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Frohe Weihnachten! Happy Christmas!
Dec. 25th, 2009 11:05 pm...
I chose a Byzantine icon (from the Met in New York) because I like the slightly different tradition of the Eastern Church. Joseph and Mary are not in a stable but in a grotto. Two midwives wash the baby at bottom left. The old woman with Joseph (bottom right) is the skeptical midwife who didn't believe that a virgin could have given birth, stuck her hand up Mary to feel for herself, and promptly had her hand shriveled off. I love that part of the story! Hardly the stuff for the children's nativity play.
Enjoy your Christmas all, be ye virgins or not.
I chose a Byzantine icon (from the Met in New York) because I like the slightly different tradition of the Eastern Church. Joseph and Mary are not in a stable but in a grotto. Two midwives wash the baby at bottom left. The old woman with Joseph (bottom right) is the skeptical midwife who didn't believe that a virgin could have given birth, stuck her hand up Mary to feel for herself, and promptly had her hand shriveled off. I love that part of the story! Hardly the stuff for the children's nativity play.
Enjoy your Christmas all, be ye virgins or not.
