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BEIRUT — When Islamic State fighters overran Qaraqosh, Iraq, in the summer of 2014, Mothana Butres was able to grab only a single volume from his father’s collection of thousands of Syriac books and manuscripts. The handwritten, 600-year-old book of Syriac hymns now inspires much of Butres’ work as an iconographer. From a modest walk-up…
PHOENIX — The Knights of Columbus, long associated with swords, capes and chapeaus, will be going through a significant uniform change. The traditional regalia worn by fourth-degree Knights will be replaced, announced Supreme Knight Carl Anderson Aug. 1 during the international fraternal organization’s 135th annual Supreme Convention in St. Louis, which was livestreamed on EWTN.…
Artist’s 21,000-piece image took nearly a year to complete Bloomfield Hills — Things just got brighter at St. Owen Parish in Bloomfield Hills. Parishioners and visitors alike will notice a large, 21,000-piece mosaic adoring the wall behind the baptismal font, the work of a local artist at the request of a pastor who wanted to…
PHOENIX — When Jen Norton decided to paint Blessed Junipero Serra, she turned to the Internet to see what images of him exist. “Turns out there are not a lot,” said the Catholic folk artist from San Jose, California. “I looked for resources online and the same images kept popping up.” The ones she saw…
Mexico City native who’s performed for saints to give presentations in Detroit Detroit — Pedro Noguez Rivera doesn’t speak English — he only “breathes” it, he jokes. But that isn’t stopping the Mexico City native from proclaiming the message of St. Juan Diego and Our Lady of Guadalupe in English-speaking parts of the world —…
Catholic artist hopes mural fosters ecumenism, cooperation between denominations New Baltimore — Artist Pio Peter Zammit calls the blocks surrounding St. Mary Queen of Creation Parish the “buckle on the Bible belt of New Baltimore.” In addition to the Catholic parish, Zammit says it’s God’s providence that there are four churches “within 150 feet apart”…
