Wallpaper for Monday, June 23

The Saint of the Day is Etheldreda, Abbess of Ely, who passed away in 679. An image for a tiled background in your computer desktop display may be found at http://www.britannia.com/bios/saints/etheldreda.html Copyright ©1999 Britannia.com, LLC The effect would be improved by reducing the image to about 70% of the original dimensions and applying a border. You might want to experiment with the "Fill with Color" tool which can be used to insert a few swatches of background color, since large areas of white are problem in this application.

The Landscape of the Day is a limnoscape from Latvia. http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelfehler/2584317973/sizes/l/ This represents a land area of approximately 500,000 sq. km. that includes the southern half of Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, the Kalinin Oblast of Russia and two northern provinces of Poland.

Screensaver Images for Sunday, June 22

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for this Sixth Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to June 22. (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Genesis 21:8-21 -- Abraham sends Hagar and Ishmael away -- This event is illustrated by a Tiepolo painting The Angel Succouring Hagar which is accessible at the following web page. http://cgfa.sunsite.dk/tiepolo/p-tiepolo5.htm This site created and maintained by Carol Gerten-Jackson.

Psalm 86:1-10, 16-17 -- "For you, O LORD, are good and forgiving, and great is your love toward all who call upon you." -- An image labelled "Forgiven" at the following web page illustrates this verse. http://www.christian-forum.net/index.php?showtopic=12138&st=6 This forum posting was made by "LoisFaith2000". The source of the art was not indicated.

Romans 6:1b-11 --- "For if we have been united with [Christ Jesus] in a death like his, we will certainly be united with him in a resurrection like his. " A image in the Heartlight collection illustrates this verse. http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/1401.html Copyright © Heartligt, Inc. 1996-2006

Matthew 10:24-39 --- Jesus said: "whoever does not take up the cross and follow me is not worthy of me." The Heartlight collection also has an image for this passage. http://www.heartlight.org/gallery/1814.html Copyright © Heartlighht, Inc. 1996-2006

Wallpaper for Saturday, June 21

The Hero of the Day is Onesimus Nesib, translator, catechist and evangelist to the Oromo-speaking people of Ethiopia, who passed away in the year 1931. He comes to us from the Lutheran calendar of observances. An image may be found at the following web page of a church in Columbus, Ohio. http://www.oromiaevangelicalchurch.com/Contact_us.html I would apply a border before using it as a tile for a tiled background on my computer desktop display.

The Landscape of the Day is from Sweden. http://www.flickr.com/photos/21ltd/1347741594/sizes/l/ The photograph references the location as being along a road from [Point A] to [Point B]. I was able to find a similar gazeteer entry and geographic coordinates for "Point B" -- a valley named Kårsavagge, located at 68°20'0'' N, 18°45'0'' E, in the northernmost county of Sweden --- Norrbottens Län.

Wallpaper for Friday, June 20

The Saint of the Day is Saint Adalbert, Archbishop of Magdeburg, who passed away in 981. The only image I can find is at his Wikipedia site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adalbert,_Archbishop_of_Magdeburg. This image should be reduced to about 66% of the original size and given a border before using it for a tiled background (wallpaper) in your computer desktop display.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Norway in the province of Finnmark http://www.flickr.com/photos/wili/233614891/ The photographer gives the location as 70°26' 12" N, 23°54' 23" E. This view represents an area of the earth including Denmark, Norway and Northern Finland.

Wallpaper for Thursday, June 19

The Saint of the Day is Romuald of Ravenna, founder of a religious community, who passed away around the year 1026. An image was be found at the Wikipedia article for Romuald http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Romuald. If you click though to the ful-size version and save that, a reduction of 35%, and the addition of a border, would be in order to produce a satisfactory tile for a background in your computer's desktop display.

The Landscape of the Day, was chosen to represent the region of Germany, Austria and Switzerland. http://www.flickr.com/photos/miege/2105626736/sizes/l/ This particular view is from Switzerland, but no location is given by the photographer.

