which the mathematician’s memory was preserved.
Credit: Ernesta Bisi, after Maria Longhi / Rijksmuseum, via Wikimedia Commons
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Why does a peacock feather change color when you move? — Peacock male displaying.jpg
A male Indian peafowl displays its train at Paignton Zoo. Its repeated eyespots invite a closer look at how feathers interact with light.
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Why does a peacock feather change color when you move? — Peacock feather close-up.jpg
A feather eyespot, photographed close up. The visible branches contain optical structures much smaller than this photograph can resolve.
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Why does a peacock feather change color when you move? — Peacock feathers. (20779300743).jpg
The patterned feathers across a peacock’s back offer another view of its varied plumage. This close photograph shows the visible feathers; their internal nanostructure lies far below this scale.
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Why Saturn has rings—and moons among them — Translucent Arcs
Cassini’s natural-color mosaic looks through Saturn’s rings from south to north. The component images were taken on April 25, 2007.
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Why Saturn has rings—and moons among them — Daphnis Up Close
Daphnis and the waves its gravity raises along the Keeler Gap, photographed by Cassini on January 16, 2017. The image was taken in visible green light and is shown in grayscale.
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Why Saturn has rings—and moons among them — Texture in the Outer Cassini Division
Cassini photographed these contrasting bands in the outer Cassini Division from about 113,000 kilometers away. This is the main released image; the source also provides a separately filtered version to emphasize local textures. Released June 13, 2019.
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When a Eucharistic host changes color, what can science tell us? — Oblater.jpg
Communion wafers on a table before packing. This contextual photograph does not show samples from the investigation.
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When a Eucharistic host changes color, what can science tell us? — Serratia marcescens on an XLD agar plate (PHIL 6620)
A CDC photograph from 1985 shows Serratia marcescens growing on XLD agar after 24 hours. This separate laboratory culture is contextual; it is not a host or a sample from the 2025 study.
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When a Eucharistic host changes color, what can science tell us? — Biology microscope.jpg
An optical microscope in a laboratory. This contextual photograph illustrates a research tool; it does not show the laboratory or instruments used in the 2025 study.
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Original explanatory diagrams
These six diagrams were prepared for Saints and Science with AI assistance. They explain relationships discussed in the articles; they are not observations, historical artifacts, or experimental measurements. Their scientific background is linked below.
Light carries a pattern
Illustrative line positions and colors; this is not a measured spectrum or a reconstruction of Secchi’s instrument. Real spectra also depend on physical conditions and motion.
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A repeated halving
Idealized decay of a large population. The bars show expected fractions, not a measurement of a rock. Dating also requires an appropriate isotope system and a defensible history of the sample.
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Our atoms have different histories
A selective overview of element origins. It does not assign a single birthplace to every element or imply that all atoms in a person were made in stars.
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The Gregorian Easter sequence
An outline of the Gregorian rule used for Roman Catholic Easter. The table-defined paschal full moon is the first ecclesiastical full moon on or after 21 March; it can differ from the astronomical full moon. This is not a universal rule for every Christian calendar.
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A leaf transforms energy and matter
A simplified account of oxygenic photosynthesis. The diagram omits intermediate reactions, mineral nutrients, and water recycled within the chemistry. Plants also carry out cellular respiration.
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Two waves, different clues
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The Saints Atlas
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Saint Agnes of Montepulciano
Saint Agnes of Montepulciano in a 1507 painting associated with Domenico Beccafumi; photograph by Sailko.
Credit: Domenico Beccafumi; photograph by Sailko · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Albertus Magnus
The Virgin appearing to Saint Albert the Great, painted by Vicente Salvador Gómez, circa 1660.
Credit: Vicente Salvador Gómez · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Blessed Alfredo Ildefonso Schuster
Ildefonso Schuster casting a ballot in Milan, 1953.
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Saint Andrew Bobola
The reliquary identified as Andrew Bobola's in his Warsaw sanctuary.
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Blessed Andrew Franchi
Andrew Franchi in a posthumous eighteenth-century engraving by Cosimo Zocchi after Giacinto Giusti, from a volume held by the Getty Research Institute.
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Saint Angela Merici
Angela Merici at prayer in the frontispiece of Bernard O’Reilly’s St. Angela Merici, and the Ursulines, published in New York in 1880. This copy belongs to the University of Toronto’s Kelly Library.
