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Our Lady of Aparecida, Patroness of Brazil

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In the second half of October 1717, three fishermen, Filipe Pedroso, Domingos Garcia and John Doe, to cast their net for fishing in the waters of the Rio Paraíba, cropping the image of Our Lady of Conception, at a place called Port Itaguassu. Filipe Pedroso took her to his house with keeping it until 1732, when Athanasius gave his son Pedroso. This built a small oratory where he placed the image of the Virgin remained there until 1743. Every Saturday, the neighborhood gathered in the small chapel to pray the rosary. Due to the occurrence of miracles, the devotion to Our Lady began to spread, with the name given by the people of Our Lady Aparecida. It is Brazil's patron saint, venerated in the Catholic Church. A black Marian title, Our Lady of Aparecida is represented by a small terracotta image of the Virgin Mary is currently housed in the Basilica of Our Lady of Aparecida, in the city of Aparecida, Sao Paulo. His feast is celebrated on October 12, a national holiday in Brazil sin...

The Creation of Adam

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My Work of Art - The Creation of Adam!Inspired by a fresco of the same name 280 cm x 570 cm, painted by "Michelangelo Buonarroti circa 1511, which appears on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. The scene depicts an episode from the Book of Genesis in which God is ... creates the first man, Adam. ""God is depicted as a bearded old man wrapped in a cloak that he shares with some cherubim. His left arm is wrapped around a female figure, normally interpreted as Eve - which has not yet been created and, figuratively, waits in heaven to gain a human form . the right arm is stretched God's power to create the life of his own finger to Adam, whose left arm is extended as opposed to the creator. the fingers of Adam and God are separated by a small distance. "In the background the artist, Gerson scallop, shows once again the beauty of the wonderful city, the Christ Redeemer represented by the sun shining bright in the sky of a beautiful summer afternoon! _______________...