At the Tate, I was drawn to the work of Anthony Gormley. His sculpture, 'Untitled (for Francis)' 1985 first stirred my curiosity over religion. The sculpture is a mould of Gormley's body reinforced with fibreglass and encased in lead, and it seems to represent the wounds of Christ, although Gormley does not specify this. He has titled the piece '(for Francis) as a reference to Renaissance artist Giovanni Bellini's painting 'St. Francis in Ecstasy'. St Francis was a catholic monk who lived during 12th century Italy in the Assisi monastery. I found this reference fascinating as St Francis had one of the first recorded cases of stigmata- markings on the hand which resemble the wounds of Christ, much like Gormley's sculpture. I continued my research on Bellini's painting , finding a reference to St. Francis's "Canticles of the Sun', in which he wrote, "Woe to those who die in mortal sin." From this, I wanted to discover what "mortal sin" means in Catholicism, both in the past and present. In modern times, do we all resist against traditional catholic values and commit 'mortal sins' with and without knowing?