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John of Nepomuk (or John Nepomucene) (Czech: Jan Nepomucký; German: Johannes Nepomuk; Latin: Ioannes Nepomucenus [1]) (c. 1345 – 20 March 1393) [2] was a saint of Bohemia (Czech Republic) who was drowned in the Vltava river at the behest of King Wenceslaus IV of Bohemia. Later accounts state that he was the confessor of the queen of Bohemia ...
The statue of John of Nepomuk (Czech: Socha svatého Jana Nepomuckého) is an outdoor sculpture, installed in 1683 on the north side of the Charles Bridge in Prague, Czech Republic. It was the first of the many Baroque images of saints to be installed on the bridge.
The saint is presented in a traditional way, as a bearded capitulary with a five-star glory, standing on a tripartite base. The base portrays scenes from the life of St. John of Nepomuk, including the confession of Queen Johanna and the saint's death. In 1393 St. John of Nepomuk was thrown from the bridge into the river where he drowned.
Vejmluva was a proven devotee of John of Nepomuk before he was beatified as well as after he was canonized. [3] The preparation of the project dates from late April to the early August 1719, and is considered a direct reaction of the abbot to the discovery of preserved tissue in the tomb of John of Nepomuk in the St. Vitus Cathedral on 15 April ...
The statue of John of Nepomuk (Czech: Socha svatého Jana Nepomuckého) is installed at Vyšehrad in Prague, Czech Republic. External links. Czech Republic portal;
The St. Mary and St. John of Nepomuk Monument, often shortened as Statue of St. John of Nepomuk, is a Romanian Baroque monument in Timișoara's Liberty Square.It is one of the two plague columns built in Timișoara after the Great Plague of 1738; the other is located in the neighboring Union Square.
St. John of Nepomuk, Czech saint, died as a martyr.His tortured body was bound and thrown in the Vltava river. St. John of Nepomuk is one of the most frequently illustrated saints in the territory of the former Habsburg monarchy and there are monuments (mostly statues) of him in almost every village in Slovakia and Czechia.
The Cathedral of Saint John of Nepomuk ([Катедрала светог Ивана Непомука] Error: {{Lang-xx}}: transliteration text not Latin script (pos 1) ; Hungarian: Nepomuki Szent Jánosszékesegyház; Slovene: Stolnica svetega Janeza Nepomuka) is a Roman Catholic Cathedral in Zrenjanin, Serbia.