Maria Knot Looser

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Maria Knot Looser (Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner)
Maria Knot Looser
Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner , around 1700
Oil on canvas
182 × 110 cm
St. Peter am Perlach (Augsburg)

Maria Knot Looser (also Knot Madonna or Mary of the Knot ) is a miraculous image in the Catholic pilgrimage church of St. Peter am Perlach in Augsburg .

Miraculous image

The concept of the untying knot is traced back to an explanation of the church father Irenaeus in his work Adversus haereses: "And so it happened that the knot of Eve's disobedience was untied through the obedience of Mary. What the Virgin Eve bound through unbelief, the Virgin Mary did solved by faith. " The baroque miraculous image was donated in 1700 by the Augsburg patrician Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel (1641–1718), canon at St. Peter Abbey in Augsburg, for the altar of the “ Mother of Good Counsel ” and was created by the Augsburg artist Johann Georg Melchior Schmidtner . It shows the properties on a crescent moon Madonna as nodes in a long white tape dissolves and at the same time with the foot to the head of a snake as a symbol of the devil and the fall occurs and thus makes it more reversed. The knotted shape of the snake reflects the knot that Mary holds in her hands. The crescent moon Madonna is surrounded by twelve small and two large angels and a wreath of stars with seven visible six stars . The Holy Spirit hovers over her head in the form of a dove - an allusion to Mary as the bride of the Holy Spirit. The untying woman is clothed in the sun, as described in the Book of Revelation .

Under the crescent moon, a much smaller angel is shown with a human companion and his dog. This scene is interpreted as Tobias from the book Tobit , who is called with his dog ( Tob 5.17  EU , Tob 11.4  EU ) and the archangel Raphael as travel companion and matchmaker and ( Tob 6.10-13  EU ) from Nineveh travels to Ekbatana to Sarah to take her as wife.

Another meaning of the two small figures refers to the legend of how the foundation of the altar with the image of Mary came about. Accordingly, the foundation should be related to a family event. His grandfather Wolfgang Langenmantel (1586–1637) was about to split up from his wife Sophia Rentz (1590–1649) and therefore visited the Jesuit Father Jakob Rem SJ in Ingolstadt . In the picture the angel leads the traveler and points with his right hand to a distant place with a church. Father Rem prayed in front of a portrait of Mary and said: “In this religious act I will lift the bond of marriage , untie all the knots and straighten it.” Then peace returned between the married couple, the separation did not take place, and Langenmantel's grandson later commissioned the picture of the knot loosener as a reminder - The representation may be ambiguous and indicate both aspects in a baroque manner.

Regardless of the interpretation of the two travelers, the representation of Mary shows Our Lady as a helper in “untying” problems. It is interpreted in the sense that Maria should help to find a life partner and to cope with problems in the partnership . The "Knot Looser" is also supposed to support women suffering from breast cancer. Unlike Alexander the Great the Gordian knot , Mary does not untie the knot or the problem with force, but with empathy .

distribution

The "Augsburg Knot Loosener " is in the south choir of the Perlach Church

The image of the Virgin who loosens the knot has found its way to many countries around the world. It is often part of the furnishing of churches and chapels, but it can also be used in other ways. The knot loosener is shown in the current praise of God for the diocese of Augsburg. The Knot Madonna is depicted on the Augsburg Peace Houses. A picture of the woman untying the knot also hangs in the Vatican's guest house ( Casa Santa Marta ). In 2017, a 50-euro gold coin in the Vatican City appeared with a depiction of the knot loosener. Inspired by the image of the knot loosener, a children's book with the same title was published in 2018.

South America

In South America , the veneration of Mary is now often linked to the image of the knot looser. The initiator was today's Pope Francis. A German nun sent him a postcard with the image of grace, which aroused his interest. Bergoglio sent his priesthood students with the pictures to the slums of Buenos Aires and commissioned an Eichstatt exchange student to document the Augsburg original with all the details in order to be able to make a copy. Contrary to reports to the contrary, he was never in Augsburg himself.

A copy was then made in Buenos Aires by the painter Ana Betta de Berti (Marta Beti), who has been in the San José del Talar church in Buenos Aires since December 8, 1996 , and especially on the 8th of the month thousands of people make pilgrimages. In the “Tierra Santa”, a religious theme park in Buenos Aires, a relief image of the knot can be found today.

