Church of Our Lady Victorious and The Infant Jesus of Prague
Baroque church sheltering a small robed wax statue of a child, thrown out and forgotten for seven years before rediscovery.
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This guide to the Church of Our Lady Victorious in Prague turns on a small wax statue of a child, brought from Spain and passed down through Bohemian nobility, that Swedish troops flung onto a rubbish heap behind the altar during the sack of 1631, its hands already broken. It traces the statue's years abandoned in the ruined Carmelite friary during the Thirty Years War, and the friar who eventually found it again. Listen for the small raised right hand on the statue that still stands beside the altar today.
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