Mother and Child Looking at the Virgin and Child – Gift for Catholic Mother – Archival Quality – Catholic Art Shamrock The Latin at the bottom

The Latin at the bottom of the card is "Christus dilerit nos et lavit nos en sanguine suo

and she never claims it

Tradition has it that Joachim and Anne were childless into old age

which reminds us of the reason he did this for us: His boundless love

He made his living doing art

Mother and Child Looking at the Virgin and Child – Gift for Catholic Mother – Archival Quality – Catholic Art Shamrock The Latin at the bottomA Mother and Child Looking at the Virgin and Child Reginald Bottomley We like the pensive tone of this picture. In the painting, a real woman holding her baby is pondering a painting of the Virgin Mary holding hers. The woman is presumably thinking about their shared motherhood and is in some ways drawing closer to Mary. One of the beautiful things about the Catholic faith (the religion of love) is at the center of it is the love of a mother and