I found this article linked to Spiritdaily.com

Our Lady of Good Counsel, Genazzano

An icon in the style of the Glykophilousa/Sweet-Kissing for sure!

Dave

http://www.pallottine.org.au/images/Mother%20of%20Good%20Counsel_pw.jpg

There is a copy of the same in Australia at the Benedictine Abbey at New Norcia. The painting was given to the founding monks by St Vincent Pallotti.

The story goes that the monks gave shelter to an Aboriginal woman who was beeing beaten by her husband. In revenge he set fire to the monks first crop on which everything depended.

"On the wall of the church is the painting of The Mother of Good Counsel (otherwise known as Our Lady of Good Counsel) which was the subject of the first miracle to occur at the settlement. During 1847 a bushfire threatened New Norcia and Dom Salvado produced the painting, pointed it in the direction of the flames, prayed, and the wind promptly changed direction and the bushfire dissipated."

Local Aboriginal people who saw the incident were greatly impressed and became friendly to the monks and a number were later baptised and settled close to the monastery.

ICXC
NIKA

Wow! Amazing how Our Lady evangelizes Thank you Jesus!!!

Dear Friends,

There is the icon from the Kyiv Caves Lavra of Murom where Jesus reclines in His Mother's arms and gently touches her cheek with His Hand . . .

The prince of Murom in the 12th century had trouble converting his pagan populace to Christianity but when that icon came from Kyiv and he showed it to the pagan leaders, they were so moved that they converted on the spot!

In the MIddle Ages, there was a story about a young man who rejected Christ and the Church, but couldn't, no matter how hard he tried, reject the Mother of God!

He then asked her to pray for him to be reconciled to both once again . . .

Then there is the image of Our Lady of Chartres, said to have been worshipped by the pagan Druids one hundred years before Christ . . .

The image of Our Lady of Chartres is based on that image and the image discovered at Chartres with a Virgin-Mother enthroned holding a male Baby on her lap actually has a FEAST DAY in the local calendar of Chartres - and this feast of the image of Our Lady of Chartres (there are three or four altogether) is dated at. . . 100 BC!

Believe it or not . . .

Alex