Black Madonnas

Pescasseroli
The Black Madonna of Pescasseroli is Incoronata, crowned. Her sacred son holds a book as he sits on her wisdom lap. Pomegranites are part of her golden throne. She sits in a niche from the pavimento floor of the Siena Cathedral.A friend, Mary Beth Moser from Oregon, did her master's thesis for the California Institute of Integral Studies on the Black Madonnas of Italy. She sent me this image in March via the Internet.
Painted Sculpture. Background. Pavimento floor. Siena Cathedral.
 

SipontoThe Black Madonna at Siponto in Apulia is known as the madonna with gli occhi sbaratti, or staring eyes. The image, along with many others, is attributed to Saint Luke and came from Jerusalem. She sits on a simple wooden throne made from a tree trunk. The sanctuary of Siponto was built on the site of a temple to the Roman Goddess Diana, whose altar is in the crypt. There are prehistorical caves in the area whose original inhabitants depicted themselves as pyramidal bodies, the triangle of the Goddess, with three or four faces.
Wood Sculpture. C.11th CE. Cathedral of S. Lorenzo. Manfredonia/Siponto/Apulia
 

Nossa Senhora Aparecida
Nossa Senhora, Our Lady Aparecida is a small, beautiful black figure standing on a crescent moon. The Aparecida, patroness of Brazil, was found by a fisherman in the Paraiba River in Sao Paulo. She is enshrined in a Basilica and is carried in processions and celebrations throughout t the year. In the Afro-Brazilian tradition, the Black Madonna Aparecida is connected to Orix‡ Oxum the Great Mother of Africa; patroness of pregnancy, children, rivers, seas, gold, honey, laughter, beauty, seduction, shrewdness and wisdom, our Supreme Ancestral Mother.
Source: Dark wood sculpture, 1717 CE, Aparecida Basilica, Sao Paulo, Brazil
 

Ethiopian Mary sits on a painted wooden throne and holds her divine child under a tent held up with golden columns. She looks into your soul with large, dark, compassionate eyes. Her green shoes connect her to Mother Earth. Since the 4th century, Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity developed a unique character and distinctive practices. Mary is honored as the Holy Mother of God, the Mother Church, and Our Lady Mary the Intercessor. Her roots go back to Isis of Egypt. Mary is from a magnificent seventeenth century manuscript depicting Te'amire Maryam, the Miracles of Mary which first became popular in Europe in the twelfth century. They arrived in Ethiopia via Spain, Palestine and Egypt.
Source: Miracles of Mary Manuscript 17 century CE Gonder, Ethiopia The Art Institute of Chicago
 

La Vierge Noire / Clermont Ferrand holds her son on her lap and heals with love and her large dark hands.
Apse Chapel, Clermont-Ferrand Cathedrdal, France
 

La Vierge Noire Rocamadour, made of wood, lives in her limestone cave chapel shrine.
La Chappelle, Rocamadour, France

Black Madonna of the Andes
See Peru.

Black Madonna of CZESTOCHOWA See Eastern europe
 

La Madonna Nera/Tindari is on Sicily, the Mediterranean home to thousands of years of the divine feminine.
Tindari Pilgrimage Shrine, Sicily

La Vierge Noire / Clermont Ferrand holds her son on her lap and heals with love and her large dark hands.
Apse Chapel, Clermont-Ferrand Cathedrdal, France

La Vierge Noire Rocamadour, made of wood, lives in her limestone cave chapel shrine.
La Chappelle, Rocamadour, France

Black Madonna of Ephesus See Turkey

Black Madonna of Glatz See Eastern Europe
 

Notre Dame Chartres is divine wisdom. Christian Black Madonnas have their roots in Great Earth Mother Goddesses like Isis of Egypt.
Side Chapel, left trancept, Chartres Cathedral, France

Notre Dame du Port, Our Lady of Tenderness and Compassion, hugs her divine child in the crypt womb of the Cathedral.
Crypt, Notre Dame du Port, Clermont-Ferrand, France

Notre Dame Le Puy is a seated queen who holds her kingly son. She blessed St. Bernard, Louis IX, and the second Crusade in the 12th century.
Le Puy Cathedral, Franc

Notre Dame Le Puy/Museum shows Islamic influences which were brought back to France from Jerusalem and the Holy Land by the Crusaders.
Cathedral Museum, Le Puy, France

Nuestra Senora La Virgen Guadalupe is the present name of the Great Mother Goddess of Mexico. The Spaniards brought Black Madonnas to the western hemisphere where they joined Mayan Ixchel and Aztec Tonantzin,of earlier Pre-Hispanic cultures.
Guadalupe Cathedral, Tepeyac, Mexico City
 

Nuestra Senora Montserrat is miracle working in her mountain sanctuary. She sits on her wisdom throne with her divine child holding the world orb in his hand for you to experience.
PilgrimageShrine, Montserrat, Spain

Our Lady of the Dark Forest, Einsiedeln was discovered in a forest in the 9th Century . Monks have been singing Salve Regina, Hail to the Queen, for 800 years.
Cathedral, Einsiedeln, Switzerland

Our Lady of DUBLIN is the Black Madonna miracle worker of Ireland. She was inspired by one of Albrecht Durer's Madonnas.
Carmilite Priory. Whitefriar Street Church. Dublin. Oak 15th CE

Our Lady of Loreto, Ghajnsielem, Gozo, tightly wrapped in her dalmatia, is a sister to the Black Madonna of Italia brought by the Knights of Malta.
Gozo Cathedral

Our Lady of WALSINGHAM is an enthroned Great Mother, She Black Madonna of England, the essence of kindness.
Walsingham Holy House. Norfolk. Wood. 1922

Unsere Schwarze Frau, Altotting in Bavaria is a miracle worker healer. Her golden shrine is covered with healing offerings, crutches and stories.
Gnadenkapella, Altottning, Germany