Christian Art

[Teutone]

[Joso]

Wow very well done art, it almost look like a photo

[Teutone]

Wow very well done art, it almost look like a photo

its a photo

photography is a art form

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

How is this Christian art? Looks like the Greek god Helios to me.

Looks like some XVIII century monarch.

By the way, this is also christian:

[Teutone]

[Jacques de Imbelloni]

Misa criolla

La misa criolla es una obra musical para solistas, coro y orquesta, de naturaleza religiosa y folclórica, creada por el músico argentino Ariel Ramírez (1921-2010). Los textos litúrgicos fueron traducidos y adaptados por los sacerdotes Antonio Osvaldo Catena, Alejandro Mayol y Jesús Gabriel Segade. La obra está dedicada a dos hermanas alemanas, Elisabeth y Regina Brückner, quienes ayudaron con alimentos a los prisioneros de un campo de concentración durante el nazismo.

La obra fue compuesta y grabada en 1964 y lanzada como álbum en 1965, con el grupo folklórico Los Fronterizos ―Eduardo Madeo, Gerardo López, Julio César Isella y Juan Carlos Moreno― (voces), Jaime Torres (charango), Chango Farías Gómez (percusión), Raúl Barboza (acordeón), Luis Amaya (guitarra), la Cantoría de la Basílica del Socorro ―dirigida por el padre Jesús Gabriel Segade― y una orquesta integrada por instrumentos regionales ―dirigida por el propio Ariel Ramírez―.

Simultáneamente con la Misa criolla, Ariel Ramírez compuso Navidad nuestra, con letra del poeta e historiador Félix Luna, e incluida como lado B del álbum. Ambas obras están relacionadas y en algunas oportunidades puede producirse la confusión de considerar que Navidad nuestra ―o algunos de sus temas― integran la Misa criolla.

Misa Criolla
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Die Misa Criolla (dt.: „Kreolische Messe“) ist eine Messe des argentinischen Komponisten Ariel Ramírez für 2 Solo-Tenöre, gemischten Chor, Schlagzeug, Klavier und traditionelle Instrumente der Andenregion.

Misa Criolla - From The Argentine - A Folkloristic Expression Of Religious Emotions

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[Aspirin]

Anastenaria

The Anastenaria (Bulgarian Нестинарство, Greek Αναστενάρια) is a traditional fire-walking ritual performed in some villages in Northern Greece and Southern Bulgaria. The communities which celebrate this ritual are descended from refugees who entered Greece from Eastern Thrace following the Balkan Wars of 1911–12 and the exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey in 1923.

The Bulgarian and Greek villages perform a unique annual ritual cycle, which begins on May 21 and ends on May 23 every year. The central figures of the tradition are Saint Constantine and Saint Helen, but all the significant days in this cycle coincide with important days in the Greek Orthodox calendar and are related to various Christian saints. The two major events in this cycle are two big festivals, one in January and particularly one in May, dedicated to these two saints. Each of the festivals lasts for 3 days and involves various processions, music and dancing, and an animal sacrifice. The festival culminates with a firewalking ritual, where the participants, carrying the icons of saints Constantine and Helen, dance ecstatically for hours before entering the fire and walking barefoot over the glowing-red coals, unharmed by the fire.

Each community of the Anastenaria has a special shrine known as the konaki, where their holy icons are placed, as well as the "signs" of the saints (semadia), votive offerings and red kerchiefs attached to the icons. Here, on the Eve of the saints' day, May 20 Saint Constantine and Saint Helen, they gather to dance to the music of the Thracian lyre and drum. After some time they believe that they may be "seized" by Saint Constantine and enter a trance. On the morning of the Saints' day, May 21, the gather at the konaki and proceed to a well to be blessed with holy water, and sacrifice animals. The rules about the nature of the beasts to be slain are precise, but differ from village to village. In the evening a fire is lit in an open space, and after dancing for some time in the konaki, the "anastenarides" go to it carrying their ikons. After dancing around it in a circle, individual anastenarides dance over the hot coals as the saint moves them. The ritual is also performed in January, during the festival of Saint Athanasius, and fire-walking is done indoors.

Origins
According to some myths the custom originated in the Middle Ages when the church of Saint Constantine in their original home in Kosti, now in Bulgaria, caught fire, and the voices of the saints calling for help could be heard from inside. The villagers who braved the flames to rescue them were unharmed, being protected by the saints. Most ethnographers, however, have argued that the Anastenaria are vestiges of ancient practices of cults of Dionysus.

The Anastenaria today
Today, the rituals of the Anastenaria are performed in five villages of northern Greece: Ayia Eleni, Langadas, Melike, Mavrolefke, and Kerkine. In addition, the ritual is still performed in six Bulgarian villages in the Strandzha Mountains: Balgari, Gramatikovo, Slivarovo, Kondolovo, Kosti, and Brodilovo.

Recorded in the village of Agia Eleni, Serres, Greece, 20-21 may 1979.

[Armenian Bishop]

The Yerevan Chamber Choir and Soprano Isabel Beyrakdarian singing "Quta Der" a Prayerful Armenian Requiem Hymn. This is a tearful prayer song for our Rite of Passage into God's Hands. Take notice of the church surroundings and aesthetic richness of the Armenian Church. These Armenians have interesting faces worth noticing, and some choir members appear to be holding back tears, as they sing.

Armenian Verses are Translated with English Subtitles. Here it is:
O Lord have mercy upon the souls of our departed.
And, mercifully remember them, who were bought by Thy holy blood;
When, at the marvelous sound of the trumpet,
The dead shall rise and stand before Thy wondrous tribunal.

[Daco Celtic]