mid-September is the time when many churches named St Mary’s will be celebrating the life of Mary, Jesus’ mother...so here are some favourite paintings from around the world...
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| Jesusmafa |
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| Jyoti Sahi |
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| Vladimir Icon |
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| janet driver |
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Jesusmafa
the jesusmafa paintings are from villagers in Cameroun, West Africa who collaborated with French missionaries to produce a whole series of paintings which used to be obtainable as posters from their website which sadly seems to have closed down. Some years ago I bought a set of these posters for use with our church in London with people mainly of African or Afro- Caribbean backgrounds. Many of us love these paintings showing well - known Biblical stories in an African setting...if you search for ‘jesusmafa paintings’ or ‘jesusmafa images’ you should be able to see many more...and I will continue to add different ones to this blog whenever I can. |
