Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Votive Church, Vienna. The origin of the Votivkirche derives from a failed assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph by Hungarian nationalist János Libényi …More
Chapel of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the Votive Church, Vienna.
The origin of the Votivkirche derives from a failed assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph by Hungarian nationalist János Libényi on 18 February 1853.[2] During that time, when the Emperor was in residence at the Hofburg Palace, he took regular walks around the old fortifications for exercise in the afternoons. During one such stroll, while walking along one of the outer bastions with one of his officers, Count Maximilian Karl Lamoral O'Donnell von Tyrconnell, a twenty-one-year-old tailor's apprentice, János Libényi, attacked the twenty-three-year-old Emperor from behind, stabbing him in the collar with a long knife. The blow was deflected by the heavy golden covering embroidered on the Emperor's stiff collar.[2] Although his life was spared, the attack left him bleeding from a deep wound.[3]
After the unsuccessful assassination attempt, the Emperor's brother, Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph—later Emperor of Mexico—called upon communities throughout the Austria-Hungary Empire for donations to a new church on the site of the attack. The church was to be a votive offering for the rescue of Franz Joseph and "a monument of patriotism and of devotion of the people to the Imperial House."[4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive_Church,_Vienna
The origin of the Votivkirche derives from a failed assassination attempt on Emperor Franz Joseph by Hungarian nationalist János Libényi on 18 February 1853.[2] During that time, when the Emperor was in residence at the Hofburg Palace, he took regular walks around the old fortifications for exercise in the afternoons. During one such stroll, while walking along one of the outer bastions with one of his officers, Count Maximilian Karl Lamoral O'Donnell von Tyrconnell, a twenty-one-year-old tailor's apprentice, János Libényi, attacked the twenty-three-year-old Emperor from behind, stabbing him in the collar with a long knife. The blow was deflected by the heavy golden covering embroidered on the Emperor's stiff collar.[2] Although his life was spared, the attack left him bleeding from a deep wound.[3]
After the unsuccessful assassination attempt, the Emperor's brother, Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph—later Emperor of Mexico—called upon communities throughout the Austria-Hungary Empire for donations to a new church on the site of the attack. The church was to be a votive offering for the rescue of Franz Joseph and "a monument of patriotism and of devotion of the people to the Imperial House."[4]
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Votive_Church,_Vienna