Our Lady Of Perpetual Help (Icon)
Our Lady of Perpetual Help is a miraculous icon dating from the fourteenth century, universally known, like the Byzantine called Strastnaya ("instruments of the Passion"). Originally Cretan according to legend, sometimes attributed to St. Luke (as a replica of an original), the iconographic type was attributed to Andreas Ritzos to 1492 .
Summary |
The Virgin is surrounded by the archangels Michael (letters ) and Gabriel (letters ) . The five Greek letters above it "MR, THU," means "Mother of God" and the letters "ICXC Jesus Christ.
Legend
It reached Rome in 1480. According to legend it had belonged to a wealthy merchant Cretan who went to Rome, but feeling close to death gave her to a friend. The wife of this friend kept this painting that pleased him, until the Virgin appraisse them asking them to be placed in the church of St. John in Lateran.
Explanation
She was venerated by St. Alphonsus Liguori , founder of the Redemptorists , as the sandal of the Child Jesus who stands would mean the "redemption" (Jewish custom to give her sandal for a deal ) so the Redemption ( redimere to redeem), therefore the redemption of all mankind lost by the original sin of the devil's power through Jesus Christ during His Passion. Jesus just look the angel handing him the instruments of his passion and his Mother as on other icons as the Virgin looking at us and not her child may be considered a universal Mother, the Savior of all men.
Location
During an apparition, the Virgin had asked to be worshiped under the name "Our Lady of Perpetual Help" in the church Saint-Mathieu of Rome , at the site of the former chapel of St. Cletus among religious Augustins.
She disappeared during the French Revolution in 1798 when St. Matthew's Church was destroyed, it is rediscovered in the nineteenth century in 1863 by Michele Marchi and the Pope entrusted to the Redemptorists who then placed in the church of St. Alphonsus newly built on the site of the Church of St. Matthew.
We find a representation in Catholic churches around the world and gave his name to many churches and chapels and cathedrals, hospitals, schools congregation, brotherhoods. She is patron of Haiti since an outbreak of smallpox in 1882. It is celebrated in France on June 27 and August 13 among the Orthodox.
Father Charles de Foucauld often prayed the Virgin under the name and paint this picture and he called his hermitage in Clare "Our Lady of Perpetual Help."
The Madonna of Prenzlau
It was created during the War of 39-45 with makeshift by the prisoners of Camp Prenzlau : cod liver oil, cans, beads necklace etc. child ... the shelling of the left intact.
 Icon Strastnaya, . |  Icon Strastnaya, XIX c. |  Icon of the Virgin Mary, 16th century. St. Catherine's Monastery In The Sina |  |
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References
- The Icon of Perpetual Help Our In: its history, thanks
- Web Gallery of Art
- Some icons are under the archangel AMOVNTO letters signifying the Immaculate
- These two archangels have been added by the monk-painter Lazarus of Byzantium in the ninth century, which offered its icon to Pope Nicolas I.. Lazarus name in Hebrew means "God saves" St. Lazarus of Constantinople, icon painter at the time iconoclast was arrested in Constantinople about 830 , he had burned the palms to prevent paint
- Ruth 4:3
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help in La Rochelle
- Lebanon
- Postcards from North Africa and here : Reproductions of the picture painted by Father de Foucauld
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Bibliography
- Our Lady of Perpetual Help
- The Icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, Jean-Marie Segalen, Benedictine edition.
- Maria: Studies on the Holy Virgin by Hubert du Manoir (SJ) page 480, Russian Art, Virgin of the Passion
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