Jul 07 2008
Statue of the Madonna, Ss. Dominic and Thomas Aquinas
In 1708 Matěj Václav Jäckel created this statue and it was sponsored by the Dominicans convent. Looking at the statue you can see the Madonna giving the Rosary to St. Thomas Aquinas on the right from her and St. Dominic on the left. Below the Madonna you can see the symbol of the Dominican order - a dog with a torch in its jaws and a cloud-enshrouded globe. Madonna is depicted expressing compassion, grief and love, and the tenderness an ordinary mother might feel towards her beloved child is captured, evoking the moment when she first held her infant son Christ and despair of the mother who holds the body of her crucified son. Saint Dominic who is on the left was the founder of a Catholic religious order, the Friars Preachers, popularly called the Dominicans or Order of Preachers. The name Dominic in Latin means ‘of our lord’ or ‘belonging to God’ and he is the patron saint of astronomers and the Dominican Republic. St. Thomas Aquinas on the right side was an Italian Catholic priest in the Dominican Order, a philosopher and theologian in the scholastic tradition.
