Meaning: The Spear of Longinus

Explanation: Once more this Consideratio meditates on the reciprocal sufferings that, during the Passion, Christ suffers in his body and Mary endures in her soul.

In relation with this, its emblem depicts the hearts of both Mother and Son, the first one penetrated by a sword and the second one surrounded by thorns and pierced by three nails; the telling motto points out Vulneratum vulnerat (The hurt one hurts).

Specifically, this time Ginther deals with the episode of the Spear of Longinus and therefore the header (“The lunge to the heart of Jesus and Mary”) and abstract (“The sorrowful mother suffers grief and love when she sees the Holy Heart of Jesus hurt by the cruel spear”).

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