2025 Ordo Kalendar

2025 Calendar PRE ORDER NOW--SHIPPING WILL BEGIN NOVEMBER 22ND 10 x 12 & 5/8 inches12 pages with hole punch for hanging This year’s Ordo Kalendar features the Retable and Frontal of the Life of Christ and the Virgin from the collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. This massive, multi-part painting decorated the funerary chapel of Pedro López de Ayala, a powerful nobleman of the Kingdom of Castile. Born in 1332 in what is now northern Spain, Pedro was trained for the Church but became heir to the Lordship of Ayala after the death of his older brother. This clerical education marked him out against his contemporaries, as he not only served at court, and in the many wars that ravaged the Iberian Peninsula at that time, but also worked as an historian, a translator, and a poet.  Yet despite these worldly interests, Don Pedro had a reputation for great piety, as can be seen from his investment in the retable and altar frontal that he commissioned for the chapel of his stronghold in