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4 unusual facts about Our Lady of Bethlehem


Our Lady of Bethlehem

Specialists in 15th-century art attribute the painting to the school of the Brussels painter Rogier van der Weyden, or an anonymous disciple of the school.

Those converting to Christianity were given a mixture of milk and honey to drink, which in the early churches of Egypt, Rome, and North Africa was solemnly blessed at the Easter and Pentecostal vigils.

At the end of the 15th and 16th centuries, and up until the Council of Trent (1545–1563), the representations of the "Virgin of Milk" were popular in the Netherlands.

In the catacombs of Priscilla, Rome, a pictorial representation of the Virgin Mary made in the 2nd century stands out.



see also

Clamecy Cathedral

Clamecy Cathedral (Cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Bethléem), now the Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bethléem (Our Lady of Bethlehem) in Clamecy, France, was started in the 12th and completed in the 15th century.