Download or read book A Gift of Angels written by Bernard L. Fontana and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2010-09-20 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It rises suddenly out of the Sonoran Desert landscape, towering over the tallest tree or cactus, a commanding building with a sensuous dome, elliptical vaults, and sturdy bell towers. There is nothing else like it around, nor does it seem there should be. This incongruity of setting is what strikes first-time visitors to Mission San Xavier del Bac. This great church is of another place and another time, while its beauty is universal and timeless. Mission San Xavier del Bac is a two-century-old Spanish church in southern Arizona located just a few miles from downtown Tucson, a metropolis of more than half a million people in the American Southwest. A National Historic Landmark since 1963, the mission’s graceful baroque art and architecture have drawn visitors from all over the world. Now Bernard Fontana—the leading expert on San Xavier—and award-winning photographer Edward McCain team up to bring us a comprehensive view of the mission as we’ve never seen it before. With 200 stunning full-color photographs and incisive text illuminating the religious, historical, and motivational context of these images, A Gift of Angels is a must-have for tourists, scholars, and other visitors to San Xavier. From its glorious architecture all the way down to the finest details of its art, Mission San Xavier del Bac is indeed a gift of angels.
Download or read book Mission San Xavier del Bac written by Yvonne Lange and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-11-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unique among mission churches of the northern borderlands of colonial Mexico for its ornate architecture and rich iconography, San Xavier del Bac south of Tucson is a pilgrimage destination for countless devotees and tourists. Passing through the façade entry to stand in the nave, one is dazzled by the transept and sanctuary altarpieces of sculpture niches and baroque pilasters, as well as the expanse of the frescoed ceiling. This book is the first study of the iconography at San Xavier since its restoration in the 1990s by an international team of professional conservators. It expands our understanding of the numerous Catholic images and emblems of San Xavier through a close analysis of the newly revealed iconographic elements and an interpretation of the significance of their placement. It also proposes that the selection of specific religious themes and their locations was determined by an unfamiliar convention based on a tree-like design, in which the founder of a religious Order appears as the root and followers above in later branchings—an inversion of the more familiar top-to-bottom hierarchy. Historians Lange and Ahlborn identify all the saintly images and religious elements that adorn San Xavier and suggest how and why they are so arranged. They examine the sculptures and paintings of the church from the façade throughout the cruciform interior in order to determine the organizational concepts that underlie their placement. They note that the selection of images in this Franciscan mission follows traditional Roman Catholic practice for decorating churches in order to instruct novices and reinforce the teaching of conversion in a pictographic catechism of Church doctrine. In short, the book is a dictionary of religious personages and symbols that will help the visitor identify the biblical stories and people portrayed, as well as associated signs and symbols. Entries include a description of the subject, its location, appropriate cross-references, and a bibliography. Recent illustrations by photographer Helga Teiwes and a floor plan facilitate the location of images by visitors. A handsome, large-format book featuring more than one hundred photographs and supporting line illustrations, Lange and Ahlborn’s work confirms the significance of San Xavier’s iconography for art historians, students of religion, and visitors alike. It is both an incomparable guide and valuable reference source for the famed mission’s magnificent artistic heritage.
Download or read book My Nana s Remedies written by Roni Capin Rivera-Ashford and published by Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A little girl tells how her grandmother makes special teas and warm drinks for her and her little brother when they are not feeling well.
Download or read book The Mission of San Xavier Del Bac written by Estelle Lutrell and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The San Xavier Missions written by Kathleen Gilmore and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The problem of this paper is concerned with 1) the general principles of making field identification of documented historic sites and 2) the application of these principles to the location of a particular site, the San Xavier complex of missions, established in Texas in 1746. The first section of the report is concerned with the general principles used in constructing a preliminary model. The next section deals with basic data-historical, ethnographical, and archeological, used in setting up the San Xavier model. The third section defines the San Xavier model. The fourth is a summary of archeological field investigations and findings. The final sections compare the field research and archeological findings to the preliminary model and present conclusions about the field location of the missions, and the effectiveness of the method.
Download or read book Mission San Xavier Del Bac written by Yvonne Lange and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to the iconography of San Xavier Mission identifies devotional representations and determines the organizational concepts underlying their placements in the Spanish mission church south of Tucson, Arizona, examining the sculpture on the facade and inside, along with furnishings such as altars and altarpieces and their accompanying imagery, and paintings in fresco and on canvas.
Download or read book Wounded Shepherd written by Austen Ivereigh and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following his critically acclaimed The Great Reformer, Austen Ivereigh's colorful, clear-eyed portrait of Pope Francis takes us inside the Vatican's urgent debate over the future of the church in Wounded Shepherd. This deeply contextual biography centers on the tensions generated by the pope’s attempt to turn the Church away from power and tradition and outwards to engage humanity with God’s mercy. Through battles with corrupt bankers and worldly cardinals, in turbulent meetings and on global trips, history’s first Latin-American pope has attempted to reshape the Church to evangelize the contemporary age. At the same time, he has stirred other leaders’ deep-seated fear that the Church is capitulating to modernity—leaders who have challenged his bid to create a more welcoming, attentive institution. Facing rebellions over his allowing sacraments for the divorced and his attempt to create a more "ecological" Catholicism, as well as a firestorm of criticism for the Church’s record on sexual abuse, Francis emerges as a leader of remarkable vision and skill with a relentless spiritual focus—a leader who is at peace in the turmoil surrounding him. With entertaining anecdotes, insider accounts, and expert analysis, Ivereigh’s journey through the key episodes of Francis’s reform in Rome and the wider Church brings into sharp focus the frustrations and fury, as well as the joys and successes, of one of the most remarkable pontificates of the contemporary age.
Download or read book San Xavier written by Kathleen Walker and published by Arizona Highways Books. This book was released on 1998 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Although time and elements have pummeled San Xavier, conservators over the decades steadfastly have refreshed its grandeur. Today it survives as the vital embodiment of religion, art, and culture established by padres on the frontiers of the New World. San Xavier: The Spirit Endures explores the beauty, history, legends, miracles, and people associated with the famed desert landmark south of Tucson." (from the back cover).
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Download or read book Mission San Xavier written by Edna San Miguel and published by . This book was released on 2011-10 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author and illustrator brings to life the story of how men and women over the years envisioned, adorned, then saved Mission San Xavier, when it was in decline.
Download or read book San Xavier Del Bac written by Bernard L. Fontana and published by . This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Study of the Mission San Xavier Del Bac Near Tucson Arizona written by Prentice W. Duell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Souvenir of San Xavier Mission Tucson Arizona written by and published by . This book was released on 1895* with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Mission Of San Xavier Del Bac written by Estelle Lutrell and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas in the Middle Eighteenth Century written by Herbert Eugene Bolton and published by Berkeley, California U. P. This book was released on 1915 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
