{"id":20367,"date":"2014-12-25T00:01:49","date_gmt":"2014-12-25T08:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=20367"},"modified":"2014-12-25T00:01:49","modified_gmt":"2014-12-25T08:01:49","slug":"i-searched-for-jesus-and-heres-what-i-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/i-searched-for-jesus-and-heres-what-i-found\/","title":{"rendered":"I Searched for Jesus, and Here’s What I Found"},"content":{"rendered":"

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New to the world:<\/strong> A life-sized baby Jesus doll<\/a> on sale at the Mercado in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

By Barbara Falconer Newhall<\/em><\/p>\n

Christmas was coming up soon — today — and I needed a Christmassy, Jesusy post. I could string some words together about choirs of angels and a poor baby in a manger, but why not just post some of the photos I’d taken over the years and let them say it all?<\/p>\n

I\u00a0 opened up my photo gallery, I clicked on text search, and I searched for Jesus.<\/p>\n

Here’s what I found.<\/p>\n

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A man with a view:<\/strong> At St. Peter’s Square, Rome, a bigger-than-life Jesus stands atop the grand facade of St. Peter’s Basillica flanked by eleven of the apostles . Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Afterthought:<\/strong> At an Austin, Texas, gas station<\/a>, a sketchy image of Jesus on the cross gets a fraction of the space awarded to a mosaic of his mother Mary, represented here as Mexico’s beloved Virgin of Guadalupe. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Judge:<\/strong> A replica of the Deesis mosaic of Jesus as Pantocrator —\u00a0 “ruler of all” — on a wall of Istanbul’s ancient Hagia Sophia<\/a> gives visitors a close up look at a centuries-old Eastern Orthodox image of a powerful but compassionate Jesus. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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In need of baptism:<\/strong> John the Baptist pours water over Jesus in this “Baptism of Christ” by Sansovino and Spinazzi. At the time of this photograph the work was still at the Battistero di San Giovanni in Florence, Italy. It’s since been moved to Florence\u2019s Opera del Duomo Museum. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Teacher:<\/strong> Jesus preaches to the people on a huge mosaic over the entrance to Stanford University’s Memorial Church. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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The weight of the world:<\/strong> The Catholic Church no longer considers St. Christopher a saint, yet\u00a0 images of him carrying the young Jesus show up in churches everywhere, this one as a fresco in the church at Atotonilco<\/a>, Mexico. Photos by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Legend<\/a>
On the other side of the world, in the monastery on the Isle of Patmos, Greece, the legendary St. Christopher carries the young Jesus — who bears the weight of the world — to safety across the water.\u00a0
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Dying.<\/strong> New Mexico History Museum, Santa Fe. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Merry Christmas, everyone! Wishing you and the world a peace-filled New Year. — Barbara<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Christmas was coming and I needed a Christmassy, Jesusy post. I went to my photo gallery — where else?– and I searched for Jesus. Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20425,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1079,1139,1369,35,34,561,22,889,31,1370,1371,1372],"class_list":["post-20367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-my-rocky-spiritual-journey","tag-austin","tag-baby-jesus","tag-baptism","tag-christmas","tag-dont-miss","tag-hagia-sophia","tag-jesus","tag-mexico","tag-photo-ops","tag-st-christopher","tag-stanford-chapel","tag-vatican"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}