I was working on another book about Mary (a children's book The painters of the series tell) when I came across some images of art that I was very impressed.
One was this ...
Mary with a baby ... only that the child is not Jesus, but John.
behold, Elizabeth still lying.
(Photo: Ferrari Defendente )
In the Gospel we read the story of the Visitation to Elizabeth, and we know that Mary stayed with her for three months. Then the narrative continues with the birth of John the Baptist but no longer appoint Mary. Some painters, however, imagine the scene. Maria, before being a mother, witnessing a birth.
Shortly before meeting her baby, Maria holds this infant, the eldest son of Zechariah. It was the news that Elizabeth, sterile, expecting a child to start it ... The very birth of John it is mysterious and Zechariah, the only one who could explain, it is mute because of a vision in the Temple. Maria, day by day, to witness the birth of John realized that the ad has received. Meanwhile, looking for answers, he deepens the gap that separates it from all and at the same time it is fully within the life of his people, in the flesh.
Here Zechariah, on foot of the bed, write the name of his son as he had heard in his vision in the Temple.
(author: Anonymous Florentine )
I started with this ... Then I went back and I pushed forward. But most of all attracted me this time so secret and suspended, full of questions ... When Mary returns to Nazareth, everything will change.
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