The controversial anime-inspired ‘Luce’ is the official mascot for the 2025 Jubilee and was launched at a press conference on October 28 by Archbishop Rino Fisichella. Luce’s name is of course derived from the Latin lux, lucis, meaning ‘light’. From this comes such English words as ‘illuminate’, ‘luminous’, and ‘Lucifer’, as well as the Italian, illuminati. (This article from LifeSite gives a very thorough analysis of the name ‘Luce’ and its link with Enlightenment philosophy.)
The artist who created Luce was immediately exposed as being a promoter of LGBTI rights and a purveyor of fine sex-toys, leading to a collective sigh from controversy-fatigued traditional Catholics.
The first thing one notices when first looking at Luce – when one recovers from the visceral response to the sheer insult being given to God and to the Church’s tradition of exceptionally fine art – is the staff in the figure’s left hand. Although being promoted as a pilgrim’s staff, this is very reminiscent of a witch’s stang. The stang is a two-pronged tool made of wood, used by witches for spells and (apparently), for flight.
A stang was famously presented to Pope Francis during the 2018 Synod by a young woman wearing a red string around her wrist. The Pope later carried this stang instead of the usual crozier during Mass.
The Stang, pictured at left with crossed arrows, is the relatively modern name given to a witch’s staff. The word was first used by a male witch in the 1960’s but the tool itself is far older and can be found in ancient artwork as well as in various cultures.
Luce also features a Rosary without a corpus (so as not to offend the Protestants?) worn around its neck and shells in its eyes. Eyes are highly symbolic for occultists, and represent the gateway to inner knowledge. In the esoteric world, shells are said to represent new birth or transformation. At first glance, the eyes of Luce seem to be extremely sad and filled with tears – not a great look in these days of industrial-scale child abuse.
But Luce is only part of a collection of mysterious esoteric-themed artwork being promoted by the Vatican. Vatican News also announced that a bizarre painting will be displayed during the Jublilee. From artist Marc Chagall, the painting will be on loan from the Art Institute of Chicago. The artwork is called, “white Crucifixion’ and shows Jesus on the cross, wearing a Jewish prayer shawl called a tallit.
Chagall, a Jew, was apparently obsessed by Christ’s crucifixion and painted many works around this theme. Some of those showed Chagall’s own face in the figure on the cross. This is said to represent the persecution of Jews, especially during the Holocaust.
But there may be a more sinister interpretation of this: high-level satanists pursue something known as apotheosis, which is the state of ‘becoming a god’. I’ve previously mentioned a book by Kerth Barker, in which he mentions some satanists he knew who displayed statues and artwork which featured their own faces. This was because they wanted to be worshipped as gods. Chagall was perhaps attempting to do the same thing by replacing Christ’s face with his own. Chagall’s work was also featured in an occult art exhibition in Spain in 2023. So while none of this is conclusive evidence of Chagall’s ties to the occult, it is nevertheless interesting in light of the Vatican’s continued use of artwork from Rupnik and its ties to the very strange artist, Jago.
Vatican officials are also planning to use ‘Luce’ as a mascot at the 2025 World Expo to be held in Japan. Along with Luce, the Holy See’s pavilion will exhibit Caravaggio’s Deposition of Christ, shown at left. This may be another clue to the existence of Luce: Caravaggio is known as the ‘Master of Light‘ because of his use of the technique known as tenebrism – the dramatic contrast between dark and light areas – in his works. Caravaggio must be a favourite in the Curia, as he was most likely a bisexual who died at an early age, possibly from either syphilis or murder.
So with Luce, Chagall and Caravaggio, it’s just a case of ‘another day, another immoral role model’ as the Ape of the Church continues its slow grind towards total apostasy.
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