158-Bom Jesus do Monte - Braga
Statue équestre de Saint Longin le Centurion, sculptée par Pedro José Luis en 1819.
Longin (en latin Longinus) ou Longin le centurion est un soldat romain qui a percé de sa lance le côté droit de Jésus de Nazareth pour s'assurer de sa mort lors de la crucifixion.
La Légende dorée en fait plus tard un héros de roman, aveugle, qui aurait été guéri de sa cécité physique (symbole de cécité spirituelle) par le sang qui aurait coulé de la plaie du Christ en croix jusque dans ses yeux. L'iconographie chrétienne reprend ainsi le thème de sa conversion après avoir reçu dans son œil une goutte de sang du Christ qui le guérit de son ophtalmie.
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Equestrian statue of Saint Longinus the Centurion, sculpted by Pedro José Luis in 1819.
Longinus (in Latin Longinus) or Longinus the centurion is a Roman soldier who pierced the right side of Jesus of Nazareth with his spear to ensure his death during the crucifixion.
The Golden Legend later makes him a hero of a novel, blind, who would have been cured of his physical blindness (a symbol of spiritual blindness) by the blood which would have flowed from the wound of Christ on the cross into his eyes. Christian iconography thus takes up the theme of his conversion after having received in his eye a drop of blood from Christ which healed him of his ophthalmia.
158-Bom Jesus do Monte - Braga
Statue équestre de Saint Longin le Centurion, sculptée par Pedro José Luis en 1819.
Longin (en latin Longinus) ou Longin le centurion est un soldat romain qui a percé de sa lance le côté droit de Jésus de Nazareth pour s'assurer de sa mort lors de la crucifixion.
La Légende dorée en fait plus tard un héros de roman, aveugle, qui aurait été guéri de sa cécité physique (symbole de cécité spirituelle) par le sang qui aurait coulé de la plaie du Christ en croix jusque dans ses yeux. L'iconographie chrétienne reprend ainsi le thème de sa conversion après avoir reçu dans son œil une goutte de sang du Christ qui le guérit de son ophtalmie.
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Equestrian statue of Saint Longinus the Centurion, sculpted by Pedro José Luis in 1819.
Longinus (in Latin Longinus) or Longinus the centurion is a Roman soldier who pierced the right side of Jesus of Nazareth with his spear to ensure his death during the crucifixion.
The Golden Legend later makes him a hero of a novel, blind, who would have been cured of his physical blindness (a symbol of spiritual blindness) by the blood which would have flowed from the wound of Christ on the cross into his eyes. Christian iconography thus takes up the theme of his conversion after having received in his eye a drop of blood from Christ which healed him of his ophthalmia.