Wallpaper for Wednesday, June 18

The Hero of the Day was Bernard Mizeki, catechist and martyr, who died in 1896 in Mashonaland (northeastern Zimbabwe). An icon posted at the Trinity Stores sites provides what is apparently the only image available on line, which happens to be marked as a sale item. http://www.trinitystores.com/?detail=14&artist=1 © 1995 Br. Robert Lentz, ofm For use in a tiled background on your computer's desktop display, put a border on it and reduce it to 45% of its original size. Don't ask me how to mask out the white tag.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Scotland. This represents an area of the world that includes, the Isles of Britain and Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlands and Northern France.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chismecait/854623766/sizes/l/ . A tag provided by the photographer shows Winston Lodge, which is in the vicinity of 34°11'49"S, 18°49'17"E

Wallpaper for Tuesday, June 17

The Saint of the Day is Emily de Vialar a nun, and founder of a religious order, who passed away in 1856. An image may be found at the following location on the web ( http://www.stjosephsliema.edu.mt/images/Emilie.jpg )as part of the web site of the Saint Joseph School at Siema in Malta. This image should be reduced to about 40% of its original size and have a border applied for use in a tiled background for your computer deskktop.

The Landscape of the Day is a photo taken from the Aiguille du Midi, a mountain peak near the city of Chamonix, in southeastern France. http://www.flickr.com/photos/lluisr/216017983/sizes/o/ The approximate coordinates are 45° 52′ 44″ N, 6° 53′ 18″ E

Wallpaper doe Monday, June 16

The Saint of the Day is Benno of Meissen, a bishop who passed away in the year 1106. His image may be found at the following site: http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienB/Benno_von_Meissen.html This image would probably take a reduction to about 67% of its original size as an improvement to the tile pattern for use as a background in your computer desk top display. It also needs a nice, wide, colorful border.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from the province of Extramadura in western Spain. http://www.flickr.com/photos/cuellar/118907636/sizes/o/

Screensaver Images for Sunday, June 15

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for this Fifth Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to June 15. (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Genesis 18:1-15: Three angels announce the birth of Isaac to Abraham and Sarah This event is illustrated in a painting by Bartolome Esteban Murillo, which may be seen at the following web page - http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/cybermuse/search/artwork_zoom_e.jsp?mkey=2368 © 2007 National Gallery of Canada.

Psalm 116: A text from this psalm is illustrated by a graphic composed by "sczez". http://family.webshots.com/photo/2338550490014241886djftLb © 1997-2008 AG.com, Inc. aka American Greetings

Romans 5:1-8: A powerpoint slide illustrates Romans 5:5 http://www.heartlight.org/powerpoint/1377.html Copyright © 1996-2006. NLT® aka Heartlight, Inc.

Matthew 9:35-10:8(9-23): "The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest." This metaphor is illustrated with a drawing from Cerezo Barrado. http://www.servicioskoinonia.org/cerezo/dibujosA/34OrdinarioA11.jpg

Wallpaper for Saturday, June 14

The Saint of the Day is Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea and theologian who passed away in the year 379. This is the traditional date for the western church, but the Roman Catholics are now schduling this observance on January 2. The choice of available icons is limited, but mine is here: http://www.dp.net/~stbasil/ --- at the web site of a Russian Orthodox church in Pennsylvania. This image would take a reduction to about 40% of the original dimension and the application of a border would facilitate the use of it as a tiled background for your computer desktop display.

The Landscape of the Day is our final visit to Algeria: http://www.flickr.com/photos/2flick/2404787603/sizes/l/ The photographer provides the geographic reference Desert of Laghouat, which seems to refer to a province located about , 400 km south of Algiers.

Wallpaper for Friday, June 13

The Saint of the Day is Saint Anthony of Padua, OFM (also known as Saint Anthony of Lisbon, his place of birth) Anthony, who was renowned for his preaching, passed away in the year 1231. For the tiled background in your computer desktop display, the image selected is a detail from a painting by Vincent Foppa from the Kress Collection at the Smithsonian's National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. http://www.nga.gov/fcgi-bin/timage_f?object=41678&image=6995&c= Copyright © 2008 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. This image should be reduced to about 35% of the original dimensions and framed with a relatively wide border.

The Landscape of the Day is a fourth scene from Algeria. It's one from the Mediterranean coast area, instead of the country's giant portion of the Sahara Desert. http://www.flickr.com/photos/albatros11/2509508972/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Thursday, June 12

The Saint of the Day is Eskil, bishop, missionary and martyr, who died in the approximate year of 1080. For tiled background for your computer desktop display an appropriate image may be found with the wikipedia article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eskil. This is thumbnail image which will yield a popup image in a larger format when right-clicked up. That image would work best for wallpaper if you reduce it to about 40% of its original siz and put a border on it.

