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L 'Sorrows

by prof. Trident Cosmo.

L 'Sorrows (or Our Lady of Sorrows or Our Lady of Sorrows Seven Sorrows of Mary) in Latin Mater Dolorosa, is a title that is often invoked by Christians call Mary, the mother of Jesus

L 'only evangelist to record the presence of the Virgin on Golgotha \u200b\u200bis John. We read in his text (19:25): "At the Cross of Jesus stood his mother and sister of his mother, Mary of Cleophas and Mary of Magdala. " The other evangelists (Matthew, Mark, Luke) does not endorse this presence, even when mentioning the name of the holy women who were to follow Jesus and witnessed his death on Calvary. Episode true then, as witnessed by the Gospel, that of 'Sorrows. Not so that of the Pietà. None of the four Evangelists describe the scene of the body of Jesus down from the cross and laid on the lap of Mother. This episode belongs to the tradition, not to the reference text of the New Testament.
To Our Lady of Sorrows is not celebrating the novena, as for the other Madonna venerated throughout the year, but the "seven day", so named because it covers the seven sorrows of the Mother of God Let's see: 1,

Pain: Simeon predicted Mary's passion and death of his Son;
2 ° Pain: The 'angel announces to Mary cruel execution made by Herod;
3 ° Pain: Mary in the Temple lost her beloved son and found him after three days;
4 ° Pain: Mary news of her son in the 'garden of Gethsemane and the barbarous treatment praticatigli;
5 · pain: Mary meets her Son on the bloody road to Calvary;
6 ° Pain: Maria witnessing the crucifixion of her Son;
7 ° Pain: Mary sees death and burying his beloved Son.

The commemoration of the 'Lady of Sorrows is celebrated on the Friday before Palm Sunday under the title "The Seven Sorrows of Mary." In fact, leaving the protagonist of the figure of Jesus on Good Friday, in the liturgical calendar, the celebration of the suffering has been advanced by one week. In addition to the Friday of passion, 'Sorrows was honored with another party outside the loop of Lent, the third Sunday of September. It was instituted by Pius VII in 1814 in reaction to Napoleon's campaigns against the Church. Pius X in 1914 finally settled the liturgical feast of 'Our Lady of Sorrows Sept. 15.
In the history of 'Arciconfraternita of death as were the venerated statue of it? As Horace wrote Panunzio, nobody could say for sure, since there are no news about this documentary. Probably no less than four. The knowledge of the first sink in 'unknown. In what perhaps was the second version a response is possible.

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This is the statue that is currently in a niche in the cemetery chapel of 'Confraternity. Like the others that followed, this image of Our is portrayed in mourning dress and cloak, by the cross decorated shroud, which she embraces with his right hand while his left hand holding a handkerchief to wipe away the tears. His face, streaked with tears, turned to the sky in supplication, but the breast is pierced by the sword, the symbol of baleful prophecy of Simeon. This statue, for most of the nineteenth century, was the star of the Friday of passion.
In 1905-1906 it was replaced with another image, also carved in wood, and went in procession until 1957.

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L 'was shaped by the current statue of Cozzoli in 1957 and was carried in procession on Friday of passion in 1958 but he could not see it because the sculptor died February 15, 1957. The statue was donated by Mr Archconfraternity. Magarelli ra-Antoinette, who resides in Hoboken, as we read in a letter sent to the prior pro tempore, prof. Pasquale Regina, dated June 3, 1957: "The undersigned Antoinette Magarelli a lasting memory and devotion to the spiritual debt of gratitude you can offer MISUSE Venerable Confraternity of a new mission, worked in papier mache by the late sculptor Prof. Giulio Cozzoli together depicting the Blessed Virgin Mary of Sorrows the veil. To do this please VS Ill. But, the Firefox 's administration and all the brothers of the' Confraternity that the above picture may be substituted for the old and exposed in Purgatory Church during Sunday services during Lent, the Sacred Septenary and finally brought to the Good Friday procession in the streets of Molfetta ... "

Mrs. ra Antonetta Magarelli

The above statue was "loaned" to the Sacred Heart of Jesus parish, on a proposal by the prior office, Joseph Trident (my uncle), as the minutes of meeting of the 'Confraternity of July 1, 1962: "The prior asked to present the authorization to provide the Our Lady of Sorrows is located in the old Church of Death, the Church of the Sacred Heart, where it is venerated. The spiritual father (Don Michael Carabellese) is an agreement and it will word the Bishop. The member Regina Francis says, as the proposal comes from the president, which shows his desire, be accepted. The Shareholders' Meeting approves and accepts with pleasure, but want the pastor of the Church, whatever it may be, will have to recognize it as a loan, but the right of property is always the Church of Purgatory, so that at any time the Brotherhood Death would need to retire it will be mistress' .

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This work was completed over a period historian for the Confraternity of Death: The fifty years from 1907 to 1956. In this period the sculptor, with appreciable skill, shaped paper mache statues gradually replacing previous ones were made of wood. 'S only remaining original of the statues is the precious image of Our Lady of Mercy, although slightly retouched in the face.

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* Text by the prof. Trident Cosmo.

* Photos coming from 'private archive of Dr.. Francesco Stanzione.