1775 - Statue of St. John of Nepomuk - Mnich, Czech Republic
Posted by: ToRo61
N 49° 18.008 E 014° 57.915
33U E 497473 N 5460822
A chronogram on the pedestal of the statue of St. John of Nepomuk in centre of Mnich village
Waymark Code: WM11P9P
Location: Kraj Vysočina, Czechia
Date Posted: 11/25/2019
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The chronogram is located on the sandstone pedestal. The Roman numerals of chronogram are larger than the other letters and are not color-coded from the rest of the text.
The chronogram: non ConfVnDetVr CVM LoqVetVr
The note: the inscription is very good readable. My calculation gives me 1775 as opposed to information (1726) (
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Saint John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) [Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes (or Ioannis) Nepomucenus (c. 1345 – March 20, 1393) is the saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic), who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of Wenceslaus, King of the Romans and King of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia and he refused to divulge the secrets of the confessional. On the basis of this account, John of Nepomuk is considered the first martyr of the Seal of the Confessional, a patron against calumnies and, because of the manner of his death, a protector from floods and drowning.
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Polychromovaná barokní plastika v mírne nadživotní velikosti pusobive zušlechtuje intravilán obce. Socha svetce v typickém kanovnickém rouchu stojí na hranolovém soklu s rytým latinským textem s chronogramem a letopoctem 1726.