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Family publishing company based in Great Wakering, Essex 📚🎨 specialising in
Christian wall art, sign-boards, personalised products, RE and Catholic liturgy resources for schools and churches 🏫⛪️ https://www.mccrimmons.com
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“Let us pray (the Hail Mary) together...” Pope Francis

Hail Mary full of grace,
the Lord is with thee.
Blessed art though amongst women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb, Jesus.
Hail Mary, Mother of God
pray for us sinners now, and at the hour of our death, Amen.

#PopeFrancis 🙏💙🕊️
Turvey Abbey Art icon of Our Lady, the Virgin Mary gently holding baby Jesus. Jesus is holding his right hand up to her face and she is leaning into him, their heads touching.
February 22, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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“Thank you for the affection, prayer and closeness with which you are accompanying me in these days.” Pope Francis, Gemelli Hospital Rome, Sunday 16 February 2025

Praying for Pope Francis 🙏💙🕊️
Poster image of Pope Francis, made from a colour photograph against a cream background. The Pope is in his traditional white robes with a large silver cross around his neck on a long chain. The Pope is smiling and raising his right hand to bless the crowd. The caption underneath the photograph reads, “Mercy is the Lord’s most powerful message.”
February 18, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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“He who does Christ’s work must stay with Christ always.” Fra Giovanni da Fiesole

c.1395 ✨ 18 February 1455

#FeastDay #FraAngelico #BeatoAngelico #Dominican #PatronSaintOfArtists

🎨 Head of an Angel c.1445-59, Wadsworth Athaneum, Hartford, CT #TheWadsworth
February 18, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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Happy St. Valentine’s Day! ♥️

📷 Stained glass #Love window at the Red House, arts and crafts home of William and Jane Morris, Bexleyheath, London www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visit/london... #NationalTrust #PreRaphaelites
February 14, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Wishing everyone a very Happy Christmas 🌟 from all of us at McCrimmons!

“For unto you is born this day in the City of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.” Luke 2:10-12 (NKJV)

🎨 The Adoration of the Shepherds by Giorgione c. 1505-1510, National Gallery of Art, Washington #Nativity #HolyFamily
16th century painting. Two shepherds in Bethlehem visiting, one bowing, one kneeling and bowing to the new born baby Jesus who is lying on the ground just outside a humble stable. His mother, Mary, kneeling and praying, a white veil over her head and a blue robe over her dress, her husband Joseph with white hair and a beard further in the background, also in a prayerful mode, watching over the baby. The painting is in the traditional Italian Christian style with buildings, trees and landscape, a blue cloudy sky in the background, depicting a beautiful day in a small village in the country.
December 25, 2024 at 1:31 PM
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Advent 💫 Prayers 🙏

6 December

As we near the end of the first week of Advent 2024, we continue to pray with hope for peace in the world 🕊️

🎨 Hope by Edward Burne-Jones, 1896, Museum of Fine Arts Boston.

This artwork is also a stained glass window in St. Margaret’s Church, Hopton-on-Sea.

#Hope
Victorian Pre-Raphaelite painting by Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones of a young woman standing in front of a window, holding a flowering apple blossom branch representing ‘Hope’ in one arm. She is wearing a blue robe with a brown scarf and her long brown hair is worn down, she has bare feet. There is an ancient city view in the background, and she is holding her other hand up as if raised to heaven. Hope is one of the main three Christian virtues, along with Faith and Charity.
December 6, 2024 at 8:44 PM
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💫 Advent Saints 💫

6 December

St. Nicholas 😇

Patron Saint of Children

4th c. Bishop of Myra (present day Turkey) known for his generosity. He became associated with gift giving in December 🎁 #SantaClaus

🎨 #TurveyAbbeyArt #McCrimmonsSaintsCollection #AdventSaints #ChristmasSaints #FatherChristmas
December 6, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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Advent 💫 Prayers 🙏

5 December

“All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth toward those who honour his covenant and decrees.” Psalm 25:10

🎨 The Intercession of Christ and the Virgin attr. to Lorenzo Monaco, c. 1402 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #BibleArt #AdventPrayers #PrayingWithArt
15th century painting with God in heaven sending down the dove of the Holy Spirit to Jesus and Mary. Mary is asking Jesus to have mercy for the people she is looking after.
December 5, 2024 at 10:50 PM
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💫 Advent Saints 💫

4 December

St. Barbara 😇

One of the Fourteen Holy Helpers, St. Barbara is recorded in 7th c. Rome. According to tradition, her rich pagan father locked her in a tower. He killed her when she became a Christian, then he was struck by lightening.

