>>1347479 (last bread)
>>1347000 >[Poope]
>>1347554 >Black Madonna
>>1347665 >out the woodwerk
>>1347683 >a clue?
>http://www.sacredarchitecture.org/articles/elegance_personified
Devotion to this image of Our Lady has wrought many miracles, as with the founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuit Order.
Shortly after his remarkable re-conversion to Christianity, the soldier General Ignatius of Loyola was determined to join the army of Christ and went to Montserrat to make his consecration.
Before the beautiful Black Madonna, Ignatius transformed the ancient ceremony for the making of a knight into the “new soldier of Christ.”5
In pilgrim’s garb and in keeping with the chivalric code, he kept an all-night vigil there. In March 1522, he placed his sword before the statue of the Mother of God, stood, knelt, sang hymns and prayed with the other pilgrims.6
Ignatius began his new life in God under the inspiration of the beautiful statuary which thousands today revere.