Christian mysticism
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Christian mysticism is the compendium of traditions of mysticism, mystical practices and mystical theology within Christianity which "concerns the preparation for, the consciousness of, and the effect
Russian Orthodox icon of the Transfiguration (Theophanes the Greek, c. 1408)
Mystic marriage of Christ and the Church
Life of Francis of Assisi by José Benlliure y Gil
Resurrection of Jesus, Matthias Grünewald
Francis of Assisi
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Giovanni di Pietro di Bernardone, known as Francis of Assisi, was an Italian mystic, poet and Catholic friar who founded the religious order of the Franciscans. Inspired to lead a Christian life of po
Christian mysticism
…to apophatic theology. Cataphatic (imaging God, imagination or words) – e.g., The Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Julian of Norwich, Francis of Assisi; and Apophatic (imageless, stillness, and wordlessness) – inspired by the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, which forms the basis of Eastern…
A painting of Saint Francis by Philip Fruytiers
The oldest surviving depiction of Saint Francis is a fresco near the entrance of the Benedictine abbey of Subiaco, painted between March 1228 and March 1229. He is depicted without the stigmata, but the image is a religious image and not a portrait.
São Francisco das Chagas, painted by Ducarmo Teles
The Piccolino Chapel, Francis' legendary birthplace