🎨 #TurveyAbbeyArt #AdventSaints
December 4, 2024 at 10:24 PM
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Advent 💫 Prayers 🙏

4 December

“Comfort, comfort your people, says your God.” Isaiah 40:1

The Comfort of Angels buildingontheword.org/the-comfort-...

🎨 The Virgin of the Angels (Song of the Angels) by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1881, Forest Lawn Museum, Glendale.

#AdventPrayers #AdventAngels
The Virgin Mary in a blue robe and cream head covering, baby Jesus on her lap, both sleeping while three angels, girls in white robes, play music to them. The angel in the front is playing a violin, a standing angel behind her is playing a lute. We cannot see which instrument, if any, the kneeling angel at the back, next to Mary, is playing.
December 4, 2024 at 9:32 PM
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Advent 💫 Prayers 🙏

3 December

We pray for the intercession of Our Lady of Peace 🕊️🌍🕊️

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.” Matthew 5:9

🎨 Azulejo of the Virgin Queen of Peace given by El Salvador to the Basilica of the Annunciation, Nazareth.

#PrayForPeace
Painted tiles, an azulejo gifted by El Salvador to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth, making up the image of Our Lady Mary, Virgin Queen of Peace. She is dressed in robes of gold and white and is holding the baby Jesus in one hand, and a palm branch in her other hand. A halo crown sits over her head. The Republic of El Salvador national shield is on the lower front of her robe. The azulejo is a copy of a statue of Our Lady in El Salvador.
December 3, 2024 at 9:37 PM
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💫 Advent Saints 💫

St. Francis Xavier 😇

3 December

Patron Saint of Catholic Missions

1506 - 1562 d. Shangchuan Island, China ✨ Biography @jesuitsglobal.bsky.social www.jesuits.global/saint-blesse...

🎨 St. Francis Xavier Preaching in Goa by Andre Reinoso, 1610

#AdventSaints #JesuitSaints
St. Francis Xavier, with dark hair and a neatly trimmed beard Spanish style, dressed in black priest robes, preaching to a crowd of people in the city of Goa, India. He is holding up a small picture of Jesus, and around his head is a small halo.
December 3, 2024 at 1:59 PM
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Above, Hope by George Frederic Watts, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Museums (not on display) www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/artifact/hope

Other versions of ‘Hope’ may be viewed at the Tate Britain www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks... and the Watts Gallery, Compton, Surrey.

#SymbolistPaintings #Virtues
Second version of ‘Hope’ by George Frederic Watts, 19th century symbolist painter. The painting shows a blindfolded woman in a green dress, with bare feet, sitting on a globe. She is playing a broken lyre with only one string left, and listening carefully to the sound. Tate Britain.
December 2, 2024 at 10:52 PM
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Advent 💫 Prayers 🙏

2 December

‘Hope sitting on a globe with bandaged eyes playing on a lyre which has all the strings broken but one out of which poor little tinkle she is trying to get all the music possible, listening with all her might to that little sound.’

🎨 Hope by George Frederic Watts
Pre-Raphaelite Painting as described by George Frederick Watts himself, quoted in the comment box above. This version of Hope which is in the Walker Gallery, Liverpool, was painted between 1886 and 1877 for his friend Frederick Leighton.
December 2, 2024 at 10:39 PM
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O Antiphons ✨ www.mccrimmons.com/o-antiphons/

#TurveyAbbeyArt for the 17th to 24th of December 💫✝️🌟

Banners
Display-Boards
Lectern Frontals
Posters
PVC Posters
Roller-Banners

Please note that Posters, PVC Posters and Roller Banners have the fastest print turnaround!

