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Some are made of dark or black materials such as ebony, others are said to have become blackened from the soot of candles, although this explanation and the significance of the Virgin's skin colour is contested. There are several  hundred black madonnas in Europe and the topic has attracted a considerable literature in recent decades approaching the subject from  anthropological, art historical, feminist, psychoanalytical and Afrocentric   perspectives.\r\n\r\nThe Abbey of Einsiedeln is a Benedictine monastery dedicated to Our Lady of the Hermits and located in the village of Einsiedeln twenty miles southeast of Zurich. According to 9th and 14th-century sources, the hermit St Meinrad (d. 861) was especially devoted to the Virgin and was given a miracle- working statue of the Virgin and Child by Abbess Hildegard of Zurich around which he built a chapel. Following his murder, a church was built over this chapel. The new church was dedicated but not the chapel. In 948 Conrad of  Constance was praying in the chapel when he witnessed Christ and the   angels performing the dedication rites. A papal bull of 11th November 966 allowed the celebration of the anniversary of this miracle and granted remission of sins to pilgrims to the shrine. This holy card, in the style of an illuminated page from a medieval book of hours, would have been published for sale to pilgrims as a souvenir of the shrine. ","physicalDescription":"Rectanglular card (portrait format) printed in colour with gold. Front: Our Lady Einsiedeln within a golden cloud issuing rays and thunderbolts within a pointed arch above a view of the Abbey interior and the Lady Chapel, the image is positioned off-centre and bordered on three sides by flowers, fruit and a bird against a figured gold background, in the style of an illuminated page from a medieval book of hours. Lettered: S. Maria, ora pro nobis! (within a blue ribbon banner above the image),  SANCTA MATER DEI ORA PRO NOBIS. 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