Sunday, July 9, 2023

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

 



All I have been able to find out about this image is that it is from a 15th century manuscript of the Golden Legend, and is from a collection in France.

Starting in the mid-13th century, the Golden Legend by Jacobus de Voragine became a runaway best-seller. Filled with the lives and, yes, legends of the saints, it captured the imaginations of many (and is in part credited with the conversion of St. Ignatius of Loyola, being one of the two books in the Loyola household library). Naturally, the best copies (like one from which this detail is taken) were filled with illuminated pages.

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About the Angelus Project

We rightly admire Muslim neighbors and co-workers who put everything on hold five times a day in answer to the "call to prayer." But Christians have a call to prayer, too! It is the Angelus. Morning, noon and evening we are invited to pause and reaffirm our faith in the Incarnation: The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us (Jn. 1:14), because "God so loved the world that he sent his only Son" (Jn. 3:16).
The Angelus Project is a personal project of Sister Anne Flanagan, FSP, a Daughter of St Paul. Find out more about the media ministry of the Daughters of St Paul at DaughtersofStPaul.com.

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