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Saint Angela of the Cross
Historical image of Angela of the Cross (1846–1932) as a young woman; photographer unknown.
Credit: Unknown photographer · Public domain · Image file
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Blessed Anna Maria Taigi
Anna Maria Taigi in the engraved frontispiece of her 1874 biography, from a copy held by the Library of Congress.
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Blessed Anthony Vici of Stroncone
San Damiano in Assisi, drawn by Helen M. James for The Story of Assisi. Anthony of Stroncone died at this friary in 1461.
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Saint Anthony Zaccaria
The church dedicated to Saint Anthony Mary Zaccaria in Warsaw, Poland, photographed in July 2024.
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Blessed Antonia of Florence
Antonia of Florence at prayer, in a French devotional print from the MAS collection in Antwerp.
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Saint Antoninus of Florence
Bernardino Poccetti’s 1600–1605 preparatory drawing of Saint Antoninus kneeling before the crucifix in Orsanmichele, Florence, made as a study for a fresco from the saint’s life.
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Saint Benedict the Moor
Attributed to José Montes de Oca, Saint Benedict of Palermo, c. 1734, polychrome and gilt wood with glass. Minneapolis Institute of Art, The John R. Van Derlip Fund, 2010.27.2.
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Saint Bernadette Soubirous
Bernadette Soubirous’s reliquary at Saint-Gildard, Nevers. Wax coverings form part of the presentation; this photograph does not show untreated tissue throughout.
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Saint Bernardino of Siena
Bernardino of Siena, attributed to Jacopo Bellini.
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Saint Bénézet
Pont Saint-Bénézet, the medieval Avignon bridge traditionally associated with Bénézet.
Credit: Véronique Pagnier · Public domain — creator's release · Image file
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Saint Camillus de Lellis
Saint Camillus de Lellis before Christ on the cross, 1783, line engraving by Fernando Selma after José Ximeno. Wellcome Collection, 4527i (V0031776).
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Saint Carlo Acutis
Our Lady of Dolours, Chelsea, London, where Carlo Acutis was baptised in May 1991.
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Saint Catherine de’ Ricci
Saint Catherine of Ricci. Engraving by C. Klauber (Catharina Klauber), Wellcome Collection, V0031848. A later devotional representation of the mystical marriage, not a documentary image.
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Saint Catherine Labouré
The vested reliquary display attributed to Catherine Labouré in the Chapel of the Miraculous Medal, Paris. Appearance alone cannot establish the material condition beneath the clothing or display surfaces.
Credit: André Leroux · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Catherine of Bologna
Saint Catherine of Bologna, illuminated folio from the Gualenghi-d’Este Hours, about 1469, by Guglielmo Giraldi. Tempera colors, gold paint, gold leaf, and ink. The J. Paul Getty Museum, Ms. Ludwig IX 13 (83.ML.109), fol. 185v.
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Saint Catherine of Genoa
The Catholic Church of Saint Catherine of Genoa in Hamilton Heights, Manhattan, a parish dedicated to her memory. Photograph by Beyond My Ken, July 2014.
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Saint Catherine of Siena
Giovanni di Paolo’s The Miraculous Communion of Saint Catherine of Siena, a tempera-and-gold panel from a narrative cycle commissioned after Catherine’s 1461 canonization. It presents the reported episode as devotional art.
Credit: Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia) · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Cecilia
Saint Cecilia at the organ, painted by Guercino in 1649, in the Dulwich Picture Gallery.
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Saint Charbel Makhlouf
A statue and devotional banner of Charbel Makhlouf at the Saint Maron monastery complex in Annaya, photographed in 2015.
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Saint Charles Borromeo
Christ with Saint Ambrose, Saint Mary, Saint Charles Borromeo, Saint Thomas the Apostle and angels. P. Aquila after Carlo Maratta, 1693; Wellcome Collection, 10812i. A UK-held historical etching, not a photograph of the Italian altarpiece or Borromeo’s remains.
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Saint Clare of Assisi
Lippo Memmi’s Saint Clare (ca. 1330), a tempera-and-gold panel showing Clare in the habit of the Poor Clares with a book and flaming lamp. The Met identifies it as a reframed pinnacle from an altarpiece made around 1325–30 for San Francesco in San Gimignano.
