Sancta Maria
A beautiful Catholic tradition is to keep a memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays.
This statue of the Virgin and Child dates to the 15th century and is from the Netherlands or perhaps from Germany.
AWN Pugin had it restored and gave to St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, which he had designed. It was erected in the cathedral in 1841 and was believed to have been the first such statue to have been "erected for public veneration in England after the Reformation".
Sancta Maria
A beautiful Catholic tradition is to keep a memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturdays.
This statue of the Virgin and Child dates to the 15th century and is from the Netherlands or perhaps from Germany.
AWN Pugin had it restored and gave to St Chad's Cathedral in Birmingham, which he had designed. It was erected in the cathedral in 1841 and was believed to have been the first such statue to have been "erected for public veneration in England after the Reformation".