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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Mediaeval sources of the Pietà
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14. The Pieta from Ruggisberg, the XIVth century, Freiburg, Private Collection (after
E. Reiners-Ernst)
Between oblatio and sacrificium there was the inner connection, foretold by Simeon. An
anonymous Franciscan paiiiter visualized this interrelation on the panel of the Toruń Altar
(ca 1390), evidently making use of St Bonaventure's commentary (fig. 5).46 In his Pieta Mary is
shown with the Sword of Sorrow to reveal that the propheey of Simeon was accomplished when
Mary and Christ offered their sacrifices. On the part of the Virgin this act depended on the vo-
luntary consent to the sacrificial death of Christ and on the offering Him with Her own hands
for Salvation of mankind. Mary paid for this sacrifice with suffering and sorrow and as a resnlt
46. From the Franciscan Church in Toruń, now in the National Museum in Warsaw, reproduced by Kalinowski, op. cit.,
fig. 27.
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E. Reiners-Ernst)
Between oblatio and sacrificium there was the inner connection, foretold by Simeon. An
anonymous Franciscan paiiiter visualized this interrelation on the panel of the Toruń Altar
(ca 1390), evidently making use of St Bonaventure's commentary (fig. 5).46 In his Pieta Mary is
shown with the Sword of Sorrow to reveal that the propheey of Simeon was accomplished when
Mary and Christ offered their sacrifices. On the part of the Virgin this act depended on the vo-
luntary consent to the sacrificial death of Christ and on the offering Him with Her own hands
for Salvation of mankind. Mary paid for this sacrifice with suffering and sorrow and as a resnlt
46. From the Franciscan Church in Toruń, now in the National Museum in Warsaw, reproduced by Kalinowski, op. cit.,
fig. 27.
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