Eine Diakonission bestaunt im Zürcher Kunsthaus ein Bild vom Schweizer Maler Segantini 1990.

Sheet 19910010 Photo 14

Image of sheet 19910010 photo 14: Eine Diakonission bestaunt im Zürcher Kunsthaus ein Bild vom Schweizer Maler Segantini. 12. 1990

A Diacone sister at Zurich Kunsthaus in front of a  painting of the Swiss painter and artist Giovanni Segantini. √
religion art 

A diaconia was originally an establishment built near a church building, for the care of the poor and distribution of the church's charity in medieval Rome or Naples (the successor to the Roman grain supply system, often standing on the very sites of its stationes annonae). Examples included the sites of San Vito, Santi Alessio e Bonifacio, and Sant'Agatha[1] in Rome, San Gennaro in Naples (headed by a deacon named John in the end of the ninth and the beginning of the tenth century.[2]

The word has now come to mean the titular church of a Cardinal Deacon.
Color: Black & White
Type: Positive, Negative, Digital
Formats: 18x24
Country: Schweiz
Region: Zürich
Date: Dec 18, 1990
Keywords: Kultur, Betrieb