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Jeg har akkurat skrevet om Annunciation, bebudelsen, på den engelske bloggen min, og kopierer rett og slett det innlegget over hit:
March 25th. Nine months till December 25th and the birth of Jesus. Annunciation. We celebrate the day the angel came to the young girl Maria to let her know she would give birth to Jesus, the world´s Saviour.
The image above is from Museo di San Marco in Firenze (Florence). The mural shows the annunciation, painted by Fra Angelico in 1432-34. It is painted directly on the wall, and has never been moved.
I visited the museum back in June last year, together with the women participating in the knit retreat I was leading. I will never forget the feeling when I came to the stairs, looked up and my eyes caught sight of the painting.
The angel. In the painting you can see he already knows that Maria is the heavenly queen,
and Maria, her hands already protecting the unborn baby.
The messenger, the young girl.
The change of history.
What would my life have been without this moment?
Later last summer I visited my friend Eva south in Sweden. In September I will lead another knitting retreat, this time in Sweden, together with Eva. When I visited, Eva took me to the place where the retreat will be held. Both in the old church and the old rectory I saw amazing wood carvings made by Eva Spångberg, a Swedish sculptor who lived from 1923 - 2011. I already knew about Eva Spångberg and her nativities carved by wood. I had no idea I would meet her in the church, and will meet her again in September.
Maria and Jesus in Eva Spångberg´s sculpture reminds me so much of Maria and Jesus in the small weaving given to me by a friend some few years ago, it is woven by her mother. The picture also shows a pattern of the mother and child, drawn by me. I plan to knit a small picture, using the weaving, and also Eva Spångberg´s sculpture as an inspiration. The drawn pattern is not finished yet, I will need to work more on it.
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Maria, Mary, Santa Maria, St.Mary.
An inspirator.
A guiding star.
Maria and Jesus, a statue in Matera, south east in Italy.
I took this picture when we visited Matera in October last year.
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