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The church's altarpiece depicts the Virgin Mary holding the dead body of Jesus (a depiction known as a pietà), and it was painted by Gioacchino Loretta, a follower of Mattia Preti. The chapel of Our Lady of Loreto contains an altarpiece which depicts Mary with John the Baptist and the Blessed Gerard , painted by Bartolomeo Garagona in 1613.
The scale of the statuette's diminutive size (132.7 x 69.5 x 36.8 cm) indicates that it might have derived from a 13th-century south German mystical belief that the Virgin, in her grief, imagined Christ as an infant once again as she held his body after the crucifixion, [4] and that his burial shroud is instead his swaddling clothes. [8]
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St. Pius X Catholic Church, Lafayette, Louisiana. 2014 Arte Divine-Vatican Conservatory Foundation, No. 39 of 100, Medium – Cast Marble, Life Size. Donated by the Stuller Family. Holy Family Catholic Church, Concord, Massachusetts [7] [8] Holy Family Catholic Church [9] in Saginaw, Michigan; St. Mary's Parish, Spring Lake, Michigan [10]
The Palestrina Pietà is a marble sculpture of the Italian Renaissance, dating from c. 1555 and now in the Galleria dell'Accademia, Florence.It was formerly attributed to Michelangelo, but now it is mostly considered to have been completed by someone else, such as Niccolò Menghini [1] or Gian Lorenzo Bernini. [2]
If you'd prefer to watch the midnight mass live, you can stream it on the Vatican Youtube Channel. The Mass begins Dec. 24, at 1:30 p.m. ET ( 7:30 p.m. Central European Standard Time).
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The theme of the Pietà, so dear to the sculptor Michelangelo, is addressed in a highly emotional composition, as in the Crucifixion for Colonna. The dead Jesus is cradled between the grieving Mary's legs, who raises her arms to heaven as two angels also raise Christ's arms at right angles.