Tanulmányok Budapest Múltjából 31. (2003)

VÁROSTÖRTÉNETI TANULMÁNYOK - Szilárdfy Zoltán: Meditációs képek a budavári klarisszák hagyatékából 271-287

MEDITÁCIÓS KÉPEK A BUDAVÁRI KLARISSZÁK HAGYATÉKÁBÓL probably from the bequest of Klára Kuthy, the last Clarissan abbess in Pest, with the miniatures of Christ's sufferings in the background. A replica, probably from the early 18

th century was found in the Elisabethan nuns' convent in Fő street in Buda. One of the Clarissan nuns had made 15 illustrations of her predecessor in the order, Magdalena Beutler

's series of visions in which the unknown and secret sufferings of Jesus were represented with all the tortures in the chambers of the time (up to now no reviews of the topic have been found in the relevant literature). The terrible tortures from the scenes of the secret sufferings were enforced by the mediaeval law in Buda but it had its effect on Maria Theresa's penal code as well. The epic of the secret sufferings of Christ has been reduced to several devotional icons. The most widely known example of the apocryphal events is the so-called Rastchristus, or the Resting and Sorrowful Christ of whose Baroque stone sculpture can be seen even these days on the earlier town scaffold (1725, it was called Ecce Homo). 287