Credit: Lippo Memmi (Filippo di Memmo) · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Clare of Montefalco
Saint Clare of Montefalco, August 17, from Les Images de tous les saints et saintes de l’année, 1636, etching by Jacques Callot, published by Israël Henriet. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 17.50.17-371(280).
Credit: Jacques Callot; published by Israël Henriet; official digital reproduction by The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Coloman of Stockerau
The 1739 public monument to Saint Coloman in Stockerau, photographed on 20 October 2024.
Credit: C. Stadler (Bwag) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Conrad of Piacenza
Giovanni Lanfranco’s Saint Conrad Confalonieri, about 1618, at the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon. Conrad is represented as a Franciscan hermit at prayer.
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Saint Cuthbert
Cuthbert discovers a timber washed in with the tide, from a late-twelfth-century manuscript of his life.
Credit: British Library digitization · CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Didacus of Alcalá
Francisco de Zurbarán, San Diego de Alcalá, circa 1645–1650 per the Museo Lázaro Galdiano object record; the Commons record dates it 1651–1653.
Credit: Francisco de Zurbarán · Artwork in the public domain; digital reproduction released under CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Dulce of the Poor
Clergy at the 2011 beatification ceremony for Dulce de Souza Lopes Pontes in Salvador, Bahia.
Credit: Manu Dias / Secom (Agecom Bahia) · CC BY 2.0 · Image file
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Saint Edward the Confessor
The chapel and shrine of Edward the Confessor in Westminster Abbey.
Credit: amanderson2 · CC BY 2.0 · Image file
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Saint Elizabeth of Portugal
Jacques Callot, St. Elizabeth of Portugal; St. Zoe; St. Isaiah, Prophet; St. Edelburge. R. L. Baumfeld Collection, National Gallery of Art, 1969.15.697. The full sheet is retained; Elizabeth is one of four devotional scenes.
Credit: Jacques Callot · CC0 · Image file
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Saint Eustochia Smeralda Calafato
A historical devotional print catalogued as Eustochia Calafato in the MAS collection, Antwerp. It depicts a religious figure at prayer beneath Mary and the Christ Child.
Credit: Unknown artist; MAS Museum aan de Stroom, Antwerp · CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Frances of Rome
Santa Francesca Romana Clothed by the Virgin, attributed to Antonio da Viterbo the Elder, about 1445. This devotional panel is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Credit: Antonio da Viterbo the Elder; The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Francis de Sales
Historical portrait of Francis de Sales, bishop of Geneva.
Credit: Unknown artist; reproduction photographed by Benjamin Gavaudo · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Francis of Paola
Francis of Paola in Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo's The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola, circa 1775–1780; photograph by Ji-Elle.
Credit: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; photograph by Ji-Elle · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image file
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Saint Francis Xavier
The silver casket associated with Francis Xavier’s remains at the Basilica of Bom Jesus, Old Goa. This distant view documents the display setting, not an anatomical condition.
Credit: Rohini · CC BY 3.0 · Image file
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Saint Germaine Cousin
The 1854 reliquary of Germaine Cousin in the church of Mary Magdalene, Pibrac.
Credit: Didier Descouens · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Guthlac of Crowland
Crowland Abbey, the historic site associated with Guthlac.
Credit: Patw68 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Blessed Helen Enselmini
The Arcella sanctuary in a nineteenth-century engraving of its former neoclassical church. Helen Enselmini belonged to the earlier Franciscan community at this site in Padua.
Credit: Unknown nineteenth-century engraver · Public domain · Image file
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Blessed Herculanus of Piegaro
Lucca’s Cathedral of San Martino in a photograph published in 1899. Herculanus preached in the cathedral during the siege of 1430.
Credit: Historical photographer unrecorded; published by Leader Scott in The Cathedral Builders (1899) · Public domain (published 1899) · Image file
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Saint Hugh of Lincoln
Saint Hugh’s Choir inside Lincoln Cathedral.
Credit: Michael D Beckwith · CC0 · Image file
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Blessed Idesbald
Bernard Picart (named on the object as printmaker), Portret van Idesbald van der Gracht [Portrait of Idesbald van der Gracht], 1714, engraving and etching on paper. Rijksmuseum, RP-P-2020-6660.
