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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Any Jewelry, post: 3402225, member: 2844&quot;]They are beautiful, although provenance could be dodgy. I remember when our churches and chapels were broken into and many statues were stolen to be sold on the international market.</p><p>But I guess we won&#039;t know now.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, the first one is Mary in prayer after the death of Jesus, the other two are of Anne, with Mary.</p><p><br /></p><p>#1 could be from the Netherlands. She is the little masterpiece of the three.</p><p><br /></p><p>#2 S. Anna looks Portuguese, with those colours, but I could be wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>#3 my guess would be southern France or northern Spain. Given her size, she could have been made for a private chapel.</p><p><br /></p><p>In popular Catholic devotion they are one and the same.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /></p><p>She isn&#039;t mentioned in the Canon, the officially recognized Scriptures, so not recognized by the Church. But she is mentioned in the apocryphal proto-gospel of James, who is supposedly the son of Joseph, and therefore Jesus&#039; half-brother.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anne&#039;s story is typical of the time it was written in. She and her husband couldn&#039;t have children, but God made sure she became pregnant anyway.</p><p>It is actually the miraculous pregnancy of Anne that is the famous &#039;Immaculate Conception&#039;, which is why Mary says of herself &quot;I am the Immaculate Conception&quot; when she appears to Bernadette Soubirous.</p><p>Btw, Bernadette never calls her Mary, but &quot;The Lady&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I never said popular Catholicism was based on logic.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" /> Blame it on pre-Christian traditions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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