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Italian term or phrase:
ex-voto
English translation:
votive offering
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Charles Searson
Sep 9, 2004 09:36
19 yrs ago
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Italian term
ex-voto
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Gli ex-voto erano costituiti da vacche, pecore, cera per le candele dell’altare, strutto, cereali, fomaggio, vino.
Gli ex-voto erano costituiti da vacche, pecore, cera per le candele dell’altare, strutto, cereali, fomaggio, vino.
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4 +6 | votive offering | Fernando Muela Sopeña |
5 | votive offering | PatriziaM. |
5 | ex-voto | Michele Fauble |
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votive offering
An ex-voto is a votive offering to a saint or divinity. It is given in fulfilment of a vow (hence the Latin term, short for ex voto suscepto, "from the vow made") or in gratitude or devotion. Ex-votos are placed in a church or chapel where the worshipper seeks grace or wishes to give thanks. Shrines decorated with ex-votos are often the destinations of pilgrimages.
Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. In the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde in Marseille, France, the site of a major local pilgrimage, the ex-votos include paintings, plaques, model boats, war medals and even football shirts given by players and supporters of Olympique de Marseille, the local team. In a corner of the basilica of Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal in Montreal there is a tall wall with thousands of crutches and other supports from those Brother André supposedly healed. The Pope recognized the authenticity of the miracles and beatified Brother André in 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_voto
Ex-votos can take a wide variety of forms. In the church of Notre-Dame-de-la-Garde in Marseille, France, the site of a major local pilgrimage, the ex-votos include paintings, plaques, model boats, war medals and even football shirts given by players and supporters of Olympique de Marseille, the local team. In a corner of the basilica of Saint-Joseph du Mont-Royal in Montreal there is a tall wall with thousands of crutches and other supports from those Brother André supposedly healed. The Pope recognized the authenticity of the miracles and beatified Brother André in 1982.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ex_voto
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ex voto or ex-voto - A votive offering, typically an object presented at shrines, sometimes pinned to images of saints, etc. Latin for "out of thankfulness.".
www.artlex.com/ArtLex/En.html
ex voto or ex-voto - A votive offering, typically an object presented at shrines, sometimes pinned to images of saints, etc. Latin for "out of thankfulness.".
www.artlex.com/ArtLex/En.html
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