Credit: Bernard Picart (named on the object as printmaker) · Rijksmuseum Public Domain / Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Blessed Imelda Lambertini
A devotional card of Imelda Lambertini published by Boumard et Fils in 1923.
Credit: Boumard et Fils (uitgever) · CC0 · Image file
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Saint Isidore the Laborer
Anonymous Cusco School, Saint Isidore the Farmer, eighteenth century; photograph by the Wikimedia contributor Dozenist.
Credit: Anonymous, Cusco School; photograph by Dozenist · CC BY 2.0 · Image file
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Saint James of the Marches
James of the Marches, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán.
Credit: Francisco de Zurbarán · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Jeanne de Lestonnac
An eighteenth-century devotional portrait of Jeanne de Lestonnac from the Order of the Company of Mary.
Credit: Unidentified artist · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Joaquina Vedruna de Mas
Joaquina de Vedruna in Francesc Morell i Cornet's 1903 painted portrait, which the source record says was based on a retouched photograph.
Credit: Francesc Morell i Cornet · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint John Bosco
John Bosco in a portrait reproduced in The Venerable Don Bosco, published in Philadelphia in 1916.
Credit: Portrait photographer unrecorded; reproduced in M. S. Pine, The Venerable Don Bosco (1916) · Public domain (US publication, 1916) · Image file
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Saint John Neumann
John Neumann’s conserved relic display in Philadelphia, photographed in January 2007. The face is a wax mask; this predates the change of vestments recorded in December 2007.
Credit: Original uploader was Dgf32 at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image file
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Saint John of the Cross
John of the Cross, 1656, traditionally attributed to Francisco de Zurbarán; attribution is uncertain.
Credit: Artist unknown; traditionally attributed to Zurbarán · Public domain · Image file
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Saint John Southworth
John Southworth’s vested reliquary display in Westminster Cathedral. The visible metallic face covering and vested form should not be read as an untreated intact body.
Credit: Ethan Doyle White · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint John Vianney
John Vianney’s vested reliquary display at Ars-sur-Formans, photographed in 2005. The visible face, hands and clothing are not a measurement of untreated tissue.
Credit: Herwig Reidlinger · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image file
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Saint John XXIII
Pope John XXIII in an archival portrait from his pontificate, 1958–1963.
Credit: Unknown photographer / Anefo; Nationaal Archief and Spaarnestad Photo · CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych
The Basilica of Saint Josaphat in Milwaukee, viewed from the northeast in 1969. The parish and church were named for Saint Josaphat Kuntsevych, also known as John Kuncevic.
Credit: Jack E. Boucher, Historic American Buildings Survey · Public domain (U.S. Government / HABS) · Image file
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Saint Julie Billiart
Portrait of Julie Billiart, circa 1830.
Credit: Unknown artist · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Kateri Tekakwitha
Claude Chauchetière's posthumous painted portrait of Kateri Tekakwitha. It supplies historical person context and does not depict the relic attributed to her at Midland.
Credit: Claude Chauchetière, S.J. · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Leonardo Murialdo
Saint-Sulpice in Paris. Murialdo spent 1865–1866 studying at the Saint-Sulpice seminary.
Credit: Ibex73 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Louis Bertrand
Louis Bertrand, painted by Francisco de Zurbarán circa 1640.
Credit: Francisco de Zurbarán · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Lucy Filippini
Lucy Filippini in an anonymous nineteenth-century devotional portrait, holding a crucifix and an open book.
Credit: Unknown nineteenth-century devotional artist · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Lucy of Syracuse
Francisco de Zurbarán, Saint Lucy, c. 1625–1630. Chester Dale Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1943.7.11. A devotional painting, not a portrait from life or an image of relics.
Credit: Francisco de Zurbarán · CC0 · Image file
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Saint Luigi Orione
A mosaic portrait of Luigi Orione on the exterior of the Orionist Sisters’ care home in Koło, Poland.
Credit: Photograph: CudPotwórca; mosaic artist unrecorded · Photograph: public domain · Image file
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Saint Madeleine Sophie Barat
The reliquary identified as Madeleine Sophie Barat's in Saint-François-Xavier, Paris.
Credit: Guilhem Vellut from Paris, France · CC BY 2.0 · Image file
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Blessed Mafalda of Portugal
Mafalda of Portugal, Queen of Castile, in António de Holanda’s Genealogy of the Kings of Portugal (1530–1534).
