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Black Madonnas and  Pilgrimages: Their origins in Paganism
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Wabun Wind on 11/06/2009 13:40:00
 
We know that with Stonehenge sun, moon and the stars had been considered. As
well the construction of cathedrales in the Middle Ages oriented itself from the
constellation of stars. The above-mentioned suggests that the cathedral is –
similar to the stars – something everlasting and perpetual, object of earthly
mysticism, symbolized by Stella Maris, the Star of the Sea, the Black Madonna.