Abstract
<jats:p>The article is devoted to the study of the genesis and specifics of the iconography of the image of Jesus of Nazareth the Redeemed, as well as to clarify the demonstration of his cult in the centers of the Roman Catholic Trinitarian Order in the territories of Volyn at the end of the 17th – the first third of the 19th century. As a result of the research, it was found out the Spanish origin of the sculptural image of Jesus of Nazareth the Redeemer, revered in Volyn, the formation of an original iconographic type, which was consonant with the main vision of the Trinitarian order – ransoming Christian prisoners from Muslim captivity, as well as the establishment of his cult in the centers of the Trinitarian monastic community in the eastern lands of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. It is concluded, that the statues of Jesus of Nazareth the Redeemed became not only one of the central shrines in the arrangement and decoration of the order temples of the Trinitarians in the territories of Volyn, but also the objects of worship and even pilgrimage. At the same time, the spread of this cult among the Trinitarians is evidenced by the establishment of brotherhoods of Jesus of Nazareth among them. Its significance in the cult and ritual sphere of the Roman Catholics of the region is evidenced by the Trinitarian services during Great Lent in honor of the Passion of the God. It is emphasized, that these sacred images became one of the manifestations of the originality of the historical way of Volyn, in particular, the origins of its organic connections with the Western European spiritual and cultural, in particular artistic, space.</jats:p>