The Landscape of the Day is a third view of Algeria http://www.flickr.com/photos/matteoc/1841064084/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Wednesday, June 11

The Saint of the Day is Barnabas, the Apostle, who is one of the important figures in the early days of the church as described in the Acts of the Apostle. Of the icons that I can find on the web, my favorite is the one at the following location: http://www.saintbarnabasaugusta.org/patronsaint.html For use to generate a tiled background for your computer's desktop display, a certain amount of processing would be needed. I would reduce the image to about 15% of its original dimensions and then select a rectangle around the figure of the apostle, including the lettering and excluding a substantial part of the gold background. Save this to a separate file and apply a border --- I would use the seasonal color of dark green.

For the Landscape of the Day, the large nation of Algeria is due 5 views (at approximately 500,000 square kilometers per view) This is the second of the five. This selected image, featuring a hillside with a large swath of sky, is not typical of this series, but it is a very nice photograph. The Algeria keyword seems to indicate a location in that country. http://www.flickr.com/photos/aziouez/2341734912/sizes/o/

Wallpaper for Tuesday, June 10

The Saint of the Day is Ephrem of Syria, also known as, Ephrem of Edessa, a deacon and hymn-writer, who passed away in 373. This is one of several dates of which this saint is remembered. An icon appropriate for use in a tiled background for your computer desktop display may found at the following web page http://satucket.com/lectionary/Ephrem_Edessa.htm , where more information about this saint is available. For best results in a tiled background, I would reduce the size of the image to about 70% of the original dimension.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Algeria. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianna/403666301/sizes/o/ You may need to set the background to the stretch format.

Wallpaper for Monday 9, 2008

The Saint of the Day is Columba, Abbot of Iona (a Scottish isle) and Missionary to the Picts, who passed away in 597. An appropriate image may be found at http://saints.sqpn.com/saintc17.htm. For use as a tiled background in your computer desktop display this needs to be reduced to about 66% of its original dimensions and then copied onto a dark background so that you can select and save a slightly larger area that will have strong border to break up the light pattern of that this graphic would otherwise yield.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Morocco --- in the vicinity of Marrakech. http://www.flickr.com/photos/quarkaparis/400150600/sizes/o/in/set-72157594519654624/

Screensaver Images for Sunday, June 8

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for this Fourth Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to June 8". (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Genesis 12:1-9: "The Lord said to Abram, "Go from your country and your kindred and your father's house to the land that I will show you. I will make of you a great nation ..."
The artist James Tissot apparently did many Bible illustrations, but not many are accessible on the Web. One of those is a water color of The Caravan of Abram, and Allposters.com would sell you a poster with that image, which may be found at the following URL: http://www.allposters.com/gallery.asp?startat=/getposter.asp&APNum=2725595&CID=864D475FDE0744A7B6DC063573CDE20B&PPID=1&search=caravan%20abram&f=t&FindID=0&P=1&PP=1&sortby=PD&cname=&SearchID=

Psalm 33:1-12 : "Sing for [the Lord] a new song; sound a fanfare with all your skill upon the trumpet." Did the psalmist say fanfare? Let's see if we can find a fanfare pic. ---- Having done a more thorough search, I recommend a photo from the Virginia Military Institute http://cadets.vmi.edu/band/heralds.jpg.

Romans 4:13-25: "No distrust made [Abraham] waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God, being fully convinced that God was able to do what he had promised. Therefore his faith "was reckoned to him as righteousness." This passage is illustrated by the third image on the following web page. http://www.mycatholictradition.com/saints-of-old-abraham.html

Matthew 9:9-13, 18-26: "As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax booth; and he said to him, "Follow me." And he got up and followed him"
The following image was found by Google Image Search http://oneyearbibleimages.com/levi_.jpg. I found no home page for this domain, but Google indicates that the image itself is used on the following web page http://www.oneyearbibleblog.com/2008/02/february-17th-o.html Copyright © 2004-2008 One Year

Wallpaper for Saturday, May 7

The Hero of the Day is Noah Seattle, Chief of the Duwamish Confederacy, who passed away in 1866. I would recommend James Kiefer's presentation of Chief Seattle's worthiness for such a remembrance on June 7. http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/indexcal.html. For an image to use in a tiled background for your computer desktop display, I would recommend the picture of a drawing that may be found on the following web page. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/local/seattle_history/articles/grave.html . I would select a portion of the drawing focused more closely on the face so as to eliminate the abundant white area in the lower part of the drawing. Copy this selected area to a separate file and apply a border, and reduce the size a little as you may find appropriate.

