The Wife of Adam and the Mother of the Redeemer on the Octave of Christmas. A most extraordinary painting.

Wife of Adam and Mother of the Redeemer Sr Grace Remington OCSO Sisters of Mississippi Abbey

L.T., famed Holy Souls Hermitage baldacchino artist, whose progress in painting will be reported in another post, sent in the above picture of a painting of the Wife of Adam and the Mother of the Redeemer by Sister Grace Remington, O.C.S.O. (Order of Cistercians of the Strict Observance) of the Sisters of Our Lady of the Mississippi Abbey.

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7 Responses to The Wife of Adam and the Mother of the Redeemer on the Octave of Christmas. A most extraordinary painting.

  1. Liz

    That painting is both beautiful and so comforting!

  2. Joisy Goil

    Great painting – there’s lots to meditate on.

  3. Jim Anderson

    Hi Fr. Byers,

    I am sure that there is a spiritual significance between the apple that Eve is holding and what appears to be pears in the arbor. Do you know what it is? I don’t

  4. I love all the symbolism! How beautiful. :)

  5. Hello Jim: These are figs and fig leaves, the latter of which are mentioned in Genesis in regard to the aprons they sewed for themselves. The Latin word play is really extra-curricular: apple tree: malum. apple the fruit: malum. evil: malum.

  6. Marti Luke

    How beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing!

  7. susan

    just. beautiful. (!)

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