Soriano šv. Dominyko atvaizdo legenda ir istorija

ENHanging in the Soriano Dominican monastery in Calabria, southern Italy, the painting of St. Dominic, as legend claimed, was of extra-terrestrial origin, for in 1530, it was given to the Dominicans by the Blessed Virgin Mary, St. Mary Magdalene, and St. Catherine of Alexandria. At the beginning of the 17th century, the picture that miraculously appeared and had become renowned for its graces was the most famous image of St. Dominic in the Catholic world. During the 17th and 18th centuries, copies of this painting hung in almost every Dominican monastery in Italy and Spain. Copies of the Soriano painting reached the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania in the first half of the 17th century. In 1635, one of the first copies of the painting was brought to the Dominican monastery in Lviv, and in 1637 paintings appeared in Kamin-Kashyrskyi, Ovruch, and Brest. In 1642, another copy of the Soriano painting was brought from Italy to the Dominican monastery in Krakow, and in 1661 - to Pinsk. In 1686, a copy of the famous painting was brought to the Monastery of the Holy Spirit in Vilnius, where it was revered until it was destroyed by fire in 1726. In the middle of the 18th century, while restoring the interior of the church, instead of the famous copy of St. Dominic's image, a painting depicting the miracle in Soriano was hung - the only representation of this theme in Lithuania. [Extract, p. 313]