Wallpaper for Friday, June 6

[The following are repeats from the appropriate 1997 entries.]

The Saint of the Day is St. Marcellin Champagnat, FMS, priest, and founder of the Marist order, who passed away on June 6, 1840. The following image is a portrait that can be used for wallpaper in a tiled format. Image processing software, such as the Windows Paint utility can be used to reduce the image to an appropriate size for tiling, such as 33% of the original size. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marcellin_Champagnat.jpg

[And don't forget to add a border]

The Landscape of the Day is again from Mauritania. Today it is intended to represent an areaof the earth that includes the nation of Western Sahara, in addition to a portion of Mauretania. http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Africa/Mauretania/photo320400.htm

Wallpaper for Thursday, June 5

The Saint of the Day is Boniface, bishop, missionary to Germany and the Frisian Islands, and a martyr, who died in 754. For a tiled background on your computer desktop display, an appropriate picture of Boniface would be a stained glass image from San Boniface Church in San Francisco, California, USA. The Boniface window is shown in the fourth tow of thumnail pictures on the following web page: http://www.saintbonifacesf.org/tour_lower_windows.htm. The thumbnail image would be somewhat smaller than the format I would use. You can click through to a much larger image, which would be about right if reduced to about 25% of its original dimensions.

The Landscape of the Day is a view of an oasis in Mauritania. http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Africa/Mauritania/North/Adrar/photo621957.htm The photograph identifies the location as Timnith, but I can not find any other reference to that place name as specific location on a map.

Wallpaper for Wednesday, June 4

The Hero of the Day is Angelo Roncalli, Pope John XXIII, who passed away June 3, 1963. He is remembered on or about this date by the calendars of the Anglican Church in Canada and the Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Roman Catholic Church has recognized him as "Blessed", but has not completed the process to declare him a "Saint" For a tiled background on your computer desktop display, I would use the image that may be found at the following web address: http://www.catholichomeandgarden.com/images/pope%20john%20xxiii%20portrait.jpg . For an appropriate tile, reduce the size to about 60% of the of the original dimensions and apply a border. For more information about this honoree, the Lutheran appreciation was the basis of his (June 4) entry in the James Kiefer's hagiography series about this honoree http://elvis.rowan.edu/~kilroy/JEK/. On the Roman Catholic calendar, he is honored on October 11, the date in 1962 when he convened the council known as Vatican II.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Mauritania http://www.trekearth.com/gallery/Africa/Mauritania/North/Adrar/photo309338.htm. The photographer identifies this location as east of Atar, which is located at 20°31'09"N, 13°03'17"W.

Wallpaper for Tuesday, June 3

The Saints of the Day are Carl Lwanga and his companions, the Martyrs of Uganda. Lwanga died June 3, 1887. For more information about these martyrs, Katherine Rabenstein's account would be helpful: http://www.saintpatrickdc.org/ss/0603.shtml . For a tiled background in your computer desktop display, the artwork at the following web page is recommended. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Karoli_Lwanga_and_his_followers.jpg A reduction in size to 66% of the original dimensions would probably be optimum for this application.

The Landscape of the Day is another scene from Mali, which for wallpaper may be well displayed in the stretch format. Apparently this view is from the region of the city of Timbuktu.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tombouctou1000ans/1363414870/sizes/o/

Wallpaper for Monday, June 2

The Saint of the Day is Blandina, who with her companions are known collectively as the Martyr of Lyons. They died in the year 177. An image of Saint Blandina may be found at the following web page http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=8634335 Working from the enlarged version, available with a click, this image should be reduced in size to about 55% of the original and have a border applied if it is to be effectively used as a tiled background (wallpaper) in the desktop display of your computer.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Mali http://www.flickr.com/photos/alexbip/150311118/sizes/o/ The photographer gives the location as
14°12' 02" N, 3°32' 20" W in a location known as Mopti.