Credit: António de Holanda · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Margaret Mary Alacoque
The reliquary identified as Margaret Mary Alacoque's in the Visitation chapel, Paray-le-Monial.
Credit: Benjamin Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Margaret of Castello
Margaret of Castello in a devotional etching by J. and J. Klauber, from the Wellcome Collection in London.
Credit: J. and J. Klauber; Wellcome Collection · CC BY 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Margaret of Cortona
Gaspare Traversi’s Saint Margaret of Cortona, about 1758. The painting is held by The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Credit: Gaspare Traversi; The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Maria Domenica Mazzarello
Maria Domenica Mazzarello in a portrait reproduced in The Venerable Don Bosco, published in Philadelphia in 1916.
Credit: Portrait photographer unrecorded; reproduced in M. S. Pine, The Venerable Don Bosco (1916) · Public domain (US publication, 1916) · Image file
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Saint Maria Goretti
St Maria Goretti Church in Ribbleton, Preston, England—a parish named in her honour.
Credit: Rept0n1x · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Image file
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Saint Martin de Porres
The historic dome and interior of Santo Domingo in Lima.
Credit: Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi
Mary Magdalene de’ Pazzi in a seventeenth-century miniature by Josefa de Óbidos, in the Museu Nacional de Arte Antiga, Lisbon.
Credit: Josefa de Óbidos · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Narcisa de Jesús
The Sanctuary of Narcisa de Jesús in Nobol, Ecuador, photographed on 3 November 2015.
Credit: Edjoerv · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Nicholas of Tolentino
Giovanni di Paolo’s The Exultation of Saint Nicholas of Tolentino, about 1450, in The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Robert Lehman Collection.
Credit: Giovanni di Paolo (Giovanni di Paolo di Grazia); The Metropolitan Museum of Art · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Blessed Osanna Andreasi
Francesco Bonsignori, Beata Osanna Andreasi, c. 1519, reproduced in Julia Cartwright Ady’s 1903 London book. The historical printed reproduction depicts a painting held in Mantua.
Credit: Francesco Bonsignori · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Pacificus of San Severino
Pacificus of San Severino in an eighteenth-century devotional etching from the Upart-Dauscha Collection in Greenville, South Carolina.
Credit: Unknown engraver; image published by Anchorite, Upart-Dauscha Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Padre Pio
St Mary of the Angels, Dublin, home of Ireland’s National Shrine of St Pio.
Credit: Andreas F. Borchert · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Paola Frassinetti
The Chapel of Saint Paula Frassinetti in São Sebastião do Paraíso, Brazil.
Credit: Túllio F · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Peregrine Laziosi
Saint Peregrine Laziosi with the Crucifix and instruments of the Passion, 1717–c.1770, engraving and etching by Johann Christoph Winkler, whose name appears on the print. Rijksmuseum, RP-P-1909-6157. The surviving sheet was trimmed within the plate mark; the museum’s digital file is a cropped institutional derivative.
Credit: Johann Christoph Winkler (printmaker and publisher; named on object) · Rijksmuseum Public Domain / Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Peter Julian Eymard
An anonymous albumen portrait of Peter Julian Eymard, made before his death in 1868 and reproduced as the frontispiece of an 1886 Italian volume; Rijksmuseum object RP-F-2001-7-666-1.
Credit: Anonymous photographer; Rijksmuseum digitization · Public-domain work; digital file released under CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Philip Neri
Carlo Dolci’s posthumous portrait Saint Philip Neri (1515–1595), painted in 1645 or 1646; oil on canvas.
Credit: Carlo Dolci · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Pope Pius X
Th. Russer, Pius X., 1903, pastel and gouache on cardboard. National Museum, H2-183 146.
Credit: Th. Russer (artwork); R. Boček (image) · CC BY 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Rita of Cascia
Saint Rita of Cascia receiving a thorn from Christ’s crown, 1736, line engraving by Johann Jakob Frey the Elder after Giacinto Brandi. Wellcome Collection, 3490i (V0031636).
Credit: Johann Jakob Frey the Elder after Giacinto Brandi · Wellcome Collection Public Domain / Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Romuald
Pseudo-Palmeruccio, Saint Romuald, possibly ca. 1320–30; tempera on wood with gold ground.
