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Religious life - Worship of the Virgin - p1

Religious life - Worship of the saints- p1

New themes in the late XVth century

The evolution of the religious feeling, in the late Middle Ages, also express the Virgin's piety.
Images, as well as texts, kept this memory.

With the spreading of the narration of Saint Brigitte of Sweden 's vision, during which the Virgin herself told her about Jesus' birth, a new iconography of the Nativity appeared.
		The Virgin's attitude changes : now she is on her knees, worshipping the naked baby lying on a tail of her coat.
This Adoration of the Child is intended to show, despite the familiar and anecdotal character of the creche (kept by the image) the divine character of Christ, whose mother has been the first one to feel since He was born.

In the same way, the other aspect of the double nature of Christ, « true God, true man », is also emphasized by new devotions, and thus new images marked with familiarity .

It is the case for the Holy Family, which acknowledge Saint Joseph as Jesus' foster father, on the walls of the small rural chapel of Benva.

New themes in the late XVth century

The evolution of the religious feeling, in the late Middle Ages, also express the Virgin's piety.
Images, as well as texts, kept this memory.

With the spreading of the narration of Saint Brigitte of Sweden 's vision, during which the Virgin herself told her about Jesus' birth, a new iconography of the Nativity appeared.

The Virgin's attitude changes :
now she is on her knees, worshipping the naked baby lying on a tail of her coat.

This Adoration of the Child is intended to show, despite the familiar and anecdotal character of the creche (kept by the image) the divine character of Christ, whose mother has been the first one to feel since He was born.

In the same way, the other aspect of the double nature of Christ, « true God, true man », is also emphasized by new devotions, and thus new images marked with familiarity .

It is the case for the Holy Family, which acknowledge Saint Joseph as Jesus' foster father, on the walls of the small rural chapel of Benva.

- Scenes from the Virgin's life -

Scenes of intercession -

Scenes with a dogmatic content -

New themes in the late XVth century

The evolution of the religious feeling, in the late Middle Ages, also express the Virgin's piety. Images, as well as texts, kept this memory.

With the spreading of the narration of Saint Brigitte of Sweden 's vision, during which the Virgin herself told her about Jesus' birth, a new iconography of the Nativity appeared.

The Virgin's attitude changes : now she is on her knees, worshipping the naked baby lying on a tail of her coat.

This Adoration of the Child is intended to show, despite the familiar and anecdotal character of the creche (kept by the image) the divine character of Christ, whose mother has been the first one to feel since He was born.

In the same way, the other aspect of the double nature of Christ, « true God, true man », is also emphasized by new devotions, and thus new images marked with familiarity .

It is the case for the Holy Family, which acknowledge Saint Joseph as Jesus' foster father, on the walls of the small rural chapel of Benva.

- Scenes from the Virgin's life -

Scenes of intercession -

Scenes with a dogmatic content -

The evolution of the religious feeling, in the late Middle Ages, also express the Virgin's piety.
Images, as well as texts, kept this memory.

The Virgin's attitude changes :
now she is on her knees, worshipping the naked baby lying on a tail of her coat.