Meaning: Cries of the Virgin Mary when Jesus is in the Palace of Caiaphas
Explanation: The abstract that starts this Consideratio states: “The Blessed Virgin contemplated in her heart as if she were present all the tortures and insults that the Son suffered at night”, that is to say, in the Palace of Caiaphas.
In these painful moments her reaction would have been akin to the tulip´s reaction, since this flower when the sun is not shining Languescit in umbra (Wilts in the shade).
As Ginther himself explains: “This sorrowful Virgin resembles the tulip that opens up with the sunbeams, but when the shade or clouds steal these rays, quickly with folded leaves it suffers, wilts and closes”.For a detailed explanation, click HERE (in Spanish)
Explanation: The abstract that starts this Consideratio states: “The Blessed Virgin contemplated in her heart as if she were present all the tortures and insults that the Son suffered at night”, that is to say, in the Palace of Caiaphas.
In these painful moments her reaction would have been akin to the tulip´s reaction, since this flower when the sun is not shining Languescit in umbra (Wilts in the shade).
As Ginther himself explains: “This sorrowful Virgin resembles the tulip that opens up with the sunbeams, but when the shade or clouds steal these rays, quickly with folded leaves it suffers, wilts and closes”.For a detailed explanation, click HERE (in Spanish)
This very same emblem can be found in:
• Picinelli, 1653: 335 (Dulipante o Tulipano, lib. 11, cap. 5, n. 20. Meanings: The soul deprived of God; Mary on Mount Calvary); • Picinelli, 1670: 392 (Dulipante o Tulipano, lib. 11, cap. 5, n. 34. Meanings: idem); • Picinelli & Erath, 1687: 584 (Tulipa, lib. 9, cap. 19, n. 239. Meanings: idem)