Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Schutzmantelmadonna

Talking to a student about the identification of Guanyin and Jesus in Chinese American Catholic Gene Luen Yang's Boxers and Saints the other day, I was reminded somehow of a statue I always loved in the Stephansdom in Vienna, of the Virgin Mary protecting all kinds of people under her cloak. The web helped me find a nice image, though not to learn more about the particular statue. (But the cathedral apparently has three representations of the Schutzmantelmadonna!). Lovely!