First Visit

By A.Vonn Hartung

This is a very interesting and controversial painting. It shows Jesus embracing his mother in her kitchen on the morning He rose from the dead. This is a visualization of the extra-biblical belief that many Catholics have, that Christ visited his mother first, before the empty tomb was discovered on Easter morning. Although extra-biblical, many western saints subscribed to this belief (Saints Albert the Great, Ignatius of Loyola, Teresa of Avila, and Pope St. John Paul II), and it is a tradition in many Eastern Churches. And of course, most mothers love this Station of the Resurrection.