Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows / Panna Maria Sedmibolestná - Kostel Panny Marie Sedmibolestné in Pardubice (East Bohemia)
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Depicted sandstone Baroque statue of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Panna Maria Sedmibolestná) decorates front facade of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Church (Kostel Panny Marie Sedmibolestné) Pardubice.
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Location: Pardubický kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 04/02/2017
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Depicted sandstone Baroque statue of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows (Panna Maria Sedmibolestná) decorates front facade of Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Church (Kostel Panny Marie Sedmibolestné) Pardubice.
The sandstone statue by unknown artist (probably 1st half of the 18th century) occupies niche in the church's gable. Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows Church, located in Bílé predmestí district of Pardubice, is a small simple Baroque single nave building from the beginning of the 18th century.
Our Lady of Sorrows (Latin: Beata Maria Virgo Perdolens), Our Lady of Dolours, the Sorrowful Mother or Mother of Sorrows (Latin: Mater Dolorosa), and Our Lady of Piety, Our Lady of the Seven Sorrows or Our Lady of the Seven Dolours are names by which the Blessed Virgin Mary is referred to in relation to sorrows in her life. As Mater Dolorosa, it is also a key subject for Marian art in the Catholic Church.
The Seven Sorrows of Mary are a popular Roman Catholic devotion. In common religious Catholic imagery, the Blessed Virgin Mary is portrayed in a sorrowful and lacrimating affect, with seven daggers piercing her heart, often bleeding. Devotional prayers that consist of meditation began to elaborate on her Seven Sorrows based on the prophecy of Simeon. Common examples of piety under this title are Servite rosary, or the Chaplet of the Seven Sorrows of Our Lady and the Seven Joys of Mary and more recently, "Sorrowful and Immaculate Heart of Mary".
The feast of Our Lady of Sorrows is liturgically celebrated every 15 of September, while a feast of Friday of Sorrows is observed in some Catholic countries.
Our Lady of Sorrows, depicted as "Mater Dolorosa" (Mother of Sorrows) has been the subject of some key works of Roman Catholic Marian art. Mater Dolorosa is one of the three common artistic representations of a sorrowful Virgin Mary, the other two being Stabat Mater and Pietà. In this iconography, Our Lady of Seven Sorrows is at times simply represented in a sad and anguished mode by herself, her expression being that of tears and sadness. In other representations the Virgin Mary is depicted with seven swords in her heart, a reference to the prophecy of Simeon at the Presentation of Jesus at the Temple. [wiki]