Sunday Christ

[2] These painted images, dating from the mid-fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, occur in clusters in two geographically distinct areas, namely southern England and Wales, and the Alpine regions of France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Slovenia and northern Italy.

The fresco in the church in San Pietro di Feletto in north east Italy is a particularly fine example.

These were days when all people were supposed to go to Mass, and to abstain from those works and affairs which hinder the worship to be rendered to God.

Many were simply artistic representations of stories, and others were simplifications of theological ideas – the Seven deadly sins and the Seven cardinal virtues, for example.

Some warn against various occasions of sin, such as the Sabbath Breaking implicit in working on a Day of Obligation.