In Brazil Maria became a knot looser a. a. made known by the couple Denis and Suzel Bourgerie. Sisters from the Maria Stern monastery in Augsburg also brought a picture of the knot loosener to Brazil.

Churches and chapels

There are several sacred buildings around the world in which Mary is depicted or venerated as the knot loosener:

  • Brazil
    • Armação dos Búzios : Capela de Nossa Senhora Desatadora de Nós
    • Campinas (two churches in one street): "Santuario Nossa Senhora Desatadora dos Nos" and "Capela Maria Porta do Céu" (Nossa Senhora Desatadora dos Nós)
  • Germany
    • Abensberg : House chapel of the St. Franziskus vocational training center with a bronze statue of "Maria Untouching"
    • Oberelsbach : Chapel of emergency help with statue of the knot loosener
    • Pirk : Chapel "Maria, the Knot Loosener"
  • Ireland
    • Moyross- Limerick : Painting on chestnut wood and iron sculpture in the "Corpus Christi Church"
  • Peru
    • Lima : Chapel of the Senora del Buen Consejo Parque

Forms of worship

The knot-loosener became a motif for novenas , devotions and word services.

At the 99th Katholikentag 2014 in Regensburg, visitors to the Augsburg diocese had the opportunity to write down prayer requests and tie the “knot of their lives” into a yellow ribbon. The 36 meter long ribbon with its 400 knots was brought to the picture of the knot loosener in Augsburg after the Catholic Day, in order to symbolically carry the unspoken concerns of numerous people in front of the Blessed Mother.

On May 9, 2015, a joint pilgrimage of all Bavarian dioceses led around 4,000 pilgrims to Augsburg to see the pilgrimage picture "Maria Untouchess". The pilgrimage was one of a series of seven pilgrimages with different goals in preparation for the centenary of the elevation of Mary to the patronage of Bavaria ( Patrona Bavariae ) in 2017.

In connection with the World Family Meeting in Philadelphia in September 2015, the artist Meg Saligman designed a Knot Grotto as an installation on the forecourt of the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia) , in which people could write and tie concerns on strips of fabric. The installation was visited by tens of thousands of people and was blessed by Pope Francis .

Comparable representations

  • Mary with the holy belt : This externally comparable image representation has a completely different background and meaning.
  • The icon Maria Looser of the Knot in the online chapel of the Heilig Blut Community of Weitnau shows how the baby Jesus, sitting on Mary’s lap, loosens the knots (unsolvable human problems).
  • The icon in the house chapel of the Casa di Accoglienza Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome shows the knot loosener, how she is supported by the baby Jesus in untying the knots - (Icon inscription: "Santa Maria Madre di dio che sciogli i nodi, prega per noi" - Holy Mary, Mother of God, you untie the knot, pray for us).

