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Jesus Calming the Storm From a Book of Hours French (Paris), c. 1430-1435 New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS M 359, fol. 62r |
"He got into a boat and his disciples followed him.
Suddenly a violent storm came up on the sea, so that the boat was being swamped by waves; but he was asleep.
They came and woke him, saying, "Lord, save us! We are perishing!"
He said to them, "Why are you terrified, O you of little faith?" Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm.
The men were amazed and said, "What sort of man is this, whom even the winds and the sea obey?"
(Matthew 8:23-27)
Gospel Reading for Tuesday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Ironically but appropriately, the Gospel reading for Tuesday of the Thirteenth week of Ordinary Time in Cycle II happens to fall this year on a day on which the Caribbean and the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico are experiencing or preparing to experience the strongest hurricane to ever hit those waters this early in the hurricane season. This Gospel excerpt depicts the events of a threatening storm on the Sea of Galilee that was calmed by a word from Jesus, an event so strange that the disciples asked themselves what kind of man they were associating with.
In Christian tradition there is another implication for this passage. A long standing way of thinking about the Church (with a big C) is to use the metaphor of a ship. In fact, the word which describes the central portion of a church building, nave, derives from the Latin for ship navis, the same word from which we get the words "navy" and "naval". The Church moves through the troubled waters of this world, carrying its precious cargo of souls, as a ship carries the souls on board through the watery oceans and seas of the planet. In both cases, Christ is the surest captain, calming the forces that can wound the immortal in us in the same way that he calmed the waters of the storm-ridden Sea of Galilee.
Consequently, the subject has been a popular one for artists, although not one of the most popular. Yet it does have a long history.
Jesus Asleep and Jesus Awake
One of the most interesting elements of the Gospel text is the fact that, when the storm begins, Jesus is asleep. The panicked disciples have to wake him up to plead for help.
In the medieval period, which is where the earliest images I was able to find so far come from, the artists desired to include all the details in the way in which they depicted the story. So, in virtually all of the images from the tenth through the twelfth centuries, every picture includes Jesus in the two states: asleep and awake. Usually he is seen asleep at one end of the boat and awake at the opposite end.
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The Storm on the Sea of Galilee German, c. 980 Oberzell, Church of Saint George
If you enlarge this image and look closely you will see that the unique halo with the cross that surrounds the head of Jesus appears twice. He can be seen asleep at the left side of the boat and awake at the front of the right side grouping. |
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Jesus Calming the Storm From the Gospels of Otto III German (Reichenau), c. 1000 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek MS Clm 4453, fol. 103v |
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Jesus Cures a Leper and Calms the Storm From the Codex Aureus of Echternach German (Reichenau), c. 1030 Nuremberg, Germanisches Nationalmuseum MS Hs. 156142, fol. 54r |
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Jesus Calming the Storm From the Pictorial Bible of the Abbey of Saint Bertin French (Saint-Omer), 1190-1200 The Hague, Koninklijk Bibliotheek MS 76 F 5, fol. 14r |
The Sleeping Jesus
From about the middle of the twelfth century, however, artists began to show only one depiction of Jesus per picture. Consequently, they began to show him either asleep or awake. Here are some sample of Jesus asleep.
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Jesus Asleep in the Boat From the Book of Pericopes of Saint Erentrud Austrian (Salzburg), c. 1150 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek MS Clm 15903, fol. 25r |
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Jesus Asleep in the Boat From the Munich Golden Psalter English (Oxford), c. 1190-1210 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek MS Clm 835, fol. 72r |
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Jesus Asleep on the Sea of Galilee From the Sermons of Maurice de Sully Italian (Milan or Genoa), 1320-1330 Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France MS Francais 187, fol. 7r |
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Jesus Asleep in the Boat From a Speculum humanae salvationis French (Paris), c. 1493-1494 Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France MS VELINS-906, fol. 49v |
This tradition of depicting a sleeping Jesus continued into the sixteenth-century and beyond.
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Biagio Pupini, Christ Asleep in the Boat in Spite of the Storm Italian, c. 1525-1530 Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques |
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Mathis Gerung, Christ Asleep in the Boat From the Ottheinrich Bible German, c. 1530 Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek MS Cgm 8010 (1), fol. 18r |
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Georg Pencz, Christ Asleep During the Storm From The Story of Christ German, c. 1534-1535 New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Drawings and Prints |
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Jan Brueghel the Elder, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee Flemish, c. 1596 Madrid, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza |
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The seventeenth and eighteenth century artists seemed to prefer to depict Jesus as awake and in command, so there is a noticeable time gap between the image above and those below.
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Eugene Delacroix, Christ in the Tempest French, 1853 New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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James Tissot, Jesus Asleep in the Storm French, c. 1888-1896 New York, The Brooklyn Museum |
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Giorgio Di Chirico, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee, Italian, 1914 Vatican City State, Collection of Modern Religious Art |
Jesus Awake and In Command
The images of Jesus, awake and in command, span the entire period between the middle ages and the modern world.
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Jesus Commands the Sea and Winds From a Bible Byzantine (Constantinople), Middle of the 13th Century Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France MS Grec 54, fol. 124v |
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Claes Brouwer and Others, Jesus Commands the Storm From a History Bible Dutch (Utrecht), c. 1430 The Hague, Koninklijk Bibliotheek MS KB 78 D 38 II, fol. 157r |
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Rembrandt, Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee Dutch, 1633 Boston, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum |
The younger Tiepolo, Giandomenico, gave us two thoughts about how a composition of Jesus awake and in command should look.
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Giandomenico Tiepolo, Christ on the Sea of Galilee Italian, 1760 Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques |
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Giandomenico Tiepolo, Christ on the Sea of Galilee Italian, 1760 Paris, Musée du Louvre, Département des Arts graphiques
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Auguste Jugelet, Christ Commanding the Storm at Sea French, 1845 Tarbes, Musée Massey
Admittedly this is a little hard to see, but if you enlarge the picture you can see Christ in the front of the boat commanding the waves to be still. |
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Raymond Balze, Jesus Commanding the Storm to Still French, Second Half of 19th Century Beauvais, MUDO, Musée de l'Oise
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James Tissot, Jesus Calming the Storm French, c. 1888-1896 New York, The Brooklyn Museum |
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James Ensor, Christ Calming the Waters Flemish, 1891 Ostend, Mu.ZEE |
I hope that the coincidence of this reading, which millions of Catholics will hear, read and pray about, with the advance of Hurricane Beryl will bring God's protection and a speedy recovery to the peoples of the Windward Islands, the Caribbean, Yucatan and the Gulf of Mexico, and to anyone else affected by the storm winds or waters in the Antilles or along the coast of South, Central and North America. And also, that Christ continues to safeguard his Church as it sails through the troubled waters of the world we live in.
© M. Duffy, 2024
Excerpts from the Lectionary for Mass for Use in the Dioceses of the United States
of America, second typical edition © 2001, 1998, 1997, 1986,
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