Labels

RELIGIOUS ART | NEWS OF WEEK

ALPHA OMEGA ARTS
By Ernest Disney-Britton
Tony Melendez's "Saint Kateri Tekakwitha"
All the worlds religions promise lives filled with problems, but they also promise miracles. At A&O, we believe in miracles. Miracles are moments when divine power is channeled through men and women we call saints---models of holiness to be imitated. Saints are known in Judaism as Tzadik, in Islam as wali, in Hinduism as guru, in Buddhism as boddhisatva, and in Sikhism as sant or bhagat. This morning, Pope Benedikt XVI named seven new saints (miracle-makers) including the first Native American: Saint Kateri Tekakwitha, an Algonquin-Mohawk and patron of ecology.  That's why "Blessed" (above) by Tony Melendez is NEWS OF WEEK.

In other Religious Art news from across the USA, and around the world:
A&O PRIZE 2012 voting begins November 1, 2012, so register today: [join here]. It's an annual opportunity to engage with creators, believers, and skeptics too about the impact of the Religious-in-Art within the United States. Who is this Religious Art prize for? It's for you.
Labels:

Comments

Roy Gutman | Kansas City Star said…
In the three-plus centuries since the death of Kateri Tekakwitha, Native Americans and many others often have pleaded with the Vatican to saint her.

What made it happen, according to her principal advocate at the Vatican, was a change in the rules for determining when a cure from centuries past could be judged “miraculous” and the emergency delivery of a bone fragment believed to have belonged to Kateri to a Seattle hospital in 2006, where a Lummi Indian boy was on his death bed.
Mon Oct 22, 10:48:00 AM EDT
Post a Comment