Understanding the image of Christ in Distress in Lithuanian folk culture: the conceptions of passion, sin and prefiguration of prophet Jeremiah

• Authors: Gabija Surdokaitė-Vitienė
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

PL

This article discusses a few aspects of the conception of one image found in the Lithuanian folklore and religious sculpture of the turn of 19th and 20th century. The author points out possible influences of the official Catholic Church liturgy, teaching, official religious art, devotional literature, sermons, chants on folklore and folk religious art. This article explores direct influences and the syncretism of these ideas in the peasant culture.

Keywords

PL

piety, Christ in Distress, Passion of Christ, prophet Jeremiah, pensive Christ, seated Christ, prefiguration, sin, penitence, stone.

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
• Journal: Zarządzanie w Kulturze
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 3

Dates

published

2014

online

2014-10-29

Contributors

author

Gabija Surdokaitė-Vitienė