It is the faith of early Christians that one finds in the catacombs The catacombs
The images obtained in the catacombs and inscriptions of Christian antiquity are an invaluable comments of the Catholic faith, a catechism written on stone of Christian doctrine. "We told her to get used to the rest in God Bishop Nicholas White of Speyer in a pastoral letter," we go with a burning Candle, how can the mountain man with the pit light, down into that pit the Christian primitive times, what vast treasures can be sacred antiquities of the church, so we will not look surprised enough. "This is from the care of the bodies of the departed and the hope of the resurrection, the prayer for the deceased and thus the doctrine of purgatory, the new birth in Holy Baptism, the communion of saints. As the center of the Christian faith and life appears everywhere the Divine Saviour. How often he is there as Good Shepherd, as a miracle worker, or foreshadowed by Melchizedek, the sacrifice of bread and wine, the most, as the holy Peter entrusted the leadership of the church. It is the belief of early Christians that is found in the catacombs, I almost Moeche say "breathe" Many thousands of pilgrims could bear witness to the truth of that word that the northern prophetess, St. Bridget, said of the catacombs. "As the weak man fortifies himself by food and flavors, so all who come here with a pure heart to be revived spiritually. "
is particularly deeply poignant to see, in the catacombs of the often repeated PICTURE Mary, Mother of God, which stands in prayer for the faithful hands of the merciful mother, and already shown with the divine child-appears to Testimony that the veneration of the Blessed Virgin and the refuge of your growing up in the church to their origin.
found in three different ways to represent the devotion to Mary in the catacombs. Above all, it
are the scenes from the childhood of Jesus, had to be there on which Mary is not, but at the same time provide the evidence that the early Christians, the Catholic Church in the Martyrertagen as good as now, was always aware that Mary had her whole importance to us, their dignity and their power only from its relationship with the Savior of the world. A lot of sculptures and paintings the
BIRTH OF THE LORD dar. on the frieze of a sarcophagus in the Vatican catacombs Mormor see the divine child in a cradle on the shape of a basket are: it is wrapped in linen, which can see only the main. Behind the cradle of the Blessed Virgin and St. Joseph, the mother sits sublime, Joseph, has, hands outstretched and eyes on the child. In this well-executed bas-relief even absent ox and ass do not heat the cradle at the foot of the limbs of the divine Redeemer with her breath. In addition, the birth of the Savior with the individual mentioned above also in the Adoration of the Magi is represented. This is one of the objects, which practiced the brush of the first artists most frequently. One understands the importance which the newly emerging church had to put in it that remind constantly to new converts from paganism have come out that the Saviour is born for them as well as for the Jews.
A second type of representation shows us Mary as the main character, either with the divine child, or without it in the form of "Oran," as they call the Katakombenforscher, which may be but in the opinion of most experienced and reliable of them again just Mary.
In one of the most tombs of the catacombs of St.. Agnes is the most blessed Virgin Mary, the main picture. The focus of the niche, which is above the Arcosolium, demonstrates the exalted Mother of God. It is in half length and has the child Jesus on her lap. Your head is adorned with a veil in front raised, which falls back on her shoulders and resting on the folds of the poor. A band of beads around her neck and connects to a string of beads or cloth that is attached to the upper part of the forehead. This figure bears the seal of high antiquity itself. To express the high idea which the artist had of the glory of the Mother of God, he gave her the gleaming suit of Roman women of his time, and especially the collar of precious stones. To not be transferred by such a bright shining example of devotion to Mary from the time of the martyrs, has a Protestant, the mother of this God-image his readers told, written under it: "Katakombengemälde. A Christian woman and her child. "As if there could be the monogram of Christ on both sides of a doubt as to who was this child, so how hot his mother. He may be of good cheer, that the early Christians have not driven before this picture idolatry, as we are not the same when we pray to Mary! The artist has here as elsewhere, when Mary appears without her child, the Virgin with outstretched arms, so praying, as shown. who pray, not be granted from the graces we ask but she is looking for us at an even greater gentleman. The cult, which we observe to Mary is not to say the highest, is not worship.
This representation of a praying with outstretched arms woman comes into the catacombs are very common. Soon she is alone, sometimes against the Good Shepherd, both between the Greek inscription. Had no other reason to see in this prayer the one who calls to the Catholic Church since the Apostles times: Pray for us, holy Mother of God! - Then at least let those images where Mary with the divine child in her womb still prays, a secure conclusion that this Mary was praying, even when you have not added it to the infant Jesus.
A third type is the following representation: The St.. Virgin is seated on a cathedra. Her face is framed by a veil that falls gracefully on the shoulders, a tunic with short sleeves and above the mantle. The divine child on the knees of his mother, his body leaning against her chest, her eyes turned to the spectator and seems by his gesture to invite to flee into the arms of Mary. A shining star appears on the Saint. Virgin and poured over her forehead with heavenly light. To the left upright still a young man, just wearing a jacket. It supersedes the rights and points his finger at the same time on the Virgin and the star. His left hand holds a scroll, of which a distinction is only a faint outline. It is Isaiah, who in the face of the star, should rise out of Jacob, announced his famous prophecy: Behold a virgin shall conceive and give birth to a son whose name shall be: 'God with us' "
This painting in Cömeterium (so called the first Christians their cemeteries in the catacombs -. resting place, dormitory), St. Priscilla is from the first century of the Christian era, the paintings of the catacombs in the same design to those of Pompeii and Herculaneum, it is the wax painting of the ancients, which for this damp and dark rooms especially suitable. was. It has been discovered in the catacombs at least twenty pictures of the Virgin!
Who wherever Mary with the divine Child is shown, the signature will apply the above-mentioned Protestants can, with equal rights all the Madonnas of the greatest artists who have honored all Marie pictures of our churches with the same title: "A Catholic woman and her child." - Yes, it is Catholic, the Virgin , - and ONLY Catholics and their pictures in the catacombs and everywhere on earth are the fulfillment of the prophecy of the great queen of the prophets. "Behold, from henceforth all generations will call me blessed."
See also: Upper
The first Christians, and under the earth
The Christian Catacombs of Rome
The catacombs, or the early Christians under the earth
Le catabombe di S. Agnese
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