As we begin Holy Week, my Lenten series on new images from the Sacred Art Pilgrim Collection illustrating seven moments from the Passion of Christ comes to end with an abstract expressionist image of the Crucifixion by French Master Printmaker Alfred Manessier. This color lithograph is the fourth plate in a suite of seven prints Manessier created in 1949 on the theme of Easter. The blue orb above the grid-like cross construction suggests the lightless sun above Golgotha, an event recorded (as noted by the artist) in Matthew 27:45: "Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour, (KJV)." The French title, Les Tenebres (meaning The Darkness) evokes the traditional Holy Week rite of Tenebrae, when candles are extinguished and the sanctuary left in darkness to memorialize the suffering and death of Christ. This new Passion lithograph from Manessier joins another from the 1949 Easter series on the Entombment of Christ in the gallery of the printmaker's profile page in the Sacred Artists section. (John Kohan)