HUBERTUS, as a hunter
here as a true copy in stucco plaster with coloured setting. approx. 60 cm tall and additional console. As a comparison, a kl. ZInnfigure with the representation of the "William Elector of Brandenburg", created around 1670
Hubertus of Liège (c. 655 – 30 May 727) was Bishop of Maastricht and Liège. He is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint. His day of remembrance in the calendar of saints is 3 November.With the holy abbot Anthony and the saints Quirinus and Cornelius, Hubert is one of the so-called “four holy marshals of God” and in some places is also counted among the fourteen relief workers. Its attribute is a deer with a crucifix in its antlers. In Christianity, he became the patron saint of hunters, after which the saint was converted on Good Friday while hunting at the sight of a magnificent deer with a crucifix between the stems of the antlers.Afterwards, he was baptized and vowed not to hunt. Other sources report that Hubertus, previously described as unbridled, changed after the apparition into a Christian-moderate hunter. Since then, hunters have regarded the deer legend as an example of moderation and an incentive to hunt in accordance with the provisions of Oskar von Riesenthal in his song "Waidmannsheil" (1880).