Sousoší Sv. Anny / St. Anne Statuary - Mnichovo Hradište (Central Bohemia)
N 50° 31.724 E 014° 58.400
33U E 498109 N 5597420
Depicted beautiful Baroque statuary of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read on tiered column-pedestal decorates park in the front of the former Capuchin Convent in Mnichovo Hradište.
Waymark Code: WMV7HZ
Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 03/09/2017
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Depicted beautiful Baroque statuary of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read on tiered column-pedestal decorates park in the front of the former Capuchin Convent in Mnichovo Hradište.
The St. Anne sculptural group was erected at expenses of Mnichovo Hradište demesne owner Franz Josef of Wallenstein (František Josef z Valdštejna) as thanksgiving after plague epidemy, which miraculously missed Mnichovo Hradište in 1714. Statuary is work of Jelínek of Kosmonosy workshop.
Statue of St. Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read stands on a top of high three-storey trihedral pedestal. On the walls of the pedestal are located cartouches with inscriptions with chronograms reminding in Czech, Latin and German the circumstances of the statue' origin.
Czech inscription:
SwatI // Anne // zaChowateL // kInI // SpoLV // PanstwI // oD MorV
German inscription:
ZV Ehren Der // H: Anna // GnäDIgen // besChYtzerIn // Vnserer // HersChaften // wehren Der // Pest
Latin inscriptions:
PraeserVatIs // In ContagIone // pestIfera // DoMinYs // Benignae Patrona // SanCtae ANNAE // HonorI F. F. // Illustrissimus // Ac Excellentissimus // Dominus Dominus // Franciscus Josephus // S:R:J: // Comes de Waldsstein
IPSO SANCTAE // MARGARETHAE // FESTO // STATVA ISTA // EVIT // BENEDICTA