Sunday, September 4, 2022

Praying the Angelus with Art: This Week's Image

We're going back to Denmark this week for an extraordinary medieval fresco depicting the Infancy Narrative of Luke's Gospel. The best I have been able to discern is that this is from a church or monastery on the largest island of Denmark. The triangular shape of the set hints that it may be the inside of an arch. (I could not find the source.)

The Annunciation is at the pinnacle, and beneath, on our left, the Nativity, and on the right, the Presentation in the Temple.

See more images from the same church on Wikimedia.

Frescoes from Kalkmaleri, Skibby Kirke, Skibby, Hornsherred, Sjælland
Photo by Orf3us, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons


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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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