Baby jesus
As baby Jesus or Infant Jesus , even Christ Child , a representation of Jesus Christ referred to him until the age of about twelve maps (at the age of thirteen gain in Judaism boy's religious maturity and are considered adults).
The baby Jesus has been a popular motif in Christian art since the 3rd century . Such representations often show the birth of Christ , the Holy Family or the baby Jesus with the Mother of God . There is a wealth of iconographic representations of the Madonna and Child in both the Western and Eastern Churches .
Other images show the circumcision of Jesus , the presentation in the temple , the adoration of the kings and the flight into Egypt . In contrast, Jesus is rarely portrayed as an adolescent, as the Gospels hardly report on it. However, there are some representations that are based on apocryphal scriptures and deal with the childhood of Jesus.
Fonts
The four Gospels in the New Testament report mainly about the birth and the last years of Jesus' life, the Gospel according to Luke also about his presentation 40 days after his birth ( Lk 2.22-24 EU ) in the Jerusalem temple and about the visit to the temple as a twelve year old ( Lk 2.41-52 EU ).
Apocryphal writings tell about the childhood of Jesus, in which he already performed miracles ( childhood gospel according to Thomas from the 2nd century, the Arabic childhood gospel from the 6th century and the pseudo-Matthew Gospel from the 8th / 9th centuries).
In the Koran , Jesus, the son of Mary , can speak immediately after his birth ( Sura 19 : 24-33).
Lore
From the Middle Ages onwards , legends were formed about the miraculous child Jesus and became part of popular piety .
- In the Legenda aurea it is said that the baby Jesus baptized the martyr Christophorus after he had carried him across a river.
- From the mystic Hermann Joseph (* 1150) the baby Jesus accepted an apple from a statue of Mary in the St. Maria im Kapitol in Cologne .
- Anthony of Padua (1195–1231) held the baby Jesus in his arms, who was so beaming that his host suspected a fire.
- The Atocha Baby Jesus helped captured Spaniards during the Reconquista against the Moors . Atocha is also mentioned in the Cantigas de Santa Maria . The holy child of Atocha is especially venerated in Mexico and is syncretized with Ellegua in the Cuban Santeria .
- The Sarner child Jesus is a 50 cm high wooden figure from the 14th century in the Benedictine monastery of St. Andreas in Sarnen . It has drawn its right leg and placed the globe on it and points with its left hand at its heart . Because of the Sarner baby Jesus, the monastery has been a popular pilgrimage site since late medieval mysticism .
- The Santo Bambino is a 60 cm high figure in the church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli in Rome, which was carved by a Franciscan in the 15th century from the wood of an olive tree from the Garden of Gethsemane .
- The baby Jesus appeared on September 24, 1445 to the monastery shepherd Hermann Leicht at Vierzehnheiligen .
- The Wettinger Jesuskind is an altar panel in the cloister chapel in Wettingen monastery . It could have been created for the Wettingen monastery around 1450. The picture miraculously survived the monastery fire of April 11, 1507, White Sunday 1507: The flames created several ember holes in a special arrangement. In the center is the heart-shaped ember hole, which also symbolizes the heart of the Savior .
- The Child Jesus of Cebu from the 16th century is a wooden figure that Ferdinand Magellan after arriving at the Philippine Hara Amihan, wife of the ruler Cebu Raja Humabon presented on 14 April 1521 because the royal couple and many subjects baptized were . Shortly afterwards, on April 27, Magellan died in a battle on the neighboring island of Mactan . 44 years later, Miguel López de Legazpi recaptured the island and destroyed the village of Raja Tupas, a nephew of Raja Humabon. The wooden figure was found there almost intact despite the conflagration. The Basilica del Santo Niño was the first church in the Philippines to be built on the site. The baby Jesus was the patron saint of Cebu until 2002 .
- The Infant Jesus of Prague from the 17th century is a 47 cm high wax figure in the Church of Our Lady of Victory in the Lesser Town of Prague . 1628 she gave Polyxena of Lobkowicz after the death of her husband Adalbert Lobkowicz the Monastery of the Discalced Carmelites in Prague as part of the recatholicization . In the Baroque period , in addition to the pilgrimage to the Infant Jesus of Prague, other corresponding pilgrimages were made.
