For the Eighth Day of Christmas...

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...I am focusing on Our Heavenly Mother with eight beautiful images and a poem.

The Visitation by Albertinelli 1503


The Pieta by Baciccio 1667


Madonna of Belvedere by Raffaello 1506



The Flight into Egypt by George Hitchcock 1892



Madonna and Child by Pompeo Batoni 1742




Madonna with St. Francis by Correggio 1514




Our Lady Worshipping Child by Correggio 1489




Madonna della Scala by del Sarto 1522

Soft and blue are thy robes, my Mother,
Azure and clear as an angel's eyes -
Let me hide in them, oh, my Mother -
Radiant Queen of the summer skies!

Softly piled on the far horizon
Smoky white clouds drifting here and there;
These the border on your blue mantle -
Mother most holy.....Virgin most fair!

Deep and blue and wide is the ocean -
Deep as the call of its peace to me;
Jeweled and shining.....Thy veil, my Mother?
Thy silvered veil, oh Star of the sea?

by Edith M. Stoney

Happy Eighth Day of Christmas, and Happy Solemnity of Mary, the Mother of God.

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