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



Accompany me, Father George David Byers, S.S.L., S.T.D., as I begin life as a Catholic Priest-Hermit by choice. Holy Souls Hermitage is dedicated to the sanctification of my fellow priests, bishops, deacons & seminarians going through the purgatory of this life or the next. Prayer and sacrifice go up, of course, for both Benedict XVI and the next Successor of Saint Peter. 






That painting is both beautiful and so comforting!
Great painting – there’s lots to meditate on.
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
I love all the symbolism! How beautiful.
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.
How beautiful! Thanks so much for sharing!
just. beautiful. (!)