Small Images | AirMaria.com https://dev.airmaria.com Breathe Freely Wed, 25 Jul 2018 15:05:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://airmaria.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/28143228/amicon-r-100x100.png Small Images | AirMaria.com https://dev.airmaria.com 32 32 The world’s smallest image of the Virgin Mary: Virgin of the Litanies https://dev.airmaria.com/2018/08/19/the-worlds-smallest-image-of-the-virgin-mary-virgin-of-the-litanies/ Sun, 19 Aug 2018 15:00:10 +0000 http://dev.airmaria.com/?p=66175 Ave Maria! The Statue the Virgin of the Litanies offers a quiet reflection on Our Lady’s maternal love for each of her children. She humbles herself and makes herself small; “playing in the...

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]]> Ave Maria! The Statue the Virgin of the Litanies offers a quiet reflection on Our Lady’s maternal love for each of her children. She humbles herself and makes herself small; “playing in the world; delighting to be with the children of men” (cf. Proverbs 8:31).

“A chapel in the city of Viacha, in the province of Ingavi, Bolivia, is responsible for housing the Virgin of the Litanies. This is quite a special image — not only because visiting it involves a trip to a city 4,200 meters above sea level, but also because the image itself is only 4.7 cm tall, making it a contender for the smallest image of the Virgin Mary in the world…”

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