St Luke the Evangelist...
Gallery
Still Black and Still Venerated
Why she's referred to as the Black Madonna
The Black Madonna: Our Lady of Czestochowa 1
The Black Madonna: Our Lady of Czestochowa 2
Your lap has become the Holy Table
Lenore Hughes - Madonna and Child
Crayon Scribbles - the art of Christmas
The painting is known as the Black Madonna of Czestochowa
- allegedly because of the soot residue
that discolours the painting.
Centuries of votive lights, devotional incense and candles burning
in front of the painting in this Polish parish church
are the cause of the soot.
