First Visit

By A.Vonn Hartung

A giclee print of the original painting "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.