The Angelus Project: Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

Sunday, April 10, 2022

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

From the collection of the University of Pittsburgh comes this photo of an Annunciation (one of several!) from the medieval masterpiece that is the Cathedral of Notre Dame de Chartres. This is from the window called "The Life of Virgin." As in one of the other Chartres Annunciations, Gabriel's foot (though in this case not Mary's) extends outside of the frame of the scene. Is this to indicate that this message is not just about Mary? Or does it hint at something else: a hurried arrival, perhaps, or a courtier's bended knee before a sovereign?

You can view the image in great detail at the University of Pittsburgh Digital Library site.

Photo contributed to ULS Digital Collections by Jane Vandal.

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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.