Links - In Questions about Jesus (part three)

9. Judas betrays Jesus (pages 18-19)

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08539a.htm
The Catholic web site provides further information on the life of Judas.

10. Mary watches as Jesus is crucified (pages 20-21)

http://www.artchive.com/artchive/M/michelangelo/pieta.jpg.html
The sorrow and despair of Mary at the foot of the cross has been a subject of many artists, including perhaps the most famous of all - Michelangelo's Pieta.13^th Century images on the same subject can be seen at http://faq.macedonia.org/religion/ohrid.archbishopric.html

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/feeling/
A web site that takes children's feelings seriously. Issues such as divorce, adoption, death and bullying are dealt with simply and sensitively.

http://www.jesterbook.com/
The story The Jester has lost his Jingle is a more light-hearted approach to dealing with sadness and the importance of laughter. The author, David Saltzman died of Hodginkson's disease shortly after completing the story, at the tender age of 22.

11. Doubting Thomas (pages 22-23)

http://www.vision3d.com/
The activity for this double page mentions the use of optical illusions. This is one of the best web sites for this type of resource and also includes magic eye images, reversible figures and much more.

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/detail/Detail_caravaggio.html
Perhaps the most famous image relating to the story of Doubting Thomas, by the artist Caravaggio.

Verocchio's sculpture of the same scene can be viewed at http://www.kfki.hu/~arthp/html/v/verocchi/sculptur/christho.html .

http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/stthomas.htm
Find out more about the feast day for St Thomas. The web page includes the fact that, in some places, Thomasfaulpelz or Domesel (lazybone or donkey of St. Thomas day) were names given to the last person to get out of bed and for the last student to appear in class on that particular morning.

12. Jesus at the Last Supper (pages 24-5)

http://ellensplace.net/dali.html
Salvador Dali once described his famous painting as 'an arithmetic and philosophical cosmogony based on the paranoiac sublimity of the number twelve...the pentagon contains microcosmic man: Christ'. Let the painting speak for itself, as you view it at this web site or at http://www.dali-gallery.com/html/dali.htm

http://www.request.org.uk/main/dowhat/dowhat.htm
Find out more about Holy Communion at this site. There is information on how the communion service is celebrated in an Anglican church, Roman Catholic and non-conformist churches.

http://www.narnia.com/
The Narnia Chronicles, mentioned in the extension work section above, are the main focus of this web site. The children can discover more about C.S. Lewis and the creation of the world of Narnia, take a tour of Narnia, or find out more about the creatures that inhabit the world.