Most Holy Trinity / Nejsvetejší Trojice - Trutnov (East Bohemia) - Statues of Religious Figures on Waymarking.com

Depicted the Most Holy Trinity (Nejsvetejší Trojice) sculptural group you can find on the top of the Baroque Trinity (plague) column located in the main public space of town Trutnov - Krakonoš Square (Krakonošovo námestí).

Jesus Christ and God the Father are sitting on the clouds, with angel heads at their feet. Among them is the cross held by Jesus, God the Father is holding the globe in his left hand and scepter in the right one. The Holy Ghost, a gilded metal dove, floats above the bothfigures in a radial aureola.

The Holy Trinity sculptural group is a part of a plague column with eight figures of saints. They are placed in steps in two circles around a square pedestal. The column was built at the expense of the Trutnov citizen Jan Jirí Najdík in 1704, as evidenced by the Czech, German and Latin inscription on the column. The height of the column is 11 meters.

The Christian doctrine of the Most Holy Trinity (Latin: Trinitas, lit. 'triad', from Latin: trinus "threefold") holds that God is one God, but three coeternal consubstantial persons or hypostases—the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ), and the Holy Spirit—as "one God in three Divine persons". The three persons are distinct, yet are one "substance, essence or nature" (homoousios). The Trinity is most commonly seen in Christian art with the Spirit represented by a dove, as specified in the Gospel accounts of the Baptism of Christ; he is nearly always shown with wings outspread. However depictions using three human figures appear occasionally in most periods of art. The Father and the Son are usually differentiated by age, and later by dress, but this too is not always the case. The usual depiction of the Father as an older man with a white beard may derive from the biblical Ancient of Days, which is often cited in defense of this sometimes controversial representation.

Source: excerpted from Wikipedia