Van Gogh the Christian

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Pemican

Pemican

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Saw an article about one of my favorite painters Vincent Van Gogh.
Did you know he was a Christian and a minister before he was a
painter. He did a number of Bible themed paintings that the public
isn't even aware of and has never seen. See the article at this link:


Vincent Van Gogh was crazy – for Christ
 
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didymos

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He was never a minister, but an evangelist.

...Van Gogh's religious zeal grew until he felt he had found his true vocation. To support his effort to become a pastor, his family sent him to Amsterdam to study theology in May 1877, where he stayed with his uncle Jan van Gogh, a naval Vice Admiral. Vincent prepared for the entrance exam with his uncle Johannes Stricker, a respected theologian who published the first "Life of Jesus" in the Netherlands. Van Gogh failed the exam, and left his uncle Jan's house in July 1878. He then undertook, but failed, a three-month course at the Vlaamsche Opleidingsschool, a Protestant missionary school in Laeken, near Brussels. In January 1879, he took a temporary post as a missionary in the village of Petit Wasmes in the coal-mining district of Borinage in Belgium at Charbonnage de Marcasse...

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vincent_van_Gogh
 
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Siberian_Khatru

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You've Goght to be kidding me. I've never heard of this.
 
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Kenitay

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I've never heard of him having been a Christian of whatever kind, at all. That's so interesting! But then, I know only so little about Van Gogh anyway...
 
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