Movies

literature

Worship templates

  • Citizens' Association St. Peter am Perlach (Ed.): Novena - Maria Looser of Knots . Augsburg 2014.
  • Juan Ramón Celeiro: Maria Knot Looser - Novena . Ginko-Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-2-35689-003-0
  • Michaela-Josefa Hutt: Icon of the Blessed Mother Mary, the knot loosener - prayers and novena . Miriam Publishing House .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ sankt-peter-am-perlach.de - (official website).
  2. ^ Josef Kreiml and Veith Neumann: 100 years Patrona Bavariae, Marienverehrung in Bayern, p. 171, Verlag Friedrich Pustet.
  3. ↑ Irenaeus, Against Heresies , III, 22
  4. ^ Andreas Tacke: Johann Georg Melchior Schmittner's high altar picture for St. Martin in Lamerdingen. In the yearbook of the Association for the History of the Augsburg Diocese. 32 (1998), p. 214.
  5. ↑ Turamichele : The Turamichele (Tower Michael) refers to the same biblical passage as the knot looser as a crescent moon Madonna , which is depicted every year on the tower window of the Perlach Church in the Turamichele game: Rev 12: 1-17  EU links the distress of the pregnant Mary through Dragons and the fight of the Archangel Michael against evil (the dragon, the devil).
  6. ↑ The angel on the right holding the knotted ribbon is seen by some as Archangel Michael and the angel on the left holding the smooth, untied ribbon is seen as Archangel Gabriel . Cf. Maria Knot Looser, patron saint of marriage. In: Maria today. 492, June 2012, p. 23 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Carmen Roll: Pilgrimage to the Mother of God "Maria Looser". ( Memento from December 22, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) On sankt-peter-am-perlach.de, St. Peter am Perlach Citizens' Association (accessed on October 12, 2015).
    “Then a great sign appeared in the sky: a woman clothed in the sun; the moon was under her feet and a wreath of twelve stars on her head ”( Rev 12,1  EU ).
  8. ↑ Raphael, the guardian angel of the sick, who not only deals with physical wounds, but also with emotional shocks.
  9. ^ Genealogical page on the parents and grandparents of Hieronymus Ambrosius Langenmantel .
    On the miraculous image of Mary, the untying the knot, with description and interpretation of the small figures ( memento of March 5, 2014 in the Internet Archive ).
    On the donation of the miraculous image of the "Mary who loosens the knot" ( memento from September 5, 2015 in the Internet Archive ).
  10. ↑ Heaven & Earth - Pope Francis venerates the Augsburg miraculous image of the Madonna who unties the knot ( Memento from October 20, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - (Catholic work for the blind in Northern Germany, accessed on September 9, 2014).
  11. ^ Maria Looser of Knots in St. Peter am Perlach / Augsburg ( Memento from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - (explicit.net from May 14, 2013).
  12. ↑ Virgen Desatanudos - The knot loosener is supposed to support women who are suffering from breast cancer - ( Standard.at of December 20, 2006).
  13. ↑ Wooden blocks as ambassadors: The Augsburg Peace House is now also available with church motifs ( Memento from October 20, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) - ( Catholic Sunday newspaper for Germany from April 2/3, 2016)
  14. ^ Pope spontaneously prays with prisoners ( Memento of March 8, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - ( Vatican Radio of February 19, 2014).
  15. ↑ PONTIFICATO DI PAPA FRANCESCO - MONETE IN EURO VERSIONE FONDO SPECCHIO - ANNO 2017. Accessed February 28, 2017 .
  16. ↑ Lena Raubaum: The Knot Loosener . tyrolia-Verlag Innsbruck 2018, ISBN 978-3-7022-3702-8
  17. ^ Augsburg knot loosener: Band to Argentina. How the representation of Mary from St. Peter am Perlach got a sister picture in Buenos Aires . In: Augsburger Allgemeine, September 27, 2006, p. 39, quoted in Maria Knot Looser connects Augsburg & Buenos Aires , accessed on March 19, 2018.
  18. ↑ Francis, the Pope of the miraculous image «Maria Untouchess»! - (Juan Ramon Celeiro in: Maria heute 501, Parvis-Verlag, 2013).
  19. ↑ Maria Looser of the Knot: Thousands make a pilgrimage to the “secret world star” in Augsburg - ( Augsburger Allgemeine, May 8, 2015).
  20. ↑ Augsburger Allgemeine: "Was never in Augsburg": Pope corrects history about the image of grace . In: Augsburger Allgemeine . ( augsburger-allgemeine.de [accessed on March 9, 2017]).
  21. ↑ it: Nessun groviglio è senza uscita - No problem (entanglement) ends in a dead end ( Memento from November 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) - (Italian daily Avvenire , Stefania Falasca, April 14, 2013). Short
    story of the picture of Maria Untying the Knot - (Christian Parmantier in: Maria Heute 492, Parvis-Verlag, 2012).
