Friday 28 August 2015

Cardinal Paskai's Funeral

 
 


Some photographs of Cardinal Paskai's funeral on 22nd August at the Primatial Basilica of the Blessed Virgin Mary Assumed Into Heaven and St Adalbert, Esztergom, Hungary.  It is the mother church of the Archdiocese of Esztergom-Budapest.  


Requiescat in pace.


Atavis et Armis!

 
 

The altarpiece (13.5 × 6.6 metres) depicting the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, by Girolamo Michelangelo Grigoletti, is the largest painting in the world painted on a single piece of canvas.