Sv. Anna / St. Anne - 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: WMV7J3
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.
Saint Anne (also known as Ann or Anna) of David's house and line, was the mother of Mary and grandmother of Jesus according to apocryphal Christian and Islamic tradition. Mary's mother is not named in the canonical gospels, nor in the Quran. Anne's name and that of her husband Joachim come only from New Testament apocrypha, of which the Gospel of James (written perhaps around 150) seems to be the earliest that mentions them.
Saint Anne is patroness of unmarried women, housewives, women in labor, grandmothers, horseback riders, cabinet-makers,[10] and the Mi'kmaq of Canada. As the mother of Mary, the devotion to Saint Anne as the patron of miners arises from the medieval comparison between Mary and Christ and the precious metals silver and gold. Anne's womb was considered the source from which these precious metals were mined. Saint Anne is also said to be a patron saint of sailors and a protector from storms.
The role of the Messiah's grandparents in salvation history was commonly depicted in early medieval devotional art in a vertical double-Madonna arrangement known as the Virgin and Child with Saint Anne. Another typical subject has Anne teaching the Virgin Mary the Scriptures. [wiki]