Sacraments of the Catholic Church
Overview
- This article is an expansion of a section titled Sacraments within the article: Catholic Church.
- "The Seven Sacraments" redirects here - for the paintings by Poussin, see Seven Sacraments (Poussin)Seven Sacraments (Poussin)The Seven Sacraments refers to two series of paintings of the seven sacraments by the French painter Nicholas Poussin.-First series:Painted between 1637 and 1640, the first series was commissioned by Cassiano del Pozzo in the second half of the 1630s and was sold to the Dukes of Rutland in 1784...
; for the play see The Seven Sacraments of Nicolas PoussinThe Seven Sacraments of Nicolas PoussinThe Seven Sacraments of Nicolas Poussin is a play by Neil Bartlett inspired by the Seven Sacraments series of paintings by Nicolas Poussin. It was commissioned in 1997 by Artangel....
; for the painting by van der Weyden, see Seven Sacraments AltarpieceSeven Sacraments AltarpieceThe Seven Sacraments Altarpiece is a fixed-wing triptych by the Early Netherlandish artist Rogier van der Weyden and his workshop. It was painted from 1445 to 1450, probably for a church in Poligny, and is now in the Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp. It depicts the seven sacraments of the Roman...
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The Sacraments of the Catholic Church are, the Roman Catholic Church
Roman Catholic Church
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the world's largest Christian church, with over a billion members. Led by the Pope, it defines its mission as spreading the gospel of Jesus Christ, administering the sacraments and exercising charity...
teaches, "efficacious signs of grace, instituted by Christ and entrusted to the Church, by which divine life is dispensed to us.
