Seven Joys of the Virgin

Seven Joys of the Virgin

The Seven Joys of the Virgin (or of Mary, the Mother of Jesus) is a popular devotion to events of the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary,cite encyclopedia|encyclopedia=Encyclopedia of Catholic Devotions and Practices|publisher=Our Sunday Visitor|last=Ball|first=Ann|location=Huntington IN|year=2003|page=522|title=Seven Joys of Mary|isbn=0-87973-910-X] arising from a trope of medieval devotional literature and art.

The Seven Joys were frequently depicted in medieval devotional literature and art, The seven joys are usually listed as:

# The Annunciation
# The Nativity of Jesus
# The Adoration of the Magi
# The Resurrection of Christ
# The Ascension of Christ to Heaven
# The Pentecost or Descent of the Holy Spirit upon the Apostles and Mary
# The Coronation of the Virgin in Heaven [G Schiller, "Iconography of Christian Art, Vol. I",1971 (English trans from German), Lund Humphries, London, p52 , ISBN 853312702]

Alternative choices were made and might include the Visitation and the Finding in the Temple, as in the Franciscan Crown form of Rosary, which uses the Seven Joys, but omits the Ascension and Pentecost. Depiction in art of the Assumption of Mary may replace or be combined with the Coronation, especially from the 15th century onwards; by the 17th century it is the norm. As with other sets of scenes, the different practical implications of depictions in different media such as painting, ivory miniature carving, liturgical drama and music led to different conventions by medium, as well as other factors such as geography and the influence of different religious orders. There is a matching set of seven Sorrows of the Virgin; both sets influenced the selection of scenes in depictions of the Life of the Virgin.

Originally, there were five joys of the Virgin. Later, that number increased to seven, nine, and even fifteen in medieval literature, [George Coffin Taylor, "Relations of Lyric and Drama in Mediaeval England," "Modern -Philology", January 1907, p. 6] although seven remained the commonest number, and others are rarely found in art. The five joys of Mary are mentioned in the 14th-century poem "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" as a source of Gawain's strength. [John Anthony Burrow, "A Reading of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight", Routlege, 1977, p. 45, ISBN 0710086954] The devotion was especially popular in pre-Reformation England. The French writer Antoine de la Sale completed a satire called "Les Quinze Joies de Mariage" ("The Fifteen Joys of Marriage") in about 1462, which partly parodied the form of "Les Quinze Joies de Notre Dame" ("The Fifteen Joys of Our Lady"), a popular litany.

ee also

*The Seven Joys of Mary (carol) - traditional carol
*Franciscan Crown - rosary commemorating the seven joys of Mary


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