Catholic Gallery

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Galileo attempting to defend his belief in the heliocentric solar system before the Inquisition in Rome, 1633.
Hand colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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Saint Aiden of Lindisfarne

Saint Aiden, Irish missionary who founded monastery at Lindisfarne in 635,
becoming Bishop of Northumbria, England.
Digital photograph

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Roman Catholic church for natives in the hills of Mexico, 1800s

Native American woman approaching hut where Mass is celebrated near Pachuca, Mexico, 1800s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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