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Echoes of the visit to Prague....


Prague's Infant Jesus statue
now wears Benedict XVI's crown




Note the scallops ('St Augustine's scallops') that are a motif in the crown.


Prague, Nov 26 (CTK) - As of yesterday, the statuette of the Infant Jesus of Prague whom people from all over the world implore for aid is wearing the gilded crown Pope Benedict XVI offered during his September visit to the Czech Republic, according to Carmelite Prior Petr Sleich, whose order has custody of the shrine dedicated to the Holy Infant.



The crown was placed above the statuette when the Pope came to pray before it in the baroque Church of Our Lady Victorious, butit was then taken to a goldsmith who fitted it with catches and added a velvet underlay.

The statuette also wears an Advent dress as from yesterday.

The royal crown that Benedict XVI donated to Infant Jesus is decorated with eight shells, the symbol of St Augustine. An inscription with the date on which the Pope donated his gift is beneath the Cross on the crown, which is made of gold-plated silver and decorated with pearls and garnets.

The Infant Jesus statuette has about 100 garments, coming from various countries where devotion to him is widespread, such as China, Ecuador, Italy, the Philippines, Poland, the United States and Vietnam.

The Holy Infant of Prague is a 47-centimetre-high wax statuette with a wooden core, originally made by a monk in Spain.

In the late 16th century, it was brought to the Czech lands by a Spanish noblewoman, Maria Manrique de Lara, as her wedding present when she married a Bohemian nobleman.

The statuette passed further into the hands of their daughter, Polyxena. In 1628, she donated it to the Church of Our Lady Victorious, belonging to the order of the bare-footed Carmelites.

The Manrique de Lara family from the Canary Islands donated brocade clothes to the Infant Jesus in 1996.

Some clothes, including a velvet dress with a gold embroidery from Austro-Hungarian Empress Maria Theresa from 1743, are on display in the church museum.

Most of the clothes are kept in a baroque depository in the church. The statuette's robes are changed according to the liturgical season or church feast commemorated.

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