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Ascension Church (Veliky Ustyug)
Church of the Ascension is any church dedicated to the ascension of Jesus: Canada * Church of the Ascension (Ottawa) * Church of the Ascension (Windsor, Ontario) England *The Ascension, Lavender Hill *Church of the Ascension, Hall Green *Church of the Ascension, Malvern Link *Church of the Ascension, Lower Broughton Jerusalem *Chapel of the Ascension (Jerusalem), at the site of the oldest Byzantine Church of the Ascension; now part of mosque * Russian Orthodox Church of the Ascension, Mount of Olives, Jerusalem; main church of the convent of the same name at At-Tur * Augusta Victoria Hospital, Jerusalem, which includes the German Protestant Ascension Church Latvia * Ascension Church, Riga Russia * Church of the Ascension (Bataysk) * Church of the Ascension (Chaltyr) * Greater Church of the Ascension on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street, Moscow * Lesser Ascension Church on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street * Ascension Church, Yaroslavl * The Church of Ascension built circa 1530 CE by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ascension Of Jesus
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate la, ascensio Iesu, lit=ascent of Jesus) is the Christian teaching that Christ physically departed from Earth by rising to Heaven, in the presence of eleven of his apostles. According to the New Testament narrative, the Ascension occurred on the fortieth day counting from the resurrection. In the Christian tradition, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, God exalted Jesus after his death, raising him from the dead and taking him to Heaven, where Jesus took his seat at the right hand of God. In Christian art, the ascending Jesus is often shown blessing an earthly group below him, signifying the entire Church. The Feast of the Ascension is celebrated on the 40th day of Easter, always a Thursday; some Orthodox traditions have a different calendar up to a month later than in the Western tradition, and while the Anglican Communion continues to observe the feast, many Protestant churches have abandone ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
