Jesus child of Prague
The Enfant Jesus of Prague is a statuette waxes representative of it, as its name still indicates it Jesus de Nazareth child.
According to the legend, it is the work of a monk who carved it on the order of Jesus and it would have belonged to holy Therese (which had taken for name of Tereza religion of Jesus), which would have transmitted to a friend, Maria Maxmiliena Manrique de Lara there Mendoza. It is his/her daughter, Polyxena, which would have brought it back to Prague.
The statuette is offered by Polyxena de Pernstein, princess Lobkowicz, with the convent of the Carmélites of Prague in 1628, year of died of her husband, Zdeněk Adalbert Lobkowicz, généralissime of the imperial armies and victorious of the Bataille of the White Mountain. The church where the statuette is, Holy-Marie-of-the-Victoire, located to Malá Strana, - precisely - is dedicated to this victory of the catholic and imperial armies over the troops Czech defending the Protestant Reform in Bohemia.
The Counter-Reformation then beats full sound and the Jesus child of Prague acquires a reputation of miraculous statuette quickly. The emperor Ferdinand II, as a sign of devotion, grants a revenue to the monastery which lodges the holy statuette.
It is the subject always of devotion and receives the visit of many pilgrims or tourists.
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