Transfiguration

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Carl Bloch's 19th-century painting of the Transfiguration of Jesus

Transfiguration

  1. (Christianity) The miraculous event, on a mountain, when the face of Jesus "shone like the sun" before the apostles; the feast commemorating this event – 6 August (or 19 August in the Orthodox church)