The Crown of Flames and the Thurible

The Crown of Flames and the Thurible

Gwyneth Thompson-Briggs, Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart, 24 x 30 inches, oil on canvas, 2023 This pair of paintings is inspired by the apparitions to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque in the late 17th century and to Sr. Lucy of Fatima in the early 20th century. Christ...
A Crown of Gold for the House of Gold

A Crown of Gold for the House of Gold

Crown of the Andes, now in the Metropolitan Museum, New York In the last decade of the 1590s, in gratitude to the Immaculate Conception for having spared them from an outbreak of smallpox, the people of Popayán in the Spanish Viceroyalty of New Granada offered her...