- The Filzmooser Kindl is a 45 cm high, carved from wood, colored but clad Jesus statue from the 15th century. It is displayed as a miraculous image in the Filzmoos parish and pilgrimage church . The baby Jesus extends the first three fingers of his right hand in the air to give a blessing, in his left hand he holds a globe in his right hand a bell.
- The baby Jesus supported the Salesian Rizzo in building a church in Bogotá in the 20th century .
art
From the Middle Ages, the attitude towards the ban on images changed . The baby Jesus, also known as the Christ Child , is depicted in a manger and as a Fatschenkind . From the 14th century it is also shown with attributes that identify it as God and Savior : halo , crown , globe , scepter , heart , lamb , shepherd's staff , grapes , cross , hyssop staff , lance . Sometimes, as in Kirchental , with a little bird. It is a goldfinch that points to the later Passion of Christ. The goldfinch or goldfinch is a symbol of the sacrificial death of Jesus, the red head feathers of the bird as a reference to the shed blood of Christ . Since the Renaissance , the Madonna and Child has been a preferred motif for devotion to Mary . Child Jesus figures have been commercialized in recent centuries . These can be classified between religious folk art and sacred kitsch .
See also
literature
- Ferdinand Holböck : Why did God become a child? Stein am Rhein 2010, ISBN 978-3-7171-0717-0 .
- Soul child: Honored. Spoiled. Transfigured. The baby Jesus in women's monasteries , Sieveking Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-944874-01-2 .
Web links
- Archdiocese of Cologne Cologne crib courses: Adoration of the Child Jesus
- Evangelical Church in Germany Faith ABC: Child Jesus
- Teresian Carmel : The Infant Jesus of Prague
- Basilica del Santo Niño 2007 Museum Exhibit : The Holy Child Jesus venerated in the Philippines and other countries
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints Legenda Aurea: Christopherus Von Sanct Christophorus
- ↑ Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints: Hermann Joseph von Steinfeld
- ↑ Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints: Anthony of Padua
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↑ Nuestra Señora de Atocha ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : Santo Niño de Atocha ( Memento of the original from September 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. La devoción al Santo Niño de Atocha es muy fuerte en toda América Latina. Se relaciona su origen con Nuestra Señora de Atocha, en Madrid. Alfonso X el Sabio, en el siglo XIII, en sus famosas "Cantigas" ya hace mención del Santo Niño.
- ↑ Dr. Hans Gerald Hödl Script Lecture SS06 Afro-American Religions (PDF; 1.5 MB)
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↑ Frauenkloster Sarnen: Sarner Jesuskind
Review : St. Andreas, Sarnen - ↑ ZENIT December 23, 2006: "Il Santo Bambino": The Holy Child of Rome ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ Website Franziskaner Kloster Vierzehnheiligen: History of the pilgrimage Vierzehnheiligen ( Memento of July 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
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↑ Traunsteiner Tageblatt 2005: Rosi Bauer shows in Sachrang Gnadenkindl from all over Europe ( Memento from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
Zwettl Abbey 2007: Pilgrimage to the miraculous Jesus child ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was used automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. - ^ Gustav Gugitz : Austria's places of grace in cult and custom . A topographical handbook on religious folklore in five volumes, Vienna 1958, volume 5, p. 161.
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↑ Historia de la Devoción del Niño Jesús Parroquia 20 de Julio ( Memento of the original of August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. The devotion to the Divino Niño in Bogota Colombia ( Memento of the original from August 18, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Archdiocese of Cologne Cologne crib walks: Adoration of the Child Jesus ( Memento from July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Gustav Gugitz: Austria's Places of Grace in Cult and Custom , Volume 5, p. 169.
- ↑ See Symbols Wiki [1]
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↑ Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien : Italian Child Jesus Figures from Three Centuries ( Memento of the original from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Berthold Volberg 2005: Works of art or sacred kitsch objects: Children of Jesus in Spain and Latin America ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
