Collection: Our Lady of the Sign

ARTIST: Br. Robert Lentz, OFM

ARTWORK NARRATIVE:

After his resurrection, the Gospels relate that Jesus appeared to his disciples and explained how prophecies and images from the Jewish Scriptures had been fulfilled in his life and death.  Ever since, one of the three main ways Christians have interpreted the Bible has been allegorically.  This icon is based on a prophecy in the Book of Isaiah.

"Again the Lord spoke to Ahaz, 'Ask a sign of the Lord your God; let it be as deep as Sheol or as high as heaven.'  But Ahaz said, 'I will not ask, and I will not put the Lord to test.'  And he said, 'Hear then, O house of David!  Is it too little for you to weary men, that you weary my God also? Therefore, the Lord himself will give you a sign.  Behold, a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name Immanuel."
(Isaiah 7:10-14)

Her feast day is November 27.