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Godfrey Higgins

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In all the Romish [Catholic] countries of Europe, France, Italy, Germany, etc., the God Christ, as well as his mother, are described in their old pictures and statues to be black. The infant God in the arms of his black mother, his eyes and drapery white, is himself perfectly black. If the reader doubts my word he may go to the Cathedral at Moulins葉o the famous Chapel of the Virgin at Loretto葉o the Church of the Annunciata葉he Church at St. Lazaro or the Church of St. Stephen at Genoa葉o St. Francisco at Pisa葉o the Church at Brixen in Tyrol and to that at Padua葉o the Church of St. Theodore at Munich葉o a church and to the Cathedral at Augsburg, where a black virgin and child as large as life葉o Rome and the Borghese chapel of Maria Maggiore葉o the Pantheon葉o a small chapel of St. Peters on the right hand side on entering, near the door; and in fact, to almost innumerable other churches in countries professing the Romish religion.
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Vol. I., p. 138.

 
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