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La Madonna Nera. Enigma?
di Alessio Varisco
"Nostra Signora di Oropa", una delle più celebri "Madonne nere" venerate in Italia.
Oltre alla "Madonna bianca", quella del latte, abbiamo quella "Nera". La storia dell'arte è madida di testimonianze artistiche, a volte anche di elevato valore contenutistico e stilistico, che a livello iconografico presentano una Madonna "bruna", una Vergine "nera". Le domande al riguardo si accrescono, centuplicandosi in maniera esponenziale. Su questo enigma, delle cosidette "Madonne nere" molto si è scritto all'Estero, minormente in Italia. Caratteristica peculiare…
Madonne Nere In Italia (Black Madonnas in Italy)
Maria SS. del Carmine - Napoli
S. Maria del Monte - Viggiano
Madonna Nera di Sovereto – Terlizzi - (Bari)
Madonna Nera di Tindari – Messina
S. Maria Assunta – Positano (Salerno)
Madonna di Monte Tranquillo – Pescasseroli (L’Aquila)
Madonna del Sacro Monte - Varese
Maria Mater Gratiae SS. Vergine di Oropa - Biella
Nostra Signora di Loreto - Graglia (Biella)
Madonna Nera di Groscavallo - Santuario di Forno Alpi Graie (Torino)
Madonna Nera di Rivoli (Torino)
Madonna Nera di Sampeyre (Cuneo)
Madonna Nera di Trana (Torino)
Black Madonna Links
by Songofthesea
Among the miraculous Marian images are the so-called "Black Madonnas." Many of these images are quite popular among the faithful. Of the hundreds which presently exist at various shrines, some of the better known images are: Our Lady of Altötting [Bavaria, Germany]; Our Lady of the Hermits [Einsiedeln, Switzerland]; Our Lady of Guadalupe [Mexico City]; Our Lady of Jasna Gora [Czestochowa, Poland]; Our Lady of Montserrat [Spain]; and Our Lady of Tindari [Sicily]. ~Michael P. Duricy
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The Black Madonna of East Thirteenth Street by Joseph Sciorra
In the early twentieth century, Sicilian immigrants established a storefront chapel for the Black Madonna del Tindari in Manhattan’s East Village. The original Sicilian statue of the Virgin Mary dates back to the Middle Ages and is associated with a passage from the Old Testament’s Song of Songs. For decades, an annual feast was celebrated in the city streets in honor of this dark-skinned Madonna. Although the New York community of believers no longer exists and the chapel has been closed, the American statue has been saved and is now in a private home in New Jersey.
The Power of the Black Madonna
By Carminha Levy
This paper starts with a dream, a GREAT DREAM which the tribe's Shaman must tell his people.
Ten years ago, in 1981, after my Shamanic initiation with Michael Harner in Esalen, California, I went through a serious health problem returning to Brazil. I had a brain vascular accident (aneurism) and faced death and dismembering in a real concretization of Shamanic initiation. My life hung by a thread, and going into surgery I had only 1% possibility of coming out unharmed and 10% of surviving. I had my Dream under these terrible circumstances.
Black Madonna
by Ken Rabac, PhD-ThD
Most Indo-Tibetan scholars believe that the Hindu and Buddhist Dark Goddesses and the Christian Black Madonna are a common prototype with a common Archetypal source in antiquity or eternity.
Alain Daneliou speaks of a mine of spirituality extending back into prehistory and expressing each civilization's emotional ties to the Great Mother in both her nurturing and fearsome aspects.
The patriarchal Aryan Vedic and Judaeo-Christian cultures de-emphasized the Divine Mother in favor of God the Father and male dominance. Feminist theologians have attempted to recover…
The Black Madonna by Louisa Ermelino
The Black Madonna
A novel by Louisa Ermelino
The Black Madonna has long protected her mountain villagers in southern Italy, and some say she followed her people to America. What else explains the magic and miracles on Spring Street in Little Italy over the decades?
Teresa, whose son Nicky should never have walked again after his four-story fall, keeps a holy card of the Black Madonna hidden beneath her underwear. Magdalena, beautiful and mysterious, can make any man fall in love…
Madonna di Viggiano
ll patrimonio storico e artistico di Viggiano ha una sua rappresentazione gia' nello stemma comunale: vi compaiono infatti le tre torri del castello Angioino che dominava il paese e di cui restano pochi ruderi. Il Santuario di S. Maria del Monte a fianco del palazzo comunale, e' stato costruito nel 1700. Nell'elegante interno a tre navate, contraddistinto da un soffitto a cassettoni, si conservano altari marmorei in stile barocco, tele del pittore lucano Michele Lanziani e di autori di scuola napoletana. Nei mesi che vanno da Settembre a Maggio…
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