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Texts

• Catechism: the Compendium of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. The text is © 2005 Libreria Editrice Vaticana; the English is the Vatican’s own.
• Scripture: the English of the verses in the popups is the public-domain Douay-Rheims translation. The link in the popup opens the passage on BibleGateway (RSVCE).
• The Mass: excerpts from the English translation of The Roman Missal © 2010, International Commission on English in the Liturgy Corporation. All rights reserved.
• The Rosary: the traditional English prayers, in the public domain.
• Saints: dates follow the General Roman Calendar and the Roman Martyrology.

Written for this site

Everything else (the lives of the saints, the parables, the miracles, the history of the Church, the guides, Answering Islam, Answering Atheism, A Call to Our Jewish Friends) was written for this site from the Church’s documents and reliable sources. Where a page draws on particular sources, they are listed at the end of that page.

• Answering Islam: hadith numbers follow sunnah.com. The Arabic of the Qur’an comes from the Tanzil project, the English from Pickthall’s translation (1930).
• Miracles: the sections on Fatima, Lanciano and Padre Pio draw on Ethan Muse’s Motiva Credibilitatis.

Pictures

• Paintings: the paintings in the page headers and sections are in the public domain. They come from the collections of the National Gallery of Art (Washington), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Library of Congress and the Web Gallery of Art. The full list is below.
• History of the Church: most of the pictures come from Wikimedia Commons. Their owners and licences are below.
• Miracles: the photographs and pictures are in the public domain or under Creative Commons licences. The credits are below.
• Portraits of the saints: public-domain paintings and photographs; three are photographs under Creative Commons licences. The credits are below.
• Drawings and icons: drawn for this site.

Fonts

Lexend for the text, EB Garamond for the logo. Both are used under the SIL Open Font License and are served from the site itself.

Last updated: 8 October 2026

Paintings

The paintings used in the page headers and on the home page. All are in the public domain; the links open the Web Gallery of Art pages the images come from.

