To: Olog-hai
This very famous, highly venerated image was reputed to have been painted by St. Luke. It has been in Poland for 600 years. The people of Poland have had no issue with the dark skin tone of Our Lady or Our Lord in it.
Our Lady of Czestochowa
13 posted on
05/14/2023 11:35:50 AM PDT by
Dr. Sivana
("If you can’t say something nice . . . say the Rosary." [Red Badger])
To: Dr. Sivana
Luke, the Apostle?
LOL! Impossible.
42 posted on
05/14/2023 12:11:04 PM PDT by
ConservativeMind
(Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Madonna and child are depicted with tan complexions, which is what would be expected for people living in the Middle East, rather than as sub-Saharan Africans.
65 posted on
05/14/2023 1:22:51 PM PDT by
SauronOfMordor
(The rot of all principle begins with a single compromise.)
To: Dr. Sivana
That is SO FAMOUS. Isn’t it sometimes called the Black Madonna, or something like that? I’m aware of it from my years in Hudson County, NJ. Many, many Polish folks there.
72 posted on
05/14/2023 1:40:54 PM PDT by
jocon307
(Democrats delenda est.)
To: Dr. Sivana
Luke was not a Mary idolator, was not a painter, nor was he going to fashion or make something in the image of Christ, nor would he have had paints and canvass that would have survived 2,000 years and have painted in a medieval form.
It's like the esteemed holy toenails of the Apostle John, which every other Catholic church in parts of the world may claim, except, John never had 2,000 toenails to have stolen from his grave, to be traded amongst a tribe of Catholic, to venerate.
Does that help?
76 posted on
05/14/2023 2:19:49 PM PDT by
ConservativeMind
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