Once described by experts as 'tall and slender', the Virgin Mary statue just outside the village ... exaggerated eyes and a crooked frown accentuated by bright red lipstick. The figure of Jesus ...

The Virgin Mary has been given yellow skin and giant white ... and the new repainting doesn't even take into account that the robe is red on the outside and light on the inside—everything ...

had long been associated as a feminine colour because of the supposed colour of the Virgin Mary’s outfit." "Pink was seen as a kind of boyish version of the masculine colour red. So it gradually ...

Once described by experts as 'tall and slender', the Virgin Mary statue just outside the village ... exaggerated eyes and a crooked frown accentuated by bright red lipstick. The figure of Jesus ...

On March 17, 1697, on the feast day of St. Patrick and in the same year penal laws were enacted in Ireland banning Catholic bishops and priests from the country, an image of the Virgin Mary known ...