Christ of Europe
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Christ of Europe refers to the Polish popular self-image as a "martyr nation". The doctrine was adopted by Polish Romantics, who referred to their homeland as the Christ of Europe or as the Christ of
Scene from Dziady (Forefathers' Eve) by Adam Mickiewicz, commemorative black and white postcard, Kraków 1919
Black Madonna of Częstochowa
Statue of Adam Mickiewicz in Warsaw
Antemurale Christianitatis
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Antemurale Christianitatis was a label that Pope Leo X gave to Croatia in 1519 which was the frontiers of Christian Europe, defending it from the Ottoman Empire.
Christ of Europe
…Commonwealth at the time) as a nation destined to wage war against Tartars, Turks, and Russians, in the defense of Christian Western civilization (Antemurale Christianitatis). The Messianic tradition was stoked by the Warsaw Franciscan Wojciech Dębołęcki who wrote "God has enclosed Christendom with the Polish Crown, as a…
Ferdo Quiquerez, Antemurale Christianitatis (1892)-Croatia is portrayed in a form of a woman that holds a sword and a shield in the form of the Croatian coat of Arms. She stands at the entrance of Europe and guards it from the Turks. Behind her the Dome of St. Peter's Basilica and, among others, Galileo Galilei and Dante Alighieri can be seen.