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Another one of the 30 statues located on Charles Bridge in Prague. This one depicting St. Vitus. The original by Ferdinand Max Brokoff in 1714.

St. Vitus as a common Roman soldier with a Middle Age princely cap on his head stands on a loose architectonic pedestal in the shape of a cave, from which lions as the saint’s attributes creep out. In this scene the image of the saint as a Roman patrician martyred for his belief is connected with the history of his shoulder relic, which he got the Czech prince/duke St. Wenceslas as a significant cult object and for which he founded the Christian cathedral in the Prague Castle.

Description
Another one of the 30 statues located on Charles Bridge in Prague. This one depicting St. Vitus. The original by Ferdinand Max Brokoff in 1714.

St. Vitus as a common Roman soldier with a Middle Age princely cap on his head stands on a loose architectonic pedestal in the shape of a cave, from which lions as the saint’s attributes creep out. In this scene the image of the saint as a Roman patrician martyred for his belief is connected with the history of his shoulder relic, which he got the Czech prince/duke St. Wenceslas as a significant cult object and for which he founded the Christian cathedral in the Prague Castle.