When I think about it, a skeleton by itself doesn’t really bring images of hellfire to mind. It just brings images of death. And if you really contemplate all of the luxuries that the skeleton is standing over, the message to be got, I think, is that the skeleton is relinquishing worldly things, and looking (literally) upwards, to heaven. It’s quite pleasant, IMO, but you do have to think about it past our current cultural reactions.I completely support the use of black vestments at Masses for the dead, but that one is horrible. That is something one would expect to find in the unsacristy of your local satanic church. It does have one redeeming quality: the skeleton is standing on what appears to be cast-away instruments from a folk choir.
Trampling a papal tiara (symbol of Christ’s Vicar), crosier (symbol of the pastoral authority of the church) and cross (symbol of Christ himself)? Sounds satanic to me.How odd… Are skeletons evil or satanic in your opinion?
If there were only a skull, it wouldn’t be so bad, and perhaps the symbology is meant to remind us that even popes and bishops will face judgment, but if that image weren’t on the back of a chasuble, I’d have guessed that it was from a satanic organization.Trampling a papal tiara (symbol of Christ’s Vicar), crosier (symbol of the pastoral authority of the church) and cross (symbol of Christ himself)? Sounds satanic to me.
Neither popes nor kings can escape death.Trampling a papal tiara (symbol of Christ’s Vicar), crosier (symbol of the pastoral authority of the church) and cross (symbol of Christ himself)? Sounds satanic to me.
Trampling a papal tiara (symbol of Christ’s Vicar), crosier (symbol of the pastoral authority of the church) and cross (symbol of Christ himself)? Sounds satanic to me.
You have to look at the other things. Would satanists really draw a skeleton trampling over such things as musical instruments (lyre) and blades? No, I imagine they’d embrace those things with fanfare. They’d draw a skeleton holding those. The items on the ground are varied, and they show the world’s passions and ambitions, and are unbiased.If there were only a skull, it wouldn’t be so bad, and perhaps the symbology is meant to remind us that even popes and bishops will face judgment, but if that image weren’t on the back of a chasuble, I’d have guessed that it was from a satanic organization.
Oh yeah, you wouldn’t find any heresy or anti-Romanism in Germany at that time.Neither popes nor kings can escape death.
I’m sure the 15th century monks who commissioned the chausuble were satanists… or maybe not.
You must have missed the cross, then.You have to look at the other things. Would satanists really draw a skeleton trampling over such things as musical instruments (lyre) and blades? No, I imagine they’d embrace those things with fanfare. They’d draw a skeleton holding those. The items on the ground are varied, and they show the world’s passions and ambitions, and are unbiased.
I like this one. Truly beautiful.