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Title: | The religious cults of thaumaturgical powers and the devotion towards St Nicholas of Bari in Malta |
Authors: | Mercieca, Simon |
Keywords: | Statues -- Malta -- Vittoriosa -- History Statues -- Malta -- Siggiewi -- History Malta -- Religious life and customs |
Issue Date: | 2010 |
Publisher: | University of Malta. Junior College |
Citation: | Symposia Melitensia. 2010, Vol.6, p. 21-35 |
Abstract: | This paper explores the development of religious cult statues in Malta with particular reference to the use of the imagen a vestir statues. At first, the statues were of two types. The first were the small wooden statues about one metre in height. The second type was slightly bigger. The heads, and often the hands and lower part, were sculptured in wood whilst the rest of the body was dressed up. The use of the processional statues owes its origins to Birgu towards the end of the sixteenth century. Slowly the custom spread throughout the island. After Birgu, one of the first Maltese parishes to acquire a statue was Siggiewi. This paper will explain the diffusion of this cult and answer why such a rural parish, was one of the first parishes in Malta to have a processional cult statue. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/6696 |
ISSN: | 1812-7509 |
Appears in Collections: | Scholarly Works - FacArtHis SymMel, 2010, Volume 6 SymMel, 2010, Volume 6 |
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