#Advent #OAntiphons #WallArt
December 2, 2024 at 4:23 PM
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💫 Advent Saints 💫

St. Bibiana 😇

2 December

d. 360 Early Roman Christian Virgin Martyr 💔✝️ Shrine at the Church of Santa Bibiana in Rome, sculpture of the Saint over the altar by #Bernini 🎨

Source: www.italianartsociety.org/2018/12/dece...

#AdventSaints
#ChristianMartyrs
#PersecutedChurch
Statue of St. Bibiana by Bernini, in the Church of Santa Bibiana Rome. The statue is full length in cream marble of a young 4th century Roman woman. She is carrying a long gold palm leaf to signify her martyrdom.
December 2, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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This Advent 💫 we’re praying with our favourite paintings 🙏

1 December

We pray for everyone past, present and future, who has been, or will be, persecuted or killed for their faith during wars and political programmes 💔🌍

🎨 The Wounded Angel, 1903, by Hugo Simberg, Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery
A blindfolded blond Angel with a bloodied wing is sitting on a stretcher being carried by two boys with dark hair against a Finnish countryside background with a lake in the distance. The Angel’s wings and head are drooping and a small bunch of white snowdrops, symbolic of healing and rebirth, is held in the Angel’s right hand. The boy at the back of the stretcher is looking out of the painting at the viewer.
December 1, 2024 at 9:59 PM
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💫 Advent Saints 💫

St. Edmund Campion 😇

1 December*

1540 - 1581 Executed* at Tyburn along with his companions St. Alexander Briant SJ 😇 and St. Ralph Sherwin 😇

#AdventSaints
#PriestsAndMartyrs
#OxfordUniversity16thc
#EnglishCollegeDouai
#JesuitSaints
#ReformationMartyrs #TurveyAbbeyArt
December 1, 2024 at 8:42 PM
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We too 🤭
November 22, 2024 at 11:49 PM
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Hi John

When you create the first post, hit the + on the bottom menu to create a thread.

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November 19, 2024 at 9:06 PM
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“God of the beginning and the end, meet us here at the end of this year. Where life offers difficulty, teach us to take refuge in you. When new beginnings come, help us let go of what has been, so we have space for you to reveal what can be. Amen”

Prayer @archtoronto.bsky.social

#PrayersOfHope 🙏✝️✨
November 17, 2024 at 1:52 PM
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“We are called in every circumstance to be friends of the poor, following in the footsteps of Jesus.” 👣✝️✨

Pope Francis’ message for the 8th World Day of the Poor, Sunday, 17 November 2024 www.vatican.va/content/fran...

🎨 #TurveyAbbeyArt #CatholicSocialTeaching #CST #CatholicEd #CatholicRE
November 17, 2024 at 1:35 PM
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#TeamRe looking for #CatholicEd #ChristianEd wall art for your school?

We print an extensive range of Christian Bible, Saints, Prayer artwork in a variety of formats, inc. personalised products, and outdoor signboards ✍️🎨

Take a look at our Posters range! 🙏✝️😇❤️🌍✨ www.mccrimmons.com/shop/posters/
Jesus Blesses the Children poster by the Benedictine Sisters of Turvey Abbey. Marketing image with Bible quote. Matthew 19:14 “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.”
September 11, 2024 at 12:45 PM
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“Teacher, what good must I do to gain eternal life?”

He answered him … “If you wish to enter into life, keep the commandments.”

Matthew 19:16-22 #Catholic #GospelOfTheDay

🎨 Rachel Mabey, A4, A3 Posters* + display-boards, banners, roller-banner + lectern frontals www.mccrimmons.com/shop/posters...
August 19, 2024 at 8:51 AM
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Jesus Blesses the Children ✨

Jesus said: “Let the children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these.” Matthew 19:14 (NIV)

#McCrimmons #TurveyAbbeyArt #JesusOurHope #BibleArt #GospelArt #JesusBlessesTheChildren #GospelOfTheDay
August 17, 2024 at 11:00 AM