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Madonna of the sacred coat is a work by Charles Bosseron Chambers that depicts the young virgin mother holding the famous seamless tunic of Treves. In the painting we see the Blessed Virgin tenderly eyes the beholder with a smile for the redemption of her son has one, but with the sorrow of the price He paid. In the center, the youthful looking version clutches a brown coat. Due to her young appearance, is probable that this portrait of the mother Mary was meant to be well before the passion of Jesus Christperhaps after she had just made the seamless tunic, which he knew would eventually suffer with her son. The sacred coat, which are lady holds in the painting, is referred to in Scripture: " the soldiers therefore, when they had crucified him, took his garments,( and they made four parts, to every soldier a part,) and also his coat. Now the code was without seem, woven from the top throughout. They said then one to another; lettuce not cut it, but let us cast lots for it, who's it shall be; that the scripture might be filled, saying: they have parted my garments among them, and upon my vesture they have cast lots." John 19:23-24 the artist Charles Chambers is said to have painted many of his religious subject purely from imagination. He painted this rendition of the Madonna as altarpiece for St. Ignatius Church, Chicago, where it still resides today. |
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