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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 Madonna’s skin colour is   contested. There are several hundred black Madonnas in Europe. The  topic of black  Madonnas has attracted a considerable literature in  recent decades approaching the subject from the perspective of  various academic disciplines including anthropology,  psychology, art  history, feminism, and Black history.\r\n\r\nThe shrine of Our Lady of Altötting in Bavaria dates from about 660 and is the oldest Marian shrine in Germany - thought this holy card comemmorates an ealier foundation date of 580. The cult image housed in the distinctive  octagonal  Gnadenkapelle (Chapel of Grace) is a polychromed lindenwood  sculpture dating from  about 1330 and probably replaced an earlier image. The shrine’s popularity as a  pilgrimage destination received a considerable boost  in 1489 from the miraculous recovery of a young boy who had drowned, after his mother laid his body before the  image and prayed to the Virgin for a miracle. A striking feature of the shrine is its collection of silver urns containing the bequeathed hearts of the Virgin’s devotees from among the Bavarian aristocracy. \n\nThis holy card was published by Das Seraphische Liebeswerk (The Seraphic Work of Love), a children's charity founded by members of the Capuchin order in 1889 which opened an orphanage at Altötting in 1893, and was probably sold to raise funds for the charity.","physicalDescription":"Rectangular holy card (portrait format) printed in colour and gold on white paper. Front: the Black Madonna of Altötting within a gold mandorla standing on a plinth above a miniature view of the shrine, the image is surrounded by a border decorated with flowers and birds against a gold background in the style of an illuminated page from a medieval book of hours, lettered within the design (on the plinth) in gold ANNO 580 and below the design in black fraktur script with a caption in German about the shrine. Back: lettered with German prayer to the Virgin Mary, information about the charity Das Seraphische Liebeswerk and publishing credits, printed in black.   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