Sanctus Joannes Nepomucenus, invictus sacramentalis silentii athleta
- First performance: 1729, Opole [PL], poetic and rhetoric
- Author: Josephus Werner, SJ (1697–1756)
The play The Utmost Honours Paid to Holy Relics of St. John of Nepomuk is an allegorical story with planets and celestial bodies in the principal roles, based on the legendist mention of five stars shining above John’s dead body in the Vltava river. The deities of Parnassus, who are the patrons of individual planets, led by Apollo (the Sun), prepare a revenge on the tyrant Wenceslas after John’s death. When they find out that John was granted immortal glory by divine grace, they lay down their weapons and start to prepare the celebration of his martyred death. This includes arranging festive lighting of his remains in the river or bringing him presents; in the end, a monument of Nepomucene glory emerges from the water. More info in Czech
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Synopsis
[Josephus Werner]: Supremi honores sacerrimis exuviis Divi Joannis Nepomuceni ad
festivas stellarum faces devoto planetarum studio peracti. Oratoriae et poëticae
facultatis opera in scenam dati Oppolii in gymnasio Societatis Jesu anno 1729
National
Library CR, sign. sign. 52 A 39, adl. 113
Digital copy
Kateřina Bobková-Valentová – Alena Bočková – Magdaléna Jacková – Martin Bažil – Eva Pauerová – Jan Zdichynec – Zdeněk Žalud: Sv. Jan Nepomucký na jezuitských školních scénách. Praha: Academia, 2015. (= Theatrum Neolatinum. Latinské divadlo v českých zemích, 1.), p. 520-527.
