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From churches visited on my recent trip to Tuscany. You have to wonder at the Roman Catholic preoccupation with suffering and death, although the fifteenth century saint featured here seems to be able to see the funny side. Heaven only knows what impact such grim iconography has on children introduced to these churches at tender, impressionable ages. The daggers painfully thrust into the Virgin represent her Seven Sorrows, apparently. I cant say Id ever heard of them before, but then she doesnt loom large in the evangelical tradition in which I was once ensconced.
Posted on: Sat, 11 Oct 2014 13:31:04 +0000

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