Today is the feast of the Nativity of Our Lady.
The Nativity of Our Lady
Giotto
Image:Wikipedia
OnePeter5 has an article about the history of the feast and various customs traditionally associated with it. Most of these relate to the agricultural calendar of farming communities, and the fact that this day in early September was a convenient marker within the annual round.
The article can be read at Forgotten Customs of Our Lady’s Nativity
The Nativity of the Virgin
Andrea di Bartolo
A Sienese artist active from 1389 until his death in 1428. This work, part of a larger composition, is dated to 1400-1405
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Image: nga.gov
Both of these paintings, like others of the same subject, include vignettes of late medieval domestic life from the society which commissioned and created them - in this case central Italy.
May Our Lady,
together with St Anne and St Joachim,
pray for us
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