Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI once said, "The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely the saints the Church has produced and the art which has grown in her womb… A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous! Blindness and deafness towards the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology."
Christmas urges us to reflect on the Mystery of the Incarnation. In a short video series, Fr. Eric Nicolai, an Opus Dei priest and art expert, helps us reflect on this mystery through religious art from the early Christians to roughly around the 18th century.
The early Christians approached art as a useful tool for communicating the story of Jesus and Mary and the saints. Religious art at that time is more commonly called iconography. This happened mainly because Christians desired to know more about this child who came into the world by a young woman. Mary was therefore, early on, a favoured subject in religious art. In this video we look at the earliest images of the Virgin Mary and what we learn about her role in the story of Salvation.
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