St. Barbara and St. John of Nepomuk / Sv. Barbora a Sv. Jan Nepomucký - Kolín (Central Bohemia)
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Depicted Baroque sculptural group with St. Barbara and St. John of Nepomuk (sousoší se Sv. Barborou a Sv. Janem Nepomuckým) is located in the front of Church of the Most Holy Trinity (kostel Nejsvetejší Trojice) in Kolín.
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Location: Středočeský kraj, Czechia
Date Posted: 05/30/2017
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Depicted Baroque sculptural group with St. Barbara and St. John of Nepomuk (sousoší se Sv. Barborou a Sv. Janem Nepomuckým) is located in the front of Church of the Most Holy Trinity (kostel Nejsvetejší Trojice) in Kolín.
The sculptural group, work of unknown local Baroque sculptor sculpted in ca 1735, was restored in 2010. Originally was a part of Baroque fountain located close to the entrance of the former Capuchin Convent.
St. Barbara, Feast Day December 4, known in the Eastern Orthodox Church as the Great Martyr Barbara, was an early Christian saint and martyr. Accounts place her in the 3rd century in Nicomedia, present-site Turkey or in Heliopolis of Phoenicia, present-day Lebanon. There is no reference to her in the authentic early Christian writings, nor in the original recension of Saint Jerome's martyrology. Her name can be traced to the 7th century, and veneration of her was common, especially in the East, from the 9th century.
John of Nepomuk (1345–1393) is a national saint of the 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 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.
The statue of St. John of Nepomuk is often encountered in Central Europe, including the Czech Republic, Italy, Germany, Poland and Lithuania. He is usually portrayed with a halo of five stars, commemorating the stars that hovered over the Vltava River on the night of his murder. Other attributes useful to identify his pictures are: a priestly dress, the palm of martyrs, carrying a cross, an angel indicating silence by a finger over the lips. A statue of Saint John of Nepomuk has often been erected on bridges in many countries, such as on the Ponte Milvio in Rome.
[excerpted from Wikipedia]