Feast of the Ascension
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The Feast of the Ascension of Jesus Christ commemorates the Christian belief of the bodily Ascension of Jesus into Heaven. It is one of the ecumenical feasts of Christian churches, ranking with the fe
Christi Himmelfahrt by Gebhard Fugel, c. 1893
Liturgy during the Feast of the Ascension in a Mumbai Syriac Orthodox Church
Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen, BWV 43, is a church cantata by Johann Sebastian Bach. He composed it in Leipzig for the Feast of the Ascension, and led the first performance on 30 May 1726. The work is
Duke Ernst Ludwig
Urban Gottfried Sieber, a pastor in Leipzig
First page from a 1726 (second edition) print of the libretto from Rudolstadt