

The Child Jesus (Divine Infant, Baby Jesus, Infant Jesus, Christ Child) refers to Jesus from his Nativity to age 12. Many Protestants minimize Mary's role within Christianity, based on the argued brevity of biblical references. The Catholic Church holds distinctive Marian dogmas namely her status as the mother of God, her Immaculate Conception, the perpetual virginity of Mary, and the Assumption of Mary into Heaven. There is significant diversity in the Marian beliefs and devotional practices of major Christian traditions. Christians of the Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, Oriental Orthodox Church, Anglican Communion, and Lutheran churches believe that Mary, as Mother of Jesus, is the Mother of God and the Theotokos, literally "Bearer of God". Mary has been venerated since Early Christianity, and is considered by millions to be the most meritorious saint of the Church.

She is traditionally thought to have lived between c.?18 BC – c.?41 AD. Mary (Maryam) also has a revered position in Islam, where a whole chapter of the Qur'an is devoted to her, also describing the birth of Jesus. Christians hold her son Jesus to be the Christ or messiah foretold in Jewish scripture, and the God made flesh. Mary, also known as Saint Mary or the Virgin Mary, is identified in the Bible as the mother of Jesus, the founder of the Christian religion. The highest honour for the Virgin Mary of Svatá Hora was her coronation in 1732. In 1647 the Jesuits took over the administration of the place and initiated grand construction on Svatá Hora as a place of pilgrimage. The sculpture was brought to Svatá Hora in the 16th century soon after processions began to come to this place. Original statuette in Basilica (40 cm high)Īccording to the tradition, Archbishop Arnošt of Pardubice is the author of the wooden statuette of the Our Lady with the Infant Jesus from the mid-14th century. The statue Our Lady on the column is enlarged replica of famous Our Lady of Svatá Hora wooden statuette, which is key object of worships in Basilica of the Assumption of Virgin Mary (Bazilika Nanebevzetí Panny Marie) in Svatá Hora. Corinthian-type sandstone column stands on Baroque decorated volute pedestal and pyramidal granite square staircase. The Marian Column, which construction was financed by Count Jaroslav Jáchym Koc of Dobrš, was ceremonially unveiled in Octoduring the beginning of the reconstruction of whole pilgrimage site Svatá Hora. Depicted statue of Our Lady with Infant Jesus, so called Our Lady of Svatá Hora (Panna Marie Svatohorská), is located on the top of Baroque Marian Column which decorates square in the front of Svatá Hora pilgrimage site in Príbram.
