Basilika Vierzehnheiligen (Bad Staffelstein) - Mercy altar

Object location	50° 06′ 56.75″ N, 11° 03′ 14.58″ E	View all coordinates using: OpenStreetMap	50.115765; 11.054050

 See also categories: Baroque altars in Basilika Vierzehnheiligen - Mercy altar and Basilika Vierzehnheiligen.

See also: Gallery Basilika Vierzehnheiligen (Bad Staffelstein)

The Mercy altar / Gnadenaltar

Designer: Johann Michael Feuchtmayer

The mercy altar is a large altar placed at the central of the basilica. It is decorated with statues of the Fourteen Holy Helpers that include Saint Blaise, Saint Cyriacus, Saint Denis, Saint Erasmus, Saint Barbara, Saint Catherine of Alexandria, Saint Agathius, Saint Christopher, Saint Eustachius, Saint Giles, Saint George, Saint Margaret of Antioch, Saint Pantaleon and Saint Vitus

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  St Pantaleon
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  St Margaret
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  St George
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  St Vitus

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  St Christopher
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  St Giles
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  St Agathius
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  St Eustace

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  Saint Barbara
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  St Catherine

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  St Blaise
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  St Denise
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  St Cyriacus
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  St Erasmus

Fourteen Holy Helpers

Statues of the Fourteen Holy Helpers‎ decorated around the altar

The Fourteen Holy Helpers are a group of saints venerated together in Roman Catholicism because their intercession is believed to be particularly effective, especially against various diseases. This group of Nothelfer ("helpers in need") originated in the 14th century at first in the Rhineland, largely as a result of the epidemic (probably of bubonic plague) that became known as the Black Death.