Mary of Victory (Prague)
The Church of Our Lady Victorious ( Kostel Panny Marie Vítězné ) on the Lesser Town is a church of the Congregation of the Carmelites in the Czech Republic .
history
The church was built from 1611 as the Church of the Holy Trinity of the German-speaking Lutherans and was consecrated on July 26, 1613. Before that, the congregation had used the neighboring house church of the Czech-speaking Utraquists as guests . After the victory of the troops of the Catholic League in the Battle of White Mountain on November 8, 1620, which, in the opinion of Emperor Ferdinand II, was decided by a miraculous image of the Carmelite Dominicus a Jesu Maria , the re-Catholicization in Prague began. The picture was taken to Rome to Pope Gregory XV. brought and received the name Maria vom Siege . The church was given to the Carmelites in September 1624 and consecrated by the papal nuncio to the Virgin Mary of Victory and St. Anthony of Padua . Due to the reforms of Emperor Joseph II , the Carmelites had to give up the church on June 3, 1784.
In 1993, after almost 210 years of absence from the order, the church was handed over to the Italian Carmelites of the Ligurian Province at the request of the Archbishop of Prague Miloslav Vlk , who revived the monastery and the church in collaboration with Carmelite Fathers from Poland on July 2, 1993. In addition to pastoral care, they should u. a. also promote and care for the veneration of the Child Jesus , to whom the miraculous image of the Infant Jesus of Prague is dedicated. On June 8, 1993, Archbishop Vlk gave the church to the Provincial of the Carmelites from Genoa , Father Anastasio Roggero. The prior of the monastery has been Father Petr Glogar Prior since 2010. Every year around one million pilgrims come to the Church of Mary of Victory and visit the miraculous image.
On September 26th, 2009 the Church and the miraculous image of the Infant Jesus of Prague were the first stop of Pope Benedict XVI. on his apostolic journey in the Czech Republic. He gave a short talk there and prayed for the families.
Web links
- Virtual tour of the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Prague
- Teresian Carmel : The Story of the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Prague
- The Infant Jesus of Prague in the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Prague .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Vera Isaiasz et al. a .: City and religion in the early modern period . Frankfurt / New York 2007, p. 77
- ^ Benedict XVI .: Greetings when visiting the Infant Jesus of Prague
Coordinates: 50 ° 5 '8 " N , 14 ° 24' 12.9" E