Dominican Friars
Province of St. Albert the Great, USA

Imagining the Crucifixion

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By rkadams,

St. Sabina Doors
Did you know that the doors of St. Sabina feature the earliest known depiction of the Crucifixion? Situated on Aventine Hill in Rome, the basilica is the mother church of the Dominican order; founder St. Dominic and other friars lived there beginning in  1220. The doors date from 430-432 AD and are made of cypress wood. They originally featured  twenty-eight panels. Of those extant, one features a depiction of the crucifixion of Christ (below, public domain image).

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