Image of grace from the Merciful Jesus
The merciful image of the merciful Jesus or briefly The merciful Jesus ( Polish Obraz Jezusa Miłosiernego ) is a painting that depicts Jesus Christ after the description of Saint Faustyna Kowalska (1905–1938). Her vision was artistically implemented a total of three times, whereby the picture of Adolf Hyła achieved the greatest popularity and is distributed worldwide in countless copies and reproductions.
vision
Sr. Faustyna, at that time in the monastery of her order in Płock , describes in a diary entry from February 22, 1931 her vision of Jesus, his commission to capture the vision in a picture and his promise for all who venerate this picture:
- “In the evening when I was in the cell, I saw the Lord Jesus in a white robe. One hand was raised in a blessing, the other touching the robe on the chest. Two large rays emanated from the opening of the robe on the chest, one red and one pale. I looked at the Lord in silence; my soul was permeated with fear but also with great joy. After a while Jesus said to me: Draw a picture based on what you see with the signature: Jesus, I trust in you. (...) I promise that the soul who worships this image will not be lost. I also promise victory over enemies here on earth, especially in the hour of death. "
The vision and mission are linked to the theme of divine mercy embodied in Jesus, to which a church festival is to be dedicated.
The vision is closely related to the veneration of the Sacred Heart , whose basic motif is also the streams of grace of blood and water flowing out of the opened heart of Jesus ( Jn 19.34 EU ).
History of the pictures
Eugeniusz Kazimirowski
Sr. Faustyna first tried to paint the picture of Jesus herself, but she lacked the prerequisites. In Płock as well as after her transfer to Warsaw , she met with little understanding for her concern. It was not until the Vilnius Convent in 1933 that she found a confessor in Michał Sopoćko , who took her vision and the task that came with it seriously. In 1934 he asked the painter Eugeniusz Kazimirowski to paint the picture according to Sr. Faustyna's description. She found the beauty of her vision only incompletely reproduced in the finished work, but later accepted it.
Sopoćko managed to get Kazimirowski's picture to be exhibited for three days at the Gate of Dawn in Vilnius during the closing ceremony of the Holy Year 1933/34 . Soon, small copies of the picture were made and sold.
After various intermediate stops, Kazimirowski's original painting has been in the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Vilnius since 2005 .
Stanislaw Batowski
Sr. Faustynas Orden, the Sisters of Our Lady of Mercy , commissioned Stanisław Batowski to make a picture in the late 1930s . The painting he then created was destroyed in a fire. A second version reached the convent at the same time as Adolf Hyla's version, and Cardinal Sapieha , who was present, decided in favor of it.
Adolf Hyla
In 1943, the painter Adolf Hyła offered the sisters of the convent in Cracow-Łagiewniki , where Sr. Faustyna died in 1938, the making of an altarpiece for their chapel as a votive offering for the preservation of his family in the past war years . The sisters showed him a reproduction of Kazimirowski's depiction of the Merciful Jesus and the description in Sr. Faustyna's diary. On this basis, Hyła created its own version. After a first version, which was too large for the Sisters' Chapel, he painted a second in 1944, which now hangs in the Shrine of Divine Mercy in Kraków-Łagiewniki. It originally had a floral background that was painted over in 1954. This image has prevailed in churches and homes as the Jesus image of Divine Mercy , probably also because of its less “discreet” mode of representation, which many perceived as “soft” compared to Kazimirowski .
See also
Web links
- Detailed history of the different versions of the picture (website of the Congregation of Our Lady of Mercy)
- Origin and history of the representations (website of the Sisters of Mercy Jesus )
- The original picture by Hyła
- Erich Läufer: Making the incomprehensible tangible. On the Revelation Image of the Holy Sister Faustyna Kowalska. In: Archdiocese of Cologne (ed.): “My Jesus, I trust in you!” Handout with suggestions for the celebration of Mercy Sunday. Cologne 2013, p. 32ff.
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from the website of the Sisters of Mercy Jesus
- ↑ ibid .; fulfilled by Pope John Paul II with the introduction of the Sunday of Mercy
- ↑ Web presence of the Sisters of Mercy Jesus
- ↑ http://www.faustyna-barmherzigkeit.com/bilder-barmherzigen-jesus-krakau.htm
- ↑ vatican-magazin ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF; 314 kB)
2007-08-16.jpg){kind=link}