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JESULUS PRAGENSIS:
HOLY INFANT OF PRAGUE AND OTHER WAX FIGURINES FROM THE COLLECTION OF THE SLOVENE MUSEUM OF CHRISTIANITY

Supplication for the blessing of the Holy Infant
“Beloved, merciful Infant Jesus, you hold the entire world in your left hand and bestow benedictions with your right. Bless me as well, bless everybody and everything, but particularly …. , this I am asking you. I will be grateful to you and I promise you eternal faithfulness until I draw my last breath. Amen.
Published in: P. Herman Koneberg, The Gracious Baby Jesus in the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Prague and His Adoration, p. Hiacint Šega, Ljubljana: Franciscan Monastery, 1898, p. 125).

LITTLE LYING INFANT JESUS

Reclining Jesus with nimbus, first half of the 20th century, wax, fabric, wood, glass, figure length 13 cm, acc. no. 2009-14-4.
Provenance: Ursuline monastery in Škofja Loka.

The nuns also made small figurines of reclining Jesus Christ, which they placed in the manger prepared in their rooms for Christmas. In the Slovene Museum of Christianity in Stična, we keep some historically younger works from the first half of the 20th century from Škofja Loka. Such small wax figures of Jesus were also made by the nuns in the Ljubljana monastery. They still sold them a few years after the Second World War. 

Reclining Jesus with a nimbus, first half of the 20th century, wax, fabric, wood, glass, figure length 17 cm, acc. no. 2009-14-5.
Provenance: Ursuline monastery in Škofja Loka.

The little Jesus is made entirely of wax. The fingers of the right hand are missing. He is wrapped around the loins with white silk. His eyes are drawn, around his head is a nimbus of gilded wire. He lies on a white cloth and wooden boards. 

Miniature  reclining Jesus, first half of the 20th century, wax, fabric, figure length 2.8 cm, acc. no. 2009-15-1.
Provenance: Ursuline monastery in Škofja Loka.

The special feature among these little reclining figurines is definitely the miniature Jesus, which measures only a good 2.8 cm. It is made entirely of wax. A piece of cloth is wrapped across the loins. He rests on golden rays of decorative paper, in a round box lined with waxed yellow paper. 

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