{"id":2040,"date":"2016-03-26T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2040"},"modified":"2025-09-29T19:35:45","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T19:35:45","slug":"holy-saturday-he-descended-into-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=2040","title":{"rendered":"Holy Saturday art: &#8220;He descended into hell&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah that&#39;s today.&#0160;<\/p>\n<p>I love the story the Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, liked to tell:<\/p>\n<p>&quot;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 &#39;Tell me, how is your mother&#39; &#8230;&quot;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>By Tintoretto, &quot;Descent into Hell&quot; about 1580<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419cd970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Descent-into-hell-1568 tintoretto\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419cd970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419cd970c-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px;\" title=\"Descent-into-hell-1568 tintoretto\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Andrea Mantegna, 1470, &quot;Jesus entering Limbo&quot;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419e2970c-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"DescentLimbo 1470, Andrea Mantegna\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419e2970c img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b8d1b419e2970c-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px;\" title=\"DescentLimbo 1470, Andrea Mantegna\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\"><strong>Not sure of the source, but I like it &#8211; carrying the cross<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08ce41a2970d-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Descended no painter\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08ce41a2970d img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201bb08ce41a2970d-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px;\" title=\"Descended no painter\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #0000bf;\">And this, from a Church in Istanbul<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"asset-img-link\" href=\"http:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8299933970b-pi\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Jesus_istanbul_church\" class=\"asset  asset-image at-xid-6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8299933970b img-responsive\" src=\"https:\/\/tomfaranda.typepad.com\/.a\/6a00d834525a2f69e201b7c8299933970b-500wi\" style=\"width: 480px;\" title=\"Jesus_istanbul_church\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah that&#39;s today.&#0160; I love the story the Faranda family guru, the late Fr. Benedict Groeschel, liked to tell: &quot;No doubt the arrival of Jesus in Hell\/Limbo was quite spectacular &#8211; The Harrowing of Hell &#8211; and quite terrifying for the inhabitants. Except for one man, who walks up to Jesus and says &#39;Tell me, [&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-2040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040","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=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8064,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions\/8064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}