[Alamo-Girl]

There's lots of symbols in that one, but Mary is in front of the cross and not draped on it - so I interpret it best case scenario as Mary inviting the sheep of the world to the cross - or worse case scenario, a sheep would have to go through her to get to the cross.

[Quix]

INDEED.

Which is a persistent . . . heretical element . . .

in a huge percentage of Marian junk.

A lot of it is ‘nuanced’ such that folks can sort of claim

“Oh, that’s not there . . . “

While the faithful continue to behave as though it’s ‘there’ in quadruplicate.

The Mormon multiple wives sects come to mind . . . when around outsiders . . . certain words are used in euphemistic ways. Yet the insiders know what the reality of the ‘other side’ of the words is all about.