Screensaver Images for June 1

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for this Third Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A on the "Sunday closest to June 1". (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Genesis 6: 9-22; 7:24; 8:14-19 [God tells Noah to build an ark] An image of the Edward Hicks painting of Noah's ark may be found on the following web page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Noahs_Ark.jpg

Psalm 46 A verse from this psalm is illustrated by one David Dennis' images at the Wallpaper Dave site. http://wonders.wallpaperdave.com/psalms03.htm. The image for Psalm 46 is in the middle of the 6th row of thumbnail (enlargeable) images on this page.

Romans 1:16-17; 3:22b-28 "since all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God; they [who have faith] are now justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus" A nice Amazing Grace poster has been created from the work of Lorraine Brewer and may be found at the following web site. http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Amazing-Grace-Posters_i309848_.htm?AID=423786166 © 1998-2008 AllPosters.com. All rights reserved

Matthew 7:21-29: [Parables describing the true disciple] This passage is illustrated with a clip art image by Cerezo Barredo as posted at this Brazilian web site http://www.servicioskoinonia.org/cerezo/dibujosA/33OrdinarioA9.jpg

Wallpaper for Saturday, May 31

This updates an entry from 2007. The Observance of the Day is the Visitation of Mary, which commemorates the event described in the Bible in Luke 1:39-56, when the expectant mother of Jesus visits her cousin, also expecting, who was to be the mother of John the Baptist. The wallpaper art is an illustration of this meeting in a painting by Domenico Ghirlandaio, currently on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris. Since the artwork in its entirety does not work well as a wallpaper tile, I have selected a detail of that painting as you see here.

Wallpaper for Friday, May 29

The Saint of the Day is Joan of Arc, missionary and martyr, who died this date in 1431. For use as a tiled background in your screen display, I have posted a detailed image from a World War II vintage war bond poster.

Wallpaper for Thursday, May 29

The Saint of the Day is Bona of Pisa, an adherent of the rule of Saint Augustine, who was a travel guide for pilgrims. She passed away in approximately the year 1107. For a tiled background to your computer screen display, the following image of a Giovanni Lorenzetti painting from the following Saints Dictionary web page would be good. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienB/Bona_von_Pisa.html This copies as a very large image which will need reduction to about 13% of its original dimensions. A border should also be applied.

With respect the the Landscape of the Day, I searched for appropriate from the area of world that includes Burkina Faso, Ghana and Togo. I haven't found one yet that I would really want to use as wallpaper.

Wallpaper for Wednesday, May 27

The Saint of the Day is Saint Germain of Paris, a bishop who passed away in 576. An image of this saint may be found at the following web page: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germain_of_Paris To use this for a tiled background (wallpaper) for your computer screen display, this image should be reduced to about 40% of the original dimension and have a color border applied.

The Landscape of the Day is the a scene from north central Nigeria in the vicinity of Jos. http://www.flickr.com/photos/jittu/693706514/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Tuesday, May 27

The Saint of the Day is Julius, the Veteran, who died a martyr in the year 302, approximately. An image suitable for use as a tiled background for your computer screen display may be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Julius_the_Veteran . A reduction to 60% of the original dimensions would be appropriate.

A Landscape of the Day is a view from the Obudu Hills in eastern Nigeria http://www.flickr.com/photos/7736708@N06/2142824822/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Monday, May 26

In 2008, we take note that this date is Memorial Day in the US --- in memory of the dead who served in the nation's armed forces, and especially those who died in action. However this blog is mainly about saint graphics; and the Saint of the Day is Augstine of Canterbury, bishop and missionary, who passed away in 605. For an image to be used in a tiled background on your computer display screen, I would recommend an icon from the Aidan Hart site http://www.aidanharticons.com/western_orthodox_saints.html. As you scroll down the page you will come to an icon for today's saint in the 3rd row of thumbnail image. The full-size image needs reduction to abour 22% of the original dimensions to serve well as a tile. Of course actually printing out and / or sharing a printed version would be violation of the copyright. Copyright Aidan Hart © 2004

