the catholic church and the black madonna?

Question

why did so many catholic priests walk out of a meeting when the black madonna was mentioned

Answer 1

I agree with the others here ,you need to be more specific.BUT,a lot of people think the christian religious figures are all white,when they most certainly were not.Religion is about all people on Earth,it has been split,altered and manipulated,many,many times,until you now have many different variations of the same thing,causing much dissent and bloodshed.Only when mankind,of all various varieties of the true basic religious belief,unify into one collective, will mankind realise the meaning of true peace.

Answer 2

You have to be a bit more precise? There are about 450-500 Black Madonnas in Europe, depending on how they are classified. There are at least 180 Vierges Noires in France, and there are hundreds of non-medieval copies too. A few are in museums, but most are in churches or shrines and are venerated by devotees.

A Black Madonna or Black Virgin is a statue or painting of Mary in which she is depicted with dark or black skin. This name applies in particular to European statues or pictures of a Madonna which are of special interest because her dark face and hands seem to need explanation. In this specialised sense "Black Madonna" does apply to images of the Virgin Mary portrayed as explicitly black African, which are popular in Africa and areas with large black populations, such as the United States.

Some later statues get their colour from the material used, such as ebony or other dark wood, but there is debate about whether this choice of material is significant. Others were originally light-skinned but have become darkened over time. Lead the main source for flake white pigment goes black - lead oxide when it is corroded by sulphur rich smoke over time.

For a time this was thought to be the explanation for all medieval "black" images of Mary, but this has been contested by commentators starting in the 1950s with Leonard Moss, who believed the colour of originally-dark Madonnas had significance. Occasionally, a Madonna's face has been re-painted black after restoration had returned it to its original pale-skinned coloring, though the blackness of even these is sometimes significant to devotees.

The hard-to-explain Black Madonnas are generally medieval, or copies of medieval figures, and are found in Catholic areas. The statues are mostly wooden but occasionally stone, often painted and up to 75 cm tall, many dating from between the 11th and 15th centuries. They fall into two main groups: free-standing upright figures and seated figures on a throne. The pictures are usually icons: Byzantine in style though sometimes made in 13th or 14th century Italy. Most are an image of Mother and Child. Their faces tend to have recognizably European features.

In the Catholic theological framework of the Middle Ages the most persuasive explanation is that Black Madonnas illustrate a line in the Song of Songs 1:5 from the Old Testament: "I am black, but beautiful, O daughters of Jerusalem…", especially as several of the Black Madonnas are inscribed in Latin with this line: Nigra sum sed formosa- However, it is not always clear that the inscription is contemporary with the statue. Like most aspects of religion, layers of contradiction are piled up, clarity is not the prime concern, but to confuse.

Answer 3

What meeting? Do you have a link to any news article?

The Black Madonna of Częstochowa icon was, according to legend, painted by St. Luke the Evangelist on a cypress table top from the house of the Holy Family.

The painting displays a traditional from the icons of Eastern Orthodoxy. The Virgin Mary is shown as the "Hodegetria" ("One Who Shows the Way"). In it the Virgin directs attention away from herself, gesturing with her right hand toward Jesus as the source of salvation. In turn, the child extends his right hand toward the viewer in blessing while holding a book of gospels in his left hand.

Answer 4

Maybe they were thinking "Madonna", as in the pop singer.

Answer 5

Please cite the documents or provide links to these claims so that the rest of us can do proper research. Thank you.

With love in Christ.

Answer 6

Please explain .