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Mary and the child depicted as a hodegetria. Saint Catherine's Monastery, Sinai. Tesselated icon in monumental style (early 13th century)

— by Asta Nørregaard

A shepherd leads his herd back from grassland in the Talesh mountain area, close to the Caspian Sea, in Iran on December 19, 2016. (Ebrahim Noroozi/AP)

Collection: The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, United Kingdom

the simple beauty of Mary, even admits bitter chills and cold

Our Lady of Joy, pray for us

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Photography by Andrey Tarkovskiy (1932-1986)

Nationalmuseum Stockholm

Title: The Blessing Christ Artist: Fernando Gallego (Spanish, 1440-1507) Date: ca. 1494-96 Genre: religious art (Roman Catholic Christianity) Style: Hispano-Flemish Medium: mixed technique on wood Dimensions: 169 cm (66.5 in) high x 132 cm (51.9 in) Location: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain

A 1940s Belgian art deco holy card of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary by Jos Speybrouck.

The cross at the Louise Bourgeois Church

Tatiana Ushmanova. Silence, 2005.