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DOI Artikel:Dobrzeniecki, Tadeusz: Mediaeval sources of the Pietà
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15. Detail of the fig. 14, The head of tli? Virgin (after E. Reiners-Ernst)
of it She obtained a new diguity — Maternitas Christianorum." On the Toruń panel, on the
right of the Pieta group, Simeon is kneeling with his prophecy written on a s:roll: Tuam ipsius
animam pertransibit gladius. On the left, there is St John the Evangelist with a scroll bearing
the words of Christ (19 : 26), used to point out the accomplishment of the prophecy.
St Bonaventure wrote the following concerning the sacrifice of the Virgin: Persohit beata
Virgo pretium illud sicut mulier pia et fortis pietate venerationis divinae ... pietate compassionis
ad Christum ... pietate miserationis ad mundum.iB
47. A. De Groot, Die schmerzlmfte Multer und Gefahrlin rfcs gdllliehen Erliisers iii der Wcisstigung Simeons* Kaldenkirchen,
1956, p. 53.
48. Opera, V, p. 487ab; K. Balić, "Die Corredemptrixfrage innerhslb der franziskanischen Theologie", Franziskanischt
Studien, XXXIX, 1957, p. 218 — 287, exhaustively discusses the doctrine of St. Bonaventure, tlic founder of the Fran-
ciscan school of thought on p. 222 — 232.
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of it She obtained a new diguity — Maternitas Christianorum." On the Toruń panel, on the
right of the Pieta group, Simeon is kneeling with his prophecy written on a s:roll: Tuam ipsius
animam pertransibit gladius. On the left, there is St John the Evangelist with a scroll bearing
the words of Christ (19 : 26), used to point out the accomplishment of the prophecy.
St Bonaventure wrote the following concerning the sacrifice of the Virgin: Persohit beata
Virgo pretium illud sicut mulier pia et fortis pietate venerationis divinae ... pietate compassionis
ad Christum ... pietate miserationis ad mundum.iB
47. A. De Groot, Die schmerzlmfte Multer und Gefahrlin rfcs gdllliehen Erliisers iii der Wcisstigung Simeons* Kaldenkirchen,
1956, p. 53.
48. Opera, V, p. 487ab; K. Balić, "Die Corredemptrixfrage innerhslb der franziskanischen Theologie", Franziskanischt
Studien, XXXIX, 1957, p. 218 — 287, exhaustively discusses the doctrine of St. Bonaventure, tlic founder of the Fran-
ciscan school of thought on p. 222 — 232.
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