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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture > Thanks to a friend in Colombia, I received an article about the Niņa Maria there. Seems it was a > colonial Spanish statue of Our Lady of the Rosary (devotion brought by the Dominicans) and > originally held baby Jesus and a rosary. In the late 1700s the Archbishop decided to take off > baby Jesus and have Mary dressed and renamed as a young girl. Whatever devotion there may have been to the young Virgin Mary, it seems rather remarkable that an archbishop would dump an image of the Christ Child to accommodate it. I suspect there is something more to this story. For example, at that period, wooden statues of the Virgin and Child were often "mutilated", by separating the two figures, in order to aid in "dressing" them in the elaborate costumes that they had come to be dressed in for special liturgical feasts, by that time. Perhaps, in this case, something happened to the Christ Child, and the remaining part, of the Virgin, was turned to other uses. Where in Columbia was this statue? Cheers, Jim Bugslag ********************************************************************** To join the list, send the message: join medieval-religion YOUR NAME to: [log in to unmask] To send a message to the list, address it to: [log in to unmask] To leave the list, send the message: leave medieval-religion to: [log in to unmask] In order to report problems or to contact the list's owners, write to: [log in to unmask] For further information, visit our web site: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/medieval-religion.html