{"id":16154,"date":"2018-07-30T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T01:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/?p=16154"},"modified":"2018-07-30T21:26:58","modified_gmt":"2018-07-31T01:26:58","slug":"madonna-del-ghisallo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2018\/07\/madonna-del-ghisallo\/","title":{"rendered":"Madonna del Ghisallo"},"content":{"rendered":"

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From the always interesting Aliens in this World<\/a> regarding \u201cMarian Shrines for Cyclists\u201d.<\/p>\n

Our Lady of Ghisallo\u2019s image<\/a>\u00a0is a painting of Mary, with Christ as a baby or toddler seated on her knee; He blesses the onlooker while she bends toward him, nursing him. But there\u2019s a common variation on prayer cards where Mary is not nursing Him, but lifting toddler Jesus onto a bicycle seat! Medals of Our Lady of Ghisallo or the \u201cMadonna del Ghisallo\u201d are pretty common, too.<\/p>\n

Our Lady of Ghisallo\u2019s patronage of cyclists was made official by Pope Pius XII in 1949. The relevant feasts are October 13 and November 2 (because a lot of people go there to pray for dead cyclists\u2019 souls).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now that I am an avid cyclist I found this especially cool. Read her post<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n

So I did an image search on this, and this was one of the first images I saw.<\/p>\n

I enjoyed the whimsy of this:<\/p>\n

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Madonna del Ghisallo<\/a>
\nWood, natural pigments, watercolors, and beeswax, 9 1\/2\u201ch x 14 1\/4\u201dw x 3 1\/4″d, Item No. 10406<\/p>\n

Looking up the artist Gustavo Victor Goler<\/a> I find that some of his other works also appeal to me. Although priced above what I would be willing to spend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From the always interesting Aliens in this World regarding \u201cMarian Shrines for Cyclists\u201d. Our Lady of Ghisallo\u2019s image\u00a0is a painting of Mary, with Christ as a baby or toddler seated…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saints"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16154"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16157,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16154\/revisions\/16157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}