Photograph: A painting, The Baptism of the Christ is by Daniel Bonnell.  Used with permission. It represents the beginning and the end of Christ’s public, earthly ministry:  The Baptism relates to the Crucifixion because it represents a dying and rising. 

The original painting is in Saint George’s Cathedral in Jerusalem.  This version hangs in a humble and small African American Church in South Carolina.  Another version hangs in the Mayo Clinic entrance in Minnesota.  Daniel Bonnell teaches art to at-risk urban high school students.

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