I have a question about the black madonnas

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So ive had a devotion to our lady of montserrat for about a year now, shes a famous black madonna statue. So to my question why is it almost all research ive attempted to conduct on her and other black madonnas is filled with new age, gnostic, or down right pagan content? Cant people let us catholics have mary as she is and not try to make her something shes not

Also, does anyone know how many black madonnas there are in the world or europe at least?
 
  1. People can be strange.
  2. The Devil does not like Our Lady.
  3. The New Age likes to try to take on all sorts of things …
etc
 
In Europe alone, it would be an enormous number. There are the very famous ones, such as at Rocamadour, Einsiedeln, Loretto, Chartres and Jasna Gora but there are so many that are in local and more isolated places and where the devotion is not so widespread beyond the locality. There are surveys of them relative to art history and from a devotional perspective which I would come across when I was prowling the library shelves when I taught Mariology, though I don’t remember so many being in English, frankly.

New Age co-opts many things from many places and then use it to reach rather extraordinary conclusions. I would suggest restricting the areas of research to art history or within the field of Mariology.

The list in Wikipedia, which I just checked, is not bad in providing you with the start of a list.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Madonna
 
Don’t forget the most important one, Our Lady of Częstochowa. 😉
 
on_the_hill said:
Don’t forget the most important one, Our Lady of Częstochowa. 😉
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Iscthat the one with a shrine outside Philadelphia? I remember my mother taking my brother and I there abot 50 years ago. couldn’t remember the name until you mentioned it…I think.
 
Maybe. I was thinking of the real one in Czestochowa, Poland.
 
on_the_hill said:
Maybe. I was thinking of the real one in Czestochowa, Poland.
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Post no.4 included it. Also known as the shrine of Jasna Gora which translates as “bright mountain” in English. The portrait is reputed to have been painted by St. Luke, but this is highly doubtful.
 
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