This trip has cemented my admiration for the power of art to present a message. This potent image is a reminder of some of the Jewish suffering... for example in Easter 1389, members of the Prague clergy announced that a Jew had desecrated the host (a single Eucharistic wafer) so under encouragement of the clergy mobs pillaged, ransacked and burned the Jewish quarter. Nearly the entire Jewish population of Prague (3,000 people) perished. Now that communism has left, locals have gone back to again openly supporting the Church and its ancient traditions and so the lands and buildings have been given back to the church...but still not all of the Jewish lands and buildings have been returned...
Sunday, January 3, 2010
Traditions
This trip has cemented my admiration for the power of art to present a message. This potent image is a reminder of some of the Jewish suffering... for example in Easter 1389, members of the Prague clergy announced that a Jew had desecrated the host (a single Eucharistic wafer) so under encouragement of the clergy mobs pillaged, ransacked and burned the Jewish quarter. Nearly the entire Jewish population of Prague (3,000 people) perished. Now that communism has left, locals have gone back to again openly supporting the Church and its ancient traditions and so the lands and buildings have been given back to the church...but still not all of the Jewish lands and buildings have been returned...
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