Enciclopedia Cattolica

PESCA MIRACOLOSA

Miraculous Draught of Fishes

Volume IX · p. 762 · 1952

English translation · Testo originale italiano

PESCA MIRACOLOSA - La prima p. Arazzo su disegno di Raffaello (ca. 1517) - Vaticano, Pinacoteca.
PESCA MIRACOLOSA - La prima p. Arazzo su disegno di Raffaello (ca. 1517) - Vaticano, Pinacoteca.
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Image from page 762

Machine translation of the 1948–1954 Italian original. The original text is authoritative.

PESCA MIRACOLOSA

Arazzo based on a design by Raffaello (ca. 1517) - Vatican, Pinacoteca.

There is no specific provision regarding fishing in common law; its exercise is therefore subject to general principles and any particular laws issued by local authorities.

BIBL.: besides the usual moral theology texts (de iustitia), cf. L. Ferraris, Venato, in Prompta bibliotheca canonica, VII. Bologna 1746; H. Leclercq, in DACL, III. cols. 1079-02; E. Hosten, De modis acquirendi dominium in res externas, in Collationes Brugenses, 19 (1924), pp. 112 ff.; G. Kiselstein, De iure venandi, in Rev. eccles. de Liège, 17 (1925-26), pp. 378 ff.; L. Perla, C., in Enc. Ital., VIII, pp. 223-24; G. Venzi and G. Balladore Pallieri, P., ibid., XXV, pp. 138 ff.; R. Naz. Chase, in DDC, III, cols. 662 ff.; E. Escanciano, De occupatione bonorum in locis belli causa desertis, in Periodica de re morali, 23 (1938), pp. 381-94.

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The miracle took place at the Lake of Gennesaret, where the Lord, after teaching the crowds from one of the two boats belonging to His disciples, told Peter to put out into deep water and let down the nets to catch fish. The Apostle replied that he had fished all night without success, but that at the Lord’s word he would let down the net. Indeed, they caught such a great quantity of fish that the net began to break, and they were forced to call for help to the men in the other boat (Lk. 5:1-11). John (Jn. 21:1-14) then describes another miraculous catch of fish that occurred after the Resurrection of Christ.

Early Christian art represented the miracle of the first miraculous catch of fish in some sarcophagi, especially in the fragments from S. Sebastiano and the Museum of Cagliari (Wilpert, Sarcofagi, I, p. 158 and pls. 141, 2; 142, 1); it also appears in mosaics, such as in the Baptistery of Naples (id., Mosaiken, pl. 30) and in S. Martino in Caelio Aureo, now S. Apollinare Nuovo in Ravenna (6th century).

Later, in fragmentary form, it appears in S. Saba on the Aventine (8th century), then in S. Giovanni a Porta Latina, in the cycle of Monreale, and in ms. gr. 501 of the Bibliothèque nationale in Paris.