Statue Of Virgin Mary Cluj-Napoca

In the Europe of the Middle Ages we find the typology of statues or columns that represent saints who protected different communities against the main scourge of the era – the plague. Such a monument is the statue of St. Mary Protectress or the Statue of Plague. The monument is located behind Saint Apostles Peter and Paul church on 21 Decembrie 1989 Boulevard.

The monument was built in 1774, at the order of the governor Anton Kornis, in the period of a plague epidemic, as appreciation of the city inhabitants and it was made by Anton Schuchbauer, Austrian sculptor. The initial location was Universitatii Street, in front of the Piarists’ Church, initially a Jesuitic church, being then demounted in 1959. It is located behind Saints Peter and Paul church from 1961.