• The Feast of the Rosary
  Albrecht Dürer · National Gallery, Prague
• The Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas
  Andrea da Firenze · Santa Maria Novella, Florence
• The Presentation in the Temple
  Andrea Mantegna · Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• The Trinity
  Andrei Rublev · Tretyakov Galerisi, Moscow
• Saints Peter and Paul
  Bartolomeo Manfredi · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Raising of Lazarus
  Benozzo Gozzoli · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Saint Francis of Assisi Receiving the Stigmata
  Bicci di Lorenzo · The Cleveland Museum of Art
• Christ Pantocrator (icon)
  Unknown icon painter · Hermitage, St. Petersburg
• Icon of the New Testament Trinity
  Bilinmeyen ressam · The Cleveland Museum of Art
• The Annunciation
  Botticelli · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Adoration of the Magi
  Botticelli · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Porta Portello, Padua
  Canaletto · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Calling of Saint Matthew
  Caravaggio · San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
• The Inspiration of Saint Matthew
  Caravaggio · San Luigi dei Francesi, Rome
• The Denial of Saint Peter
  Caravaggio · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Burial of Saint Lucy
  Caravaggio · Santa Lucia alla Badia, Syracuse
• The Adoration of the Shepherds
  Caravaggio · Museo Regionale, Messina
• Ecce Homo
  Caravaggio · Palazzo Bianco, Genoa
• Supper at Emmaus
  Caravaggio · Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
• Supper at Emmaus
  Caravaggio · National Gallery, London
• Saint Francis of Assisi in Ecstasy
  Caravaggio · Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford
• The Sacrifice of Isaac
  Caravaggio · Uffizi, Florence
• The Flagellation of Christ
  Caravaggio · Museo di Capodimonte, Naples
• The Incredulity of Saint Thomas
  Caravaggio · Sanssouci, Potsdam
• Madonna of Loreto
  Caravaggio · Sant’Agostino, Rome
• The Death of the Virgin
  Caravaggio · Louvre, Paris
• The Entombment
  Caravaggio · Vatican Pinacoteca
• Rest on the Flight into Egypt
  Caravaggio · Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
• The Annunciation
  Caravaggio · Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy
• The Denial of Saint Peter
  Caravaggio · Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• Saint Francis in Meditation
  Caravaggio · Museo Civico, Cremona
• Madonna of the Rosary
  Caravaggio · Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
• The Penitent Magdalene
  Caravaggio · Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
• Saint Jerome Writing
  Caravaggio · Galleria Borghese, Rome
• The Seven Works of Mercy
  Caravaggio · Pio Monte della Misericordia, Naples
• The Sermon on the Mount
  Carl Heinrich Bloch · Frederiksborg Palace, Hillerød
• The Feast of the Passover
  Dieric Bouts · Sint-Pieterskerk, Leuven
• The Last Communion of Saint Jerome
  Domenichino · Vatican Pinacoteca
• The Apostles Peter and Paul
  El Greco · Hermitage, St. Petersburg
• Pentecost
  El Greco · Museo del Prado, Madrid
• The Institution of the Eucharist
  Federico Barocci · Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome
• The Monastery of Montserrat
  Photograph, about 1900 · Library of Congress, Washington
• The Healing of Palladia by Saints Cosmas and Damian
  Fra Angelico · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Annunciation
  Fra Angelico · Museo del Prado, Madrid
• Saint Nicholas of Myra
  Fra Angelico · San Domenico, Fiesole
• Saint Benedict Orders Saint Maurus to the Rescue of Saint Placidus
  Fra Filippo Lippi · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Annunciation
  Fra Filippo Lippi · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Christ Washing the Disciples’ Feet
  Garofalo · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Saint Francis before the Sultan
  Giotto · Basilica of Saint Francis, Assisi
• Saint Francis before the Sultan
  Giotto · Basilica of San Francesco, Assisi
• The Road to Calvary
  Giotto · Scrovegni Chapel, Padova
• Christ among the Doctors
  Giotto · Scrovegni Chapel, Padova
• The Nativity
  Giotto · Scrovegni Chapel, Padova
• The Ascension
  Giotto · Scrovegni Chapel, Padova
• Entry into Jerusalem
  Giotto · Scrovegni Chapel, Padua
• The Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine of Siena
  Giovanni di Paolo · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Adoration of the Shepherds
  Giovanni Girolamo Savoldo · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Interior of Saint Peter’s, Rome
  Giovanni Paolo Pannini · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Confession
  Giuseppe Maria Crespi · Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
• The Mass of Saint Gregory
  Hans Baldung · The Cleveland Museum of Art
• The Mass of Saint Gregory
  Hans Baldung Grien · Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe
• The Last Judgement
  Hans Memling · National Museum, Gdańsk
• Roses de Nice on a Table
  Henri Fantin-Latour · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Saint John on Patmos
  Hieronymus Bosch · Gemäldegalerie, Berlin
• The Conversion of Saint Paul
  Jacopo Tintoretto · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Adoration of the Lamb
  Jan van Eyck · St. Bavo’s Cathedral, Gent
• Shepherd with His Flock
  Jean-Victor Bertin · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The First Mass of Saint John of Matha
  Juan Carreño de Miranda · Louvre, Paris
• The Agony in the Garden
  Mantegna · National Gallery, London
• The Prophet Daniel
  Michelangelo · Sistine Chapel, Vatican
• The Prophet Isaiah
  Michelangelo · Sistine Chapel, Vatican
• The Prophet Zechariah
  Michelangelo · Sistine Chapel, Vatican
• Virgin and Child with a Rosary
  Murillo · Museo del Prado, Madrid
• The Basilica of Constantine with a Doric Colonnade
  Niccolò Codazzi · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Saints Peter and John Healing the Lame Man
  Nicolas Poussin · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Baptism of Christ
  Nicolas Poussin · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Holy Family on the Steps
  Nicolas Poussin · The Cleveland Museum of Art
• The Council of Trent
  Pasquale Cati · Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome
• Antwerp Cathedral
  Peeter Neeffs · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter
  Perugino · Sistine Chapel, Vatican
• Saint Teresa of Ávila Interceding for Souls in Purgatory
  Peter Paul Rubens · The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
• The Recognition of Joseph by his Brothers
  Peter von Cornelius · Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin
• The Resurrection
  Piero della Francesca · Museo Civico, Sansepolcro
• The Baptism of Christ
  Piero della Francesca · National Gallery, London
• The Prodigal Son
  Pierre Puvis de Chavannes · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The School of Athens
  Raphael · Apostolic Palace, Vatican
• Saint George and the Dragon
  Raphael · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• Saint Michael the Archangel
  Raphael · Louvre, Paris
• The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
  Raphael · Apostolic Palace, Vatican
• Paul Preaching in Athens
  Raphael · Victoria and Albert Museum, London
• The Transfiguration
  Raphael · Vatican Pinacoteca
• The Return of the Prodigal Son
  Rembrandt · Hermitage, St. Petersburg
• Simeon with the Infant Jesus in the Temple
  Rembrandt · Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
• Jews in the Synagogue
  Rembrandt (etching) · Teylers Museum, Haarlem
• Saint Jerome
  Ribera · Galleria Doria Pamphilj, Rome
• The Seven Sacraments
  Rogier van der Weyden · KMSKA, Antwerp
• Saint Jerome and the Angel
  Simon Vouet · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Institution of the Rosary
  Tiepolo · Gesuati Church, Venice
• Christ at the Sea of Galilee
  Circle of Tintoretto (probably Lambert Sustris) · National Gallery of Art, Washington
• The Vision of Saint Augustine
  Vittore Carpaccio · Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice
• Saint Jerome and the Lion in the Monastery
  Vittore Carpaccio · Scuola di San Giorgio degli Schiavoni, Venice

