Salos Popoli Romanian, Pope Francis in the arms of the mother

Maria Melvia Murciano – Vatican City

Since its foundation during Pontif Bob Liberio, between 352 and 366, the pods have become more enriched by Basilica Papali Santa Maria La. The feeling that you have when entering the great church and crossing ships is a feeling of golden light that culminates in the mosaic season of the victorious bow. Everything breathes in the name of Mary, to her divine death, to the birth of her son, whose life is calculated in the years from cradle to childhood.

Among the effects associated with the Virgin, the icon of the Bubouli Roman Salos is a non -soluble link with the people, with the Pope and with history. The image, which became familiar all over the world, and that over time it was deeply linked to the dedication of Pope Francis, who asked his will to be buried in the Santa Maria La Church, next to the Pauline Church, which includes the image of the Virgin.

According to research and modern restoration, the sacred image dates back to the ninth and thirteenth centuries. It is a plate on the Linden Wooden table, which represents half of the Virgin Virgin with the child in an interlocking arms. The mantle, the Byzantine Mavorion, the dark blue blue, the gold, its face is timed and its wrapping is in soft folds. The tangible gold in the chest and sleeves are also decorated with gold. The face is a beautiful oval of the white brush strokes, green and roses between the lights and shades that carve their tight nose, its thick eyebrows, and its large brown eyes of its intense and long appearance, very sweet. His mouth is small, according to the ideal medieval beauty laws, and it seems that he is sample of a smile. Their hands are crossed in a very familiar gesture for women who can firmly keep children. Acting is normal, to the extent that in the back of the hand, you can see the leather wavy with the weight of Jesus on his arm. This, among other stylistic clues, leads to its achievement in the Roman field.

The right hand is surrounded by a ring, while the left carries a beautiful blue handkerchief decorated in red and decorated with great texture. It is Maple or Maple, which was before it became a dress from the Christian Mass a privilege of the nobles in the imperial era in the circumstances of the ceremony. Thus, it is a royal sign, but it also refers to official moments in particular, such as the grace of Las Palmas or Excellite that gives the first title to the Virgin in the sense of Regeina Cole, the Queen of Heaven. The child on his chest narrows a rich decorated book, which is clearly Evangarium, while he was raising his face to look at the mother. His small personality wears a very rich cloak, hymn, covered with gold and bronze.

The position of the feet, one of whom is suspended and in the profile, follows an agreement widely used in ancient times to give three dimensions of the shape. It seems that the right hand of the Virgin reflects the son in the three -finger gestures: one to bless, and the other – probably – to indicate the Trinity.

The Greek letters at the top, on both sides of the Virgin’s head, MP θY, are an abbreviation of the Miter Theo, and the mother of God.

According to the traditions, the icon, drawn by the missionary Lucas, reached Rome from Jerusalem and placed it in two Lars, in the papal rhetoric. It was donated by Pope Sistos III, between 432 and 440, to the Basilica Santa Maria La, where he had been staying since then, at the beginning on the main altar and then transferred to the Pauline or Burgsian Church, where it has been present since 1613.

The salvation of the Roman people

The Romans resorted to the sacred image in times of danger. For example, during the plague of 509, when the Sabtuman procession headed by Pope Gregory the Great, who ran from the streets of Rome to the Church of San Pedro, and again during the cholera epidemic in 1837, was summoned by Pope Gregory XVI.

Pius XII, on June 4, 1944, when the front clash between the German armies and the ally was approaching, addressed it to revitalize the salvation of the city. Finally, Pope Francis at Plaza De San Pedro, at Statio Orbis on March 27, 2020, at the beginning of the epidemic.

Church

The Polina or Burgiz Church, whose name is owned by Bob Pablo against Burgiz, is located at the end of the left ship, between the Surza Church and Cancer, a mirror of the Sistin Church or the blessed speed, half ancient century, located along the right ship. Once he climbed to the papal throne, in 1605, Bob Pablo Fif was born, born in Camello Burgiz, architect Lombardo Flaminho Bonzio, to build the church to accommodate the image of Salos Bubuli Romanian, who was officially dedicated on January 27, 1613, with the ICON placed on the hand, by hand.

The Church Factory, such as the Greek Cross, which gives movement to the walls, and is decorated rich in multi -marbles, standing and statues, including those of Pope Clement VIIIRAPRANDINA and Pablo against Burgiz, in the gods of his grave. Many important artists at the time worked on this luxurious monument, so it glows to the point that it lacks almost the shadows. The statues and smell were created by the sculptor chair, Lonchi, Ambrogio Buonvicino, Giovanni Antonio Paracca known as Valsoldo, Cristoforo Stati, Nicolas Cordier, IPolito Buzio, Camillo Mariani, Pietro Bereni (father Gian Mouchi). The murals, on the other hand, are the work of Cavalier D’Alpino, Ludovico Cigalli, the author of the dome, Guido Reni, Il Superigno, Giovanni Baglione and Baldassare Croc, and later, Giovanni Lanfranco.

The main altar was first imagined in Perral wood, in 1607, and later in Jaspe de Barga and Golden Brunze Marble. Two of the columns in the Corinthians of the Timbano party, which in turn surrounds Stefano Madrno, which represents the drawing of Pope Libro in the snow that determines the behavior of the Basilica.

Stefano Madrino, Pope Leiberio tracks the vicinityStefano Madrino, Pope Leiberio tracks the vicinity

He depicts the association that surrounds Roman Popoli as a residence, designed by Girolamo Reynalde and made by Pompeo Targon. The symbol is preserved through a victorious journey of gold angels that stand out on the intense blue background of Lapislázuli, which gives the impression that the virgin and the child face an open window in the sky, indicating the heavenly golden light.

Direct intervention of the Virgin

During his reign on June 29, 2022, Pope Francis asked for a burial “on the side of the plate between the Polina Church (the Roman Bubuli Salli Person) and the Sevurza Church in the papal Pasilk mentioned above.” Try «on Earth; Simple, without a specific decoration and with the only registration: Franciskos. ”

Cardinal Rolandas Macricas, Arcipretste Coadjtor from Basilica Santa Maria La, during an interview granted to Koreier del Della Serra, revealed that he had suggested that the Pope be buried in a prayer, then, then, as a worker, then as a worker, then, as a rule, then as a leave, then as a whole. priest. dad. Even when he was discharged from Jimili Hospital, on March 23, his desire to go across Basilica, where he stopped abroad, in his car, and left a bouquet of flowers to deposit him at the foot of the Marian icon. A few days later, three years ago, the Cardinal says, the Pope called him: “The Virgin told me to prepare the grave.” He still tells Francisco’s words on that occasion: “I am happy that the Virgin did not forget me. I am looking for the place where I can be my tribal because I want to be buried here. ” “It was a bit special, I would like to say that a direct intervention of the Virgin,” said Cardinal McCricas.

Upon death, the Pope sometimes stopped: “a small fear”, he said during the plenary session on August 24, 2022, “because this clip does not know what this door means a little frightening, but there is always the hand of the man who takes you forward and as soon as you pass through the door there.” The party of what was distinguished by the icon of the Virgin, which stands on the threshold of Puerta del Silo, allows us to imagine that Francisco’s welcome accompanies him “on the other beach.”