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The Basilica of St. Josaphat is one of 55 minor basilicas found in the United States, modelled after St. Peter's Basilica in Rome. The congregation was founded in 1888 by immigrant Poles and is dedicated to Josaphat Kuncevyc, a Polish martyr and saint.

Lamb of God (Latin: Agnus Dei) is one of the titles given to Jesus in the New Testament and consequently in the Christian tradition. It is believed to refer to Jesus' role as a sacrificial lamb atoning for the sins of man in Christian theology, harkening back to ancient Jewish Temple sacrifices in which a lamb was slain during the passover, the blood was sprinkled along the door, and the lamb was eaten. It is first mentioned biblically in the Gospel of John, and is also a very prominent image in the Book of Revelation, where Jesus is referred to as Lamb twenty-eight times.

The "Maid of Orleans", Joan of Arc is a national heroine of France and a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. She helped inspire Charles VII's troops to retake most of his dynasty's former territories, which had been under English and Burgundian dominance during the Hundred Years' War. She later was convicted of heresy (overturned posthumously) and burnt at the stake at the age of nineteen. Pope Benedict XV canonized her on 16 May 1920 and she is now one of the most popular saints of the Catholic Church.

Shown here is a statue of Joan of Arc inside Notre-Dame de Paris, a Gothic cathedral in Paris, where she was beatified in 1909.

View of Saint Peter's Square, or Saint Peter's Piazza (Italian Piazza San Pietro), which is located directly in front of St. Peter's Basilica, in Vatican City, the papal enclave within Rome. The Piazza borders to the East the rione of Borgo.

In Genesis 7, Noah, age 600, completes the Ark, he and his family and the animals enter, and "the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened, and the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights." The flood covers even the highest mountains to a depth of more than twenty feet, and all creatures on Earth die; only Noah and those with him on the Ark are left alive.