Liturgical Arts Journal

The nuns in Rome who make and launder the altar cloths of St. Peter's Basilica are the congregation Figlie di San Giuseppe di Rivalba (the Daughters of St. Joseph of Rivalba). These sisters can be seen often in the sacristy of the Vatican Basilica, as well as dressing the altars, always keeping busy in their recognizable black and white habit.Since 1925 these nuns have had ...

Art-Deco influence from FrancePassing fashions come and go, also evidenced in the development of liturgical items over time. The twentieth century liturgical movement produced many various works related to the sacred liturgy that reflect a gradual development of artistic style. Already in the later nineteenth century there was a Gothic Revival. Then beginning around the tim...

One of the most popular Parisian churches for pilgrims is the delightful Our Lady of Victories (Notre-Dame-des-Victories). Radiating the French Baroque style, this popular Marian shrine has attracted many pilgrims over the years including St. Thérèse of Lisieux (who received her vocation here) and Don Bosco (who had a mystical vision here). Even Mozart visited in 1778 ...

(Image source)Saints Peter and Paul are two of the most important and beloved saints and apostles in the entire Christian Church. Given their particular prominence in the 'college of the apostles,' from the earliest of times we can find a strong devotion to them, a devotion which has been manifest in multiple instances across multiple mediums of paleochristian art, from extant c...

There is a twelfth century object whose origins is possibly from Constantinople or possibly a workshop located in the South of Italy (historically part of the Byzantine world let us recall) that has long captured my curiosity, mainly for reason of the mystery surrounding its original purpose.  I have seen it variously referred to as as a reliquary, a lampada, a tabernacle, ...