Kilise’nin tarihi görselleri

Kilise’nin tarihi sayfasındaki ve ana sayfa şeridindeki görseller, sırasıyla. Kamu malı olmayanlar, belirtilen Creative Commons lisansıyla ve sahiplerinin adıyla kullanılır.

• Pentecost
  El Greco · Public domain
• The Martyrdom of Saint Clement I, Pope
  Agostino Ciampelli · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Photographic Facsimiles of the Remains of the Epistles of Clement of Rome. Made from the
  Roger Fenton · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Papyrus letter in Greek
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• S. Ignace, martyr (St. Ignatius, Martyr), February 1st, from "Les Images De Tous Les Sainc
  Jacques Callot · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Institution of the Eucharist
  Fra Angelico · Public domain
• The Good Shepherd
  Early Christian painter · Public domain
• The Glorification of the Eucharist
  Peter Paul Rubens · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• S. Polycarpe (St. Polycarp), February 23rd, from "Les Images De Tous Les Saincts et Sainte
  Jacques Callot · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Glass bowl fragment with gold leaf and painted decoration
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Christ Giving the Keys to Saint Peter
  Perugino · Public domain
• Bowl Base with Miracle Scenes
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Apostles Peter and Paul
  El Greco · Public domain
• Crucifix with Scenes of the Passion
  Unknown · Public domain (Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0)
• Saint Hippolytus of Rome, martyr
  Anonymous Mexican painter · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Baptism of Christ
  Piero della Francesca · Public domain
• Icon of the Virgin and Child, Hodegetria variant
  Byzantine or Crusader workshop · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Virgin of Mercy
  Enguerrand Quarton · Public domain
• The Trinity
  Andrei Rublev · Public domain
• Leaf from a Gospel Book with Four Standing Evangelists
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Gospel Book
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Icon with Three Church Fathers
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Carthage
  William Linton · Public domain (Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0)
• Saint Augustine
  Botticelli · Public domain
• Medallion of St. John Chrysostom
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Saint Augustine
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Portable Icon with the Virgin Eleousa
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Christ among the Doctors
  Giotto · Public domain
• Saint Benedict
  Francisco de Zurbarán · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Mass of Saint Gregory
  Hans Baldung Grien · Public domain
• Icon with Christ Pantokrator
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Deësis mosaic
  Byzantine mosaicist · Public domain
• The Disputation of the Holy Sacrament
  Raphael · Public domain
• The Triumph of Saint Thomas Aquinas
  Andrea da Firenze · Public domain
• Title Page of the Gospel of John
  Sargis · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Bible
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Martin Luther as an Augustinian Monk
  Lucas Cranach the Elder · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Lord on the Throne Surrounded by Four Evangelists, plate 2 from "The Apocalypse"
  Hans Burgkmair · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• M. Ulrich Zwingli
  Unknown (Library of Congress) · Public domain (Library of Congress)
• Martin Luther (1483–1546)
  Lucas Cranach the Elder · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Martin Luther, Bust to the Left
  Lucas Cranach the Elder · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Bible, The Book of Common Prayer, The Book of Psalms with Royal Stuart arms
  Robert Barker · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• John Calvin (1509–1564)
  Sebastian Dadler · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Council of Trent
  Pasquale Cati · Public domain
• The entry of Marcantonio Colonna and the Christian army in Rome after victory at the battl
  Francesco Tramezzino · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Certificate of Bible Society
  Asher Brown Durand · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Cardinal John Henry Newman, 1801-1890
  Unknown (Library of Congress) · Public domain (Library of Congress)
• The Immaculate Conception
  Murillo · Public domain
• The oecumenical council of the Vatican, convened December 8th 1869
  Unknown (Library of Congress) · Public domain (Library of Congress)
• Pope Leo XIII
  Henry Schile · Public domain (Library of Congress)
• A Group of Laborers
  Jan Toorop · Public domain (Cleveland Museum of Art, CC0)
• Saint Jerome
  Ribera · Public domain
• Northeast Transept of Canterbury Cathedral (recto); Architectural Details (verso)
  Anonymous English painter · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Pope Pius X
  Unknown (Library of Congress) · Public domain (Library of Congress)
• Bifolium with the Decretals of Gratian
  Master Honoré · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• View of St. John Lateran, Rome
  Gillis van Coninxloo · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Pope Pius XI
  Bain News Service · Public domain (Library of Congress)
• Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939 (Achille Ratti - Pope, 1922-39)
  Unknown (Library of Congress) · Public domain (Library of Congress)
• Ivory Panel with Saint Peter
  Unknown · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• Saint Jerome as Scholar
  El Greco · Public domain (The Met, CC0)
• The Assumption of the Virgin
  Titian · Public domain
• View of St. Peter's and the Vatican from the Janiculum
  Richard Wilson · Public domain (The Met, CC0)

