{"id":1344,"date":"2019-04-19T22:50:40","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T22:50:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1344"},"modified":"2025-09-29T16:07:23","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T16:07:23","slug":"holy-saturday-art-he-descended-into-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=1344","title":{"rendered":"Holy Saturday art: &#8220;He descended into hell&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>FULL DISCLOSURE: I cheated. This is the same posting I put up for Holy Saturday in March, 2016. But I love it.&nbsp; <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Yeah that&#8217;s today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I love the story the Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, liked to tell:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;No doubt the arrival of Jesus in Hell\/Limbo was quite spectacular &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Harrowing_of_Hell\">The Harrowing of Hell<\/a> &#8211; and quite terrifying for the inhabitants. Except for one man, who walks up to Jesus and says &#8216;Tell me, how is your mother&#8217; &#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>By Tintoretto, &#8220;Descent into Hell&#8221; about 1580<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419cd970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13008\" title=\"Descent-into-hell-1568 tintoretto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419cd970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419cd970c-500wi-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Andrea Mantegna, 1470, &#8220;Jesus entering Limbo&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"440\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419e2970c-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13006\" title=\"DescentLimbo 1470, Andrea Mantegna\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419e2970c-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419e2970c-500wi-300x264.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Not sure of the source, but I like it &#8211; carrying the cross<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08ce41a2970d-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13005\" title=\"Descended no painter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08ce41a2970d-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08ce41a2970d-500wi-300x160.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\">And this, from a Church in Istanbul<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"285\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8299933970b-500wi.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13004\" title=\"Jesus_istanbul_church\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8299933970b-500wi.jpg 500w, https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8299933970b-500wi-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FULL DISCLOSURE: I cheated. This is the same posting I put up for Holy Saturday in March, 2016. But I love it.&nbsp; Yeah that&#8217;s today.&nbsp; I love the story the Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, liked to tell: &#8220;No doubt the arrival of Jesus in Hell\/Limbo was quite spectacular &#8211; The Harrowing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1344","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1344"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13009,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1344\/revisions\/13009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}