Giovanni Antonio Boltraffio, 1502
Lucas Cranach the Elder, c. 1510
All the ordinary people followed the banners out of the city in
pious devotion, every last man and woman. Some were barefoot,
others were dressed as penitents. Many were carrying burning
candles. So the Christian troop went out pure in heart and with
great solemnity to meet the holy relic. When they were close to it
they prostrated themselves in the grass, praying out loud to the holy
head. Afterwards the clerics lifted their voices in a sweet hymn and
went back towards the city with the tender relic. People pushed all
around and made a wondrous sound. The churchmen sang sweetly,
the bells rang loudly and the lay people sang pilgrims’ hymns, and
to put it simply, much joy was heard among the crowd of
Christians, in which mingled a great many tears, caused by the
intensity of feeling. [Nicholas von Jeroschin, III, l. 637-647]
Emotions are bodily sensations that – for different
reasons and because of different stimuli (impulses,
influences, impacts) - occur in human beings and which
result in external responses; emotions manifest
themselves in physical actions/reactions that are (often)
comprehensible (if not always appreciated) by others;
emotions are often brief, but may (easily) be repeated.
Physical weapon
Spiritual weapon
’Emotion’
’Action’
Shield
Faith/virtues
Safety
Read the Gospel
Sword
Good deeds
Joy
Strike fear, kill
pagans
Spear
Good intentions
Attentiveness/devoti Honour God
on
Buckler
God’s word
Persistency,
fierceness
Read/listen to
Gospel
Breastplate
Righteousness
Humility/compassio
n
Control flesh
Bow/Quiver
Arrow
Obedience/poverty
/chastity
Equanimity/desire
for God
Train endurance
Staff/sling
Without sin
Courage/persistency
Meditate/repent
Helmet
Salvation
Vengeance (?)
Prepare (?)