What is the oldest surviving photograph of someone who was later canonized as a saint?
score:12
St. Bernadette Soubirous (1844-1879), the Lourdes visionary, is the first saint of Ann Ball's Modern Saints: Their Lives and Faces to feature a photograph:
Bernadette was photographed often and her pictures were sold everywhere; she joked, "I am on sale for [ten cents] at every street corner!"
The photograph above was taken at some point in the 1860s.
Upvote:4
St. John Vianney could have been the oldest, but
During his lifetime, the Curé d'Ars has always refused to pose for a portrait or to be photographed. In the absence of such a testimony of the physical reality of the saint, one could legitimately wonder about the fidelity of the many images representing him. This uncertainty led, in [September] 1959, the Sacerdotal Session, on the occasion of the centenary of his death, to ask the divisional commissioner Chabot to make a "robot photo" of the Curé of Ars from various documents presenting a scientific certainty, essentially the mortuary photographs. The photo reproduced here is the result of this command.
So I don't know if this counts but its more photo realistic, and probably from right around the same time as St. Bernadette's photo
More post
- 📝 According to Catholic scholars, does Gen. 1:27b ("male and female he created them") follow from Gen. 1:27a ("God created man to his own image")?
- 📝 What did the early church fathers (pre-5th c.) teach with regards to the doctrine of baptism as a necessity for salvation?
- 📝 In the Gospels, is there any recorded instance of the Pharisees quoting Scripture?
- 📝 Book of Mormon writers by verse
- 📝 Is Satanism a denomination of Christianity?
- 📝 What is the basis for "Church Shopping"?
- 📝 Does the Catholic Church allow scientific experiments that deliberately inflict some degree of pain on a human being?
- 📝 How are the Communion wafers handled?
- 📝 What is the evidence that suggests that the Apostle Paul was married?
- 📝 Can you explain this Free Will / Predestination illustration?
- 📝 What does "predestination" mean?
- 📝 Offering Indulgences to the Poor souls in Purgatory
- 📝 Does Malachi 4:1 and Jude 7 prove that hell is temporary?
- 📝 Did Jesus have a normal childhood?
- 📝 What did Jesus mean by seventy times seven?
- 📝 Are there any complete tables that can accurately pinpoint the year of the flood?
- 📝 According to Catholic theology are the Psalms suitable preaching/prayers/songs for Christians?
- 📝 If God cannot tempt anyone, what is the meaning of the following scriptures?
- 📝 Connection between the Jesus Prayer and chanting "Jesus!" during worship?
- 📝 Is there a systematic theology resource based solely on the words of Jesus?
- 📝 Martin Luther on the salvation of Christian Soldiers?
- 📝 What is the difference between belief and faith, from a Protestant perspective?
- 📝 Are there Protestants in Italy today?
- 📝 What is the origin of the story of the penitent thief as a young boy?
- 📝 What is the Catholic view on frozen embryos
- 📝 Was Christ the man created?
- 📝 What is achieved by baptism in Eastern Orthodoxy (compared with Catholicism)
- 📝 Can Catholics choose to be baptized by immersion?
- 📝 Has the distinction of the human and divine natures in Jesus Christ been established?
- 📝 What does the Church say about the statements that the Pope Benedict XVI made in the book "God and the World"?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What is the oldest surviving photograph of someone who was later canonized as a saint?
- 📝 What is the proper title for someone who was a pope and is now canonized as a saint?
- 📝 What is the official status of the person of Philomena who at one time was liturgically canonized by Pope Gregory XVI?
- 📝 On what basis was Jesus’ death sufficient for redemption according Non-Trinitarians who maintain that Jesus was not eternal God as God the Father is?
- 📝 What are the oldest surviving manuscripts of the scriptures?
- 📝 What was the first Spiritual Gifts Inventory book published or who was the first to use the method?
- 📝 What were people called who believed in the "Christ" before Jesus was born?
- 📝 What should one do who was baptised twice in the Catholic and Orthodox Churches?
- 📝 Jesus said he was like the bronze serpent, which was destroyed because it was worshipped. What does this mean for those who worship him?
- 📝 What was it about the death of Jesus that allows God to forgive us?
- 📝 For Catholics who object to Vatican II, what are the key issues?
- 📝 What is the oldest hymn (with music) that is still sung in churches today?
- 📝 What denominations, besides JWs, hold that the Star of Bethlehem was sent by Satan?
- 📝 What is the significance of Noah, after the flood, getting drunk and cursing his son who saw him Naked?
- 📝 What does it mean that Jesus was the "second Adam"?
- 📝 Who was St. Joseph's Father? The New Testament seems to give two answers
- 📝 What was the difference between the Pharisees and Sadducees?
- 📝 What crime was committed by the "thieves" crucified with Jesus?
- 📝 What is the support for saying Jesus believed Genesis was a literal account of creation?
- 📝 What is the Biblical basis for withholding communion from believers who are unbaptized?
- 📝 What process was used to translate the KJV?
- 📝 Wave offering; What exactly was the point?
- 📝 What of Augustine's ecclesiology was rejected in the Reformation?
- 📝 What does the Roman Catholic church teach about those who die having never heard of Christ?
- 📝 What is the earliest written surviving liturgy?
- 📝 What was Isaac Newton's view of the Trinity?
- 📝 What was the specific trap being set for Jesus by the Pharisees in John 8?
- 📝 According to LDS (Mormon) teaching, who was the first God who began the eternal progression?
- 📝 What is the evidence that suggests that the Apostle Paul was married?
- 📝 What do Protestants who deny transubstantiation do with the remainders of wine and bread after the Eucharist?