Image of God’s Tenderness
The statue of the Infant Jesus of Prague is more than four hundred years old and comes from Spain. It depicts Jesus as a child and, for believers from all over the world, it is a reminder of the mystery of the Incarnation and also of God’s tenderness, as Pope Francis liked to say. The statue is meant to reveal the beauty and dignity, as well as the fragility, of human life. Devotion to the Infant Jesus of Prague is, in a way, an extension of Christmas – a celebration of the Incarnation.
