An Icon for the Jubilee Holy Year
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| CAFOD ICON Jubilee Holy Year: Pilgrims of Hope in the Lady Chapel St Peter's Cathedral |
To help celebrate and mark the Jubilee Holy Year 2025, Pilgrims of Hope, CAFOD commissioned an icon from artist Mulugeta Araya in Ethiopia. This weekend it has been located in the Lady Chapel.
Ethiopia was chosen because of the strong tradition of iconography within the country and to demonstrate that this is a global Jubilee – not just something that is happening in England and Wales.The icon interprets Jesus’ teaching of healing and liberation in the Synagogue in Luke 4:16-21, which refers to Isaiah 61:1-2. Jesus explains how he has come to bring good news to those who are poor, and liberty to those who are captive or oppressed.
The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim liberty to the captives and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty those who are oppressed, to proclaim the year of the Lord’s favour. Luke 4:18-19
To read more information about the icon see the Cafod website and to learn more about the icon watch the video below.