Screensaver Images for Sunday, March 25

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for this Secend Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. on the Sunday closest to Year A. (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Isaiah 49:8-16a: "And I will turn all my mountains into a road,and my highways shall be raised up.Lo, these shall come from far away ..." A road for Isrealites returning from Babylonian captivity in Ninevah might well have been the one going past Mount Hermon, in today's southern Syria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hermonsnow.jpg

Psalm 131: "...I still my soul and make it quiet,like a child upon its mother's breast" This is illustrated with the image of a painting by Elizabeth Nourse. I'm referring to an image that appears in thumbnail form (one that enlarges with a click) --- the first one on the following web page http://www.artrenewal.org/asp/database/art.asp?aid=1822&page=1&order=t

1 Corinthians 4:1-5: "It is the Lord who judges me. Therefore do not pronounce judgment before the time, before the Lord comes, who will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness..." This passage is illustrated by a photo image at the top of the following webpage. http://home.austarnet.com.au/gerhardy/epiph0_05.htm Site © Pastor Vince Gerhardy, St Paul's Lutheran Church, Caboolture - 2nd January, 2005

Matthew 6:24-34: "Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life ....Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they neither toil nor spin, yet I tell you, even Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these.... But strive first for the kingdom of God and his righteousness." This text is illustrated with a poster created with scripture text on a background image from a stained glass window. An image of the poster may found using the third thumbnail image in the top row of this web page: http://www.4catholiceducators.com/bible_posters_Matthew5.htm

Wallpaper for Saturday, May 24

The Saint of the Day is Vincent of Lerins, a monk and theologian who passed away around 445. An image useable for tiled wallpaper (background) on your computer screen display may be found at the following Dictionary of Saints web page. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienV/Vinzenz_von_Lerins.html The icon image that you see here turns out to be a thumbnail (reduced version) of the actual image that you would copy to your My Pictures directory for wallpaper use. The actual image could well be reduced to about 45% of its original dimensions for optimal wallpaper effect. However, if you wish the text of the image to be legible ,you would want to select the upper portion of the full-length figure and save it to a new file which can be used effectively as a tile with less of a reduction in size.

Wallpaper for Friday, May 23

The Saint of the Day is Euphrosyne of Polatsk, who passed away in 1173. An appropriate image for use as a tiled background on your computer screen display may be found at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphrosyne_of_Polatsk. The effect would probably be improved by a reduction in size to about 75% of the original dimensions and the addition of a border.

Wallpaper for Thursday, March 22

The Saint of the Day is Rita of Cascia, O.S.A who passed away in 1457. An image suitable for use as a tiled background in your computer screen display may be found at the following web page. http://heritage.villanova.edu/vu/heritage/history/saints/rita.htm For best results, apply a border and reduce to about 66% of the original size.

Wallpaper for Wednesday, May 21

The Saint of the Day (according to the traditional calendar) is Saint Helena, mother of Emperor Constantine, who passed away around the year 328. An interesting piece of Helena art may be accessed through a thumbnail at the bottom of the following web page. http://www.alfredoratinoff.com/galleries_murals.html

Wallpaper for Tuesday, May 20

The Hero of the Day was originally Alcuin, Deacon, Scholar, and Abbot of Tours, who passed away in 804. The Blessed Alcuin is on the calendar of the US Episcopal Church. However I didn't really like the Alcuin images available for wallpaper use. Therefore --- a change.

Henceforth the Saint of the Day will be Aethelred II, King of East Anglia, who was murdered --- some might say martyred --- in the year 794. A picture of Aethelred in the format of a stained glass window may found in Nash Ford Publishing's Early British Kingdoms archive. http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/aethelberteang.html You would probably want to reduce this to about 50% of its original dimensions for use as a wallpaper tile.

Wallpaper for May, April 19

The Saint of the Day is Dunstan of Canterbury, monk and archbishop, who passed away in 988. An appropriate image of Dunstan for use in a tiled background for your computer screen display is an icon posted on the web at http://www.saint-dunstan.org/images/Saint-Dunstan1.jpg To optimize this image for the intended use, reduce it to about 40% of the original dimensions. This image is used on the following web page: http://www.saint-dunstan.org/stdunstan.htm at the site of Saint Dunstan's (Antiochian) Orthodox Church of Poole, UK. No copyright is indicated.