  22. ↑ Maria Looser of the Knot - A miraculous image that Pope Francis "exported" to the other end of the world - (Diocese of Augsburg, accessed on September 9, 2014).
  23. ↑ Link to the miraculous image of Mary, the untying woman in the church of San José del Talar
  24. ^ Maria Looser of the Knot - ( Katholisch.de of August 16, 2013).
    Parish of San Jose del Talar - ( Facebook ).
  25. ↑ See the English Wikipedia article Tierra Santa (theme park) .
  26. ↑ Buenos Aires - Parque temático Tierra Santa - Virgen Desatanudos ( Memento of the original from January 30, 2016 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. - ( Panoramio , accessed September 12, 2014). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.panoramio.com
  27. ↑ The Pope's Favorite Marian Devotion - Our Lady, Undoer of Knots ( Memento November 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) - ( en: Catholic Digest July 3, 2014).
  28. ↑ How Maria Looser Touches the Pope - ( Süddeutsche Zeitung, May 5, 2015).
  29. ↑ List of churches and chapels with photos ( Memento of September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - (International Brotherhood).
  30. ↑ Maria, Knot Looser - (Christian Parmantier in: Maria Heute 507, Parvis-Verlag, 2014).
  31. ↑ Igrejas de Búzios - Capela de Nossa Senhora Desatadora de Nós - (Rio de Janeiro Aqui, accessed November 8, 2014).
  32. ↑ Mary Undoer of Knots: Old devotion, revived popularity Devotion to the Blessed Virgin uncoils the knots and snarls preventing peace of mind in our lives - (Our Sunday Visitor of October 22, 2009).
    Nossa Senhora Desatadora dos Nós / Santurário - (accessed November 9, 2014).
  33. ^ Artist Lioba Leibl created a modern Maria beyond traditional symbolism - ( Katholische Jugendfürsorge Regensburg, press release of May 23, 2011).
  34. ↑ Nothelferkapelle inaugurated - 14 patron saints - hands and donations ( memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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. - (rhoen-aktuell.de of October 28, 2008). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / rhoen-aktuell.de
  35. ↑ Undo the knot - blessing of the chapel on the edge of the forest - ( Upper Palatinate Network of May 14, 2014).
  36. ↑ Pope's 'love for Ireland' boosts chance of visit - ( Irish Independent of November 18, 2014).
    The Knot Loosener - The Irish city of Limerick has a new Catholic attraction - ( Vatican Radio , November 18, 2014).
  37. ↑ Parish Maria Landskron ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 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. - (Carinthian Catholic Church). Maria, the knot loosener - (Loder.net). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kath-kirche-kaernten.at
  38. ↑ Maria, the knot loosener
  39. ↑ Category: Saint Mark church in Kąty Rybackie - ( Wikimedia Commons ).
  40. ↑ A place of rest and reflection - the chapel in the Riet celebrates the tenth chapel festival on August 9th - ( St. Galler Tagblatt of August 7th, 2008).
    Maria had a guardian angel - ( St. Galler Tagblatt, April 3, 2012).
  41. ↑ Novena to the "Icon of the Mother of God Mary, the Knot Looser" - (Holy Blood Community - Byzantine Online Chapel St. Joseph).
    Novena to Mary Looser of the Knot with prayers from Pope Francis - PDF - ( Diocese of Augsburg - Institute for New Evangelization, accessed on May 20, 2015).
  42. ^ May devotion 2009 in the Basilica am Petersberg - ( KLB Dachau ).
    Devotion: With Maria, untie the knots of our life (PDF) ( Memento from December 7th, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) - (Changed text version of KLB Werkblatt 3/2005)
  43. ↑ 400 knots for the knot loosener: Katholikentag tape placed in front of the pilgrimage picture in St. Peter am Perlach - ( Diocese of Augsburg , accessed on July 11, 2014).
    400 knots for the knot loosener of St. Peter am Perlach - ( kathisch1.tv on YouTube from July 2, 2014).
  44. ^ Maria Looser of the Knot: Thousands make a pilgrimage to the "secret world star" in Augsburg - ( Augsburger Allgemeine, May 8, 2015).
    Maria Looser of the Knot: Thousands of people are making a pilgrimage to Augsburg today - ( Augsburger Allgemeine from May 9, 2015).
    With the Knot Loosener into a good future (PDF) - ( Catholic Sunday newspaper from May 16/17, 2015)
  45. ^ Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul (Philadelphia) - (en: Wikipedia).
  46. ↑ Mary, undoer of Knots Grotto ( Memento of 22 December 2015, Internet Archive ).
  47. ^ Maria Looser of the Knot - Origin - (Holy Blood Community - Byzantine Online Chapel St. Joseph).
  48. ↑ House Chapel of Casa di Accoglienza Santa Maria degli Angeli in Rome (called November 12, 2014).

Web links

Commons : Maria Knot Looser  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files