Crucifixion altar, Basilica of the Order of the Holy Sepulchre

Ołtarz ukrzyżowania (nawa północna)

The northern nave is dedicated to Jesus’ passion and death. The main altar contains the crucifixion group with an old, late Gothic crucifix dated to the early 16th century. That figure of Christ Crucified was saved from a fire on 19 April 1745 and survived to our times as one of the few relics of the old church. Golgotha and Arma Christi –the tools of the Passion of Christ – are depicted at the front of the main part of the altar stone. The side altar in the northern nave with a painting by Franciszek Smuglewicz is dedicated to St. Anna. Statues of Abraham and David stand on its sides. Other statues located by the pillars are figures accompanying Christ during the way of the cross (St. Veronica, Longinus, Joseph of Arimathea) and the first martyrs (St. Lawrence, St. Stephen). There is a passage to the left of the altar that leads to a small chapel dedicated to Anthony of Padua. Above the passage is a balcony with beautiful rococo ornaments. To the right side of the altar are two large paintings depicting prominent general prefects of the Miechów order: the last superior of the convent of the Holy Sepulchre, bishop Tomasz Nowina-Nowiński in a pontifical robe and Jakub Radliński with a library in the background. The exit to the rectory garden leading through a classicistic marble portal is located slightly further. In the western part of the nave is a descent to the gallery leading to the chapel of the Holy Sepulchre and, on its right side, a wall tombstone made of black marble from Dębnica, with a Baroque image on a sheet depicting Prince Jaxa.


 
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