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Grad student creates Stations of the Cross with migration theme
When Jacqueline Romo was considering what to do for her senior thesis project at Dominican University in 2019, she drew on her personal and faith journeys for inspiration and created “The Passion of the Monarca Migrante,” which uses the monarch butterfly and the plight of migrants to depict the Stations of the Cross.
Sinner and sage: Despite troubled life, Caravaggio mastered spiritual meanings
Considered one of Caravaggio’s best masterpieces, “The Entombment of Christ” was covetously confiscated by the French for its newly opened Louvre Museum as Napoleon swept down the Italian peninsula in the late 18th century.
Murals at Fullerton L stop highlight history of DePaul University
After seven years of work with dozens of DePaul University art students, Vincentian Brother Mark Elder recently completed work on 25 murals that wrap the cement support pillars at the Chicago Transit Authority’s Fullerton Red, Brown and Purple Line L stop.
Pastor uses art to support breakfasts for the homeless
“I’ve said to people that I was born with a package of crayons in my mother’s womb,” said Servite Father Christopher Krymski, pastor of Our Lady of Sorrows Basilica and director of the National Shrine of St. Peregrine, 3121 W. Jackson Blvd. “My father was an artist and I think the DNA may have gone down to me.”
St. Gregory’s Hall part of parish’s unique evangelization effort
Parishioners at Mary, Mother of God Parish filled St. Gregory Church on Sept. 3 for a liturgy to celebrate that church’s patron, St. Gregory the Great. But it was not just any Mass, because the new St. Gregory’s Hall artist-in-resident Kevin Allen was conducting the choir in singing Gregorian chant in homage to the church’s patron.
Friends of the Windows ‘open the doors to beauty’
It was some time around Christmas 1994 when Neal Ball first saw the stained-glass windows that illuminate St. James Chapel in the Archbishop Quigley Center, now the pastoral center for the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Chicago-area architect turns 67,000 tiny LEGO pieces into Vatican City State replica
We all know Rome wasn’t built in a day, but LEGO architect Rocco Buttliere had three months, which definitely gave him a running start over Julius Caesar.
Holy women, men focus of series by longtime iconographer
Joe Malham is well known for his work as an iconographer. The artist-in-residence at St. Gregory the Great Church at Mother of God Parish, 5545 N. Paulina St., has created a new series featuring modern holy women and men who did great things during their lifetimes.
St. John Cantius turns steps into art for Corpus Christi
When European Catholics celebrate Corpus Christi, they often make carpets in the street out of flowers or sand to honor Christ in the Eucharist. In that spirit, St. John Cantius Parish, 825. N. Carpenter St., has created eucharistic images on its front steps for the solemnity and the procession that follows Mass for the past 10 years.
Bishop Bartosic revisits acting roots at St. Gregory Church
When Auxiliary Bishop Mark Bartosic entered the priesthood, he left his days as a professional actor behind. But on Feb. 8, he revisited his acting roots in the performance “Broken Fount: The Letters of Abelard and Heloise” at St. Gregory the Great Church, 5545 N. Paulina St.
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