Catholic Statuary and Imagery

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Me, too. Before I was Catholic, I didn’t like this style, but now I love it.
 
I don’t care for the Divine Mercy image that seems most popular. I do like the one Mark121359 posted.
 
I am very pro breast feeding as I breastfed six children. I don’t like them either this one is odd to me because the breast seems oddly place. Anyway I agree with you.
 
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This is in front of the Church of the Visitation in Jerusalem. I do not like it although the Church was not the pretties or the most impressive it was the one that our group liked the most.
 
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This was inside the Church of the Visitation in Jerusalem. Much better than the statue outside.
 
I would like to see more Byzantine style iconography in Latin rite parishes. These images, especially those of Christ or of Biblical scenes, actually capture that sometimes elusive-seeming Sacrosanctum Concilium principal of ‘‘noble simplicity’’ very well in my opinion, and they emphasize our catholicity.

As for those that aren’t to my taste, well, far be it for me to scorn it, but I’ve always personally found the image of the Infant Jesus of Prague; blonde/red-haired and dressed up like a Medieval princeling, to be a bit strange. A historically accurate child Jesus would be more to my taste.
 
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Thanks be to the Lord we believe He is with us without such things!
 
I know of Catholics who go on five-day retreats to “write” an Icon. A Catholic friend of mine goes to such retreats every year, and showed many icons she “wrote” and the meanings in the symbols. Very inspiring!
 
In Our Lady of Perpetual Help icon it was pointed out to me that the fright of the impending tortures caused his little sandal to fall off His foot.
 
You are not wrong. It somehow doesn’t go right with our culture; although the artist meant no harm.
 
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As for those that aren’t to my taste, well, far be it for me to scorn it, but I’ve always personally found the image of the Infant Jesus of Prague; blonde/red-haired and dressed up like a Medieval princeling, to be a bit strange. A historically accurate child Jesus would be more to my taste.
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He’s Jesus of Prague, not Jesus of Historically Accurate Judea.
Jesus (and Mary) images tend to look like the people in the region where they are being venerated, as well they should.
 
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On the one hand, it’s tragic for the art.
On the other hand, so many tourists have come to this place to see the botched restoration that the town made a boatload of money and used it to subsidize its local home for the elderly and other people in need.
Jesus works in strange ways.
 
Well, there is a school of thought that he passed through her body “like light through a window”. But however he was born, he was a baby, he needed to be fed, he needed to be changed, he needed baths, perhaps he cried from time to time.
I have no idea why anyone (and it’s almost always a guy) would be squicky over perfectly normal human functioning.
 
Coming from a partly Czech family, we had a major statue in the home of the Infant of Prague. Of course as a little girl we loved to dress it!
I think a devotion to the infant Jesus is quite lovely, and I believe this devotion has helped me a lot. Go to Prague and see the original! It is highly venerated.
 
Our Lord and Our Blessed Mother are real persons within history, not floating heroic archetypes, so while I can understand people’s natural desire to ‘draw them closer’, I get a tad uncomfortable with this local variance in their appearance phenomenon. Then again I am not in a position to judge whether it does more harm or good.
 
I went, but the church where it was was half under construction. You could still see the statue, nevertheless I’d like to go back and see it again without scaffolding.
As a child I had a children’s book about the statue showing how it was all broken up during some uprising or other but was later restored. I was always sad when I saw the picture of the Baby Jesus statue broken.
 
It’s known as the Vilnius Image. It was painted by Eugene Kazimierowski. It’s the original Divine Mercy painting, done under St. Faustina’s direction. And it’s the only Image of Divine Mercy St. Faustina herself ever saw.
 
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