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This is one of my most recent icons I created for a customer, who very much desired a piece with Our Lady of Mount Carmel. She is the patroness of the Carmelite order of nuns.
People who have seen The Blessed Mother of Christ, all over the world, have seen her in different and unique ways-but always beautiful and radiant.
I used a friend's adorable new baby as the model for the baby Jesus. He's a real chub.
Here is more information on the origin of Our Lady of Mount Carmel:
Since the 15th century, popular devotion to Our Lady of Mount Carmel has centered on the Scapular of Our Lady of Mount Carmel also known as the Brown Scapular, a sacramental associated with promises of Mary's special aid for the salvation of the devoted wearer. Traditionally, Mary is said to have given the Scapular to an early Carmelite named Saint Simon Stock. The liturgical feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel is celebrated on 16 July.
The Carmelites see in the Blessed Virgin Mary a perfect model of the interior life of prayer and contemplation to which Carmelites aspire, a model of virtue, as well as the person who was closest in life to Jesus Christ. She is seen as the one who points Christians most surely to Christ, saying to all what she says to the servants at the wedding at Cana, "Do whatever he [Jesus] tells you." Carmelites look to Mary as both a Spiritual Mother and Sister in Christ.[11] The Stella Maris Monastery on Mount Carmel, named after a traditional title of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is considered the spiritual headquarters of the order.
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Gorgeous work! 😊