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view before the populace it has the honors of field marshal accorded 

 to it. During the annual feast held in its honor, January 20, pilgrims 

 from the remotest island and from across the sea come to purify 

 their souls at the shrine of the Holy Child." ^ 29% by 20 inches. 

 Manila, Philippine Islands. (Cat. No. 205542, U.S.N. M.) 



179. Madonna of the Olive.— Fr'mt on paper. Representing the 

 Madonna with the Infant Jesus, with cherubs fluttering over them. 

 Inscribed above in Latin, "Like a green olive tree in the house of 

 God." (Psalm lii; in the Catholic Bible, H, 8.) Below is stated, 

 in a colophon in Italian, that it is a "representation of the miraculous 

 image of the Most Holy Mary of the Ohve which is kept in the Church 

 of Pieve Vecchia, which was carried in procession in Siena in 1820 

 with a rehc of the veil of the same Virgin." 11 by 8 inches. Siena, 

 Italy. (Cat. No. 179080, U.S.N.M.) 



180. Madonna of Intercession. — Print on paper. Representing the 

 Madonna with the Infant crowned. The colophon m Latin states 

 that the original is preserved in a chapel of the metropolitan church 

 at Siena for the solemn suppUcation on Low Sunday — that is, Sunday 

 next after Easter (dominica in alhis, the Sunday of white garments, 

 from the white robes worn in early times by those who had been bap- 

 tized just before Easter). 14}^ by lOK inches. Siena, Italy. (Cat. 

 No. 179081, U.S.N.M.) 



181. Madonna, crowned. — Print on paper. Surrounded by float- 

 ing cherubs and worshiped on one side by a monk, on the other by a 

 nun. The colophon says that it is a representation of the image 

 which is venerated in the Church of Insigne Collegiata of Provenzano. 

 It was crowned in 1 681 and carried in procession on Low Sunday of 

 1850 with relics of St. Bernardine, St. Catherine, and others. 14% by 

 lOK inches. Siena, Italy. (Cat. No. 179082, U.S.N.M.) 



182. Madonna of Good Counsel. — Print on paper. Representing 

 the Madonna with the Infant crowned, surrounded by cherubs. 

 Below is mountain scenery with a church or citadel. The original 

 is, as the colophon says, venerated in the Church of St. Leonard in 

 Siena and was carried in procession on Low Sunday of 1833, together 

 with a relic of the veil of Mary and the relics of John the Baptist, St. 

 Jerome, St. Anthony of Padua, and St. Eurosia. 15 by 10 inches, 

 Siena, Italy. (Cat. No. 179083, U.S.N.M.) 



183. Madonna. — Print on paper. Representing the Madonna in 

 a columned shrine which is supported by two cherubs and surmounted 

 by a crown, orb, and cross which are held by two cherubs. The whole 

 is surrounded by aureole of rays and framed in a wide arch. Beneath 

 to the right is a female saint holding a lily stalk and a book; to the 

 left, a male saint holding a paten or tray. In the upper corners are 

 deer. It is a representation of the miraculous image of Holy Mary 



•Rev. Curtin G. Roop in the Missionary Review, vol. 15 (September, 1902), p. 685. 