Mucizeler sayfasındaki görseller

Kamu malı olmayanlar, belirtilen Creative Commons lisansıyla ve sahiplerinin adıyla kullanılır.

• “The Miracle of Fatima”, the crowd looking at the sun
  Ilustração Portuguesa, 29 October 1917 · Photograph: Judah Ruah
• The 1968 photograph of the apparition at Zeitoun
  Anonymous photograph · Kamu malı
• The image of Our Lady of Guadalupe
  Tilmadaki tasvir, 1531 · Kamu malı
• The grotto at Lourdes, 1890s
  Detroit Publishing Co. · Kamu malı (Kongre Kütüphanesi)
• The Shroud of Turin: the cloth and its negative
  Photo: Dianelos Georgoudis · CC BY-SA 3.0
• The face on the tilma, close up
  Photo: Lyricmac · Kamu malı
• The flesh and blood relics at Lanciano
  Photo: AFC photo · CC BY-SA 3.0
• The Mass at Bolsena
  Raphael, Apostolic Palace, Vatican · Kamu malı
• Bernadette’s body, 1925
  Anonymous photograph · Kamu malı
• Padre Pio
  Anonymous photograph · Kamu malı
• The body of St John Vianney, Ars
  Photo: Herwig Reidlinger · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Buenos Aires Metropolitan Cathedral
  Photo: Alexis González Molina · CC BY-SA 3.0

Aziz portreleri

Azizler sayfasındaki en bilinen yirmi azizin portreleri. Creative Commons lisanslı olanlar, lisansları ve kaynak sayfaları belirtilerek kullanılır.

• Meryem Ana
  Madonna Advocata ikonası, Roma · CC BY-SA 4.0
• Aziz Yusuf
  Guido Reni, Aziz Yusuf ve Çocuk İsa · Kamu malı
• Havari Petrus
  Aziz Petrus ikonası, Sina Dağı, 6. yüzyıl · Kamu malı
• Havari Pavlus
  Aziz Pavlus freski, Pavlus Mağarası, Efes · Kamu malı
• Vaftizci Yahya
  Tiziano, Vaftizci Yahya · Kamu malı
• Havari Yuhanna
  Peter Paul Rubens, Havari Yuhanna · Kamu malı
• Aziz Augustinus
  Philippe de Champaigne, Aziz Augustinus · Kamu malı
• Aziz Thomas Aquinas
  Carlo Crivelli, Aziz Thomas Aquinas · Kamu malı
• Assisili Aziz Fransuva
  Aziz Fransuva freski, Sacro Speco, Subiaco · Kamu malı
• Sienalı Azize Katerina
  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Sienalı Azize Katerina · Kamu malı
• Avilalı Azize Teresa
  Avilalı Azize Teresa portresi, Prado Müzesi · Kamu malı
• Lisieux’lü Küçük Teresa
  Lisieux’lü Azize Teresa, fotoğraf (1890’lar) · Kamu malı
• Loyolalı Aziz İgnatius
  Loyolalı Aziz Ignatius portresi · Kamu malı
• Aziz Benedictus
  Hans Memling, Aziz Benedictus · Kamu malı
• Aziz Patrick
  Aziz Patrick vitrayı, Our Lady’s Island, İrlanda · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Padovalı Aziz Antuan
  Vincenzo Foppa, Padovalı Aziz Antonius · Kamu malı (NGA)
• Kalkütalı Azize Teresa
  Kalkütalı Azize Teresa, fotoğraf · CC BY-SA 2.0
• Aziz II. Ioannes Paulus
  Papa II. Yuhanna Pavlus, Adamello 1988, fotoğraf · CC BY-SA 3.0
• Padre Pio
  Padre Pio, fotoğraf · Kamu malı
• Aziz Hieronymus
  Matthias Stom, Aziz Hieronymus · Kamu malı