Concluding the gallery I began last week, today I have a small number of photos to share from Venice (and one that was taken elsewhere, as will be noted in due course).
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| In the Franciscan church Santa Maria Gloriosa “dei Frari - of the Friars”, I was pleasantly surprised to see that the altar in the Blessed Sacrament chapel had been fitted out with a new and rather handsome icon of St. Maximilian Kolbe. |
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| In a side chapel, a Preparatio ad Missam next to a kneeler; rather oddly situated, I thought, and it made me wonder if it was the original location for it. |
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| Also in the Frari: the chapel where Claudio Monteverdi is buried in a remarkably humble tomb compared to every other one in the same church. |
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| It had been 27 years or so since my last visit to the Basilica of San Marco, and I had forgotten just how exquisite the mosaics are. Absolutely stunning! Here are depicted the six days of creation and the fall. |
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| The museum attached to the basilica contains a number of handsome chant manuscripts. I always enjoy humming the melodies and seeing if I recognize them. Usually I do, since the Latin liturgies of Europe have tended to be so stable for so long. |
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| In the small church of San Zaccaria very near the Basilica of San Marco repose the relics of St. Athanasius of Alexandria (top) and St. Zachariah, the father of St. John the Baptist (bottom). |
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| I didn’t have as much time in the Accademia gallery as I had hoped, but enough to marvel at the Santa Chiara Polyptych by Paolo Veneziano. |
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| A small chapel in a hermitage in the hills by Torre Pellice, painted by the priest, Fr. Johannes Schwarz, who offered Mass for us in it. He is an old family friend whom we had the great pleasure of visiting. You can see his catechetical and evangelizing work at his YouTube channel. |
