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Caroline Chisholm City Walk (01)

30/4/2023

#ChisholmWalkSydney

Today was the first ever Caroline Chisholm City Walk through Sydney CBD: starting from Wynyard Station; stopping for Mass at St Patrick's Church Hill; pausing at the site of the Female Immigrants House founded by Mrs Chisholm in 1841; and finishing at St Mary's Cathedral.

Below are some of the photos from today.

Fr Kevin Stewart, Marist, celebrated the 10am Mass today (30 April 2023).

Preserved foundations of William Davis' cottage where the consecrated Eucharist was left behind by Fr Jeremiah O'Flynn in 1818.

Crossing Harrington Street, continuing along Bridge Street.

We stopped for coffee at the This Way Canteen in front of Museum of Sydney.

Continuing on from having stopped outside of Hyde Park Barracks.

A few final photos on the steps of St Mary's Cathedral, Sydney, NSW.

A last small group photo before catching the train home.

Vincent Cavanagh
~30 April 2023

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First Holy Martyrs of Rome

27/4/2023

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Artwork created 19–27 April 2023.

A divinely-inspired, Roman mosaic–styled depiction of a few of the many different ways in which the early Christians were martyred in Rome, under the persecution of emperor Nero in AD 64.

"Nero's Torches", Henry Siemiradzki, 1876

The top panel has much inspiration from the painting Nero’s Torches, by Henry Siemiradzki in 1876, showing both men and women being burnt alive after the Great Fire of Rome before the gaze of gathered the Roman elite.

Illumination of St Andrew, East Anglian missal, c. 1320

Panel two is informed by an image of St Andrew’s crucifixion found within an East Anglian missal, circa 1320.

And the final panel illustrates the Roman capital punishment of damnatio ad bestias (condemnation to beast), or what is more commonly referred to as “being thrown to the lions.”

I freely admit that the Christians before said lions are heavily referenced from Jean-Léon Gérôme’s The Christian Martyrs’ Last Prayer (1883).

The slowly circling beasts themselves are a synthesis of various depictions of lions found in extant Roman mosaic art.

"The Christian Martyrs' Last Prayer", Jean-Léon Gérôme, 1883

The memorial of the First Martyrs of the Church of Rome is held on June 30th, the day after the celebration of the Feast of St Peter and St Paul.

Vincent Cavanagh
~ 27 Apr 2023

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Image Process 2023-04-26

26/4/2023

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Oh, what a grisly pair these are.

Thankfully the "art style" used in Roman mosaics allows some leeway when it comes to depictions of various beasts and predators.

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Image Process 2023-04-19

19/4/2023

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Trying to do a Roman Mosaic pattern without going cross-eyed only increases my appreciation for those artists who do this on a “regular” basis. Compared to the vast intricacies of Celtic knots by the likes of @creativeartlette, my lowly attempt at an entwined border pales in significance.

My hats off to all of you, my fellow artists.

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St Peregrine Laziosi, O.S.M. (2023)

5/4/2023

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Sketched 30 Mar 2023.
Coloured and completed 5 Apr 2023.

[UPDATED — 9 APRIL 2023]
The following text was written after the original post because I was too tired that night to write anything, and then I was caught up in the Paschal Triduum which further drained me of any capacity to string words together. Happy Easter.

I think that I can safely pin-point the inspiration for this image of St Peregrine to mention of the Latin word “peregrinus” by our bishop in his homily during the mass after the first WYD formation day/session back in March. Peregrinus, meaning “foreigner” or “one from abroad”, is the route word for Pilgrim.

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