An Afghan asylum-seeker in Switzerland entered the Shrine of Our Woman of Einsiedeln southeast of Zurich and vandalized the famous statue of the Black Madonna.
The Afghan man climbed the alter, ripped off the clothes on the Black Madonna, took off her crown, and positioned it on his head.
He wore the crown and clothes till police arrived to arrest him.
The shrine of the Black Madonna was established within the Ninth Century.
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Right here is more background on the Black Madonna of the Darkish Forest.
After a hearth in 1465 this gothic standing mom and little one changed a Ninth-Tenth century Romanesque Seat of Knowledge Madonna misplaced within the flames. Child Jesus holds a fowl in his left hand. In accordance with the native monks this eludes to an apocryphal story through which Jesus as a younger little one resurrected a useless fowl.
In Jungian psychology the Darkish Mom is an archetype that’s meant to assist us, in a wholesome method, to combine into our psyche all that we worry. The well-known Black Madonna of Einsiedeln, whose shrine is near the place C.G. Jung taught, appears to verify that.
Across the yr 825 a German monk known as Meinrad (about 799-861) turned the abbot of a monastery close to Zürich. However quickly the holy man was drawn to stay the lifetime of a hermit. So he moved into the ‘finster Wald’, i.e. the deep, ominously darkish, forest, the quintessential scary place of German language tales. The one factor he took with him on this journey into all the things scary was a darkish statue of Mom Mary. – To at the present time the Madonna of Einsiedeln is known as Our Woman of the (Ominously) Darkish Forest, as if to remind us that once we got down to face our deepest fears, it’s good to be accompanied by a darkish mom.
After Meinrad had spent thirty three years within the wilderness, two robbers came across his hermitage. The saint knew their evil intentions, but he welcomed them with open arms, gave them meals and garments. He solely had one request: “When you may have killed me, please mild one candle at my ft and one at my head.” They proceeded to membership him to dying, however as quickly as they’d positioned the candles in accordance with Meinrad’s want they lit up by themselves. Then the 2 murderers realized that they’d simply killed an important saint and fled in horror. Now Meinrad had two pet black crows as his companions, who had witnessed the deed and have been recognized to the individuals within the space. They flew across the evildoers, making a racket, till the lads have been apprehended and “delivered to justice”, i.e. hanged.
Perhaps due to this violent finish, no one wished to have something to do with Meinrad’s hermitage for at the least 40 years. It was maintained solely by the desire of God till different monks have been lastly drawn there. By 934 sufficient hermits lived round Meinrad’s previous cell with the Black Madonna that it was determined to construct a full fledged monastery.
In 948 St. Konrad, bishop of Konstanz, arrived in Einsiedeln to consecrate the chapel that housed the previous hermit’s cell. The evening earlier than this solemn celebration was to happen, he had a imaginative and prescient of Jesus and the angels adoring the Queen of Heaven and consecrating the chapel. When the time got here for the standard Sanctus prayer that comprises the phrases: “Holy, holy, holy Lord, God of energy and would possibly … blessed is he who comes within the identify of the Lord …” they sang as an alternative: “Holy, holy, holy God earlier than the face of the wonderful Virgin … blessed is the son of Mary who comes within the identify of the Lord…” The following day Konrad was nonetheless going to carry out the standard consecration, however a voice stopped him, calling, “Stop, stop, brother, the chapel has been divinely consecrated.”
To at the present time the Sanctus is sung in Einsiedeln the best way Heaven taught it. Making such a change on the coronary heart of the mass, required bringing the matter earlier than the Pope. In 964 a Papal bull confirmed Konrad’s imaginative and prescient as true and allowed the modifications for Einsiedeln. The story of its “angelic consecration” and the numerous miracles that adopted it, earned Einsiedeln worldwide fame.
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