Actually, the name of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was given long before the time of Blessed Pope Pius IX. According to the history of the icon, Our Blessed Mother made it known to a Roman girl, whose family had the icon, that She wanted the icon to be known as “Holy Mary of Perpetual Help”.The icon of Our Lady of Perpetual Help is considered to be an early Cretan school work. I have seen this icon most often in Roman Catholic churches where icons are present, but I’m not sure as to whether that is due to style or the theme and name of the icon itself. Blessed Pope Pius IX had given this title to the Blessed Virgin Mary, and it is possible the popularity of this icons in Latin Church usage is due to that association.
Actually, iconography doesn’t like depth. This for example is a painting on an Egyptian mummy from the second century AD and this is an Egyptian icon from the Middle Ages. The one from the second century looks like a photo, the one from the Middle Ages look cartoony. Is this because the skills were lost? Of course not.Icons as you no them are uniquely easteasn only in so far a the art represents a frozen time period.
While in the west art developed with prospective.
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The visual is different but no less inspiring.
Go to any a Church in my ancestral Italian home to witness this development.
Living in the Southwest the Lady of Guadalupe adorns many western churches.
This is in evety sense an icon to the Mexican as it represents their convervion to Christainity and their hope for salvavation.
My grandson is an Art student with with roots in the east
His Great Grandparents were from Gallacia I have encouraged him to explore eastern iconogrophy. As. its role in art history is huge.
If my wording was poor, apologies, as I did not mean to suggest that Blessed Pope Pius IX named the icon. Rather, in 1866 he ascribed this title to the Blessed Virgin Mary and entrusted the care of the original icon (for several centuries in the possession of a church in Rome) to the Redemptorists, with the charge to “make her known throughout the world”. Point being, it was this string over events that made the icon a notable part of the Latin Church tradition.Actually, the name of Our Lady of Perpetual Help was given long before the time of Blessed Pope Pius IX. According to the history of the icon, Our Blessed Mother made it known to a Roman girl, whose family had the icon, that She wanted the icon to be known as “Holy Mary of Perpetual Help”.
Indeed, that’s the first thing that came to my mind. The CC in Poland is thoroughly Latin, although the most venerated image is that of an icon in Jasna Góra. There’s also Our Lady of the Gate of Dawn, venerated by both Catholics (Western and Eastern rite) and Orthodox in Poland, Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine. I think that’s the result of a little bit of regional cross-pollination and the influence of Eastern Christianity (both Catholic and Orthodox).I refer you to Our Lady of Czestochowa!
.Are you saying other forms don’t point to heaven?Actually, iconography doesn’t like depth. This for example is a painting on an Egyptian mummy from the second century AD and this is an Egyptian icon from the Middle Ages. The one from the second century looks like a photo, the one from the Middle Ages look cartoony. Is this because the skills were lost? Of course not.
Icons are not meant to be realistic, in the contrary, it is meant to be antirealistic to portray a world different from our own. It is meant to convey symbols, to be a window to heaven. It is not meant to be “art” and not even “religious art” but to point to heaven.
Blessed Pope Pius IX entrusted the original icon, which was in the church of San Matteo in Via Merulana (Rome) for a few centuries, to the care of the Redemptorists. They were charged by the Pontiff to “make her known throughout the world”, and a copy of the icon is thus present in every Redemptorist parish.Does any one know the relationship between the Redemptorist religoius congregation and Our Lady of Perpetual help?
I have never seen a Redemptorist parish without an icon of OLPH, usually the only icon present in the church.