During the last decade archaeologists in Cologne have re-excavated the 700-year old synagogue with its adjacent Mikveh...
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Earthly Bread and Heavenly Food
Earthly Bread and Heavenly Food…
Cabinet exhibition on the occasion of the Eucharistic Congress in Cologne.
The Catholic Church venerates the consecrated host as a symbol of the presence of Christ resurrected. In the Middle Ages Cologne was among the first cities in which on the feast day of Corpus Christi the body of Christ was carried through the city in a procession. For this occasion splendid monstrances were created, one of which is at the heart of this exhibition. Paintings and prints from Cologne from the Middle Ages to the modern era illustrate the veneration of the consecrated host through the ages. Today, as in the past, the celebration of the First Communion is at the centre of Eucharistic devotion.
Earthly Bread and Heavenly Food
Kölnisches Stadtmuseum
18.05.2013 –30.06.2013
Silk not Sin
Silk not Sin – Ceremonial Garments for the Preparation of the Holy Mass.
In the Middle Ages great attention was paid to the preparation of the celebration of mass. By the ritual laying on of clerical vestments accompanied by vesting prayers, priests and bishops completed a transition from the secular to the sacred. Beginning with precious undergarments – these rare items will again be on display for the first time since 1985 at Museum Schnütgen – the exhibition follows the cleric step by step in the solemn preparatory ceremony up to the combing of the hair and washing of the hands. Precious treasures of ecclesiastical textile art including an undergarment from the 14th century and the medieval vestments from the church of St Andreas are presented together with liturgical objects such as the famous ivory comb of St Heribert.
Museum Schnütgen, Köln
23.05.2013 – 24.08.2014