The Fabric of Faith: What Our Lady’s Wardrobe Reveals About Her Mission

Michie said:

Garments that reflect Mary’s poverty, humility, purity and obedience ...

Have you ever considered the story told by Our Lady’s garments?

Whether you have come across the delightful children’s book Our Lady’s Wardrobe by Anthony DeStefano, find yourself an avid collector of Marian iconography, or perhaps have contemplated Marian apparitions over the ages, one thing is certain: The clothing of Our Lady is intentional.

The patterns, color palettes, textiles and designs tangibly point to Mary’s maternity and queenship. Her garments remind us of her constant intercession, through which she draws us to Christ.

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The Fabric of Faith: What Our Lady’s Wardrobe Reveals About Her Mission

Garments that reflect Mary’s poverty, humility, purity and obedience ...

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There is also the Garter of the Theotokos, or Sacra Cintola, portions of which are venerated in at the Roman Catholic Cathedral in Tuscany, at Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos, and a fragment of it in the Syriac Orthodox Church. It is possible the Vatopedi cincture was a different garment since if I recall it is made of camel’s hair but since Byzantine Rite Christians venerate it, well, it seems to me reasonable these relics are authentic, since we know the early church was careful about conserving relics, even the Head of St. John the Baptist and the Holy Cross being recovered, and in the case of our Lady, since she was assumed bodily into Heaven, the early church naturally would have preserved her personal affects, and we probably had quite a bit more before the Arian Gothic sacking of Rome and the Iconoclasm in Constantinople in the 700s and the Anglican and Calvinist iconoclasm in the 1500s and 1600s (there was one vesture of our lady in Westminster Abbey which like the relics of St. Thomas Becket were lost at this time).

Michie said:

Garments that reflect Mary’s poverty, humility, purity and obedience ...

Have you ever considered the story told by Our Lady’s garments?

Whether you have come across the delightful children’s book Our Lady’s Wardrobe by Anthony DeStefano, find yourself an avid collector of Marian iconography, or perhaps have contemplated Marian apparitions over the ages, one thing is certain: The clothing of Our Lady is intentional.

The patterns, color palettes, textiles and designs tangibly point to Mary’s maternity and queenship. Her garments remind us of her constant intercession, through which she draws us to Christ.

Continued below.

The Fabric of Faith: What Our Lady’s Wardrobe Reveals About Her Mission

Garments that reflect Mary’s poverty, humility, purity and obedience ...

www.ncregister.com

Click to expand...

I love this article by the way. People who do not ask for the intercessions of our Lady I feel so sorry for they don’t know what they’re missing.