Credit: Pseudo-Palmeruccio · The Met Open Access / CC0 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Rose of Lima
Rose of Lima, painted by Claudio Coello around 1685, in the Museo Nacional del Prado.
Credit: Claudio Coello · Public domain · Image file
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Saint Rose of Viterbo
Pope Pius VI venerating the body of Saint Rose of Viterbo during his 1798 visit, engraved by Pietro Bonato after Luigi Scotti; probably Rome, about 1801. Wellcome Collection, 7147i (V0032973).
Credit: Pietro Bonato after Luigi Scotti; digital reproduction supplied by Wellcome Collection · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Rose Philippine Duchesne
Devotional portrait of Rose Philippine Duchesne from the late nineteenth or early twentieth century.
Credit: Anonymous · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Saint Salvador of Horta
José Juárez, Miracles of the Blessed Salvador of Horta, seventeenth century, Museo Nacional de Arte, Mexico, accession 18572.
Credit: José Juárez · Public Domain Mark 1.0 · Image file
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Silvan of Dubrovnik
Display associated with Saint Silvan in the Church of Saint Blaise, Dubrovnik.
Credit: Z thomas · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Image file
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Saint Sperandia
Sperandia stands at upper right, holding lilies and a crucifix behind the kneeling bishop, in this detail of Lorenzo Lotto’s Cingoli altarpiece. The Alinari photograph was published in Bernhard Berenson’s Lorenzo Lotto in 1901.
Credit: Lorenzo Lotto (painting); Alinari (historical photograph); Getty Research Institute (book scan) · Public domain · Image file
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Blessed Stephen Nehmé
The convent at Kfifan associated with Estephàn Nehmé.
Credit: Evilscaught · CC BY 3.0 · Image file
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Saint Teresa Margaret of the Sacred Heart
Pietro Leone Bombelli’s engraved portrait of Teresa Margaret in an 1806 biography. The book is held by the Johns Hopkins University Sheridan Libraries in Baltimore.
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Saint Teresa of Ávila
François Guillaume Ménageot, The Virgin Placing St. Teresa of Avila Under the Protection of St. Joseph, ca. 1787. Saint Teresa kneels at lower right in this preparatory sketch; it is not a life portrait or documentary image. The Met, 1991.48.
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Saint Ubald of Gubbio
The Collégiale Saint-Thiébaut in Thann, France, a place of devotion to Ubald of Gubbio, whose name is rendered locally as Thiébaut.
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Saint Ursula Ledóchowska
The room identified as Ursula Ledóchowska’s in the religious house at Pniewy.
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Venerable María de Jesús of Ágreda
Anonymous eighteenth-century portrait identified as Mary of Jesus of Ágreda, in the Museo Nacional del Virreinato, Mexico.
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Saint Veronica Giuliani
Veronica Giuliani with Christ in Josef Zenker’s nineteenth-century altarpiece at Saint Anton in Munich, photographed by Ricardalovesmonuments.
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Saint Vincent de Paul
Etienne Fessard’s 1756 engraving after Charles Joseph Natoire depicts Saint Vincent de Paul in the Chapel of the Enfants-Trouvés in Paris. It belongs to a print series made after Natoire’s chapel paintings before the chapel was destroyed in the nineteenth century.
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Saint Virginia Centurione Bracelli
Saint Peter’s Basilica and Square in Vatican City, photographed in August 2014. Virginia Centurione Bracelli was canonized in this square on 18 May 2003.
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Saint Waltheof of Melrose
A building along the eastern wall of Melrose Abbey, viewed from the Commendator's House grounds in 2022.
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Saint Werburgh
The fourteenth-century stone shrine of Saint Werburgh, reconstructed in the nineteenth century, behind the high altar in Chester Cathedral.
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Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster
Benedictines of Mary praying beside Wilhelmina Lancaster’s displayed body, in a modified still from TAN Books’ Finding Sr. Wilhelmina (2023). The image documents a devotional presentation, not an anatomical examination or proof of untreated preservation.
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Saint Zita
Arnould de Vuez, Sainte Zite, 1696, Hospice Comtesse, Lille; photograph by the Wikimedia contributor Velvet.
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Saint Émilie de Vialar
The reliquary identified as Émilie de Vialar's in Saint-Pierre, Gaillac.
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