Madre de Dios, is he without a face?

So you've put your best on in honour of the Virgin

Ah, what a beautiful Madonna.

I will also make a pilgrimage to the Virgin of Cobre.

You will make a novena to our Blessed Virgin.

I'm sure that one of you smart young ladies can tell me all about the children who saw the miraculous vision of the Holy Mother? Mm?

The fear remained that a beautiful illustration of Mary might inspire the viewer to love the painting or the physical form of Mary, rather than the virtue she's meant to represent.

But still we celebrate. Today our Christmas trees are bigger, and even bigger still are our statues of the Virgin Mary before whom we pray, crying and begging Her to forgive us for forgetting the Mary curled up in some refugee camp only meters away.

The idea that a hare could reproduce without loss of virginity led to an association with the Virgin Mary, with hares sometimes occurring in illuminated manuscripts and Northern European paintings of the Virgin and Christ Child.