Apse of the Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere, Rome, Italy. This 12th-Century mosaic is the first known work in which Mary is elevated to Christ’s level. He has his arm around his mother. (Photo by Fczarnowski. Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Maria_Trastevere_Roma_fc17.jpg)
8th-14th Century Theotokos icon
Our Lady of Guadalupe carried in a procession in Mexico City, Mexico
Antique Polish Holy Card of Our Lady of La Salette
French Holy Card of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 1930s
Representation of Our Lady of Rocamadour on hotel front desk, Rocamadour, France, 2016
French Holy Card of Our Lady of Lourdes, 1900s
Polish Holy Card of Miraculous Mother of God in Lezajsk, Poland, 1846
French Holy Card, 1926
Reproduction of 15th-Century icon of Our Lady of Czestochowa, Poland
French Holy Card of Our Lady of Perpetual Help, 1930s
French Holy Card of Our Lady of Jubilation, 1921 imprimatur
French Holy Card, 1929
Belgian Holy Card of Our Lady of Hal, 1877 imprimatur
French Holy Card, early 1900s
The tiny Church of Agia Dynami in downtown Athens. In 2019, just before leaving Greece, I ducked inside this church to kiss an icon of Mary. (Photo from https://www.athenskey.com/agia-dynamis.html)
Italian Holy Card of Our Lady of Loreto, 1893
Statue of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes, France, 2016
Dutch Holy Card of Our Lady of Consolation (Our Lady of Luxembourg, Comforter of the Afflicted), Early 19th Century
Mountaintop pilgrimage site of Our Lady of Montserrat, Spain, 2013
Our Lady of Montserrat, Spain
Belgian Holy Card, 1938
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