Screensaver Images for Sunday, April 18

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for the First Sunday after Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary for Year A. (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Genesis 1:1-2:4a --- the first of the two creation stories in the book of Genesis --- An appropriate image to remind you of this passage would be the illustration by Gustave Doré on the following web page. http://www.creationism.org/images/DoreBibleIllus/aGen0221Dore_TheFormationOfEve.jpg
(This reference to this particular web site should not be regarded as an endorsement of the creationist agenda in its entirety, but this web site does have a good high-resolution version of the Doré illustration.)

Psalm 8 --- "When I consider your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars you have set in their courses, What is man that you should be mindful of him?" --- The following link is to a deep space photograph of the heavens which was featured as one of NASA's astronomy photos of the day. http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap080502.html The photograph is credited to John S. Ebersole. The copyright status is unclear.

2 Corinthians 13:11-13 --- Saint Paul's farewell to the church in Corinth --- The theme of saying farewell, with the "holy kiss" as was customary among the apostles, is illustratated in a painting by Alonzo Rodriguez showing Saint Peter and Saint Paul saying farewell. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Alonzo_Rodriguez_Commiato_dei_santi_Pietro_e_Paolo_Messina_Museo_Regionale_.jpg

Matthew 28:16-20 --- "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit" [The Great Commission] --- A Great Commission logo may be found at the following web page, the last image you find when scrolling down the page. http://www.cbcws.org/templates/System/default.asp?id=21328 This image may be enlarged by clicking on it. The graphic will contain some text that you could eliminate, if preferred, by using one of two alternative methods: (Select and save a portion of the image that does not include the text or mask it by drawing a white box figure over it.) The image is posted courtesy of the Cornerstone Baptist Church of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. No copyright is mentioned.

Wallpaper for Saturday, May 17

The Saint of the Day is Pascal Baylon, lay brother in a Franciscan community, who passed away in 1592. For a tiled background featuring this saint in your computer screen display, I would recommend he art work in a stained glass window image at the following site. http://www.heiligenlexikon.de/BiographienP/Paschalis_Baylon.htm

Wallpaper for Friday, May 16

The Saint of the Day is Margaret of Cortona, who passed away in the year 1297. For use in creating a tiled background for your computer screen display, an image at the following web address, as detected by Google search would be appropriate if reduced to about 33% of the original dimensions and with a border applied. site © 2002 by Margaret's Rosaries http://www.margaretsrosaries.com/Images/cortonapic.jpg Having found this deep link to an image, you might well do the site the courtesy of visiting the web page where that image appears (as a thumbnail-sized picture) http://www.margaretsrosaries.com/st%20margaret%20prayers.htm

Wallpaper for Thursday, May 15

The Saint of the Day is Isidore, the Farmer, a devout layman, who passed away in 1130. For a tiled background on your computer screen display, I like the icon available at the following site. http://www.monasteryicons.com/ Just enter Isidore, in the "Search" box to see the icon. A print will cost you $11 plus S&H; but you are certainly entitled to look at the image on your computer screen. An appropriate size for use as a tile would be about 67% - 75% of the original dimensions.

Wallpaper for Wednesay, May 14

The Saint of the Day is Pachomius, the first monk to found a monastic community. He passed away in 346. An appropriate image for a tiled background in your computer screen display may be found at the following web page. http://orthodoxwiki.org/Pachomius_the_Great To optimize the image for this purpose, I would recommend a reduction in size to about 66% of the original dimensions and the application of a border in an appropriate color

Wallpaper for Tuesday, May 13

The Saint of the Day is Servatus, Bishop of Tongres, who passed away in 385. Tongres was an ancient city, since destroyed, in the area of the modern Netherlands. An image of Servatus useable in a tiled background for your screen display may be found at the following web page.
http://saints.sqpn.com/saints0l.htm at the Star Quest Production Network site of Terry H. Jones . The tile pattern will look better if you apply a border.

Wallpaper for Monday, May 11

The Saint of the Day is Simon of Cyrene, cross-bearer for Christ. For an image suitable for use in tiled background for your computer screen display, I would recommend "Station Number 5" among the illustrations of the Stations of the Cross posted by an Anglican Church in Pickering, Ontario. http://www.stmartinsanglican.ca/stations.htm. It needs to be properly sized and to have a border added. To work from a larger image, click on the thumbnail sized image on this page. Obviously they take their image copyright very seriously (© St. James Anglican Church and Netcom Solutions, Ltd.) The only fair use is on your very own personal computer screen, where electrons can't be copyrighted once delivered by the Internet.

