In the small but fascinating area of \u200b\u200bSantini Pictures of the devotions and specifically devoted to dual function of precious intermediaries between man and God and effective means of protection from evil and all its harmful influences and events , in historic times due to the temporal-documentatamente between the seventeenth century and the next XVIII - contemporaneous with the spread in certain areas of the European territory of ancient and Catholic tradition, the now much sought after and collected BREVERL - see article here on the Blog- successfully starting to disclose , especially in the abovementioned regions- southern Germany (Bavaria), Austria, Flemish Belgium, France and from this location immediately adjacent to the -Santini very special and finely crafted, fully satisfying atavism needed by man to feel reassuringly preserved and protected by a multifaceted and terrifying manifestation of the unfortunate and mournful works of the devil : among them the notorious " sonticus morbus" (Latin: criminal or killer disease), or "falling sickness " commonly called, or the ' epilepsy, uncontrollable and all evil' era absolutely incurable, that unexpected and sudden onset, resulting in tumbling fall to the ground of the person who was affected could often get to even cause death .
Thus, the seizures , ancient evil as the man who grieved over the millennia, not sparing anyone, young and old, beautiful and ugly, poor and emperors Julius Caesar , valiant commander, famous and talented political strategist, as well as the first, true Emperor of Rome, as handed down by Pliny suffered, often the onset of evil forced to stop abruptly, with understandable unease and terror of the audience present, comitia chaired (hence the further definition of "morbus comitialis " data to the trouble).
But what is the link-or rather, where it is to be found-in this ancient and dreaded disease of mysterious origins contours and nebulous and unknown, and religion, popular devotion testified and expressed by the ancient sacred images ?
Already in the Rome of Caesar in the first century BC but documentatamente even much earlier, this dreaded disease, due to the indecipherable origin and for the rapid and unexpected onset of serious crisis seizures that characterize it specifically, was regarded with horror by malignant demons, often fatal outcome from .
Within a specific time reference, and therefore inextricably historical and cultural context in which this unusual type of devotional image more was produced and spread in ' Catholic Europe - just buckets. seventeenth and eighteenth - the population had to watch helplessly in horror as the onset of diseases and deadly pandemics pestilential that wherever sowed grief, despair and discouragement .
With undoubted, originally derived from the connection and pictorial representations of the notes and chalcographic "Dances macabres "-o Dance macabre - and the even more famous theme MEMENTO MORI ( points out that you shall die "), which in different contexts and exhibitions in the past I have dealt with here on the Blog, the inheritance and the genetic memory medieval the vast and complex theme of ' HORROR Mortis - or" Terror of Death "- returns since the seventeenth century to overwhelmingly dominate the European social and religious.
unexpected tragic events ever created, in any historical context, religious and social and any latitude, bewilderment and fear.
relevant and consistent with the Christian tradition , where the disease creeps harbinger of death triumphs faith and with it the theological virtue of Hope in eternal life after death, then, is the glorious life over death in memory of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ, our Lord and God
Just to recall Christians to the teachings of the Holy Scriptures and in order to reassure and reassure the criticality of a deeply historical context marked by sickness and death, monks and nuns in monasteries and ancient monasteries, the first to create and spread the original and valuable type of Santino that inspired this article today.
Born of the famous woodcuts, wood engravings - or on plates of copper, such details and today very rare and sought Santini, of considerable historical, religious and cultural, were printed on precious silk and satin, often in the very Catholic area Flemish, produced and signed by famous local artists and engravers.
But why were printed on silk and paper or on the still more noble parchment?
The reason is clearly due to the deductive and inevitably BREVERL - or SANTINI-AMULETI SCACCIADEMONI the same period, and posthumously, but no less famous, SHORT of St. Anthony of Padua, printed on canvas, the first half of sec.XX, already widely both I covered here on the Blog: being Santini-Relic- in the specific case of Santino shown in the picture accompanying this article we talk about Santino- Class II relic - with its invocation to the Holy intercession to protect holder, similar to summentovati BREVERL and SHORT OF SAINT ANTHONY, made up stuff just because they could more easily and confidentially be in direct contact with the person , all sewn 'inside a home or within pillows and even within the same cradles of children, to protect from evil eye - the known and still widespread popular belief in the middle between religion and superstition, corresponding to hypothetical adverse effects from envy amply considered by others - spells, accidents while traveling and, last but not least, the infamous and scongiuratissima sudden death.
Since the most remote antiquity in the long history of 'man, unknown and incurable disease the harbinger of death was associated the darkness and the forces of evil, and for these reasons and then generating of anxiety and fear.
In the Synoptic Gospels of Mark and Matthew are finally given the remedies, represented by fasting and prayer devoted to drive out the demons responsible for the serious illness .
and carefully examining the details of the Santino today, alongside the effigy of Magi, Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar , right read:
SANCTI TRES Reges
GASPAR MELCHIOR-BALTHASAR
bream pro- nobis nunc et in hora mortis nostrae
Ces billets ont touch aux trois testes Roys des Saints à Cologne, ils sont pour les voyageurs contre les chemins des malheurs, maux de heads, sore caducque, fievres, sorcellerie, malefiée et de toute fate suffered death
translated into Italian, which read:
THREE SAINTS RE
Caspar, Melchior and Balthasar
Pray for us now and in 'This hour of our death
Santino has touched the three heads of the Holy Three Kings in Cologne: to protect the pilgrims against motion sickness, headaches, epilepsy (or epilepsy), fevers, witchcraft, any sort of EVIL EYE (s evil by the devil) and against the SUDDEN DEATH
much sought after by collectors Santini Germany, Austria and Belgium, and rare availability paper on the art market internationally, this interesting type of image has today devoted considerable prices ranging from a minimum of 45-50 Euro to a maximum of Euro 120-150.
San Donato Bishop and Martyr and Valentine, former patron saint of lovers, are now invoked by the faithful to protect epilepsy.
Paola Galanz
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