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Visitors are welcome to tour the church that houses what many believe is a miraculous icon of the Virgin Mary.
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2025
Famous examples of pareidolia include seeing a man in the moon; a potato chip with the face of the Virgin Mary; or a bathroom floor tile that looks like Donald Trump.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and a young St. John the Baptist holding the infant Christ, and it’s been in the possession of the St. Félix church in Champigny-en-Beauce, a small town in France’s Loire Valley, since the 1800s, per Artnet’s Devorah Lauter.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
Perhaps drawing on this Old Testament usage, the Virgin Mary became closely associated with ivory from the twelfth century.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
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Stacey Leasca, Travel + Leisure, 1 Feb. 2025
Famous examples of pareidolia include seeing a man in the moon; a potato chip with the face of the Virgin Mary; or a bathroom floor tile that looks like Donald Trump.
—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
The painting depicts the Virgin Mary and a young St. John the Baptist holding the infant Christ, and it’s been in the possession of the St. Félix church in Champigny-en-Beauce, a small town in France’s Loire Valley, since the 1800s, per Artnet’s Devorah Lauter.
—Ella Feldman, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Oct. 2024
Perhaps drawing on this Old Testament usage, the Virgin Mary became closely associated with ivory from the twelfth century.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 4 Jan. 2025
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“The Virgin Mary.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/the%20Virgin%20Mary. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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