The similarity between the Buddhist faith and the Roman Catholic churches may be traced even more minutely than this. “Buddhists everywhere have their monasteries and nunneries, their baptism, celibacy and tonsure, their rosaries, chaplets, relics, and charms, their fast-days and processions, their confessions, mass, requiems, and litanies, and, especially in Tibet, even their cardinals, and their pope.”
Roman Pope in Chamber Clothes
The Basilians of Saint Josaphat are affiliated to the Ruthenian Greek-Catholic Church and are integrated into the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church. They belong to the Basilians.
Religieuse de L’Ordre de St. Augustin. The relatives of the Augustinian women’s orders are also called Augustinians.
Fra ‘Jean de la Valette, Jean Parisot de La Valette, (1494 – 1568) was the 49th Grand Master of the Military Order of Malta
This tower has been converted into a Semà-Khanés or chapel for the religious dance called Semà, which is performed every Friday within its walls by an order of dancing dervishes.
Thomas Becket was Lord Chancellor of England and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1162 to 1170; canonised by Alexander III on 21st February 1173.
China Jesuit missionary costume, 1843. Jésuite missionnaire à la Chine. Gallery: Asian costumes by Auguste Wahlen. Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world. Associated with: The Rise… Read More
Russian priest and monk habit. Russian Orthodox Clergy. Source: Manners, customs and costumes of all peoples of the world, based on authentic documents and and newer travel (1843) by Auguste Wahlen.… Read More
The late Father St. John of Kronstadt in his garden. Ivan Ilyich Sergiev 1829-1909, also known as the Holy righteous John of Kronstadt, was an archpriest of the Russian Orthodox… Read More
