Spirituality

The Mother of God is painted in a half-bit front position and holds the Child with his left hand, while the right indicates it and gives it the help. In fact, through awareness of his destiny of pain, passion, and death, through the vision of the instruments shown by the Archangels Michael and Gabriel, he takes on both hands with the Mother, with a very human gesture in which he shows us his total immersion in our humanity, weakness and fear. The symbol of fear is represented by the left foot sandal. We recall that in the Greek school depictions the following quotation is often quoted: “The one who first made the proclamation to the Virgin now indicates the symbols of the Passion; Christ dressed in a dead body, fearful of fate, fears seeing these things. »

The Child is wrapped in a red mantle covered by golden rays to indicate that He is the eternal (Gold) Wisdom (red). He wears the green-water tunic that alludes to the Holy Spirit that he would give to those who would be saved at the price of his passion, meaning the color of the band that girds his chest. On the nimbo (halo) crucifix are written the Greek initials of the name that God gave to Hreb: “I Am Who I Am”.