Virgin-Mary Theme Pages

In Christianity, the Virgin Mary is Mary of Nazareth, the mother of Jesus Christ, revered for conceiving him through the Holy Spirit while remaining a virgin. She is venerated as the Blessed Mother of God and holds a central role in Christian theology, liturgy, and devotion.

This 15th century Pieta by Jean le Pot is in Saint-Etienne Beauvais.

This Pieta by Giovanni Lippi was created between 1545 - 1549 and can be found in the church Santo Spirito, Florence.

Thought to have been carved by Nicolas le Prince in 1571, this is part of the altarpiece that was once in the Marissel church but was moved to Beuavais Cathedral in 1966.

This section shows the Virgin Mary falling asleep at the end of her life. Her according to Roman Catholic doctrine of the Assumption,  her body and soul were then reunited in heaven.

 

Stained glass depicting the story from the apocryphal Protoevangelium of James where the Virgin Mary being presented as a servant of the temple.

 

 

Francesco Boschi’s Adoration of the Angels, painted in the mid-seventeenth century for the Florentine church of Santi Michele e Gaetano, transforms personal grief and civic faith into a radiant vision of redemption. At its center, an oval image of the Virgin and Child is set like a relic within a cloud of angels—infant-like figures who hover in tender adoration. These cherubs, with their soft forms and open gestures, evoke not mere celestial attendants but the transfigured souls of children, the innocenti of Florence’s collective memory.

Early John Hardman stained glass depicting the Annunciation of Christ and the Assumption of the Virgin Mary.

The two donor figures at the bottom of the panels are St Aloysius Gonzaga, and St Helen. This window is in the Lady Chapel of Avon Dasset.

 

 

This 19th-century stained glass window in the Church of Saint-Godard (Église Saint-Godard), Rouen, Normandy, France, commemorates Pope Pius IX's solemn declaration of the dogma of the Immaculate Conception of the Virgin Mary on December 8, 1854, in the papal bull Ineffabilis Deus.

These four Victorian stained glass panels, by Clayton and Bell, are in the quire clerestory of Gloucester cathedral. The panels show Anne teaching the Virgin to read, the Virgin Mary, Joseph, and the Angel Gabriel.

This stained glass window, designed by Henry Holiday and made by James Powell & Sons (Whitefriars Glass) around 1891. It depicts Mary the Virgin and Mary the Mother of James, two women closely linked in the Gospels and in Christian tradition through their devotion, faith, and discipleship.

Virgin Mary holding a flowering lily, this image of saints is part of the easty window at Ladbroke, Warwickshire, by Hardman and Co.
 

Stained glass panel depicting the Virgin Mary by Burlison and Grylls (1892) in a south window of the Lady Chapel Worcester Cathedral.

Victorian stained glass by CE Kempe depicting the story of St Anne teaching the Virgin Mary to read.

This window depicting the Holy Family is one of several created by the Clermont-Ferrand glass-painter François Taureilles for the Église Saint-Joseph at La Bourboule during the early twentieth century. The composition, inscribed La Sainte Famille, unites St Joseph, the Virgin Mary, and the youthful Christ Child within a domestic setting that symbolises both sanctity and labour.

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