Screensaver Images for Sunday, May 11

Below are links to illustrations for the scripture texts designated for the Day of Pentecost according to the Revised Common Lectionary. (The historic English name for this observance that you'd find in the Farmer's Almanac, is Whitsunday) (On a Windows PC, you can save the images referrenced below to your My Pictures directory and set the screensaver option to a slide show of pictures in that directory including these.)

Acts 2:1-21: Fifty days after the crucifixion of Jesus --- the disciples of Christ on Pentecost

This event is illustrated with an image of a painting in collection of the Louvre by , Jean RestoutII. This is posted on the Web Gallery of Art site, where the image on the following page can be enlarged with a click. To me this neoclassical painting captures more of the drama of this event even though the details do not entirely reflect the location of the actual event.

http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/r/restout/pentecos.html

Psalm 104:25-35: At the following web page is an image, enlargeable with a click, that is intended to illustrate the text of verse 30 from this psalm. Note that the artwork is copyrighted separately. http://www.johngarratt.com.au/psalms/025%20psalms.jpg.

1 Corinthians 12:3b-13: "Now there are varieties of gifts, but the same Spirit" .... "For in the one Spirit we were all baptized into one body" For this use, I prefer an image with less white space that the original, so I have posted above a doctored version of the artwork that may found, and purchased in the form of a plaque (Stock #TL-111) from the following web page:

http://www.thetreeoflifeimports.com/IMAGES/wood/plaquesREVISED.htm

John 20:19-23: "Jesus said to [disciples] again, 'Peace be with you. As the Father has sent me, so I send you.' When he had said this, he breathed on them and said to them, 'Receive the Holy Spirit...' " The following web page features clip art posted by the Misioneros Del Sagrado Corazón en el Perú. Generally, for wallpaper/screensaver use, I don't care for black and white images are that mostly white. But I'm not going to attempt to colorize this work of art.

http://www.mscperu.org/images/graficoslit/cuaresma_pascua/12_pasc_c.htm

Wallpaper for Saturday, May 10

The Saint of the Day was Antoninus of Florence, OP, a bishop, who passed away in 1459. This image of Saint Antoninius is based on a drawing posted at a Dominican order web site: http://www.domcentral.org/study/ashley/dominicans/ashdom04.htm As posted, the background was all white, which is not what I am looking for in a graphic to display in the tiled format as a background for my computer screen display.

I running behind on these postings, so the landscape for this day will have to be added later.

Actual posting: 2008/05/13 02:55 CDT (UT-5) --- Blogger does know this because it can't read my cookies.

Wallpaper for Friday, May 9

The Saint of the Day is Gregory of Nazianzus, bishop and theologian, who passed aware in 389. An icon suitable for use in a tiled background for your computer screen display may be found at the following web page: http://www.wranglican.org/St_Greg_Naz.htm.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Angola looking at a range of hills behind a village. The photograph identifies the view as as Chibia. http://www.flickr.com/photos/maurosousa/875822056/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Thursday, May 8

The Saint of the Day is Dame Julian of Norwich, who passed away in 1417. There is a very poignant image of her out there in the blogosphere. I haven't been able to discover the name of the artist or the location of the original. It appears old enough to be in the public domain, so I am posting it here, slightly modified for use as a tiled background for a computer screen display.

The Landscape of the Day is a scene from Angola. http://www.flickr.com/photos/erikkristensen/134048559/sizes/l/

Wallpaper for Wednesday, May 7

This is a placeholder entry. Hopefully I will get around to backfilling it with the usual data.

Wallpaper for Tuesday, May 6

The Saint of the Day is Saint Petronax, abbot, whose illustration may be found at the following web site of the (Catholic) Church of Tarragona in northeastern Spain, in the area known as Catalonia. http://www.arquebisbattarragona.org/index.php?arxiu=sants&data_dia=06&data_mes=05&x=1. If you copy this image to your My Pictures directory, you will probably want to crop the wide white border with a little image processing, using the "Select" tool.