Christ the High Priest by Max Schmalzl, from a Roman Missal – Catholic Art Print – Archival Quality

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Christ the High Priest by Max Schmalzl, from a Roman Missal – Catholic Art Print – Archival QualityThis is the frontispiece for a Roman Missal published in Germany in 1911. Below Christ, to the left looking up, is Melchizedek, who prefigured the Eucharist. In the priestly garb below to the right we believe is Aaron, the first earthly high priest. The artist is Max Schmalzl (1850 1930), a German Redemptorist lay brother who worked as a painter and illustrator. He lived a monastic lifestyle, devoting himself to the making Catholic art. Most of his

We find in it a calm and joyful meditation

Sue calls this painting "Soft Geometry

and confess their sins

Mary is triumphant

He lived an indulgent

" then found images and embellished them with her own paints

We offer this in a really beautiful frame

with the framing are 14 1/2" x 17 1/2"

The term was used to refer to the Virgin Mary in Medieval and Renaissance poetry and art

Heinrich Lefler

with the angels at her shoulders holding the instruments of the Passion

They did several virtues in this series