st. Gregory, mass, liturgy, eucharist, miracle, ilusion, vision

Článek pojednává o jednom u nejrozšířenějších ikonografických schématech v pozdním středověku, o mši sv. Řehoře. Pokouší se odpovědět na otázky ohledně funkce a významu toho vyobrazení v pozdně středověké zbožnosti, zejména v souvislosti s eucharistickou naukou, tj. s naukou o praesentia realis Christi a učením o transsubstanciaci.

This article deals with one of the most popular images of the Late Middle Ages, the St. Gregory Mass, and tries to answer the question of its function in Late Medieval devotion especially in connection with Eucharistic dogma, focusing on the theory of Christ?s real presence and transubstantiation. The image of the St. Gregory Mass was not, however, a visual representation of the Eucharist dogma but of the philosophical and theological complexity of Christ?s presence as well as his visual and physical absence in this world. Through the visual multiplication of Christ?s body in the picture, the viewer is invited to contemplate the image with his bodily as well as intellectual eye and served a function as a practical object of devotion, decreasing the number of years in Purgatory, as well as an instrument for mystical exercise for practising imaginatio and contemplation, leading to the final visio Dei and union with God.