Vienna Cathedral: Christ Is Upside Down
During Lent, a project by Gottfried Helnwein, 75, is disfiguring St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria. Helnwein is notorious for his controversial depictions of pain, injury and violence. His …More
During Lent, a project by Gottfried Helnwein, 75, is disfiguring St Stephen's Cathedral in Vienna, Austria.
Helnwein is notorious for his controversial depictions of pain, injury and violence. His project consists of a purple copy of the Shroud of Turin in front of the high altar, but hung upside down, as Satanists like to do.
The two side altars are each covered with a purple skull that look like the Goddess of Death.
The cathedral's rector, Monsignor Anton Faber, confessed that the collaboration with Helnwein was a project "that has been growing in my heart for a long time". He interprets the images as Christ's "descent into the realm of death on Holy Saturday" - as if Christ had done this like someone jumping into a swimming pool.
At Easter the images are replaced by a white resurrection of Christ (also upside down?) and at Pentecost by red images of the Holy Spirit.
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Helnwein is notorious for his controversial depictions of pain, injury and violence. His project consists of a purple copy of the Shroud of Turin in front of the high altar, but hung upside down, as Satanists like to do.
The two side altars are each covered with a purple skull that look like the Goddess of Death.
The cathedral's rector, Monsignor Anton Faber, confessed that the collaboration with Helnwein was a project "that has been growing in my heart for a long time". He interprets the images as Christ's "descent into the realm of death on Holy Saturday" - as if Christ had done this like someone jumping into a swimming pool.
At Easter the images are replaced by a white resurrection of Christ (also upside down?) and at Pentecost by red images of the Holy Spirit.
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It brings such peace knowing that today is the Feast of the Holy Face of Jesus. The demons are so utterly predictable and boring--sacrileges everywhere on the feast of a devotion in reparation for said blasphemies, namely, sins against the first 3 Commandments, and for the conversion of sinners. "Arise, O Lord, and let Thy enemies be scattered, and let those hate Thee flee before Thy Face".
John A Cassani
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The giant purple sweater they put up in 2020 was in much better taste.
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Who ARE these people?
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@SHJ-IHM Princes and Prelates of the Church, sadly.