“Did you know that the twelve stars on the European flag can be linked to a Marian apparition from 1830? The exhibition ‘All Miracles’ brings together works of art around miracles.
Miracles have not yet disappeared, not even from our contemporary world, where rationality and efficiency are decisive. New research by the Dutch broadcaster KRO-NCRV and Museum Catharijneconvent shows that 63 percent of the Dutch believe (a little) in miracles, while less than half consider themselves a religious denomination.
Healings, Rescues, Predictive Dreams, Contact with the Deceased
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Wonder of Lazarus by David Bowie
[David Bowie – ‘Black Star’; Music Video Worshiping the Jesuit Order & Her Monogram of the Black Sun: Saturn (Azaz’el)]
In this time of secularization and secularization is the miracle often detached from a religious context. Some define a miracle as something unexpected, something that happens to you: healings, rescues, predictive dreams, contact with the deceased. A miracle can be something natural that arouses wonder, such as the birth of a child. Wonder stories are mainly about personal experiences, to which their own interpretations are given.
Catholic David Bowie in the Jesuit Inspired Kabbalah Lazarus Music Video
Modern and contemporary artists can refer to a classical miracle, such as the resurrection of Lazarus, but give it their own meaning. Vincent van Gogh, for example, portrayed himself in his Raising of Lazarus in the red-haired Lazarus, and in his video clip Lazarus, British singer David Bowie is lying on his sick bed, just like Lazarus in his grave.
In her video performance Levitation of Saint Therese, Marina Abramović identifies herself with Saint Therese of Avila who is levitated in the kitchen, causing her to float above the pot of soup. Marina’s grandmother’s kitchen was an important place for her. She herself says: The kitchen was the center of my world. There all the stories were told, all advice regarding my further life was given … That’s where my best memories lie.
Jesuitess Marina Abramovic, S.J. Marian Poses for the Jesuits
This and much more can be read and seen at the exhibition ‘All Miracles’ in Museum Catharijneconvent (on display since 1 June, until 23 August). Here the visitor is confronted with all kinds of miracles: profane miracles or miracles that have occurred among Christians and believers from various other denominations such as Muslims.
The Miracle on the European Flag
The exhibition begins, so to speak, at the end, death, which is nullified in the resurrection of Lazarus. At the end of the exhibition, attention is paid to the miracle of birth. Between the beginning and the end, apparitions of the Virgin Mary, visions and miraculous healings are discussed and illustrated with the help of texts, paintings, photos, video performances and objects.
An example of such an object is the ‘Miraculous Medal’ that Mary showed to the nun Catherine Labouré during an apparition in 1830. The twelve stars on the medal return to the European flag, which was designed in 1955 by someone who wore the miraculous medal.
The Jesuit Order's Marypeon Union Planned Since 1830
Other examples: a photo of the window in the Uiterwaardenstraat in Amsterdam, in which Ida Peerdeman saw Marian apparitions, or a woolen garment of one of the girls who saw Maria appear in Beauraing in 1932/1933, plus a photo of that girl wearing the garment in question seeing is.
Georges Baltus, Christina the Miraculous Floating Above Sint-Truiden, 1915
There are beautiful and interesting paintings on display from the collection of the museum itself, but also remarkable paintings from elsewhere such as The Raising of Lazarus by Carel Fabritius (1643) from a museum in Warsaw, The prophet Elisa who became the son of the woman from Shunem. gives life to Jan Sluijters from 1904, a piece with which he won the Prix de Rome (Drents Museum Assen), a large painting of Christina the Miraculous floating above Sint-Truiden from 1915, and much more.
In short, an exhibition with many surprises, which gives you a lot to see, experience and think about.”
“We have heard, not without the greatest mental consternation, that, in Italy and beyond the mountains, certain women and maidens, after having assumed the name of Female Jesuits, have for several years assembled themselves together, without any approval or consent of the Pope; that, under the pretext of leading a holy life, they possess certain Houses of the description and form of Colleges, as well as Profess-Houses, over which a Mistress, under the title of Female General, is placed; that, with the same object, they have taken upon themselves the vows of Obedience, Chastity, and Poverty, and followed all other usages and customs of the Jesuits; that they have, however, as well adopted many things very unsuitable for the female sex, and directly contrary to the decorum and modesty appertaining to the same … Considering, therefore, that such creatures give occasion for much indignation, we have determined to eradicate these unwholesome weeds, as we are of a mind not to tolerate such wickedness. On this account, therefore, after consultation: with our holy Cardinals and Inquisitors, we now command that this alleged female Society be entirely abolished, annulled, and done away with, and ordain that they, the Society of Female Jesuits, be ineffectual from the beginning, and null and void, being herewith at once swept away, buried in oblivion, and completely eradicated from the Church of God.”
―Pope Urban VIII; Unknown Papal Bull [Censored & Erased from Jesuit DARPA Internet], (Rome: May 21, 1631)
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