Holy Saturday art: "He descended into hell..."

Yeah that's today. 

I love the story the Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, liked to tell:

"No doubt the arrival of Jesus in Hell/Limbo was quite spectacular - The Harrowing of Hell - and quite terrifying for the inhabitants. Except for one man, who walks up to Jesus and says 'Tell me, how is your mother' ..."

By Tintoretto, "Descent into Hell" about 1580

Andrea Mantegna, 1470, "Jesus entering Limbo"

Not sure of the source, but I like it - carrying the cross

And this, from a Church in Istanbul

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[Ellen Mullin]

Thank you for these.